North York Astros

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 colours Away colours

North 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.

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

Jorge Collazo Guillermo Compton Hall Juan Cruz Real Hugo Fretes Leo Lopez Diego Maradona Ramon Martinez Luciano Miranda Cesar Ponciano Pagliere Pablo Politi Walter Reyna Gabriel Salguero Happy Hall Arthur Zaslavski Francisco dos Santos Paulo Silva

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

Aleksandar Braletić Peter Libicz Andrew Czalij Dejan Gluščević Alen Majstorović Nikola Miodrag Euloge Awitor Kurt Ramsey Sherwin Ramsey Brian Carbajal Rafael Carbajal Joshua Lemos Álvaro Yaques Carlos Zeballos

Year-by-year

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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

1. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 1996". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can96.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
2. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 1997". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can97.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
3. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 1998". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can98.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
4. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 1999". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can99.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
5. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2000". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can00.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
6. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2001". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can01.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
7. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2002". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can02.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
8. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2003". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can03.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
9. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2004". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can04.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
10. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2005". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can05.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
11. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2006". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can06.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
12. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2007". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can07.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
13. ^ "Canadian Soccer League 2008". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/can08.html. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
14. ^ http://northyorkastros.ca/page.php?page_id=13816

External links

• North York Astros

Year	Division	League	Regular Season (Position, W-L-D, Pts)	Playoffs
1996[1]	CNSL	7th, 0–10–2, 2 Pts	Did not qualify
1997[2]	CNSL	Did Not Participate
1998[3]	CPSL	4th, 6–7–1, 19 Pts	Semi-Finals
1999[4]	CPSL	8th, 2–11–1, 7 Pts	Did not qualify
2000[5]	CPSL	6th, 3–9–2, 11 Pts	Did not qualify
2001[6]	CPSL	9th, 7–3–12, 24 Pts	Did not qualify
2002[7]	Western	CPSL	5th, 4–6–9, 18 Pts	Final
2003[8]	Western	CPSL	5th, 4–5–9, 17 Pts	Did not qualify
2004[9]	Eastern	CPSL	4th, 3–13–4, 13 Pts	Did not qualify
2005[10]	Eastern	CPSL	5th, 8–10–4, 28 Pts	Wild Card Round
2006[11]	National	CSL	6th, 3–11–8, 17 Pts	Did not qualify
2007[12]	National	CSL	3rd, 5–12–5, 20 Pts	First Round Play-offs
2008[13]	National	CSL	2nd 10–3–9, 33 Pts	First Round Play-offs
2009	National	CSL	5th	DNQ
2010	First	CSL	12th	DNQ
2011	First	CSL	14th	DNQ
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