{"id":686344,"date":"2026-05-22T12:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686344\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:41:20","slug":"former-cfl-standout-dequoy-named-to-canadian-mens-flag-football-roster-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686344\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CFL standout Dequoy named to Canadian men\u2019s flag football roster | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779453680_130_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Team Canada head coach Paul LaPolice looks on as Michael O\u2019Connor (39) throws during Canada flag football selection camp action in Winnipeg, Friday, May 1, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/John Woods<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 21, 2026 | 1:39 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Marc-Antoine Dequoy isn\u2019t finished with football.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian safety retired Feb. 2 after five seasons with the CFL\u2019s Montreal Alouettes. On Thursday, the 31-year-old was among 16 players named to the Canadian men\u2019s flag football roster following the team\u2019s selection camp earlier this month in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Dequoy, a Grey Cup champion and twice a CFL all-star, and the 15 others will attend the national team\u2019s training camp in California in June. They\u2019ll compete for berths on the Canadian squad that will participate in the 2026 world championship event in August in Duesseldorf, Germany, and chase a berth in the \u201928 Los Angeles Games, where football will make its Olympic debut.<\/p>\n<p>The top-two men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams in Germany will secure Olympic berths. If the United States reaches either final, the top-three squads will advance as the American teams have secured berths as host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Canada head coach Paul LaPolice looks on as Michael O\u2019Connor (39) throws during Canada flag football selection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[879,49,48,521,522,2467,520,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-686344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-cfl","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}