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Originally Posted by browna
And of course, if this country can get to the WC, it means almost $10 million to the CSA (who can then payback whoever lends them the $$ to get this team up to this level)
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I know a couple of your Mount Royal teammates, what a great team that was. Maybe Kerfoot(sp?) the guy privately funding the potential soccer specific stadium on the waterfront in Vancouver. I sure wish Stronach would have invested some money into football in Canada instead of buying half the Austrian league.
Hiring Richard Bate from the English FA was a smart move by the CSA but they have a long way to go - I really feel like having buildings to play in will really change the landscape - three stadiums in Van, Mon, Tor should eventually mean 3 MLS teams there and I think that is the best thing we can do in terms of advertising them to Europe, providing them with a higher level of visibility and competition. Alot of the Niendorf, Lensky type guys have done so much for the game here but can only do so much, trials are a dime a dozen and academy spots for foreigners are hard to come by, I think it is more important to develop our players here and have them move later, then we will have less of the de Guzman, Hargreaves, Fernandes type dramas going on as well and a more solid foundation to move forward on than hoping Marseilles or Ipswich develops our players for us which will be a good suplement when it does happen.
Tough thing about the upcoming and massive hire of our new national team manager comes back to money, you want to hire someone who knows how it is done like a Venables but these guys make more than our whole program's budget. Hopefully even a great exec stuck in line behind a respected manager in the UK will get picked up ala Craig Button (snicker).