Jeff Paulus on Expansion, Academies and More

Northern 90 Canadian Premier League Podcast

Introduction

This is the Northern 90 Podcast with Pat Sweet, Episode 26.

Welcome to the Northern 90 Canadian Premier League Podcast, covering the beautiful game in the great white north. For more Canadian Premier League content, head over to Northern90.ca. That’s Northern Nine Zero dot ca.

Welcome

Hello, Canada, and welcome to the Northern 90 Canadian Premier League Podcast!

I'm your host, Pat Sweet.

In this week's episode:

• A round-up of CPL players playing international games
• Canada's performance in CONCACAF Nations League
• A special interview with FC Edmonton's Jeff Paulus

Results League Play

• Forge at the top of the table with 20 points, with the fewest games played at 9.
• Terran Campbell now leads the league with 10 goals

Canadian Championship

• No action
• Next game is September 18 at Stade Saputo

CONCACAF League

• Forge FC lost their last match to CD Olimpia 4-1
• Lost 4-2 on aggregate
• SV Robinhood also lost 3-2 on aggregate.

CONCACAF Nations League

• Canada got underway on Saturday night while Hurricane Dorian was trying hard to prevent me from watching the game
• Beat Cuba 6-0
• Junior Hoilett - Hatrick
• Jonathan David - Beautiful goal
• Jonathan Osorio - Finished a nice pass from Hoilett
• Doniel Henry with his first goal for Les Rouges
• Important because:
  • Qualifying for Qatar 2022 is a function of FIFA rankings as of June 2020.
  • Top 6 go into a hexagonal round, top three automatically qualify
  • The fourth-place team plays against the winner of a tournament between teams ranked 7-35.

News

• Forge FC Assistant Coach Peter Reynders To Appeal CSA Ruling - Northern Tribune (https://northerntribune.ca/forge-fc-assistant-coach-racial-allegations/)
• Rumour: CPL Ownership Group Targeting Fraser Valley - Northern Tribune (https://northerntribune.ca/canadian-premier-league-fraser-valley/)
• National Team Action
  • Ryan Telfer is now cap-tied for Trinidad and Tobago
  • Abdelaziz Youssef - First start for Somalia
  • Quillian Roberts was called up again to represent Guyana
  • Marco Carducci - First CanPL player to get called up to CanMNT

Jeff Paulus

• Jeff Paulus is someone I've wanted on the show for a very long time
• Today, my wish comes true - kind of
• Thomas Nef, a brand-new journalism student at NAIT reached out to see if we could collaborate
• Win-win - I get great CPL content, and Thomas gets to build up a portfolio. It's great!
• Next up, an interview with Jeff Paulus of FC Edmonton
• Thanks Thomas, thanks Jeff!
• You'll be hearing more from Thomas over the coming months - thanks, again!

Next up, the mailbag:

Mailbag

You know how this works - you send me mail and messages and I read every single one of them. If what you send is extra good I read it on the podcast.

James from the N90 Premium Channel asked: Thoughts about Ottawa Fury joining the CPL for the 2020 season?

Ed Johnson wrote on the N90 Facebook Page: Kurt Larson said the 8-0 score "will never be repeated in the CPL". Do you agree or disagree?

Liam Pritchard had some great comments on the N90SG Facebook Group about a survey that was being circulated suggesting that Canadian MLS clubs join the CanPL. He said:

Yeah not a good idea yet. Maybe one day. Just need to look at Scotland to see what good two teams dominating the league would look like... Being a Brit, I love North American sports because of the parity. I love that anyone can win each year because anyone can beat anyone.

QOTW: Who is Canada's best player? Most promising player?

• Leave a comment at northern90.ca/episode26
• Write to me at pat at northern90.ca
• Fire me a note on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram @northernninety

The Week Ahead League Play

Sep 11 - Wednesday

10:00 pm ADT Edmonton vs. Cavalry Clarke Field TICKETS

Sep 11 - Wednesday

11:00 pm ADT Pacific vs. York9 Westhills Stadium TICKETS

Sep 12 - Thursday

9:00 pm ADT Valour vs. Forge IG Field TICKETS

Sep 14 - Saturday

4:00 pm ADT Pacific vs. Edmonton Westhills Stadium TICKETS

Sep 15 - Sunday

2:00 pm ADT Forge vs. HFX Wanderers Tim Hortons Field TICKETS

Sep 15 - Sunday

4:30 pm ADT York9 vs. Valour York Lions Stadium TICKETS

Sep 18 - Wednesday

6:30 pm ADT HFX Wanderers vs. Forge Wanderers Grounds TICKETS Canadian Championship

• Next game is September 18 at Stade Saputo

CONCACAF Nations League

• No more games in September.

Announcements

• Thank you to everyone who signed up for the Northern 90 Premium Channel - I love you guys.
• Credit to my very first supporters
  • Adam
  • Blair
  • Josh

Outroduction

That's all we've got for the show today.

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Thanks so much, Canada. Have a great week.

Credits

Featured Image

Photo by Jannes Glas on Unsplash

Intro music

Move Like This by spinningmerkaba (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Texas Radio Fish, Alex Beroza, and Snowflake

CPL Headlines Music

Calm the F*** Down by Broke for Free (c) copyright 2010 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

Main Content Intro Music

260809 Funky Nurykabe by spinningmerkaba (c) copyright 2010 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

Mailbag Music

I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, Morusque

Outro music

Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkaba (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Morusque, Jeris, CSoul, Alex Beroza