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browna · 02-15-2023, 07:09 PM

Women trained with their shirts inside out today. Not because the CSA can’t afford to wash them, rather the players prefer not displaying the CSA logo.

https://www.tsn.ca/soccer/bev-priest...nada-1.1919735

While this statement came from the Women team alumni, fits for the men too, when talking about the CSA…note how CMNT alumni were few and far between when WCQ was achieved.

The Canada Women’s Soccer Alumni Association added its voice to those in support of the players.
In a statement Wednesday, the association said the current conflict "is nothing new and is the result of a toxic, dishonest and broken system that has gone unchecked for the past 30 years."

Also, the American women are back the Canadian women, fwiw.

As far as the CSB, in theory the idea is great. The CSA has mismanaged most everything it’s touched, business wise and otherwise, because it expects that soccer communities and sponsors and media should be kissing their feet. For private enterprise to be involved to get some work on the buisness side done, and avoid all the backstabbing politics that has turned the CSA into a soap opera behind the scenes, impotent in carrying out any sort of mandate, is helpful.

However, that arrangement with private enterprise needs all the stakeholders, benefactors (NT players, associations) and governments that provide them funds for operations and entrusted to grow the game, involved throughout, or, at least before signing off, to be able to review the terms and make sure funds and the mandate of the CSA is upheld properly.

There’s no idea if this happened. All was done in basically secret years ago. Government agencies and the Own the Podium programs had no idea thier funds were being filtered through to private enterprise, who hands out an allowance to the CSA. Players an NT levels had no idea, nor probably provincial associations.

Further, the CSA and CSB walks a fine line of conflict of interest with the CPL not really arms length away, and the patronage and muddying the waters between the CSA doesn’t seem clearly defined, and given the inept CSA, the CSB appears to have stomped all over a reasonable agreement and took advantage of a disorganized and disinterested CSA who were more concerned on what benefit they could get personally out of an agreement…likely Bontis promised to push this all through so he was kept as President, and will end up in the CPL offices or Forge offices when he leaves the CSA.

02-15-2023, 07:09 PM	#5427
browna Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Calgary Exp:	Women trained with their shirts inside out today. Not because the CSA can’t afford to wash them, rather the players prefer not displaying the CSA logo. https://www.tsn.ca/soccer/bev-priest...nada-1.1919735 While this statement came from the Women team alumni, fits for the men too, when talking about the CSA…note how CMNT alumni were few and far between when WCQ was achieved. The Canada Women’s Soccer Alumni Association added its voice to those in support of the players. In a statement Wednesday, the association said the current conflict "is nothing new and is the result of a toxic, dishonest and broken system that has gone unchecked for the past 30 years." Also, the American women are back the Canadian women, fwiw. As far as the CSB, in theory the idea is great. The CSA has mismanaged most everything it’s touched, business wise and otherwise, because it expects that soccer communities and sponsors and media should be kissing their feet. For private enterprise to be involved to get some work on the buisness side done, and avoid all the backstabbing politics that has turned the CSA into a soap opera behind the scenes, impotent in carrying out any sort of mandate, is helpful. However, that arrangement with private enterprise needs all the stakeholders, benefactors (NT players, associations) and governments that provide them funds for operations and entrusted to grow the game, involved throughout, or, at least before signing off, to be able to review the terms and make sure funds and the mandate of the CSA is upheld properly. There’s no idea if this happened. All was done in basically secret years ago. Government agencies and the Own the Podium programs had no idea thier funds were being filtered through to private enterprise, who hands out an allowance to the CSA. Players an NT levels had no idea, nor probably provincial associations. Further, the CSA and CSB walks a fine line of conflict of interest with the CPL not really arms length away, and the patronage and muddying the waters between the CSA doesn’t seem clearly defined, and given the inept CSA, the CSB appears to have stomped all over a reasonable agreement and took advantage of a disorganized and disinterested CSA who were more concerned on what benefit they could get personally out of an agreement…likely Bontis promised to push this all through so he was kept as President, and will end up in the CPL offices or Forge offices when he leaves the CSA. Last edited by browna; 02-15-2023 at 07:11 PM.