Re: How about Sisters?

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:23:27 +0100, MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Victoria Barrett wrote:
>> Okay we've discussed goalkeeping brothers, just plain footballing
>> brothers like the Laudrups, father and son combos, but how about
>> footballing sisters or relatives?
>> 
>One brother and sister combo is Charmaine Hooper (Canada's most capped 
>player) and her brother Lyndon Hooper (Played for Canada around 50 times 
>I think - played for Ottawa in old CSL, Montreal and TO in the A league, 
>and various other places around the world). 

Cool, I had no idea! Lyndon eh? I'm guessing he was born around
1964/68. ;)

> Last seen in the pre-98 WC 
>hexagon for Canada, IIRC.  He was on Canada's winning team in the 
>Francophone games in Morocco in 1980 something (86 to 90'd be my guess). 
>I think there was only one Francophone on the whole team !

Ooh, you'd think the Quebecquois would be all over soccer in Canada,
but I suppose their emigration from France in the early 1800's
preceeded the continental obsession with football?

Either way, it's the one New World immigrant descendant group other
than Irish-Americans (any others?) who are simply not
soccer-obssessed.