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Pacific FC continues their preparations for their inaugural Canadian Premier League season by adding defensive depth and announcing a friendly vs local USL2 club, TSS FC Rovers.

Pacific FC has signed center-back Ryan McCurdy after a successful trial period. The CB is a familiar face to the B.C. football scene as he has played for VIU Mariners and captained USL2 club, Victoria Highlanders. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the 28-year-old CB is the third CB to sign for Pacific FC after Lukas MacNaughton and Hendrik Starostzik signed in early March. McCurdy is the 17th signing for Pacific FC.

McCurdy began his career playing for his hometown club academy, Linfield FC. After his academic career, McCurdy moved to Canada where he has had notable experience with, League1 Ontario side Kingston Clippers, VIU Mariners, and Victoria Highlanders. Most notably, he won the 2017 CCAA National Championship and is reunited with former VIU Mariners teammate, Victor Blasco. In the 2018/2019 season for VIU Mariners, McCurdy appeared in 10 games, scoring three times. The 6’2″ CB shows good defensive awareness, strong tackling skills, and has been described as a leader wherever he goes.

During his time in Kingston, he was also a coach for the KBFC Pro Soccer Academy. Personally, I love this signing as it show’s the Canadian Premier League is providing opportunities for deserving Canadian footballers. Ryan McCurdy is the first trialist to earn a professional contract with Pacific FC after the club announced it’s initial trialist list on March 12.

After the announcement of Ryan McCurdy on April 17, TSS FC Rovers announced a day later that the club would be playing Pacific FC in a behind closed door friendly on Easter Monday. The game will take place in Victoria, though the stadium is unknown. Westhills Stadium is currently in the process of renovations for the first PFC home game. TSS FC Rovers are also in pre-season as their first league game is on May 12th vs Lane United FC. The match will see both Ben Fisk and Matthew Baldisimo take the pitch against their brothers. The last local friendly that PFC played was on March 30th vs the UVic Vikes, with Pacific FC walking away with a 6-0 victory. That game saw Terran Campbell score a hat-trick, U-Sports draft pick Thomas Gardner scoring a brace, with Lukas MacNaughton also scoring.

Pacific FC kickoff their inaugural season on April 28th vs HFX Wanderers FC at Westhills Stadium. After the CBC Sports agreement with the CanPL, a total of 6 Pacific FC games will be broadcast this year on either CBC Sports or CBC’s live streaming service, CBC Gem. The first PFC game at Westhills Stadium to appear on CBC will be on May 18th vs York9 FC.

.@Pacificfccpl games that will appear on CBC Sports this season:

May 18 vs York 9

June 1 vs HFX

June 15 vs York 9

August 17 vs York 9

August 24 vs Valour FC

September 14 vs FC Edmonton #CanPL #ForTheIsle pic.twitter.com/Lo34LgWrdY — PFCOntario (@PFCOntario) April 18, 2019

Thanks for reading and as always, #ForTheIsle.

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Maxwell Mowbray Maxwell is a University of Guelph alumni who started watching football in his first year of university. Though his undergrad was in music, sports journalism has always been one of his interests. Max decided to support Pacific FC due to family past on the west coast, leading him to create his Twitter page, @PFCOntario. Though he is 3300 km away from Westhills Stadium, Maxwell is a dedicated PFC fan and member of the Lake Side Buoys. You can often find Maxwell scouring through the lower leagues of Football Manager games.

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