Dec 12, 2005 CPSL Toronto Croatia news (from CPSL website)
JOSIP CVITANOVIC WILL LEAD TORONTO CROATIA IN 50TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR
Monday - December 12, 2005
CPSL UPDATE - December 12 - Toronto Croatia has re-elected Josip Cvitanovic to lead the club into its important 50th anniversary year.
Cvitanovic was elected president on December 11 and will ask Theo Krajacic to continue on the board of the Canadian Professional Soccer League to represent a club that launched in 1956. The team has put together a string of accomplishments in its rich half century existence, including a North American Championship in 1976 – the last time a Toronto professional soccer team won the title. Toronto Croatia were also Canadian champions in 1971, 1972 and 1973 and won league titles in 1992, 1995, 1996 and most recently won the CPSL Championship in 2004.
Toronto Croatia ended the 2005 season with a 13-3-6 WLT record as runners up in the Eastern Conference.
CPSL PLAYERS AT LIMA CHAMPIONSHIP
Several players from the Canadian Professional Soccer League are in the Canadian team that took part in a Pan American club Futsal championship event at Lima, Peru December 7 to 11. Canadian team Deportivo Pereira from the Toronto area with players from Brampton Stallions and Toronto Supra, opened the competition with a 3-2 win over Ejercito Peruano FC of Peru on December 7. There will be a full report of the competition next week.
DURHAM STORM FRANCHISE REVOKED
Durham Storm of the CPSL’s Eastern Conference has had its franchise revoked by the CPSL. The team from Durham Region just east of Toronto has struggled to be competitive since joining Canada’s only complete professional soccer league for the 2004 season. The team had a 2-17-1 WLT record in its inaugural year at the foot of the division and ended the 2005 season with a 1-20-1 record.
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