Joe MacCarthy

1 hour ago, socceronly said:

Wait, who was the guy at Stevenage then.... ended up in an FA Cup tie

Mark Rogers?

15 minutes ago, ray said:

Ah, those were the days!  Dark days for Canadian soccer, but still fondly remembered.

Did you create a Canadians Abroad list long ago at a website.  Seems to me one of the earliest was from someone named Ray, I could be wrong.

8 minutes ago, aloyol said:

I don't remember that name but I remember Brad Parker who was playing in Holland and disappeared after being with Feyenoord youth club. He was a big prospect for us. He got some MNT caps at 18-19 years old.

He refused callups and was the eponymous victim of the Brad Parker curse.  Misfortune would fall on anyone who refused callups (until the Ho)

2 hours ago, jordan said:

Blicharski and Sheppard disappeared, as many of the youth from that era did.

When I kept the list, I still maintained a list of players who disappeared off this list.  People would be amazed at how many there were and some would post that we didn't have enough quality players to start a Canadian league.  I never worried about that.

There was one player (not on the list above) that I seem to recall Holger was very high on, Kerr McLeod (playing in Holland IIRC).  He was supposed to be the next big thing, wonder what happened to him.

On 10/2/2015 at 11:02 PM, rob.notenboom said:

How was the original decision on the format for the MOACA made? Was it simply the best format that could be found at the time or were there other reasons given for it to be in that format? I'm afraid my tenure around here doesn't extend back long enough to know how it all came about.

This is the link where the Moaca began to change  from the start it was given by CdnSupporter at BigSoccer, to my wanting to clarify it more.

The above evolved into this

Found the list on the other board. Looks like G-L had the idea before I did.