Nuke Soccer

By Ben Knight Globe & Mail On Soccer

Knight: De Guzman departs

It’s the news Canadian soccer fans didn’t want to hear.

Jonathan de Guzman, 20-year-old Feyenoord phenom, one of Europe’s best young attacking midfielders and, oh, by the way, Canadian, announced Wednesday he will pursue his international soccer career – with the Netherlands.

His Dutch passport is fact. His citizenship, also. So even though so many of us dreamed he would join his brother Julian in the deepest and most talented Canadian midfield on record, he won’t.

It’s over.

Blame him? Not really.

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