As much as I agree that Canada Soccer sucks and needs wholesale changes, calling the CPL minor league is so disrespectful to the clubs, the fans and players. Frankly it makes them all look like idiots for tweeting out the statement. They could have said they disagreed with funds going to the league without going after their fellow professionals. Bunch of pricks.
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As much as I agree that Canada Soccer sucks and needs wholesale changes, calling the CPL minor league is so disrespectful to the clubs, the fans and players. Frankly it makes them all look like idiots for tweeting out the statement. They could have said they disagreed with funds going to the league without going after their fellow professionals. Bunch of pricks.
Yeah not sure I like that at all.
A viable CPL, even if it’s “the minors” to players high on their horse, is a good thing for the national team.
There is a lot of turmoil going on here. Did they really need to attack our CPL?
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Changing the CSA executive does SFA. Sure they are slimy, politically covering their own interests, and just untrustable.
But, theyll have a valid excuse and throw up their hands that their allowance from the CSB doesn’t cover all of this, and be right.
What needs to happen for change is the Feds need to investigate the CSA taking federal funds as a national sports organization, and letting a private company manage those funds. The CSA CSB contract needs to be modified or ripped up, and should’ve never been allowed to be signed in the first place for a national sports organization, without a federal blessing.
If Hockey Canada can be taken to task by the Feds for incompetence the CSA being so terrible that they signed over thier souls to private enterprise and is now an impotent puppet to them, should be a lot easier case.
And, the CPL is a minor professional league, not sure why that’s a point to be upset about. My guess too is that the CSB and as a result of that maybe select CPL team owners have probably had conversations directly with players over this past 10 months since the Men’s walkout and probably inflamed the situation instead of making it better.
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It’s all been said already over the last years and decades about CSA incompetence and it’s holding back of soccer and development in this country from NT level, to junior national programs and how individual provincial associations run the national show, and then all the associated drama around politics.
All of the unorganized, political infighting has meant the actual work of growing soccer in this country has gone to hell. But, then will turn around and be complaining why no national sponsors or media want to hitch their funds to a terribly run organization just because they are the CSA.
This gross incompetence lead to private enterprise seeing an opportunity to take financial advantage of the situation, and they have. They shouldn’t have been allowed to, but have.
This latest stuff is just the natural result of the years or organizational imcomptence finally coming to light. This has been same issues for years and years, but now with the NT making the World Cup, and a guy like Westhead not being muzzled like media previous has been, all of this is now in the public realm for digestion…but the issues and way the CSA operates is not new.
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Strike averted!
...because the CSA, (quick to jump to defense but the agreement with NT players on WC bonuses and wages has gone on for 8 months now with crickets from the CSA?) has threatened legal action against them (and not yet paid them for 2022 National team duties so they can't afford the legal costs) if they don't play in the tourney next weekend.
OneSoccer interview with CEO of CSB. In the interview he states that some players on both national teams have directly benefitted from endorsements and appearance fees brokered by CSB (skip to 15:50).
As well as a TSN article by Neil Davidson, with a couple of quotes.
Quote:
"We want to solve problems," Noonan told The Canadian Press on Tuesday. "We want to be an ally for the success of our national teams. When our national teams do well, it's good for business. And when our national teams are unhappy and are expressing that we need more training resources, we want to help solve that problem."
The offer included "encouraging Canada Soccer" to hold a sendoff series for the women’s team on home soil ahead of this summer's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, and helping develop revenue sources to provide additional training resources.
"We've gone to Canada Soccer and said 'Help us understand the problems,'" said Noonan, adding such discussions were continuing Tuesday.
The help could range from new money to offering a CPL stadium rent-free to host a game.
"That would be incremental money beyond the guarantee," said Noonan. "And we have no contractual obligation to increase our guarantee. We've proactively said 'What can we do here?'"
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Noonan did not detail the financial arrangements, but said the annual guarantee is "three times what Canada Soccer was making commercially back in 2018 when nobody was willing to take a risk."
Lol he'll be fine. He's having a tough spell of form since returning from the Bundesliga winter break but there's nothing to worry about. All players have it
