THE ITALIAN STUDIES PROGRAM OF
THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES (MLLC)
PRESENTS
A PANEL DISCUSSION ON SOCCER IN ONTARIO
Sponsored by Brock-Canada Games Teaching and Learning Grant and
OUR GUESTS
Paul Andrew Stalteri is a Canadian former professional soccer player. He was born to an Italian father and a Guyanese mother in Etobicoke, Ontario. Stalteri played his first international match for Canada with the Under-17 youth team in 1993 and remained a frequent starter for the Canadian national team throughout his career. His fondest memories with the Canadian soccer program remains the success he and his U-20 teammates experienced in 1997 when they advanced to the second round in the U-20 World Cup, and of course winning the Gold Cup in 2000.
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Stalteri spent most of his professional career in Europe playing in the German Bundesliga and English Premier League. He played for Werder Bremen, Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham FC and Borrussia Mönchengladbach. Stalteri made 56 appearances for Tottenham and scored three goals. While on loan to Fulham FC, he played an additional 13 Premiership matches. He has played 170 Bundesliga games for both Werder Bremen and Borrussia Mönchengladbach.
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The highlight of his European career was when Werder Bremen was crowned Bundesliga Champions and German Cup winners in 2003/2004. He is known as the first Canadian International to score in the Bundesliga. He currently serves as an assistant coach for York9, a Canadian Premier League (CPL).
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Carmelina Moscato is a Canadian soccer player and an Olympic bronze medalist. She was born in Mississauga, Ontario to Sicilian-born parents. She began playing soccer at age four and made her Canadian U-20 national team debut at age 16 in 2001 after an appearance in the Canada Games in 2000. Moscato attended Pennsylvania State University from 2002 to 2005, assisting Penn State in winning Big Ten regular season championships and appearing in two College Cup semifinals.
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During her professional career, Moscato was a member of Team Canada’s historic bronze medal at the Olympics in London 2012. She has participated in three FIFA Women’s World Cup teams (2003, 2011 & 2015). Her professional playing career ended in 2016 in Australia where she played for Western Sydney Wanderers in the W-League. She also played professionally for clubs in Italy and Sweden.
She was the head coach of the U15 Canadian National Team that won silver at the 2016 U15 Concacaf Championships as well as an assistant with U20 National team in 2018 and 2020. She was also a Canadian Soccer REX talent manager from 2017-2018. She was appointed as Technical Director for the Kleinburg Nobleton Soccer Club in Ontario, Canada for seven months in 2019, before she joined Canadian Soccer Business as the Manager of Women's Professional Football Development. She acts as an instructor/facilitator for Concacaf and is a UEFA A License Coach.
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