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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Its still Canada's responsibilty to cap him in a qualifier.
Begovic truly believed that Canada had no interest developing him if there were playing 100 year old Onstad in a two dead rubbers in the semifinal round.
Would you trust your international future to the CSA who left you on the bench?
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I wouldn't argue that it was stupid by Yallop or that the CSA didn't miss an opportunity. Would take issue that Canada wasn't going to develop him though, they had already invested so much in him financially and coaching wise, he was clearly their keeper of the future. After Begovic there were basically no young keepers (arguably there still aren't, fingers crossed on Stillo and that Whitecaps kid), Borjan came out of the woodwork a little or we'd really be frigged.
You see young players get their backs up at Canada really quick so many times when they aren't getting playing time right off the bat or get cut from a team. Good young players really have a sense of entitlement in Canada, they expect that because our NT isn't strong that they should be starting for us when they haven't even become first team players with club.
Asmir was 20 and I believe in Portsmouth reserves when he was on the bench that cycle. Yallop deserves blame for not capping him but back then, when players couldn't switch after being cap tied at youth level... wasn't that out there to leave him on the bench.
I think they've learned their lesson, they have been calling up 3-5 promising kids and cap tying them at the gold cup every year now, never used to do that.