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Originally Posted by Matty81
Your loyalty to your own country is so thin that you get your nose out of joint and go represent daddies country just to spite some dumb youth coach after getting cut from age group teams - that's a weak ass excuse and hurt soccer in this country 100x more than it hurt the CSA sycophant he was upset at. It's different if you are 25 and aren't getting called up after playing senior football for years, but all his decision told me is he didn't really give much of a #### about Canada.
Canada was so bad back then, but a player like him could have had a massive massive impact with how bad concacaf was when look at what a guy like Dwight Yorke did sticking with their own country.
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I don't disagree with any of that, but Soccer Canada absolutely did their best to create/enable that whole situation, and should get a very big chunk of the credit for chasing him off.
Junior Holliet doesn't get enough credit for doing the opposite, IMO. Yes it took him forever, but he really was the first of the dominos to fall despite a very legitimate chance to go to the World Cup with Jamaica at the time.
Holliet did it before Herdman when things were still relatively dire, and then we had a string of dual nationals finally commit.