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Soccer Canada has a plan: Win more!
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by Jason Sanders | October 29, 2008 at 12:58 pm
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Soccer Canada has developed a strategic plan for moving their players into the international arena, focusing on both the men's and women's teams here in Canada. So far, we've tried, and failed, to reach the World Cup, but hopefully a new five year plan will change that. It sounds like they're really committed to improving the chances of our players by improving the available support.
"Putting more money into player development and opportunities for our teams to compete internationally," Montopoli said, explaining the plan. "Some of our youth teams have not had the opportunity as of late to be competing internationally. Those are the things we need to be doing to develop our athletes for the long-term."
The other milestones in the CSA's plan include: expanding the annual budget from about $12 million to $25 million; winning a medal in a major international senior women's event; securing the right to host the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and reaching one million members nationwide.
The ambitious goal of almost doubling the organization's budget is contingent on the men's team winning more games.
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at 13:53 on October 29th, 2008
I think Canada does a horrible job developing soccer players. When I was young we would compete in tournaments around B.C only, shouldn't be that difficult to go south and compete Internationally.
I remember playing on horrible gravel fields or even badly damaged grass fields with puddles. More money for better fields during the winter time wouldn't hurt.
All the really good players would go to Europe too. At least the ones I know about.
at 15:21 on October 30th, 2008
Ah, such a well-thought through plan...