Gabriel Gervais

Last updated

Gabriel Gervais
Personal information
Date of birth (1976-09-18) September 18, 1976 (age 46)
Place of birth Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Position(s) Defender
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
McGill Redmen
Syracuse Orange
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2000–2001 Rochester Rhinos 15 (2)
2000–2001 Toronto ThunderHawks (indoor) 37 (10)
2002–2008 Montreal Impact 150 (7)
International career
2004–2007 Canada 11 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gabriel Gervais (born September 18, 1976) is a Canadian retired soccer player who played as a defender for the Montreal Impact and Canada. He was named president of CF Montreal on March 28, 2022.

Contents

Club career

Gervais was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. During this tenure with the Montreal Impact Gervais helped the club win the league championship in 2004, as well as the regular season championships in 2005 and 2006. He was proclaimed Defensive Player of the Year for the Impact three times in 2002, 2003 and 2006, and won the Giuseppe-Saputo Trophy in 2004, awarded to the most valuable player of the Impact. Gervais was also named Defender of the Year in the USL First Division in 2003, 2004 and 2006, becoming the first player in the league to win that award three times. Gervais was also picked on the USL First Division All-League Team for six straight years, from 2002 to 2007.

On January 6, 2009, Gervais announced his retirement from soccer, after a nine-year career in the United Soccer Leagues First Division. [1] On April 15, 2009, during the Montreal Impact's pre-season banquet the club honoured Gervais by recognizing him as a Team Builder and was made an ambassador to the club. [2] Gervais had a stint in the National Professional Soccer League with the short lived expansion franchise the Toronto ThunderHawks during the 2000–2001 winter indoor season. [3] He helped the ThunderHawks reach the postseason by finishing second in the National Conference, and reached the Conference finals where they were defeated by the Milwaukee Wave.

International career

Gervais made his national team debut on January 18, 2004, in a 1–0 win against Barbados. He was invited to the Canadian World Cup team's training camp held between January 12 and 23, 2004, in Fort Lauderdale, following the hiring of Frank Yallop as new head coach. He played against Guatemala September 8, 2004, in a World Cup qualifying game. [4] He played an international friendly against Northern Ireland on February 9, 2005, in Belfast where he received two yellow cards and was sent off. He was invited to the Canadian national team's training camp in Fort Lauderdale from June 4 to 9, 2005, and to the Gold Cup, from July 6 through 24. Though he missed the opening game for Canada at the Gold Cup against Costa Rica due to injury, he started and played 90 minutes against the United States on July 9, as well as playing against Cuba on July 12.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
TeamSeasonLeaguePlayoffsCup [lower-alpha 1] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Rochester Rhinos 2000 A-League 10––10
200114210–152
Total1521000162
Montreal Impact 2002A-League28240–322
200326120–281
200426050–310
2005 USL-1 21220–232
200623120–251
200717120–191
200890–10100
Total1507170101687
Career total1659180101849
  1. ↑ Includes Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup (American Based Clubs), Nutrilite Canadian Cup (Canadian Based Clubs)

Honours

Montreal Impact

Rochester Raging Rhinos

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">USL First Division</span> Football league

The USL First Division was a professional men's soccer league in the United States and Canada from 2005 to 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Montreal Impact (1992–2011)</span> Football club

The Montreal Impact was a Canadian professional soccer club based in Montreal, Quebec. Founded in 1993, the team played in the United Soccer League. Later, the Impact played in the North American Soccer League (NASL), the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid until the 2011 season. The owner Joey Saputo now operates the MLS team CF Montréal, which also carried the Montreal Impact name until 2021.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chris Williams (Canadian soccer)</span> Canadian soccer player

Chris Williams is a Canadian former soccer player who played the majority of his career in the USL A-League. His most successful tenure was with Montreal Impact, where he won a USL A-League Championship, and a Voyageurs Cup. Williams also represented Canada at the international level with three appearances.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andres Arango</span> Colombian-born Canadian soccer player (born 1983)

Andres Arango is a Colombian-born Canadian former soccer player who played in the Canadian Professional Soccer League, USL A-League, and the North American Soccer League. Arango is currently a coach with Florida Premier FC in the United Premier Soccer League.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adam Braz</span>

Adam Braz is a Canadian former professional soccer player who last served as Technical Director of the Montreal Impact of Major League Soccer. Braz played on the national team and in stints with Toronto FC in the Major League Soccer and the Montreal Impact in the USSF Division 2 Professional League.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Gbeke</span> Footballer (born 1978)

Charles Gbeke is a former professional soccer player who played as a forward. Born in Ivory Coast, he made three appearances for the Canada national team.

Sita-Taty Matondo is a Congolese-born Canadian former soccer player who played the majority of his career in Quebec with clubs in the Ligue de Soccer Elite Quebec, USL A-League/First Division, and Canadian Soccer League. He also played abroad in the Superettan, and represented Canada at the international level.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marco Reda</span> Canadian soccer player

Marco Reda is a Canadian former soccer player who began his professional career in the USL A-League with the Toronto Lynx where he developed his skills as a solid defender. This led to his transfer to Europe to sign with Sogndal, where he would eventually have a tenure in Scandinavia for six years. Reda would return to Toronto, this time to sign with expansion franchise Toronto FC, and would conclude his career in the USL First Division. He also played at the indoor level in the National Professional Soccer League with the Toronto ThunderHawks in 2000–2001.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nevio Pizzolitto</span> Canadian soccer player

Nevio Pizzolitto is a Canadian soccer player who most recently played for Montreal Impact in the North American Soccer League.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eduardo Sebrango</span> Cuban-Canadian footballer

Eduardo Sebrango Rodríguez is a retired Cuban footballer.

Mauricio Vincello is an Argentine former football defender.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mauro Biello</span> Retired Canadian professional footballer and current coach

Mauro Biello is a Canadian professional assistant coach and former player who has been an assistant coach of the Canada men's national team since 2018. He played as a forward for several Canadian and American lower division clubs, namely Montreal Supra, Buffalo Blizzard, Rochester Raging Rhinos, and Toronto Thunderhawks. He also spent a total of 16 seasons with the second division Montreal Impact, for whom he is the all-time statistical leader in goals and appearances, with over 80 goals and over 300 games for the team. As a Canadian international, he was capped four times from 1995 until 2000.

Nicolas De Santis is a former professional soccer player.

The 2007 Season is the 21st edition of the United Soccer Leagues season.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matthew Palleschi</span> Canadian former soccer player (born 1983)

Matthew Palleschi is a Canadian former soccer player who played as a midfielder and forward

Massimo Di Ioia is a Canadian former soccer player. Di Ioia was part of the Canadian National Under 20 team and Olympic Under 23 team. He played the majority of his career in the Canadian province of Quebec with notable stints in the Ligue de Soccer Elite Quebec, USL First Division, Canadian Soccer League, and the Première Ligue de soccer du Québec.

David Fronimadis is a Canadian former soccer player who played in the Ligue de Soccer Elite Quebec, Canadian Professional Soccer League, and USL A-League/First Division.

Patrick Leduc is a Canadian soccer player who formerly played for Montreal Impact in the USSF Division 2 Professional League.

The 2005 Season was the 19th edition of the United Soccer Leagues season.

The 2005 Portland Timbers season was the 5th season for the Portland Timbers—the 3rd incarnation of a club to bear the Timbers name—of the now-defunct USL First Division, the second-tier league of the United States and Canada at the time.

References

  1. ↑ DEFENDER GABRIEL GERVAIS RETIRES Archived September 30, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ GABRIEL GERVAIS NAMED IMPACT BUILDER Archived December 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Gabriel Gervais | SoccerStats.us". soccerstats.us. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
  4. ↑ Record at FIFA Tournaments – FIFA
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.