CAMP D’ÉVALUATION : PIAZZA VEUT BIEN REPRÉSENTER L’UNIVERSITÉ MCGILL À REGINA

Matt Garies

Males’s Soccer
3/19/2025 12:05:00 AM

Félix Galli, LCF.ca

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MONTRÉAL – Le joueur de ligne offensive des Redbirds de l’Université McGill Domenico Piazza participera cette semaine au camp d’évaluation de la Ligue canadienne de soccer (LCF), qui se tiendra du 21 au 23 mars à Regina.

À six, deux pouces et 290 livres, Piazza est une pièce d’homme qui ne laisse pas sa place sur un terrain de soccer.

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CFL COMBINES EVALUATION CAMP:

Piazza excessive on representing McGill College in Regina

MONTREAL – McGill College Redbirds offensive lineman Domenico Piazza will take part this week within the Canadian Soccer League Combines analysis camp, to be held March 21-23 in Regina.

At six-foot-two and 290 kilos, Piazza is a person’s man who leaves no room on the soccer area. That is why this author was shocked when Piazza informed him that the game that allowed him to be found in soccer is… swimming!

“In highschool, I used to be on the swim staff. The soccer coach was additionally in command of all of the sports activities on the faculty,” recollects Piazza. ‘He got here to me and mentioned, ‘Pay attention, you do not actually look good in a Speedo, however in shoulder pads and a soccer helmet, try to be high-quality.'”

Piazza fell in love with soccer from his very first exercise session. He cites the camaraderie together with his teammates within the locker room as some of the interesting points of the game.

“From the age of 13, I began dreaming of taking part in professionally, and even at college degree,” he says. ‘There have been some former college students from my faculty who had been taking part in at these ranges and I believed to myself, ‘Wow, these guys are loopy!’ And right here I’m at this time, getting ready for the analysis camp.”

Whereas finishing his junior faculty training at John Abbott Faculty, Piazza started to obtain consideration from a number of universities in Canada. He lastly determined to affix the Redbirds at McGill. And on the finish of his first season, Piazza started to imagine that his dream of taking part in professionally would possibly come true.

“My coaches informed me that if I stored taking part in like that, I’d make it to the professionals.”

Marc Glaude, the offensive line coach and head of psychological efficiency for the Redbirds, remembers Piazza’s debut on campus.

“When he arrived at McGill, he was a particularly athletic man who additionally had a penchant for the technical facet,” he explains. “We have labored on that so much lately, and his technical progress has been huge. He pays nice consideration to element. By way of understanding the sport and psychological preparation, he has made nice progress lately. He has turn out to be a really full participant.”

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A jovial natured man, Piazza says his persona adjustments utterly when he units foot on a soccer area. When the sport will get going, he fights for each yard and likes to be intimidating.

“On the sphere, I’ve a totally completely different persona to how I’m in life. I am fairly aggressive, I actually wish to dominate the particular person in entrance of me. I by no means cease taking part in till the referee blows the whistle. However I am additionally very cerebral; I like to review the tendencies of defences, what they wish to do on the sphere. Once I return to the sidelines, I’m very calm. I keep in my zone and I do not let my feelings get the higher of me.”

On this final level, Glaude agrees together with his protégé.

“He has improved so much by way of psychological preparation. His degree of play has turn out to be an increasing number of constant. He has psychological routines for each recreation. To start with, he had some extraordinary moments and a few not so good. Now he has stabilized, and a big share of his performs are extraordinary,” says Glaude.

Piazza says he’s a bit dissatisfied that he would be the solely consultant of his staff to be a part of the journey to Regina, however he doesn’t see this as an obstacle in comparison with the opposite hopefuls who will probably be accompanied by a number of of their teammates this week.

“In fact I’d have favored to have had among the guys with me. I believe we’ve lots of expertise at McGill, and it’s kind of of a disgrace that we cannot all be represented. However on the identical time, soccer is a small world. I’ve performed with or in opposition to a number of guys who will probably be there; everyone knows one another a bit. I’m fortunate sufficient to go to the CFL analysis camp, it is an honor. I’ll attempt to symbolize my college as greatest I can.”

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