Feb. 11, 2011
SUNRISE, Fla. - San Diego State men's soccer player John Pegg (Edmonton, Alberta) scored off a rebound in the 73rd minute to lift the Canada Under-20 National Team to a 1-0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago in an international friendly yesterday (Thursday) in Sunrise, Fla.
On the game-winning play, Russell Teibert released Coulton Jackson down the right side. Jackson beat the Trinidad and Tobago goalkeeper, but the ball reamed off the left post. Pegg, who entered the match in the 63rd minute, slipped past the defenders and finished into the back of the net for the 1-0 advantage.
"It was a good result today," Canadian national coach Valerio Gazzola said on www.canadasoccer.com. "The players earned the victory."
Pegg redshirted the 2010 season for the Aztecs after spending the 2009 campaign at Seattle University. Pegg started 10 of the 12 games with the Redhawks after missing the first half of the year starting for Canada's U-20 National Team at the Francophone Games in Beirut, Lebanon. He scored one goal and assisted on another at Seattle. Pegg will have three years left of collegiate soccer.
SDSU teammate Jordan Ongaro (Edmonton, Alberta) also logged playing time for Canada when he entered in the 81st minute as a substitute for Jackson. Ongaro started five matches for San Diego State last year and had two points on two assists.
Both Pegg and Ongaro are slated to start today's exhibition game against Florida Gulf Coast after the two-match series with Trinidad and Tobago was switched to a single contest because of travel complications. Earlier this week, Canada lost an exhibition match to Major League Soccer's D.C. United, 5-1. In that game, however, Pegg and Ongaro came on in the second half and helped Canada draw with D.C. United, 1-1, over the final 45 minutes.
This is Canada's second-to-last camp before the CONCACAF U-20 Championships get underway from April 3-17 in Guatemala City, Guatemala.