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Simon Thomas signed with KFUM in the Norwegian First Division yesterday
https://kaaffa.no/nyheter/kanadisk-landslagskeeper-kaffa-klar

Simon Thomas signed with KFUM in the Norwegian First Division yesterday
https://kaaffa.no/nyheter/kanadisk-landslagskeeper-kaffa-klar

Simon Thomas signed with KFUM in the Norwegian First Division yesterday
https://kaaffa.no/nyheter/kanadisk-landslagskeeper-kaffa-klar

Rocco Romeo on loan to HB Koge 
 
 

Check out @smfc’s Tweet:
Was just looking up Oliver Minatel's old club and saw this.  Looks like Ethan Gage is reviving his career a little in Australia. 
Apparently had a great Cup run with a lower league team and got noticed.  South Melbourne not in A League but one of the most storied and successful clubs in Australia historically and have been trying to get into A League for years.
Nice to see.  By all accounts he was an outstanding youth player we had very high hopes for.
Check out @smfc’s Tweet:
 

Yes he has signed.  
Here is my translation of the Finnish article:
"New player contract - versatile Jonas Häkkinen has signed with Vaasan Palloseura 
Vaasan Palloseura [VPS] has signed a player contract with the young Finnish player Jonas Häkkinen. The contract is 1+1 years. [unspecified whether the option is one way or two way] 
Jonas Häkkinen is a multi-functional player who owns both the Finnish and Canadian passports, and who can play both stopper and defensive midfielder. 
"For the last few years he has played stopper, but before that he has played defensive midfielder, as well", VPS head coach Petri Vuorinen comments. 
Häkkinen has played his entire career in Vancouver, where he has played in the Whitecaps academy. Häkkinen has Finnish parents and he speaks good Finnish, although his native tongue is English. 
"Jonas has trained with us for quite a while already. He came to Finland to uplift his career. Comparing him with other players of his generation (1999), I believe that he has the full potential to succeed in Finnish Premier League", Vuorinen analyzes. 
Very little about this promising player is known in Finland. Contact between the player and the club came through his agent. The youngster has trained with VPS for a month already. 
"The agent suggested that we give Jonas a trial. We decided to take him along and have been judging his play. In the last few years, many young players looking to develop have trialed for us. This time we found a good "match". I do not think many have heard of him here, even though he is Finnish. He is a new face for many here in that sense."
In addition to his playing skills, there is another thing Vuorinen specifically likes about Häkkinen. 
"He has a very tough but healthy attitude about sports and football in general. All that is right", Vuorinen comments. 
Jonas' own interview will be done during November. 
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Since it's my first post, I figure it's fine to use this space to say hello everybody, too. I am a VPS fan from Finland - a cold, stable Northern country, with an under-performing National Team with a history of promising players selecting some another country, and whose general public has an unhealthy obsession with this sticky-sport played on ice.
Suppose this description also explains to you all why I have somehow developed kind of a weird sympathetic affinity towards the "soccer people" in Canada, and hence I have been following your NT for the past few years, including lurking on this forum occasionally. So I figured that now that this guy signed with my local club team, it would be a good excuse to register here too. So I do hope you guys don't mind having me as an "outsider" for our countries are yet to develop a fierce rivalry in this sport. (Although I also wouldn't mind, if in the next few years one developed over Häkkinen's services at the senior level. )
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Would Jonas warrant his own thread, btw? Now that he's going to be playing here, I would be more than glad to contribute with updates on Jonas etc. since I watch every VPS game anyway.

I hope it's fine to post the following message here. If you believe it doesn't belong on the V forum please let me know and I will ask the admins to remove it.
After many years of running Canucks Abroad and this thread with a small team of dedicated volunteers (that include many Voyageurs) I have decided to launch our project on Patreon. Basically it's just an opportunity for stakeholders who use our services to give back financially to compensate us for the countless hours we have invested in keeping the database up to date and the twitter monster fed.
Feel free to check out our Patreon page here: . Please note the database  "Mother Of All Canadians Abroad List" will remain intact, and it's the exact same one we use on our website.
We've also updated www.canucks-abroad.ca recently if that's of interest. Some of you have heard that we launched a #CanPL discord a while ago. It's a little thriving community, feel free to check it out as well.
Happy tracking and see you next Tuesday!

Manny Aparicio has signed with San Roque de Lepe of Spanish 4th tier. That is Division 10 of Tercera, in western Andalusia. 
If you recall he was released by Izarra in early July.
That is strawberry country in southern Spain. From what they say he has been on trial for a while, and was signed this week, did not appear on the roster for last week's season opener.
http://www.lapreferente.com/J210826/manny-aparicio.html

Manjrekar James signs with FC Midtjylland in Denmark, loaned to FC Fredericia in first division for 2018-19.
 

Aird now with Dundee United. 
 
https://mobile.twitter.com/FraserAird/status/1002547496474824704/photo/1

Misik is now with Napier city Rovers inn NZ http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12036978

Former FC Edmonton GK Tyson Farago is expected to sign with St Patrick's Athletic FC in Ireland in the coming days. 

Kosovar Sadiki Has signed with Lokomotiva Zagreb in Croatian 1st division.
Kosovar Sadiki novi je igrač Lokomotive
   

We are planning, for the second leg of this series in Oakville to show up in force to welcome these two teams to The Voyageurs Cup for the first time.  This marks an important and historic development in the competition. 
More details will be made available as we make arrangements and the venue and times are finalized. 
The game will be on June 13th. 

Looks like Stephen Eustaquio is set to be transferred to GD Chaves who are currently 7th in the Portuguese first division. 

It cost 6 million euros, seats 6000, took about 30 months to build. 
More images of the interior:
https://templosdelfutbol.com/2017/09/23/nuevo-malecon-torrelavega/

I'd like to order 10 of those please.

Oh please lets not do that!  

Has yet to be officially announced by the club, but yes it does seem legit since Charlie retweeted it.

Has yet to be officially announced by the club, but yes it does seem legit since Charlie retweeted it.

Has yet to be officially announced by the club, but yes it does seem legit since Charlie retweeted it.