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Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Cavalry fall to Vancouver in penalties in Canadian Championship quarters
The chase for the 2025 Canadian Championship is over for Cavalry FC. A loss in a penalty shootout to visiting Vancouver FC on Tuesday night at ATCO Field left the Calgary club heartbroken and ended this year's run for the Voyageurs Cup. 'I think obviously we're disappointed,' said Cavalry midfield star Shamit Shome after the 1-1 result, decided by penalty kicks that favoured the Vancouver squad 5-4 at Spruce Meadows. 'We wanted to push together to get to the semifinals for the first time in a while.' A win, indeed, would've pushed Cavalry onto the penultimate round of 'The Battle of the North' — a place the club reached once before back in the inaugural season. Six years later and with both a league and playoff championship under their belts, the Cavs seem primed to make it back to at least the semi round. Instead after Tuesday's decision, it's Vancouver FC off to play either Canadian Premier League rival Valour FC or Major League Soccer's Vancouver Whitecaps FC. That tie is at 2-2 with Leg 2 in the total-goal series set for Wednesday night at Vancouver's BC Place. The penalty shootout saw Tobias Warschewski miss for Cavalry before teammates Caniggia Elva, Mihail Gherasimencov, Fraser Aird, Ali Musse all scored. Then it was Maël Henry saved by the Vancouver goalie Callum Irving. For Vancouver, it was Nicolás Mazquida, David Norman Jr., Aidan O'Connor, Terran Campbell and Juan Batista converting penalty kicks on Cavalry goalie Marco Carducci. Teammate Thomas Powell missed his chance. The visitors got on the board first when Mazquida converted a penalty kick in the 23rd minute. Levi Laing was charged with taken down a Vancouver FC forward in the box, leading to the shot from the dot that Mazquida hammered past Carducci. After that goal, 'They defended their socks off,' said Cavalry gaffer Tommy Wheeldon Jr. The home side, however, did get the goal back in the 66th minute on a weird play. Cavalry defender Mihail Gherasimencov chased down a corner kick that was redirected beyond the top of the box and fired a ball that deflected into the net off injured — and prone — O'Connor. But it wasn't their win in the end. 'We can't make excuses,' added Wheeldon. 'All that matters is the result. Congratulations to Vancouver and best of luck to them in the next round.' tsaelhof@
CTV News
29-06-2025
- Sport
- CTV News
Atletico make themselves at home again at ATCO Field, defeating Cavalry FC 2-0
Atletico Ottawa continued a hot streak at ATCO Field Saturday, defeating Cavalry FC 2-0 at Spruce Meadows. It was the club's fifth straight win and sixth in their last nine appearances on Calgary's home field -- the most victories by any Canadian Premier League team apart from the Cavalry themselves. Kevin Dos Santos broke in and fired one under the hand of Marco Carducci a little over eight minutes into the game, giving Atletico a 1-0 lead. GOAL 🦖 Kevin dos Santos puts @atletiOttawa ahead early in the game 🔥#CanPL | 🔴 Watch LIVE on @onesoccer — Canadian Premier League (@CPLsoccer) June 28, 2025 In the second half, Manny Aparicio intercepted a Carducci misstep then quickly advanced the ball to Sam Salter, who deposited it into the Cavalry net. GOAL 🦖🦖 Sam Salter takes advantage of Marco Carducci's mistake and @atletiOttawa's lead is doubled ⚽️#CanPL | 🔴 Watch LIVE on @onesoccer — Canadian Premier League (@CPLsoccer) June 28, 2025 'What's happened is we've been punished for two errors, and that's it,' Cavalry manager Tommy Wheeldon Jr. said after the game. 'They made the saves and blocks and things like that they needed to do, and they were flawless in that. That's the tale of the game, really.' Cavalry FC are now off until July 8, when they play a Canadian Championship match against Vancouver FC, so they have a chance to regroup after having a 10 game undefeated streak snapped Saturday. 'Refresh, reset, reload,' Wheeldon Jr. said. 'That's what we've got to look at. I said to the lads, we put a game plan together. A couple of things didn't go our way in a 90-plus minute game. So what we've got to do is just draw a line in the sand, move on, reload, and now we'll go again.'
Calgary Herald
25-04-2025
- Sport
- Calgary Herald
Cavalry FC's Marco Carducci aids testicular cancer cause with meatball pizza partnership
Article content Marco Carducci is back saving balls for Cavalry FC. Article content Then there's the veteran goalkeeper's other gig — that is saving balls for Calgary's male population, as a voice and high-profile face for Oneball, a local charity focused on supporting the battle against testicular cancer through funding, research and awareness. Article content One begets the other in his mission to be a proud Calgarian. Article content Article content 'After my testicular cancer diagnosis a few years ago, I have been working with Oneball,' Carducci said. 'I've partnered up with the Italian Centre Shop — great friends of ours there — and we've put together what's called Marco's Meatball Pizza. Article content Article content 'You can find the pun in that. I'll leave it as it is.' Article content But supporters can take it and bake it at home or enjoy the tasty pizza at the store's cafe in Willow Park, at 9919 Fairmount Dr. S.E. in Calgary. Article content Marco's Meatball Pizza is on sale for $17 for a limited time from April 23-30, with proceeds from each wheel sold going to Oneball. The goalie himself can't eat too many of the delicious works named after him, because that might interfere with his on-field professional job, which continues Saturday when Atlético Ottawa (2W-0L-1D) visits Carducci and Cavalry (0-1-1) for a Canadian Premier League match at ATCO Field (3 p.m., TSN3, Article content And it's a game the Cavs certainly want to win given their 0-fer-start to the CPL campaign. Article content Article content 'It's a long season — we know it is,' said Carducci, whose club dropped a 2-1 battle with arch-rival Forge FC in the season opener in Hamilton and then drew 1-1 last Friday night with Vancouver FC in the home opener at Spruce Meadows. Article content 'Yeah … our first games obviously didn't go the way we wanted,' continued Carducci. 'But we've been here before, and we're excited again to play in front of our fans.' Article content They've been down this road before many times early in the CPL schedule. Article content So that's why there's no worries at this point — no panic at all — in still searching out a first league win on the season. Article content To quote Cavalry's GM/head coach Tommy Wheeldon Jr., 'It's a marathon — not a sprint.' Article content And being an original member of Cavalry, the superstar 'keeper and captain embraces that advice better than anyone else. Article content 'I think it's a matter of we have that chemistry and we have an understanding of what this team is about and what makes this team tick — not just on the field but off it and culturally,' Carducci said. 'I think that's a big piece, right? We obviously lost some key pieces in Daan (Klomp) and Charlie (Trafford), but we've been able to keep a big core group of guys, right? And then we added some really good pieces, as well.
