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Canadian coaches in the MLS
It was good to see Colin Miller, the former Canadian World Cup player, being announced last week as an assistant coach for the Vancouver Whitecaps. Miller, who at 45 has had an extensive soccer career including playing for Rangers in the top flight of Scottish football, will be an excellent addition to the Whitecaps organization, which is slowly but surely putting together the pieces of a franchise which will be ready to ‘compete to win’ in the MLS in 2011.
Miller’s addition was on the heels of another Canadian, Mark Watson, being acquired by the San Jose Earthquakes again as an assistant coach. Factor in Nick Dasovic at TFC, Nick Desantis in Montreal (albeit as a GM), and Frank Yallop himself at San Jose and all of a sudden you are beginning to see a modest rise in the opportunities for Canadians to cut their teeth in coaching and management at the highest level in North America.
