North York Astros

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North York Astros
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Full name North York Astros Soccer Club
Nickname(s) The Astros
Founded November 23, 1990
(as North York Atletico Argentina Soccer Club)
Ground Esther Shiner Stadium
North York, Ontario
(Capacity: 3,000)
General Manager Canada Bruno Ierullo
Head Coach Canada Gerardo Lezcano
League Canadian Soccer League
2011 Regular season: 14th
Playoffs: DNQ
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.

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[edit] 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 Soccer Club 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.

[edit] Kit

The colours in the kit have changed over the years. Yellow and Navy Blue where prominent and in 2010 the Club added Orange and Black to commemorate its 20th year anniversary.

Yellow jersey with Yellow shorts and White socks
2008

[edit] Players

[edit] Current squad

as of December 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 Italy GK Enea Perego
2 United Kingdom DF Anthony Valentine
3 South Korea DF John Jung CAPTAIN
4 Niger DF Stanley Ugochukwu[1]
5 France MF Alexandre Oran
6 Canada MF Jevon Vanderreyden
7 Canada FW Erik Grigore
8 Canada MF Franco Lo Presti
9 Japan FW Rei Ishikawa
11 Chile MF Marco Rodriguez
12 Canada GK [[]]
13 Jamaica FW Nordo Gooden
14 Trinidad and Tobago DF Kurt Ramsey
15 Brazil MF Michael Tischer
No. Position Player
16 Niger MF Kunle Fayehun[2]
17 Canada DF Steven Craig
18 Haiti MF Maxim Dorneval
19 Uruguay MF Francisco Mendez
20 Canada MF Josue Tario
21 India DF Ogen Jurme
22 Canada GK [[]]
23 Canada FW [[]]
24 Canada FW [[]]
25 Canada FW [[]]
26 Canada FW [[]]
27 Canada FW [[]]
28 Canada FW [[]]
29 Canada FW [[]]
30 Canada FW [[]]

[edit] Staff

General Manager
  • Bruno Ierullo
Director of Football
  • Jorge Collazo
Director of Business

Eastern Asia & North America

  • Yekta Ibrahimoglu


[edit] Sports

Head Coach
  • Gerardo Lezcano
Assistant Coach
  • Kerwin Skeete
Assistant Coach
  • Maxim Dorneval


==Reserve squad== U23 The reserve squad plays in the Canadian Soccer League's Reserve Division U23. 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
1- Canada GK
2- Canada DF
3- Canada MF
4- Canada DF Emil Cohen
5- Canada MF Allan Cordon
6- Canada MF
7- Canada MF Joseph Matti
8- Canada MF Ahjton Roberts
9- Canada FW Alexander De Matos
10- South Africa MF Mikateko Zwane
11- Canada MF Raoof Zamanifar
12- Canada GK
13- Canada FW
No. Position Player
14- Canada MF
15- Canada FW
16- Canada FW
17- India MF Karma Gyurme
18- Albania DF Boiken Shehu
19- Canada DF
20- Canada DF
21- Canada DF
22- Canada GK
23- Canada DF
24- Canada DF
25- Canada DF


==Reserve squad== U19 The reserve squad U19 will play in the Canadian Soccer League's Reserve Division U19. 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- Canada GK Ivan Garcia
2- Argentina DF Alan Fischman
3- South Korea MF Hyun Jun Kim
4- Canada DF
5- Canada MF
6- Albania MF Zef Kraja
7- Canada MF
8- Canada MF Michael Singh
9- Canada FW
10- Canada MF
11- Canada MF
12- Portugal GK Joao Moniz
13- Canada FW Christian Nachevski
No. Position Player
14- Canada MF Giancarlo Bruno
15- Canada FW
16- Canada FW
17- Canada MF
18- Canada DF
19- Canada DF
20- Canada DF
21- Canada DF
22- Canada GK Seran Sathyaseelan
23- Canada DF
24- Canada DF
25- Canada DF

[edit] Former players

  • Argentina Jorge Collazo
  • Argentina Guillermo Compton Hall
  • Argentina Juan Cruz Real
  • Argentina Hugo Fretes
  • Argentina Leo Lopez
  • Argentina Diego Maradona
  • Argentina Ramon Martinez
  • Argentina Luciano Miranda
  • Argentina Cesar Ponciano Pagliere
  • Argentina Pablo Politi
  • Argentina Walter Reyna
  • Argentina Gabriel Salguero
  • The Bahamas Happy Hall
  • Belarus Arthur Zaslavski
  • Brazil Francisco dos Santos
  • Brazil Paulo Silva
  • Guyana Konata Mannings
  • Iran Basil Hanna
  • Israel Alon Badat
  • Israel Boris Krimus
  • Canada Alex Nardi
  • Jamaica Gary De Leon
  • Jamaica Selvin Lammie
  • Jamaica Kadian Lecky
  • Jamaica Michael Marshall
  • Jamaica Rene Martin
  • Jamaica Kerwin Skeete
  • Jamaica Audley Taffe
  • Jamaica Ricky Titus
  • Japan Go Nagaoka
  • Libya Samir Ibrahim
  • Montenegro Aleksandar Braletić
  • Poland Peter Libicz
  • Russia Andrew Czalij
  • Serbia Dejan Gluščević
  • Serbia Alen Majstorović
  • Serbia Ratko Ivanović
  • Serbia Nikola Miodrag
  • Togo Euloge Awitor
  • Trinidad and Tobago Sherwin Ramsey
  • Uruguay Brian Carbajal
  • Uruguay Rafael Carbajal
  • Uruguay Joshua Lemos
  • Uruguay Álvaro Yaques
  • Uruguay Carlos Zeballos
  • Uruguay Walter Padron

[edit] Year-by-year

Year Division League Regular Season (Position, W-L-D, Pts) Playoffs
1996[3] CNSL 7th, 0–10–2, 2 Pts Did not qualify
1997[4] CNSL Did Not Participate
1998[5] CPSL 4th, 6–7–1, 19 Pts Semi-Finals
1999[6] CPSL 8th, 2–11–1, 7 Pts Did not qualify
2000[7] CPSL 6th, 3–9–2, 11 Pts Did not qualify
2001[8] CPSL 9th, 7–3–12, 24 Pts Did not qualify
2002[9] Western CPSL 5th, 4–6–9, 18 Pts Final
2003[10] Western CPSL 5th, 4–5–9, 17 Pts Did not qualify
2004[11] Eastern CPSL 4th, 3–13–4, 13 Pts Did not qualify
2005[12] Eastern CPSL 5th, 8–10–4, 28 Pts Wild Card Round
2006[13] National CSL 6th, 3–11–8, 17 Pts Did not qualify
2007[14] National CSL 3rd, 5–12–5, 20 Pts First Round Play-offs
2008[15] National CSL 2nd 10–3–9, 33 Pts First Round Play-offs
2009 National CSL 5th DNQ
2010 First CSL 11th DNQ
2011 First CSL 14th DNQ

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[edit] Head coaches

[edit] References

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  16. ^ http://northyorkastros.ca/page.php?page_id=13816

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