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Un nouveau visage avec Équipe Canada?


7 janvier 2004 - L'équipe canadienne pourrait compter sur les services du défenseur africain Edgar Bartolomeu, originaire d'Angola, pour son premier camp d'entraînement de l'année 2004.

Bartolomeu vit à Toronto et a le statut de résident canadien. L'Association canadienne de soccer fait en ce moment les démarches pour qu'il obtienne le passeport canadien, condition obligatoire pour qu'il puisse représenter le pays en compétition internationale.

Il a participé à 13 matchs avec les Metrostars de New York-New Jersey en 2003, dont 11 comme partant, et avait joué en 1999 et en 2000 avec les Lynx de Toronto.

L'équipe canadienne participera à son premier camp d'entraînement de l'année à Sunrise en Floride du 12 au 23 janvier avec le nouvel entraîneur Frank Yallop, embauché le 16 décembre.

Quinze joueurs seront présents dont quatre de l'Impact de Montréal: Nevio Pizzolitto, Martin Nash, Greg Sutton et Gabriel Gervais. Quatre autres appartiennent aux Whitecaps de Vancouver: Nick Dasovic, Carlo Corazzin, Jeff Clarke et Johnny Sulentic.

Le Canada disputera un match amical le 18 janvier contre la Barbade.

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Pat Onstad GK San Jose Earthquakes, MLS 1/13/68 38 15
Greg Sutton GK Montreal Impact, A-League 4/19/77 0 0
Nevio Pizzolitto D Montreal Impact 8/26/76 6 0
Mark Watson D Charleston Battery, A-League 9/8/70 69 0
Gabriel Gervais D Montreal Impact, A-League 9/18/76 0 0
Carl Fletcher D Unattached 12/26/71 40 2
Edgar Bartolomeu D New York/New Jersey MetroStars, MLS 9/14/76 0 0
Chris Pozniak D/M Orebro, Swedish Premier 1/10/81 9 0
Nick Dasovic D/M Vancouver Whitecaps, A-League 12/5/68 60 2
Martin Nash M Montreal Impact 12/27/75 29 2
Jeff Clarke M Vancouver Whitecaps, A-League 10/18/77 19 1
Ive (Johnny) Sulentic M Vancouver Whitecaps, A-League 12/24/79 0 0
Patrice Bernier M Moss FK, Norwegian Premier 9/23/79 2 0
Carlo Corazzin F Vancouver Whitecaps, A-League 12/25/71 57 10
Dwayne de Rosario F San Jose Earthquakes, MLS 5/15/78 17 3

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Wednesday, January 7, 2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


YALLOP ANNOUNCES ROSTER FOR


BARBADOS FRIENDLY AND TRAINING CAMP


Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian Men’s World Cup Team head coach Frank Yallop today announced his 15-player squad for a training camp in Ft. Lauderdale and an international friendly against Barbados on January 18.


The players will assemble in Ft. Lauderdale on January 12 and join members of the Olympic team who are currently preparing for the upcoming Final Round of Olympic Qualifying in Mexico, February 2-12. Yallop will add one or two players from the Olympic team for the friendly in Barbados in Bridgetown on January 18 before returning to Florida on January 19 and continuing the camp until January 23.



“This camp will give me an opportunity to evaluate a combination of young and older players as we set out sights on World Cup Qualifying this summer,” said Yallop. “It will also allow some new players to show their abilities and it’s a great way to get started.”



The squad is comprised almost exclusively of North American based players with the exception of Patrice Bernier who is on his winter break with Moss FK in Norway and Olympic team captain Chris Pozniak who is on trial in Norway. Bernier earned his first two senior caps against the Czech Republic and the Republic of Ireland in November.



The Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact are both represented by four players with Nick Dasovic, Carlo Corazzin, Jeff Clarke and Johnny Sulentic from Vancouver and Nevio Pizzolitto, Martin Nash, Greg Sutton and Gabriel Gervais from Montreal.



This is Clarke’s first selection since May, 2002 when he was called up for a friendly against Switzerland while Sulentic earns his first senior call-up. Both were members of the Olympic team during qualifying in 2000. Pizzolitto and Nash are currently playing indoor soccer with the Cleveland Force and the Dallas Sidekicks respectively, while Sutton and Gervais will be making their first appearances with the senior national side. Sutton, named the A-League Goalkeeper of the Year in 2003, was also with the 2000 Olympic team and earned one cap against Jamaica. Gervais has been named an A-League First Team All-Star team in each of the last two seasons.



Edgar Bartolomeu, a defender with the New York/NJ MetroStars in MLS, has also earned his first call up. Born in Angola, Bartolemeu has obtained Canadian resident status and resides in Toronto in the off-season. He spent two seasons with the Toronto Lynx in 1999 and 2000.



Yallop has also chosen MLS Goalkeeper of the Year Pat Onstad and strike Dwayne de Rosario from the MLS champions San Jose Earthquakes.



Rounding out the squad is veteran defender Mark Watson, who leads all active players with 69 caps, and defender Carl Fletcher who has represented Canada 40 times at the World Cup level.

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HL:Canadian soccer team adds new player in Angolan-born Edgar
Bartolomeu
By Neil Davidson
TORONTO (CP) -- Angola's loss could be Canada's gain.
Edgar Bartolomeu is headed to Florida next week to take part in
Frank Yallop's first camp as Canadian men's soccer coach. And the
Angolan left back, who plays for the New York-New Jersey MetroStars
in Major League Soccer, can't wait to pull on a Canadian jersey.
"It would be an honour for me to play for Canada," he said
solemnly Wednesday.
Bartolomeu, who is awaiting word on when he will get his Canadian
citizenship, was the surprise package in the camp roster of North
American-based players announced Wednesday.
Canadian officials have been tracking him the last six months or
so, paving the way to have a close look at him.
The 27-year-old came to North America in 1998 after going to
school and playing soccer in Portugal, the country from which Angola
was granted independence in 1975, for five years.
"It wasn't actually soccer that brought me to North America,"
he explained. "I went back to Angola and my country's situation
wasn't the best one.
"Life brought me here to North America."
Angola, located on the west coast of Africa north of Namibia, has
pretty much been in a state of civil war since independence. The
Central Intelligence Agency estimates up to 1.5 million lives may
have been lost in fighting over the last 25 years.
But a 2002 cease-fire bodes well.
"Things are getting better," Bartolomeu says.
Bartolomeu, who played for the Toronto Lynx in 1999 and 2000, now
makes Toronto his home and has official resident status. He has
applied for Canadian citizensip and says he could hear later this
week when he gets it.
He says playing for Angola is all about politics. But in making
the switch to Canada, he won't be too far from his native land when
it comes to the FIFA rankings. Angola is tied for No. 83, four
places above Canada.
In Portugal, Bartolomeu played futsal or indoor soccer and spent
time outdoors with Sporting Lisbon. But after five years, as a
foreigner, he had to leave.
He lives in Toronto with his wife, who joined him from Angola in
2000, although during the MLS season he lived in a New York-area
hotel. They love Canada but, like more than a few these days, aren't
sure about the winter.
"I don't think you ever get used to it," he said with a laugh.
"It's pretty different from back home."
Bartolomeu credits veteran coach Paul Kitson for helping him find
hs way in North America. He played for one year indoors under
Kitson, a former coach in Montreal, in Buffalo before the Blizzard
folded.
Kitson helped Bartolomeu sort himself out when he was taken by
the Philadelphia Kixx in the ensuing dispersal draft. Kitson also
got him to play for the Long Island Rough Riders and then negotiated
his contract with MLS when the MetroStars got interested.
Bartolomeu played 13 games last season for the MetroStars,
starting in 11. It took a while to process his paperwork with the
league, so he missed the pre-season. An injury also cost him some
playing time.
Credit Yallop and San Jose Earthquakes striker Dwayne DeRosario
for noticing him and helping bring him into the Canadian fold.
Bartolomeu's first start -- and second MLS appearance last season
-- was against San Jose, coached by Yallop.
Bartolomeu remembers he had a good game. And DeRosario, a Toronto
native, had already met Bartolomeu with the Lynx.
Yallop, who officially took over as Canadian coach on Jan. 1, has
called up 15 players for the Jan. 12-23 camp in Sunrise, Fla.
All but two are based in North America as Yallop elects not to
take his European-based players away from their clubs until he
really needs them.
The exceptions are midfielder Patrice Bernier who is on his
winter break with Moss FK in Norway, and Olympic team captain Chris
Pozniak who is on trial with a team in Norway.
Yallop will also have access to some 10 Olympic team players wh
are in a Florida camp with coach Bruce Twamley, preparing for next
month's final CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament in Mexico.
Yallop will add one or two Olympic players to his roster before
heading to Barbados for a friendly game in Bridgetown on Jan. 18.
The players will then return to Florida for the second half of the
camp.
Canada's first major challenge of the year is a World Cup
qualifying series against modest Belize in June.
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