{"id":23022,"date":"2019-02-21T12:55:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=23022"},"modified":"2019-02-21T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:55:06","slug":"york-9-fc-planning-on-run-at-voyageurs-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/york-9-fc-planning-on-run-at-voyageurs-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"York 9 FC planning on run at Voyageurs Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

York 9 FC bench boss Jimmy Brennan knows a thing or two about winning a Canadian championship.
\nIn an unprecedented move by the Canadian Soccer Association, members of the inaugural season of the Canadian Premier League will have the opportunity to vie for this year\u2019s Voyageurs Cup, the Canadian championship only ever won by Major League Soccer clubs.
\n\u201cI won a few with TFC as a player and coach, and I\u2019d love to win one with York 9,\u201d said Brennan, who will be the only member of a CPL squad, player or coach, to lift the Cup.
\nAwarded since 2002 by the Voyageurs, a national organization of Canadian soccer fans formed in 1996, the Voyageurs Cup has annually pitted the best of the best in Canadian soccer against each other throughout a season-long format.
\nThis season\u2019s participants, announced on Monday, will include first-year teams for the first time in the tournament\u2019s history.
\n\u201cBecause it\u2019s the first year of this format, everyone is gonna have a go at it,\u201d said Brennan. \u201cWe\u2019re keen to show our value in the CPL by getting into stages with MLS teams and showing them what we could do.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re taking all competitions seriously. We\u2019d love to have a great run in the Cup, even to win it. Same goes for the league.\u201d
\nWith the CPL set to kick off its inaugural season in April, a revamped Voyageurs Cup schedule has been in the works for months, more than doubling the number of participating clubs.
\nA trip to the semifinal rounds could have York9 FC possible facing off against a trio of MLS teams, the top North American league, all who have experience success in the tournament.
\nThe Montreal Impact have lifted the Cup a record nine times, while the Toronto FC are runners-up with seven wins. The Vancouver Whitecaps FC close out the winners\u2019 circle with a single championship.
\nQuarterfinal action kicks off May 15, with York 9 likely facing the local Vaughan Azzurri FC club of the League1 Ontario. A win in round one could have York9 face Hamilton\u2019s Forge FC in round two, in the clubs\u2019 second meeting after playing the season opener in Hamilton on April 27.
\nIn the meantime, Brennan and his crew have recently added three more names to the opening roster, including former Aurora FC captain Morey Doner, of League1 Ontario. Brennan and Doner worked together in the 2018 season, Brennan\u2019s last with the club.
\n\u201cHe\u2019s an energetic fullback that loves to get up the line,\u201d Brennan said. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen a guy with that much energy getting up the field as a fullback. He has electric pace. I think he\u2019ll cause a lot of problems.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

York 9 FC bench boss Jimmy Brennan knows a thing or two about winning a Canadian championship.
\nIn an unprecedented move by the Canadian Soccer Association, members of the inaugural season of the Canadian Premier League will have the opportunity to vie for this year\u2019s Voyageurs Cup, the Canadian championship only ever won by Major League Soccer clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5Zk","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 18:01:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}