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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
So Canada though... this is the most attention Canadian soccer has ever received, they are finally getting their day in the sun, and what do they do? They have a controversy over the governance of the sport, and they are completely unequipped to take advantage of the merchandising opportunity.
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Sure I guess, but the only reason this controversy has come to the public light is because of that success. The CSA has operated like this for decades, hiding everything from the public and from the players on NT’s, and if they bowed out of the WC instead of qualifying, this wouldn’t have come out until build up to 2026.
As for merchandise, further incompetence. It was almost a year ago since the two games in Edmonton were played, even if they started to get their act together then and there, 12 months later they’d have all sorts of merchandise. Again, it’s now under control of CSB, and the CSB controls the purse strings and generally the CSA has probably not been one of Nike’s bettter clients (ie the CSA order half of the tracksuits and polo shirts the members of our national teams need, and have to share them), so to the bottom of the priority chain Canada goes for Nike in getting kits produced…certainly not getting any favours from Nike, especially since Canada isn’t getting a new kit for the WC like every other Nike sponsored country did.