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Goalkeeper Craig Forrest to be inducted into Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame

Former Canadian goalkeeper Craig Forrest heads up the new induction class for the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame.

Also headed to the Hall is the late striker Domenic Mobilio, who died in 2004.

Other players to be honoured are Glen Johnson and the late Bill Findler _ and Connie Cant, who played for the women's national team in the 1980s.

Builders to be honoured included former Canadian Soccer Association president Jim Fleming and national team doctor Rudy Gittens.

Other builders are former Vancouver Whitecaps owner Herb Capozzi, former CSA technical director Bill Thomson and longtime Newfoundland administrator Gus Etchegarry.

This year's team of distinction is the Calgary Caledonians, who won the People's Shield _ the unofficial championship of Canada in 1907.


© The Canadian Press, 2007

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