Canadian men's under-20 soccer team features some very familiar names

Canada's under-20 men blanked Costa Rica 3-0 in exhibition soccer play Friday, with some familiar names sporting the Maple Leaf in the Costa Rican capital.

Coach Mauro Biello's young soccer roster featured Herdman, Bunbury, De Rosario and Bontis.

Goalkeepers Adisa De Rosario and Dino Bontis are the sons of former Canadian scoring star Dwayne De Rosario and Canada Soccer president Nick Bontis, respectively. Mataeo Bunbury is the son of former Canadian star forward Alex Bunbury and younger brother of Nashville SC's Teal Bunbury.

The younger Herdman, born in 2004, is in the Vancouver Whitecaps system while Adisa De Rosario is with the Toronto FC academy. Bontis is with Forge FC of the CPL and Bunbury, one of the youngest players in camp at 16, is a product of the Sporting Kansas City academy who plays for Sporting Kansas City II in the USL Championship.

Biello, who doubles as director of Canada Soccer's under-23 men's program and assistant coach under John Herdman with the senior side, is currently holding an under 20-camp that runs through April 22 in Costa Rica in preparation for the CONCACAF Men's Under-20 Championship, which runs June 18 to July 3 in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Canada got goals Friday from Kamron Habibullah (Whitecaps academy) in the 22nd minute, Jesse Costa (who graduated from League1 Ontario's Prostars FC to German side VfL Wolfsburg's academy) in the 46th and Matthew Catavolo (Valour FC, CPL) in the 87th. All 23 outfield players saw action as well as two of the four goalies in camp.

"Today was their first test and for me there was a lot of good performances in the game," Biello said.

That included Jay Herdman.

"I think he's one of the players who obviously has the tactical understanding