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OT: Soccer thread

Bleedsblue&white said:
Both my kids played rep soccer, it was an all year thing...there's lots of indoor facilities, and I'm not in Toronto.
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https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...n-run-euro-2016-france-quarter-finals-success
From the age of three, any child can access Iceland’s army of 600 top coaches, or one for every 825 Icelanders (England has about one per 11,000 people). They train on a vast network of heated indoor pitches, often plonked next to schools. Sure enough, after 15 years (and in spite of ash clouds and economic storms), the system has produced some really good players.
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Heated fields, next to schools. Kids don't need to sign up for a program, they can just grab a ball and go play. Learn the game, be creative, whatever as opposed to signing up to a program, being on a schedule, spending money that people may or may not have.

When I was in Edmonton I saw a bunch of kids playing soccer in the snow. I lived a block away from a school but they couldn't play there because it was snow filled. They played in a parking lot next to a church that was cleared of snow on the weekends. Not the same thing.
 
The coaching is the biggest part, with Devos on board with the CSA it gives me hope that we will be able to have many more licenced coaches around the country.
 
Soccer isn't hockey, that's the problem.

The solution is a changing population and the increasing costs of putting your child in any type of hockey program. It's a bit of a chicken an egg thing in that we need to develop our own players to have a better National Team to increase exposure and get more kids to play.
In this country its' even slower because hockey.
 
Bleedsblue&white said:
Soccer isn't hockey, that's the problem.

The solution is a changing population and the increasing costs of putting your child in any type of hockey program. It's a bit of a chicken an egg thing in that we need to develop our own players to have a better National Team to increase exposure and get more kids to play.
In this country its' even slower because hockey.
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More play soccer but it is seen as the poor man's sport for the most part.
 
We played France, USSR (mostly Ukrainians), and Hungary in 86.

If we played France, Russia and say... Austria or Switzerland to maintian the calibre of those teams, we would get slaughtered.
 
Yup. Wouldn't call that fun myself. Might watch a canada game with passing interest but would probably still only watch the heavyweights and whatever Cinderella story that popped up.
 
There was a good tweet from Paddy Power about how England can now lose to Burkina Faso and Lego Land....I laughed and sighed...
 
Schedule is out and TFC's is pretty awful. Fridays, wednesday, sundays and sat vs west coast. Only 4 saturday home games vs the east, none of which are MTL games.

I mean it's great if you want sports to be a TV show but bad for people who actually want to attend every game.
 
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trujaysfan said:
Schedule is out and TFC's is pretty awful. Fridays, wednesday, sundays and sat vs west coast. Only 4 saturday home games vs the east, none of which are MTL games.

I mean it's great if you want sports to be a TV show but bad for people who actually want to attend every game.
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Well, you won't have too many mtl fans making the trip to Toronto if they worked that day or need to work the day after, so there is that.
 
Champions league today and TSN sells off PSG vs Barca to BeIN sports... FFS. Guess ill have to settle for BVB vs Benifica (who isn't starting Cesar).
 
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