TSN interview with Kevin Blue...pretty basic though the answers to especially the second question is pretty telling on how he focuses on getting to hang with the players, and not all the other crap going on, a lot of which he probably didn't realize how messed it is, and that will never go away:
TSN: Did you have any trepidation taking the job, given what you'd seen happen with Canada Soccer over the past years?
Blue: I was methodical. You do your background and talk to a lot of people to try to get the most complete picture of the realities. And I had a very strong sense that my skill set, and my experiences, were a really strong match for what the requirements of the position were at the time and continue to be. The significance of the challenges, in part, is an attractive thing for me at this at this stage in my journey.
TSN: Has the reality matched what your preconceived notions were six months ago?
Blue: Being on the periphery, you don't get the flavour of actually what's going on. For example, interacting and working with the players has been an absolute joy. It's been really phenomenal in terms of developing a sense of mutual respect, understanding what their professional lives are like, figuring out how we can best support them and then having the sense of them partnering with us in a really positive way. This was not something that was advertised to me ahead of time. There was a bunch of information that came to me that this experience wouldn't be like this, and it's been fantastic.
And the drone investigation seems to be lead by some faction of the CSA board, so that will take 2 years until they can find a scape goat.
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