Full-time student at uOttawa, part-time writer and editor for CCSG Press, and contributes to CCSG social media. Produces CPL advanced analytic models and publishes them on BlueSky (@CPLNumbers).
Welcome to the Matchday 6 edition of The Forward Press! Fresh off a massive and historic 3-1 victory over MLS side Toronto FC in the Canadian Championship, Atlético Ottawa carried that momentum into their first meeting of the season against the HFX Wanderers, grinding out a gritty 1-0 win to
Welcome to this week's edition of the Forward Press, for Matchweek 5 of the CPL, in which Atlético Ottawa faced off against Inter Toronto (formerly York United, formerly York 9) on Friday evening. Ottawa played a stalwart first half, but the wheels came off in the second 45,
Welcome to the Matchday 4 edition of the Forward Press! Saturday saw your 2025 Canadian Premier League champs make their long-awaited return to their Capital home, and the first opportunity for the majority of the Ottleti faithful to see their North Star Cup holders, and a host of new faces,
Welcome to The Forward Press for Matchday 3, where Ottawa came away with a last-gasp winner to snatch three points from Supra, and almost 90 Atleti faithful represented CCSG, singing loud and proud all game long! Coach Diego Mejía and first-time goalscorer Tyr Duhaney-Walker joined the media post-match to discuss
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Forward Press, covering the press conferences bracketing Ottawa’s 3-1 loss away to Cavalry on April 12th! Before we begin, a quick state of the union: Starting last week, the club has begun publishing the quotes from each press conference on their
The final five players of this roster breakdown are here! As a refresher, this series covers the statistical impact of each Atlético Ottawa player, going over their strengths and weaknesses based on their underlying numbers, their overall grade (based on my analytics model, a summary of which is available here)
In this fourth and penultimate installment of the 2025 ATO roster breakdown, players #10 through #6 will be ranked! As a refresher, this series covers the statistical impact of each member of the Atlético Ottawa roster, going over their strengths and weaknesses based on their underlying numbers, their overall grade
Welcome to part three of a five-part series breaking down the 2025 Atlético Ottawa roster! In parts one and two, the first eight players were ranked in descending order based on their WPA, an all-encompassing metric designed to quantify a player’s on-field impact. The methodology for that is broken
Welcome back to part two of the five-part series in which the 2025 ATO roster is broken down analytically! Following the first part, wherein some comically low sample sizes were analyzed (available to read here), this next edition dives into the mushy “meh” part of the roster, with a few
Welcome to this year’s edition of the article series that bums everyone out because their favourite player doesn’t have enough blue boxes! To be completely honest, I delayed finishing up all the stats work I had lined up because I wanted to coast on the high of the
“It’s never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team.” – Woody Hayes Call it arrogance, but we’ve earned it. No team in the CPL has achieved what Atlético Ottawa has this year, and now we’re reaping the reward – hosting the CPL
Welcome to the Forward Press, which recaps the pre- and post-match press conferences every week! This edition follows the last regular season match of the year for ATO, in which they played and beat Halifax 1-0. Coach Diego Mejía and midfielder David Rodriguez joined the media this week, discussing the
Welcome to this week’s Forward Press, where Diego Mejía and Brett Levis joined the media before and after that disappointing and flat 0-0 draw vs Vancouver, which saw Ottleti’s title hopes slip once more after being given a lifeline in the race for the Shield. Bearingin mind the
Every year, the Capital City Supporters Group enjoys a wealth of talented people who contribute in meaningful ways to growing the game in Ottawa. It would take far more than a single article to elucidate all the many people who make this group so special, but we would like to
North American sports have their fair share of oddities and traditions, and when that mixes with soccer, it can create some mixed opinions. Off-season draft? I love it and want to see it expanded. Playoffs? I get why we have them. Theme days? I've come around. But my
Welcome to what will be a short and only half-sweet Forward Press, this week for that 3-all draw against Valour at the weekend. With not many questions, the answers have been provided in full to make up the content, with Diego Mejía and Manny Aparicio featuring in front of the