Serving the Beautiful game Vancouver Fans Ready For A NEW WAVE Win Whitecaps Tickets Online March 2011 • FreeKickMag.com KICK OFF 5 Publisher's Note 6 Women's National Team 8 Qatar 10 MLS 2010: Year in Review 12 Whitecaps FC Joins MLS 14 MLS 2011: Season of Change 16 Fitness 18 Soccer Shorts 18 What Kicks You Off 20 SoccerScopes 20 Comics 12 On February 18th, Vancouver started counting down: 30 days 21 Cosmo Striker till MLS kicked off by decorating the town blue and white. 22 Kidz Corner Kara Lang 6 The Women’s National Team is on the Road to the World Cup, meanwhile Kara Lang has retired from the squad. 10 Major League Soccer has arrived in Vancouver! Colorado won the 2010 MLS Cup in Toronto. 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FreeKickMag.com 3 The first goal is having fun® © Tim Hortons, 2008 bv STARTING LINEUP Letter from OFF FREE KICK TEAM & CONTRIBUTORS the Publisher Publisher: Carrie Serwetnyk KICK Myles Constable, Design / Photography [email protected] Myles is a former soccer player, coach and UBC Human Kinetics grad that drifted into sports media (24 Hours, Carrie Serwetnyk, The Point) and now enjoys the creative rewards of Design/Web: Myles Constable First Woman Canadian graphic design, photography and much more. [email protected] Soccer Hall of Fame www.thinkswell.ca Mailing Address: Suite 128 1917 West 4th, Avenue Randip Janda, Writer/ Editor Vancouver, BC, V6J 1M7 Sweet! Randip is an avid sports junkie who loves to chat about It’s finally time for the Whitecaps to join the MLS. Soccer is hitting the sports with all-takers. Hhe works in television news for Advertising and 604.551.7006 OMNI BC and enjoys traveling and reading. Randip Editorial Inquiries: [email protected] big stage in BC and its way past its due. Canada has been deprived its role supports Arsenal F.C. and the Vancouver Whitecaps. as a soccer nation for longer than we can stand and with the Whitecaps Printing: Teldon Print Media playing their inaugural match against Toronto FC, great things are on the horizon for Canadian soccer. Trevor Kew, Writer Cover Photo: Myles Kilometers/ Here at Free Kick, we are excited to bring you coverage via The Trevor is a Canadian teacher and writer based in klicksphoto.com Yokohama, Japan who spends most of his time playing, Province Newspaper, our blog, Facebook and Twitter. We will also make coaching or watching football. Trevor supports Watford Twitter: @freekickmag our presence known in the community at events to share our love and and Manchester United. He also claims to have fouled strikers on three continents. Red Card! zest for the game. Facebook: /freekickmag In this issue, we must also bring attention to the women’s national team who will be competing in the FIFA World Cup in Germany in June. Piper Bradley, Artist Piper is a Vancouver artist who is crazy for cartooning… Free Kick is a free publication distributed Largely due to the leadership of coach Carolina Morace, the women have and just a bit crazy in general. She migrates around monthly in The Province Newspaper, enjoyed extraordinary success having adopted tighter ball control tactics the city in her cardboard starving artist box doing art for food and stealing your single socks from laundry at local soccer and cultural events. and imaginative play. Writer Mike Toth gives us a closer look at the machines. Support the Realtor who has supported the kids! financial challenges and battles the team has endured against the CSA, www.freekickmag.com the very body that should be promoting and supporting their ambitions. President of Point Grey Youth Soccer from 2002-2008, Randey Brophy has also coached over 600 children in the Kitsilano, Point Grey, Kerrisdale and Dunbar Aman Dhanoa, Writer Recently, Canada was given the opportunity to host the FIFA World communites in baseball and soccer over the last 18 years. He is responsible for the Aman has a BAA in Journalism from Ryerson University Cup in 2015, and while this sounds glamourous and exciting, we don’t Publisher’s Note: successful implementation of articial soccer elds for the city’s youth on both the and is currently the Sports Editor/Reporter of Oye! deserve to play such a role when we have not supported our athletes westside and eastside of Vancouver. Times (oyetimes.com). He is also the co-host of 500 Level Toronto Sports Talk, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Why “Serving the Beautiful Game?” adequately in the past two decades. Undeniably though, this will be a “Randey Brophy spoke on behalf of the Community Soccer Articial Synthetic Turf Subcommittee and requested that the $2.9 million reserved from the current capital plan for the installation of tremendous chance for women’s soccer to catapult into the limelight and articial turf elds be utilized in the following manner: one articial turf eld on the east side at Van As a magazine we have the ability to give a much Tech; and one articial turf eld on the west side at Point Grey. He identied youth soccer on the needed acknowledgement to individuals who the minds of Canadians who will passionately support their national Westside as the largest user group in Vancouver, with most players located around the Point Grey Mike Toth, Writer contribute their energy to soccer. Our mission is side. site. He listed advantages of this site (including community contributions of up to $400,000), and Mike Toth is an award winning journalist, historian to serve the players, fans, parents and coaches who Moving on, we hope you enjoy our usual desire to make you laugh, asked that elds be placed in communities where the youth soccer players are.” and author of the book Birth to Millennium: want information and support for their passion. -Minutes, Vancouver Parks Board Meeting, Sept 2004 Mississauga’s Sports Heritage. He was inducted into smile and think about how our world is a better place through sport and Mississauga’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1993. the camaraderie it brings. Best wishes in your pursuits to embrace and Vancouver born, Randey has a Bachelors degree in Commerce and Economics from Brazilian star Pele’s most renowned quote was when Simon Fraser University and is a lifelong Vancouver resident, husband and father of he called “football” the “beautiful game.” The quote live the beautiful game. 2 children; A landlord and owner of a Kitsilano triplex for over 25 years, Randey has speaks for itself to all those who have played soccer an in depth knowledge of the community, the local real estate market, landlord Jason Beck, Writer or admired it in the stands. It hits the mark between tenant issues and what to look for when buying or selling your home. Curator of the BC Sports Hall of Fame. A lifelong fan how it looks on the outside and how it feels on the “Randey helped us nd and negotiate the best price for our new house. He is friendly, and player of the beautiful game, he spends Saturday inside playing it. dedicated, knowledgeable, thorough, professional and completely honest.” mornings watching his beloved Chelsea, recovering -Ross and Debbie King from matches with his club team Chilliwack Rapids, We feel the combination to “Serve the Beautiful Game” and awaiting the next Whitecaps victory. matches our ambitions as a magazine. For demonstrable knowledge, honesty, hard work and community expertise contact Randey at Macdonald Realty Vancouver-Westside Copyright © 2010. No portion of this publication may 2105 West 38th Ave, Vancouver Anthony Findlay, Writer be reproduced in whole or in part, without the written Mobile: 604-928-1866 Anthony is the owner and head strength coachof Level permission of the publisher. All rights reserved. [email protected] 10 Fitness. He trains champions including the Canadian www.brophysellshomes.com National Teams: Wrestling, Sailing TKD, Snowboard, Facebook: Brophy Sells Homes U20 Rugby and Ski Pipe. Free Kick Magazine is an environmentally friendly publication. Printed on recycled paper. 4 Free Kick March 2011 FreeKickMag.com 5 That’s how Jonelle Filigno got her Augsburg, Berlin, Bochum, Leverkusen, 1 ranked side (and tournament chance to shine. At 20, Filigno is the Dresden, Frankfurt, Mönchengladbach, favourites) in the opener is both a dream youngest member of Morace’s squad. Sinsheim and Wolfsburg. and somewhat of a nightmare. “Playing She was still in high school and playing Drawn into a group A with France, Germany in front of their home crowd UP minor soccer with the Dixie club in Nigeria, and Germany, Canada will in the opening match is a big task," Mississauga when she was discovered face the host nation in the opening Morace says. "The Germans might be a at a talent camp and fast-tracked to the match of the tournament on June 26 in little nervous in the circumstances, too. Canadian national program. That was Berlin, before taking on France (June I see no reason why we shouldn’t take UP only two years ago. At the qualifiers 30 in Bochum) and Nigeria (July 5 in something from the opening match, in Mexico, Filigno was used mainly in Dresden).