The Ball is Round Montreal

06/13/2025

We're excited to bring you another interview with a player as TBIR sat down with Dawid Bugaj to learn more about him and his time with CF Montreal. Make sure to join our Patreon, where we'll drop the full interview next week!

06/12/2025

CF Montreal is ending their international break by visiting the Houston Dynamo! With us to preview the opponent this week is 's Rudy Segura!

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06/11/2025

Impression of today's practice.

Present
JAV
Opoku
Pearce
Neal
Vrioni
Dawid
Pearce
Yankov
Alvarez (despite loan rumors, he was present. I was told that he was evidently frustrated in practice yesterday that a false rumor came out, no done deal yet)
Clark
Piette
Owusu
Campbell
Craig
Sirois
Sunusi
Graham-Roache
Loturi
Guboglo
Petrasso

Academy players (invited)
Felix
Peres
Arnaud
Dore belair
Malick daouda

Absent
Duke
Synchuk
Herbers

Team tells us Waterman and Saliba not coming back before Gold Cup is over

A kind of volleyball drill to warm up

Fabian Herbers comes out late and runs around the field, did drills without the ball.

Bryce Duke comes out late no shoes and sat on the sideline most of the practice, doesn't look any closer to a return.

Hennadi Synchuk jogging around and did some drills with the ball. Looks closer to returning.

Donadel was livid after some poor drills, kicked a soccer ball away (love to see a passionate coach like that)

4 stations several different passing combinations

Assistant Lorenzo Pinzauti not present at practice today and apparently hasn't been present for the past couple practices

Former goalkeeper coach Luca Bucci was visiting practice.

Luca saputo was present throughout the whole practice.

A lot of the academy staff including physical trainers present.

Caden Clark leads the way for team sprints drill

Match
1st side
Sunusi
Mahala Opoku
Iankov

Craig Alvarez
Vrioni
And some academy kids filling positions

2nd side
Prince owusu
Caden Clark Victor Loturi
Piette
Neal Campbell petrasso
Pearce
Bugaj guboglo
Sirois

(This would look like the closest starting line-up against Houston on Saturday night)

Vrioni and Iankov start on the side

Terrible miss by Vilsaint 1v1 vs Gazdov
Alvarez with a bad giveaway, leads to shot
(tell me if you've heard with that)

Vrioni down after a collision with Craig
Vrioni walked out on his own power and then left the field altogether. He looked mad as he signaled to his knee and spoke with Luca Saputo amongst others and then left to the gym. I was told that he's done this in the past a few times and they took him out of practice as a precaution but that he's not hurt. He was angry that they took him out of practice.

Mahala opoku had an impressive play where he took on two MLS defenders On and made them look silly and provided an assist. Could this be a turning point?

06/11/2025

Report cards are out! Go check it out and tell us what you think! Thank you again to everyone who participated in the survey!

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06/11/2025

Quick scouting on Olger Escobar during his game vs. Jamaica, which was very one-sided and ended with Guatemala losing 0-3:
- He was deployed as a 10 with the national team
- He's a big kid, and by that, I mean tall and stands out but not very physical
- He's not your quickest player and can often be seen jogging throughout the game, but he has a very interesting read of the game.
- He's still needs work in the basics of the game, but his understanding of his positioning is very interesting
- He's very vocal with his teammates. Not softspoken to referees, either.

06/10/2025

Fernando Alvarez has been loaned out to Argentinian side Lanus on a loan of one year with a purchase option. Done deal.

06/09/2025

LAST CALL!!!! Make sure to fill out your mid-season report card. We will release the results tommorow along with and take of the 2025 campaign so far! And wow! Thank you to all those who already responded!

DERNIER APPEL !!!! N'oubliez pas de remplir votre bilan de mi-saison de la . Nous publierons les résultats demain, ainsi que les analyses de et sur la saison 2025 jusqu'à présent ! Et wow ! Merci à tous ceux qui ont déjà répondu !

Welcome to TBIR Montreal’s midseason report card! Andy and Elias will be grading the individual squad members and would love to have YOUR take as well! All players exceeding 150 minutes played will be considered. ATTENTION: Look, we know tensions are high and things have not been going well this y...

06/08/2025

No podcast tonight as the gang continues their R&R, but we'll be back soon, we promise! Thank you all for your support and for your understanding! In the meantime, make sure to fill out the mid-season report card!

Welcome to TBIR Montreal’s midseason report card! Andy and Elias will be grading the individual squad members and would love to have YOUR take as well! All players exceeding 150 minutes played will be considered. ATTENTION: Look, we know tensions are high and things have not been going well this y...

06/08/2025

It looks like Mathieu Choiniere is now a first-time father! Congrats!

06/07/2025

Wow! Thank you to all of you who already filled in the mid-season report card, and for those of you who haven't, what are you waiting for? Do it today, and we will be sharing the results in the next few days! (Yes, it's completely anonymous)

Welcome to TBIR Montreal’s midseason report card! Andy and Elias will be grading the individual squad members and would love to have YOUR take as well! All players exceeding 150 minutes played will be considered. ATTENTION: Look, we know tensions are high and things have not been going well this y...

06/07/2025

Dante Sealy scored two goal for Trinidad & Tobago in their 6-2 win over St. Kitts and Neavis in their WCQ game.

06/06/2025

Glass half-full or glass half-empty? It’s halfway all the same.

We’re putting together a little midseason report card for all the players (who have played more than 150 minutes) and we’d love to know your thoughts!!

Welcome to TBIR Montreal’s midseason report card! Andy and Elias will be grading the individual squad members and would love to have YOUR take as well! All players exceeding 150 minutes played will be considered. ATTENTION: Look, we know tensions are high and things have not been going well this y...