Montreal Impact Academy

Montreal Impact Academy

Founded	2010
Ground	Saputo Stadium Montreal, Quebec (Capacity: 13,034)
Owner	Joey Saputo
Head Coach	Philippe Eullaffroy
League	Canadian Soccer League
2010	9th
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Montreal Impact Academy (French: L'Academie De L'Impact De Montreal) is a Canadian professional soccer team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 2010, they are the only Quebec based team currently playing in the Canadian Soccer League. They serve as the Academy to their parent club Montreal Impact.

History

The club was founded in 2010 by Montreal Impact after Trois-Rivières Attak decided to take a sabbatical for the 2010 season. Attak which is owned by Tony Iannitto waived his players rights and opened his territory for the benefit of the Impact Academy. Montreal repatriated all the players and coaching staff from Trois-Rivieres to form the Academy while the Attak decided to sit out the 2010 season for undisclosed reasons.

Players

Current roster

as of May 5, 2010.^[1]

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 Dominic Provost 2 DF Hugo Lapointe-Sénécal 3 DF Ismail Benomar [2] 6 MF Jonathan Vallee 7 MF Bastien Bourgault 8 MF Zakaria Messoudi 9 FW Michelot Hyacinthel 10 MF Wandrille Lefevre 11 FW Mircea Ilcu 12 DF Karl Ouimette 13 MF Greg Turfan 14 MF Kevin Luarca [3] 15 DF Maxim Tissot 16 MF Félix Cardin 17 MF Victor Ndiaye

No. Position Player 18 MF Philippe Lincourt-Joseph 19 MF Alessandro Riggi 21 MF Chris-Michel Rumuri 22 GK Samuel Dufort 23 DF Amine Meftouh 24 DF Francesco Augustin 25 MF Dominique Morin 27 MF Marco Lapenna [4] 28 FW Anthony Jackson-Hamel 30 DF Jean Lamothe 31 DF Kai Morton 40 GK Maxim Crepeau[5] 41 GK Jason Beaulieu - DF Serge Dinkota

Graduated former players

Staff

President

• Joey Saputo

Executive Vice President

• Richard Legendre

Vice President

• John Di Terlizzi

Technical Director

• Nick De Santis

Head Coach

• Philippe Eullaffroy

Assistant Coach

• Olivier Brett

Year-by-Year

Outdoor Team

Year	Division	League	Reg. Season	Playoffs	Avg. Attendance
2010	1	Canadian Soccer League	9th	DNQ
2011	1	Canadian Soccer League	current

Stadia

The Academy currently plays its home games at Saputo Stadium, a soccer-specific stadium which opened in May 2008. As the name suggests, the stadium was funded privately (mainly by the Saputo family). Seating 13,034 supporters in three main stands, Saputo Stadium is located just east of Olympic Stadium in the city's east end. Currently the seating is restricted just to the north grand stand.

References

1. ^ http://www.montrealimpact.com/Team/Roster.aspx?language=EN
2. ^ "CanadaSoccer.com Profile". http://www.canadasoccer.com/players/u17/profile.asp?playerid=2148. Retrieved 14 June 2011. 
3. ^ Di Pietro, Alex (2010-06-16). "Luaraca eyes pro possibilities". The Suburban. http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/The-Suburban/thesuburbanjune16_2010/2010061601/51.html. Retrieved 19 August 2010. 
4. ^ "CanadaSoccer.com Profile". http://www.canadasoccer.com/players/u17/profile.asp?playerid=2121. Retrieved 14 June 2011. 
5. ^ "CanadaSoccer.com Profile". http://www.canadasoccer.com/players/u17/profile.asp?playerid=2112. Retrieved 14 June 2011. 

External links

• Official website
• Impact Soccer fan site