CBCSportsca Blogs News Sports Radio TV My Region Watch Listen Member Centre Login Sign UpCharlottetown Change City7c Mostly CloudyHockey Headlines Scoreboard Standings Stats NHL Schedule Teams Players Hockey Night in Canada Highlights Fantasy Pool Commonwealth Football Headlines CFL Scoreboard CFL Standings CFL Stats CFL Teams NFL Scoreboard NFL Standings NFL Stats NFL Teams NFL Players Video Alpine Skiing Curling Figure Skating Basketball NBA Scoreboard Standings Stats Teams Players Basketball News Feed Baseball MLB Scoreboard Standings Stats Teams Players Baseball News Feed Soccer MLS Scoreboard MLS Standings International Stats Soccer News Feed Amateur Sports Golf Tennis Blogs and ColumnsSubscribe to Blogs and Columns Soccer suits usThursday May 28 2009 1149 AM ET Im in England the land of soccer Sorry football if youre a puristAlong with more than 10 million Brits Ive just watched on TV as Manchester United fell to Barcelona in the Champions League finalOn Saturday Chelsea and Everton will play the FA Cup final before 90000 singing fans at Wembley Stadium It is a rite of spring in a place where the game means something You can feel the electricity surrounding the match If only it were true in CanadaContinue reading this post When in Rome do as the Catalans doThursday May 28 2009 0105 AM ET Ole ole ole ole!Barcelona struck a blow for Spanish and Catalan pride with a convincing 20 victory over Manchester United in the Champions League final at Romes Stadio Olimpico Wednesday night invoking the spirit of the famous Dream Team that took European soccer by storm in the early 1990s in the processContinue reading this post Kefi kicks in for Toronto FC Wednesday May 27 2009 0224 AM ET Conversations with my motherinlaw are generally brief and to the point There is a reason for this but before you jump to the conclusion that shes an interfering old battle axe whom I tolerate for the sake of family unity think againIn fact she neither interferes nor demands anything from me other than to be a loyal husband to her eldest daughter Only my wife could tell you how Im doing in that departmentContinue reading this post Offside Fixing Canadian Soccer Getting to the World CupMonday May 25 2009 0509 PM ET CBC Sports soccer commentator Jason de Vos examines the state of Canadian soccer in Offside a multipart blog series exclusive to CBCSportsca In this final installment de Vos a former captain of Canadas national team takes a look at what Canada has to do to qualify for the 2014 World Cup in BrazilCanada has only qualified for the World Cup once the 1986 tournament held in Mexico Since then we have made six attempts to qualify for that elusive festival of football and on every occasion we have come up short I was involved in three of those qualifying campaigns I played sparingly in the 1998 campaign but I had two ...