The Canadian Premier League season ended with a large snowstorm and a few insane soccer motion.
Regulation of the CPL Closing included 5 stoppages due to the snow, and when the groups needed to play additional time, plows had been introduced onto the sphere in Ottawa to create higher enjoying circumstances — inflicting a prolonged delay.
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The attention-popping first signal of winter additionally included a hero, as Atletico Ottawa midfielder David Rodriguez scored a surprising bicycle kick to tie the sport within the fortieth minute and in addition scored the winner within the 107th minute over Calgary’s Cavalry FC — a 2-1 victory — in entrance of 13,132 followers.
Atletico Ottawa’s David Rodríguez (7) scores on Cavalry FC’s Ali Musse (7) throughout additional time in Canadian Premier League Closing on Nov. 9, 2025. AP
Cavalry FC’s Ali Musse, left, leaps over Atletico Ottawa’s Loïc Cloutier, proper, as he fights to regain possession of the ball throughout the Canadian Premier League Closing on Nov. 9, 2025. AP
“I’m by no means going to overlook this evening,” Rodriguez, who’s from Mexico and noticed snow for the primary time this yr, stated after the sport. “I simply wish to thank all of the those that confirmed up tonight.”
When Cavalry defender Fraser Aird put his workforce up 1-0 within the thirty third minute, Atletico followers launched snowballs at him.
Seven minutes later, Rodriguez scored the bicycle kick purpose that Ottawa coach Diego Mejia described as “the very best purpose ever on this league.”
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The enjoying circumstances had been dangerous sufficient that within the sixteenth minute, Ottawa goalkeeper Nathan Ingham began shoveling snow himself.
A shirtless Ottawa fan celebrates his workforce’s win within the Canadian Premier League Closing on Nov. 9, 2025. AP
Atletico Ottawa celebrates profitable the Canadian Premier League Closing on Nov. 9, 2025. AP
The championship is Ottawa’s first within the younger league, which has topped seven champions; Cavalry gained the CPL championship final yr.
“That wasn’t a sport,” Cavalry coach Tommy Wheeldon Jr. stated. “That was a battle.”