Canada Soccer names roster for camp for CONCACAF Men’s U-17 Championship
TORONTO — Midfielder Alessandro Biello and ahead Antoni Klukowski, whose fathers each performed for Canada, have been named to a 23-man Canada camp roster forward of the CONCACAF Men’s Under-17 Championship.
The 20-team match runs Feb. 11-26 in Guatemala.
Canada will maintain its camp in Guatemala forward of its Feb. 11 opener in opposition to Trinidad and Tobago at Estadio Pensativo in Antigua Guatemala. Group F video games in opposition to Barbados and the U.S. comply with.
The CONCACAF competitors will ship 4 groups to the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru in November. The world championship was initially slated for 2021 however was postponed because of the pandemic.
Canada has been to seven of the previous 18 males’s U-17 World Cups, internet hosting the occasion in 1987. It has by no means superior previous the group stage.
The Canadian camp roster contains 17 gamers from the academies of the three Canadian MLS groups: 9 from Toronto FC and 4 every from CF Montreal and the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Biello’s father is Mauro Biello, who doubles as an assistant coach with the Canadian senior males’s group and director of Canada Soccer’s under-18 to under-23 program. Mauro Biello received 4 caps for Canada as a participant.
Alessandro Biello, who’s a part of the CF Montreal academy, can also be nephew of former Canadian worldwide Nick De Santis.
Klukowski, whose father Mike received 36 caps for Canada, is with Poland’s Legia Warszawa.
The three high groups in every of the 4 opening-round teams advance to the knockout part.
They will be part of Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic within the round-of-16. Those 4 groups superior immediately from CONCACAF Men’s U-17 Qualifying play.
Canada Roster
Goalkeeper: Nathaniel Abraham, Toronto FC academy; Alexander O’Brien, Toronto FC academy.
Defenders: Richard Chukwu, Toronto FC academy; Aidan Fong, Vancouver Whitecaps academy; Victor Fung, Inter Miami FC academy; Etienne Godin, CF Montreal academy; Simon Guardiero, Sigma FC; Gael de Montigny, CF Montreal academy; Chimere Omeze, Toronto FC academy; Lazar Stefanovic, Toronto FC academy; Theo Rigopoulos, Toronto FC academy.
Midfielders: Jeevan Badwal, Vancouver Whitecaps academy; Alessandro Biello, CF Montreal academy; Ruben de Sa, Vitoria (Portugal); Andrei Dumitru, Toronto FC academy; Matteo Landicho-Correia, Toronto FC academy; Liam MacKenzie, Vancouver Whitecaps academy; Antoine N’Diaye, CF Montreal academy.
Forwards: Ibrahim Higazy, Rayo Vallecano (Spain); Antoni Klukowski, Legia Warsaw (Poland); Lucas Ozimec, Toronto FC academy; Erik Pop, Karlsruher FC (Germany); Kyler Vojvodic, Vancouver Whitecaps academy.
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