Windsor Stars

Windsor Stars

Full name	Windsor Stars Pro Soccer
Nickname(s)	Stars
Founded	2004 (as Windsor Border Stars) 2011 (as Windsor Stars)
Ground	Windsor Stadium Windsor, Ontario (Capacity: 3,000)
Owner	Filip Rocca
Coach	Steve Vagnini & Jeff Hodgson
League	Canadian Soccer League
2011	Regular season: TBD Playoffs: TBD
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Windsor Stars are a professional Canadian soccer team based in Windsor, Ontario. The club plays in the Canadian Soccer League (CSL), the third tier of soccer in the Canadian soccer pyramid and the largest domestic pro league in Canada. The team play their home games at Windsor Stadium in the city of Windsor, Ontario.

History

The club was originally founded as the Windsor Border Stars and joined the Canadian Soccer League in 2004 but would later fold in 2008. In early 2011, the league announced that former Border Star defender, Filip Rocca, was awarded a franchise and would resurrect the club in Windsor. The Border Stars were re-branded as Windsor Stars Pro Soccer and returned to the CSL for the 2011 season.

Rocca pledged to build strong connections with the local soccer community and district association, Essex County Soccer Association, in order to avoid the failure that saw the Border Stars fold. The club owes its history and its name to the Windsor Stars of the 1970s and the Windsor Wheels of the 1980s from the Canadian National Soccer League, the predecessor of the CSL.^[1]

The team has two head coaches, Steve Vagnini and Jeff Hodgson, who were announced as head coaches in February 2011.^[2] The team's colors are sky blue and white.

Original Border Stars logo (2004–08)

2011 Roster

as of 1 July 2011

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Anthony Santilli 2 DF David Ujkic 3 DF Sleman Habib 4 DF Filip Rocca 5 MF David Kadoic 6 DF Chris Suta 7 MF Danny Fernandez 8 MF Ciprian Codea 9 FW Rob Malbasic 10 MF Danny Dragoi 11 MF Mohamad Safieddine 12 DF Ryan Wise 13 MF Eric Kiebert

No. Position Player 14 MF Jeff Hodgson 15 FW Christian Mayorga 16 FW Gino Berardi 17 MF Corey Vickers 18 FW Aaron Byrd 19 FW Michael Ujkic 20 DF Franco Giorgi 21 DF Emilio Giorgi 22 DF Chris Hart 23 FW Alan Porter 24 MF Stephen Ademolu 84 GK Justin Danelon

Year-by-year

Year	Division	League	Regular Season	Playoffs
2004 (as Border Stars)	"1"	CPSL	3rd, Western	Quarter-Finals
2005 (as Border Stars)	"1"	CPSL	3rd, Western	Semi-Finals
2006 (as Border Stars)	"1"	CSL	4th, National	Semi-Finals
2007 (as Border Stars)	"1"	CSL	4th, National	Quarter-Finals
2008 (as Border Stars)	"1"	CSL	5th, National	Did Not Qualify
2011	"1"	CSL	13th	Did Not Qualify

Titles

as Windsor Border Stars

• Open Canada Cup: 2

2004, 2005

• AISL Championship: 1

2005

External links

• http://windsorstarssoccer.com/index.html

References

1. ^ D. Waddell (2011-01-27). "Rocca brings back pro soccer". Windsor Star. http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/sports/story.html?id=691dbe0b-6391-45ee-a56f-58c55b58f8d2. Retrieved 2011-07-07. 
2. ^ https://atvsports.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/soccer-is-back/ Soccer is Back