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Sunday Special: Team Canada is missing some of its better players
By Todd Porter
CantonRep.com staff report
Posted Jun 13, 2009

Oh, Canada! When Team Canada makes it way to the Junior World Championships later this month at Fawcett Stadium, it won?t be the team Head Coach Glen Constantin hoped to have. The No. 1-seeded Canadians are having problems, and Constantin isn?t afraid to talk about those issues.

Not all provinces have released their players to participate in the games, so Constantin is coming south with a team made up mostly of players from Quebec.

?This is a difficult time to make up the team, to be honest with you,? Constantin said. ?There?s a struggle going on in our country. The national championship, the Canadian Cup, where every province has a team, those people are not liberating their players. Basically, we?ve been freed for us to pick players from Quebec. Everybody is holding back their players.?

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JUNIOR NATIONAL FOOTBALL
Sunday, June 14, 2009
What: USA Football training camp.

When: Today through June 25.

Where: Walsh University, 2020 East Maple St., North Canton.

Admission: All practices are free. Free parking is available next to Walsh University's track, which is adjacent to the university's four football fields.

Notable: USA Football's Junior National Team is America's first such football team composed of recently graduated high school seniors. The 45-player team, coached by St. Ignatius' Chuck Kyle, is preparing for the first Junior World Championship at Canton's Fawcett Stadium. The tournament, run by the International Federation of American Football, starts June 27 and concludes with the gold medal game July 5. The tournament features the U.S., along with Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Sweden. Included on Kyle's roster are three local players: safety Pat Hinkel (St. Ignatius/Miami of Ohio), lineman Brian Smith (Walsh Jesuit/Northwestern) and lineman Brian Winters (Hudson/Kent State). Also of note are Ohio State incoming freshmen Storm Klein (linebacker/Licking Valley) and Jack Mewhort (center/Toledo St. John's). The U.S. players represent 33 college football programs. For more information or for tickets to games, visit or call 1-800-574-5874.

USA Football's training camp

schedule

Today[kda: June 14: ]-NT%>: 2-4 p.m.

Monday[kda: , June 15: ]-NT%>: 9-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m.

Tuesday[kda: , June 16: ]-NT%>: 9-11 a.m.

Wednesday[kda: , June 17: ]-NT%>: 9-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m.

Thursday[kda: , June 18: ]-NT%>: 9-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m.

Friday[kda: , June 19: ]-NT%>: 9-11 a.m.

Saturday[kda: , June 20: ]-NT%>: 9-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m.

June 21: 2-4 p.m.

June 22: 9-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. (joint practices with Team Sweden).

June 23: 9-11 a.m.

June 24: 9-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m.

June 25: 9-11 a.m.

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