Thanks for the article in the vancouver sun. I don’t usually get much of the west coast news (being from Ontario and all), even if it is one of the hot beds of Canadian soccer, I will remind myself next time to check the west coast area for news.

As for the CSA, it’s in shambles, and has been since it started, the problem with giving power to the provinces of Canada means that each of the provinces fight for a bit of the pie rather than all the provinces contributing to make soccer big and better in Canada. So there is no national system, no matter how much the CSA thinks it is a national system, it’s a bunch of bickering executives who are trying to make more money for there soccer association in the end. Hopefully with the clubs using the power play and creating there own national facility to get the youth out into a club system, sort of like what european clubs do, we will be able to breed better Canadian talent and keep that Canadian talent on our national team. It’s okay if in the end they move to Europe, but it would help if we had them around as youths and they grew up in the MLS and then transfered over to Portugal, Holland and so forth to learn the game and then move on to the big 3, Spain, England, Italy.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6270f21c-89d4-47a0-aece-2a40bf3d11ae