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Fury announce 2013 lineup packed with international players<br />
Brier Dodge<br />
brier.dodge@metroland.com<br />
EMC sports – With the Ottawa<br />
Fury launching a professional team<br />
in 2014, the Ottawa Fury menʼs<br />
coaches for the premier development<br />
league team had quite the carrot<br />
to dangle when recruiting this<br />
yearʼs menʼs team.<br />
The PDL team is a level below<br />
the team that the Fury will unveil<br />
in 2014, a team many of the current<br />
players are sure to be aiming for.<br />
“We started targeting players at<br />
the end of last season,” said menʼs<br />
head coach Stephen OʼKane. “Everyone<br />
we wanted, we got.”<br />
The men play in a 23-and-under<br />
league, meaning the turnover every<br />
year is high, with rebuilding almost<br />
every year – the Fury have only seven<br />
returning menʼs players.<br />
OʼKane said that many of the<br />
players on this yearʼs team could<br />
play at the caliber expected to be<br />
signed to Ottawaʼs future professional<br />
team.<br />
There are several local players<br />
included on the roster. Orléans is<br />
represented by former Louis Riel<br />
high school players Chad Bush and<br />
Will Beaugé, Dunrobinʼs Robbie<br />
Murphy, an All Saints High School<br />
grad, and Barrett Neilson, from Barrhaven.<br />
The team also signed a number of<br />
international players, from Germany,<br />
England, New Zealand, France,<br />
United States, Sweden and Bosnia.<br />
Many of the players already boast<br />
BRIER DODGE/METROLAND<br />
Robbie Murphy from Dunrobin, Chad Bush from Orléans, Barrett Neilson from Barrhaven and Will Beaugé<br />
from Rockland are some of the players named to the Ottawa Fury 2013 men’s side roster. It’s a crucial year<br />
for these players to be joining the Fury, as the club will have a professional team for 2014, a level that head<br />
coach Stephen O’Kane said all his players are capable of playing at.<br />
resumes from elite club teams and<br />
colleges, with a good number having<br />
held captain honours at some<br />
point.<br />
It will be a challenge to balance<br />
so many players who are used to<br />
getting a lot of playing time, so<br />
players will have to battle to earn<br />
starting spots on this yearʼs squad,<br />
said OʼKane.<br />
He said last yearʼs loss was heartbreaking<br />
– and that he, along with<br />
most of his players, would kick his<br />
grandma if it meant winning the title<br />
this year.<br />
The womenʼs team is in a different<br />
boat, coming into the season as<br />
defending league champions.<br />
Local womenʼs players include<br />
Nepeanʼs Jasmine Phillips and Kayla<br />
Adamek, Kanataʼs Emma Donnelly,<br />
Orléansʼ Lauren Hughes, Nepean<br />
High School graduate Breanna Burton<br />
and Barrhavenʼs Gillian Baggot.<br />
Both Donnelly and Adamek have<br />
played through the Furyʼs youth development<br />
program.<br />
“The years of being the bridesmaids<br />
are over,” said John Pugh,<br />
Fury owner. “For 2013, all we can<br />
do is look to repeat.”<br />
Womenʼs head coach Dom Oliveri<br />
said that they try to not recruit<br />
not only talented players, but good<br />
people who can lead by example.<br />
The women also have several international<br />
players joining the roster,<br />
including players from Australia,<br />
New Zealand and England.<br />
“(Coaches) have worked tirelessly<br />
to bring this team to Ottawa,”<br />
Pugh said. “I know – I pay their<br />
phone bills.”<br />
The women were scheduled to<br />
play their first game on May 24<br />
against Quebec City, while the men<br />
had a game scheduled at home on<br />
March 24 against Boston at Algonquin<br />
College.<br />
The next home game will be May<br />
31 for the menʼs team, against CFC<br />
Azul at the Algonquin College Soccer<br />
Complex at 7 p.m.<br />
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