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Weber: Coup for Canadian soccer as men's Nats land former Scotland U21 midfielder Scott Arfield


Weber: Coup for Canadian soccer as men's Nats land former Scotland U21 midfielder Scott Arfield
Scott Arfield of Burnley will be joining Team Canada, reports Province soccer writer Marc Weber.JAN KRUGER / GETTY IMAGES

Canada Soccer’s ramped-up recruitment efforts have paid off again.

Burnley midfielder Scott Arfield — born and raised in Scotland but eligible for Canada through his Toronto-born dad — will be part of Benito Floro’s squad in 2016, sources tell the Province.

Arfield, 27, is the latest in a string of off-field wins for Canada Soccer, who in 2015 gave international debuts to FC Dallas forward Tesho Akindele, Glasgow Rangers winger Fraser Aird and Queens Park Rangers winger Junior Hoilett.

Akindele, a 23-year-old who grew up in Colorado, had interest from the U.S.; Toronto-born Aird, 20, played for Scotland at the U17 and U19 levels; and Hoilett, 25, was also courted by his father’s birth country, Jamaica.

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