The Canadian men's national soccer team has issues
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by Foolsgold
(I post a daily on my blog of things that I pick off the news wires that I find interesting or will whore my blog. Today I found a couple of articles about the Canadian men's national soccer team and how they feel as if their opinion on certain matters like what turf their home field should have and the smaller things like flying class or coach should be taken into consideration. I don't go into much detail about the matters because frankly they're new to me, but I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me on what is the situation. Is it really about the money or is there something going on behind closed doors? I mean, you would figure a country that just hosted the U20 World Cup would have a little bit of bank. Anyhow, I don't think I'll do this often, so if you're interested in stopping by my blog, I usually post a news rant each day. Cheers.)
- Paul Stalteri, the captain of the Canada men's national soccer team, is pissed. The Tottenham Hotspur defender still can't believe that the BMO field in Toronto, one that opened just this past April, has artificial turf. He doesn't understand how increasing the possibility of injury for the National team and even Toronto FC can help in growing the sport in Canada. You really can't argue with that logic, but as Stalteri says himself in that article, it all comes down to money and a natural grass field would probably take millions of more dollars a year to maintain.
- If that wasn't bad enough, apparently Deportivo de La Coruña midfielder Julián de Guzman, the first and only Canadian (as far as I know) to play in La Liga, had to fly coach from Galicia, Spain, to Canada for Les Rogues' friendly with Costa Rica later today. Though the 26-year-old did not complain about this inconvenience, he did say that the little things like this add up. I have to agree, I mean what is the Canadian Soccer Association telling it's players when they don't treat them like what they are, they're bread and butter. People come to the games to see the players, not men in suits bicker over airline tickets. The Soccer Association claims it can't afford to buy better plane tickets and has to be very thrifty in it's spending. Apparently this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the CSA and some supporters of the Men's team are planning to wear black at the Costa Rica friendly as a form of protest
Originally posted here.
