The embarrassment continues, and at some point the fundamental weaknesses in Canada Soccer could take a real toll on this sport in Canada, beyond what we’ve seen. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Opinion by bruce_arthur
It was a nice quiet time with Canada Soccer out of the headlines, but gravity can only be ignored for so long. Eight months after the men’s team went on strike while preparing for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the women’s team went on strike while preparing for the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. They say we are building aWell, the tradition of the sport being run by people you wouldn’t trust with your luggage in an airport continues.
Now, the women are preparing for what is likely Christine Sinclair’s final World Cup, in the wake of a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. And they are doing it, they say, on the cheap. “Yeah, it hurts. I'm not gonna lie,” Christine Sinclair told TSN. “We all represent this country proudly. We've shared some of the greatest moments together, and to not feel that support from your own federation has been hard in the past, but it's gotten to a point where, at least for me personally, until this is resolved I can't represent this federation. And I'm such a competitor, that breaks my heart and kills me to actually be saying those words out loud.
And given this turn of events, you couldn’t blame women’s coach Bev Priestman if she was looking for a better gig, too. Even if the budget gap were filled, the men’s program funded a significant amount of its World Cup preparation with fundraising from private donors and those same donors are not connected to the women’s program. There is a gap there.
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