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Canadian Soccer Prospects Should Be Kept Home

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Forget pipe dreams about creating pan-Canadian pro leagues. Instead, fix the development pathway. The best youth programs should be encouraged and supported to develop clubs to play in elite u20 provincial leagues.

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Will Feyenoord Ask Oliver Spring To Stay?

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Oliver Spring is a name that Canadian soccer fans need to have on their radars.

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Do It Today, Not In 2013

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If the LTPD curriculum becomes yet another “closed document” available only to “certified” coaches who spend (or their club spends) more than $125 for OSA certification than once again the core of the people delivering the foundation of our youngest players will be missed and a huge opportunity lost.

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An Achingly Long Way To Go

All of these changes – as desperately overdue as they are – will take years and years and years to bear fruit.

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This Is 2011, Things Are In The Middle Of Changing

CSA reform has pretty much routed the Old Boys, Isolated and ineffective, Dominic Maestracci is now CSA president in name only. Provincial influence on the CSA board is declining, and all presidential presidents will be gone soon.

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