Josh is a journalist based in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, with a love of football. His work appears in The Athletic, The Guardian, OneSoccer, TFC Republic and more. He's been covering the Wanderers and Tides since 2023.
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Cavalry FC goalkeeper Marco Carducci was acclaimed as president for PFA Canada following the organization's annual general meeting on Tuesday. The 28-year old footballer had spent the previous two years as interim president. “I’m incredibly proud and humbled to know I have the support of my fellow
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The Halifax Wanderers are the first CPL club eliminated from playoff contention this year, a truth that would have seemed ludicrous in March but statistically likely by mid-August. Their 2-1 loss against Cavalry FC on Saturday certainly was spirited but, like far too often this season, a lack of clinical
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It’s Wednesday night in Halifax and, with autumn’s bite blowing across the peninsula, already dark and cool by 7:00 p.m. The weather is in stark contrast to the sudsy afternoons and balmy evenings spent at the Wanderers Grounds this summer and, for striker Tiago Coimbra and
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Jacob Shaffelburg knows he beat the odds. Or more accurately, given his meteoric rise for Canada, widespread popularity in MLS and moniker as Maritime Messi, blew them out of the water. He's risen to heights he believes, as he's told several outlets, to be near impossible
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The Golden Boot race is afoot and, with the CPL regular season winding down, it's anyone's guess as to who will finish as the league's top goal scorer. Some will surely point to Atlético Ottawa's Rubén del Campo as the favourite given
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CS Saint-Laurent, a semi-professional club in Ligue1 Québec, is once again the centre of attention in the Canadian football world and not for their play on the pitch. On Thursday, journalist Maxime Truman of DansLesCoulisses reported on BPM Sports that CS Saint-Laurent had secured a North American investor to help
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Make no mistake: CPL commissioner Mark Noonan is a very busy man. On Wednesday night, he was in attendance for Halifax's match against Pacific FC. And although he had some time to take in the evening's festivities, much of his time pre-match was spent speaking to
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There was a brief moment, with referee Ben Hoskins' red card aloft and contrasting the September dusk, that it felt like this was the end for the Wanderers' season. Despite coming off a clinical 3-0 victory over Forge FC on Saturday, Halifax had once again hamstrung themselves with
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Aiden Rushenas remembers sending an Instagram message. He's 17-years old at the time and yet to prove himself as a star goalkeeper for the Dalhousie Tigers. In fact, he's still a few months away from heading to Nova Scotia as a student-athlete. But in his heart
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Three goals. Three points. And a rekindling of Halifax's playoff hopes. Saturday's 3-0 victory over Forge FC was the type of elixir the Wanderers faithful yearned for given the many lows of their campaign. And with their season on the line — and playoff hopes on life
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Halifax's backline — to put it mildly — looked thin. But on Friday, the Wanderers announced a brace of new defenders, including 24-year old Nassim Mekideche, to bolster their squad ahead of a desperate playoff push. Mekideche is no stranger to the CPL. The Montréal-born centre-back previously played 10 matches
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The Wanderers expect better of themselves and, as multiple people within the organization have stated this season, believe they have a squad capable of competing for trophies in this league. But what they believe and the reality on the pitch are two very different things. Take Saturday night for example.