Jeevan Badwal called up to Canada for Concacaf U-20 Championship Qualifiers

Canada Soccer announced on Monday that Whitecaps FC 2 (WFC2) midfielder Jeevan Badwal has been called up to Canada's U-20 men's national team for the upcoming Concacaf U-20 Championship Qualifiers. The three-game group stage will take place in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago and serve as a qualifier to the 2024 Concacaf U-20 Championship this summer.

Badwal, 17, recently signed his first professional contract with WFC2, and earned his first call-up to the first team for the first leg of the Round One Concacaf Champions Cup series against Tigres UANL. As an amateur player with WFC2 in 2023, Badwal made five starts in eight MLS NEXT Pro appearances.

On the international stage, Badwal represented Canada at the U-17 level, starting all three matches at the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia.

Canada has been drawn in Group D, where they will face Dominica, St. Vincent & The Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago. The team will begin the group stage against Dominica on Friday, February 23, followed by St. Vincent & The Grenadines on Sunday, February 25, and concluding against Trinidad & Tobago on Tuesday, February 27. Canada will gather in Trinidad & Tobago on Friday, February 16 in preparation for the Qualifiers.

All of Canada’s matches will air LIVE and exclusively on OneSoccer, available on the fuboTV Canada platform, as a linear channel on Telus’s Optik TV (Channel 980), as well as online at OneSoccer.ca and through the OneSoccer app. Fans will find extended coverage across Canada Soccer’s digital channels on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube featuring the hashtag #CANM20.    

CANADA
GK - Grégoire Świderski | FRA / Girondins Bordeaux  
​GK - Ivan Pavela | CRO / NK Lokomotiva Zagreb
​GK - Nathaniel Abraham | CAN / Toronto FC
​D - Theo Rigopoulos | CAN / Toronto FC  
​D - Christian Greco-Taylor | ​ Unattached 
​D - Sergei Kozlovskiy | CAN / CF Montréal
​D - Lazar Stefanovic | CAN / Toronto FC
​D - James Cameron | CAN / Vancouver FC  
​D - Ethan Schilte-Brown | SCO / Kilmarnock FC  
​D - Adam Pearlman | CAN / Toronto FC Academy  
​M - Alessandro Biello | CAN / CF Montréal  
​M - Tiago Codinha | NED / Twente Enschede  
​M - Jeevan Badwal | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC
​M - Jesse Costa | GER / VFL Wolfsburg  
​M - Matteo Schiavoni | CAN / CF Montréal  
​M - Myles Morgan | Unattached
​F - Oumar Diallo | ITA / Inter Milan  
​F - Kimani Stewart-Baynes | USA / Colorado Rapids  
​F - Kevaughn Tavernier | CAN / Forge FC  
​F - Tavio Ciccarelli | ENG / Sheffield United  
​F - Santiago Lopez | MEX / Pumas Unam   

CANADA (A-Z) Player | Birthyear | City in which they grew up | Notable Canadian youth clubs
Abraham, Nathaniel | 2007 | Vaughan, ON | Vaughan SC
Badwal, Jeevan | 2006 | Surrey, BC | Surrey FC
Biello, Alessandro | 2006 | Montréal, QC | FC St-Léonard
Cameron, James | 2005 | North Vancouver, BC | North Vancouver FC
Ciccarelli, Tavio | 2006 | Winnipeg, MB | Bonivital SC
Codinha, Tiago | 2005 | Bussum, NED | SDO Bussum
Costa, Jesse | 2005 | Brampton, ON | Brampton Blast
Diallo, Oumar | 2005 | Aurora, ON | Scarborough National Team
Greco-Taylor, Christian | 2005 | Calgary, AB | Calgary Rangers SC
Kozlovskiy, Sergei | 2008 | Longueuil, QC | AS Dynamo
Lopez, Santiago | 2005 | Oakville, ON | Oakville SC
Myles, Morgan | 2005 | Pickering, ON | Ajax SC
Pavela, Ivan | 2005 | Georgetown, ON | Croatia Norval SC
Pearlman, Adam | 2005 | Toronto, ON | Glen Shields FC
Rigopoulos, Theo | 2006 | London, ON | London Norwest
Schiavoni, Matteo | 2005 | Montréal, QC | Lachine SC
Schilte-Brown, Ethan | 2005 | Tampa, USA | Halifax Wanderers FC
Stefanovic, Lazar | 2006 | Oakville, ON | Oakville SC
Steward-Baynes, Kimani | 2005 | Toronto, ON | Vaughan SC
Swiderski, Gregoire | 2005 | Bordeaux, FRA | FC Saint-Médard-en-Jalles
Tavernier, Kevaughn | 2006 | Brampton, ON | Glen Shields SC