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North York Astros Full name North York Astros Soccer Club Nickname(s) Astros Founded November 23, 1990
(as North York Atletico Argentina Soccer Club)Ground Esther Shiner Stadium
North York, Ontario
(Capacity: 3,000)General Manager Bruno Ierullo
Head Coach Gerardo Lezcano League Canadian Soccer League 2010 12th Website Club home page Home coloursAway coloursNorth York Astros are a Canadian soccer team, founded in 1990. The team is a member of the Canadian Soccer League, the third tier of soccer in the Canadian soccer pyramid and the largest domestic professional league in Canada. The team currently play their home games at Esther Shiner Stadium in North York, Ontario, a suburb of the city of Toronto, Ontario. The team's colours are orange and black.
Contents
History
Originally, in 1990, the team was called the North York Atletico Argentina Soccer Club. In 1993 the team moved to Scarborough and the name changed to the Scarborough Astros Soccer Club.
In 1998 the franchise returned to the city of North York as the North York Astros and was a founding member of the Canadian Professional Soccer League.
In 2002, the Astros were finalists of the Rogers Cup, losing 2–0 to the Ottawa Wizards.
Kit
The colours in the kit have changed over the years. Yellow and Navy Blue where prominent and in 2010 there was an addition of orange.
2008 Players
Current squad
as of November 1, 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 Enea Perego 2 DF Anthony Valentine 3 DF John Jung CAPTAIN 4 DF Emil Cohen 5 MF Alexandre Oran 6 MF Jevon Vanderreyden 7 FW Erik Grigore 8 MF Rei Ishikawa 9 FW [[]] 10 MF Diego Maradona 11 MF Marco Rodriguez 12 DF Ahjton Roberts No. Position Player 13 FW Nordo Gooden 14 DF Kurt Ramsey 15 MF Michael Tischer 16 MF Joseph Matti 17 DF Steven Craig 18 MF Maxim Dorneval 19 MF Francisco Mendez 20 GK Norbert Bengyel Staff
- General Manager
- Bruno Ierullo
Awards:
- Director of Soccer
- Jorge Collazo
Sports
- Head Coach
- Gerardo Lezcano
- Assistant Coach
- Kerwin Skeete
Reserve squad
The reserve squad plays in the Canadian Soccer League's Reserve Division. In 2011 all CSL Clubs had reserve teams except the Montreal Impact Academy, Windsor Stars and Capital City FC.
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 20- GK Ivan Garcia 1- GK Seran Sathyaseelan 2- DF Alan Fischman 12- MF Giancarlo Bruno 4- MF Marcos Urraburu 8- MF Zef Kraja 6- DF Siar Vukatana No. Position Player 5- MF Allan Cordon 9- FW Alexander De Matos 13- FW Christian Nachevski 3- MF Hyun Jun Kim 7- MF Raoof Zamanifar 10- MF Mikateko Zwane Former players
Patrick Tobo
Haidar Al-Shaïbani
Mark Cristante
David Diplacido
Elton Fernandes
[[Franco Lalli
Peter Petropanagos
Diego Benzi
Cedric Mpununu
Josué Árias
Gad Espinosa
Jonathan Hurtis
Peter Zorbas
Konata Mannings
Basil Hanna
Alon Badat
Boris Krimus
Alex Nardi
Gary De Leon
Selvin Lammie
Kadian Lecky
Michael Marshall
Rene Martin
Kerwin Skeete
Audley Taffe
Ricky Titus
Go Nagaoka
Samir Ibrahim
Year-by-year
Head coaches
Elio Garro (1991–92)
Jorge Armua (1993–98)
- Rafael Carbajal (1999–00)
- Tony Laferrara (July 2001)
- Sam Medeiros (2001), (Interim)
- Pavel Zaslavski (2002–03)
Dejan Gluscevic (2002 Co-Coach)
- Vittorio Villacis(2004)
- Dejan Gluscevic (2005)
- Pavel Zaslavski (2006)
- Rafael Carbajal (2007–08)
Uğur Çimən (June 2009)
Vladimir Klinovsky (2009), (Interim)
- Michael Ridout (July 2010)
- Gerardo Lezcano (2010), (Interim)
- Gerardo Lezcano (2011)
References
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 1996". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can96.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 1997". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can97.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 1998". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can98.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 1999". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can99.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2000". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can00.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2001". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can01.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2002". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can02.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2003". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can03.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2004". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can04.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2005". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can05.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2006". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can06.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2007". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can07.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2008". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can08.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ http://northyorkastros.ca/page.php?page_id=13816
External links
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