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Soccer Academy Alliance Canada gets OSA approval
After several years of unsuccessfully applying to the Ontario Soccer Association for official recognition, SAAC, a national association of privately owned, soccer skills teaching schools or academies, has been voted into the fold.
SAAC is now an Associate Member of the OSA. In a vote of the Board the OSA passed RFD 2010-007, a referendum tabled earlier this year to give Associate Membership to the Soccer Academy Alliance of Canada.
“This is a big step towards legitimizing to the professional academy system in Canada and helping SAAC achieve it’s vision of becoming the primary player development platform in Canada.”
Lino Terra Commissioner of the SAAC
Throughout the world, the academy system has been the standard bearer of quality coaching and elite player development. For reasons unclear or perhaps untold, officialdom in the soccer community has resisted their incorporation into the mainstream. And, that has hindered the realization of our soccer playing youth’s full potential. Until today. At least in Ontario.
“Today’s OSA approval for SAAC Associate membership means that the real work is just about to start. The academies will be entering a new phase in Canadian Soccer with the objective of building a solid foundation for player and coach development. I challenge the Canadian soccer society to join the academies alliance – SAAC – in achieving its mission to develop World Class soccer players in Canada on a continual and
systematic basis, by providing our members with best-in-class training, facilities and competition.”Bassam Naim ANB Academy Director
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