Clubs And Academies Should Start The Process

By Richard Whittall The Score

Time to believe a Dutch dream could become a Canadian reality
Canadians aren’t normally big dreamers, and this is also true when it comes to football. This, for example, is the roughly paraphrased but widely-accepted line of reasoning on how Canada should become a world class soccer nation:

Before qualifying for the World Cup, we need to get a world class manager. But to attract a world class manager, we need world class players. And to get world class players, we need a stable, nationwide player development scheme. And in order to do that, we need the Canadian Soccer Association to get off its duff and leave its literally provincial, amateur mindset in the past to agree on a plan. And for that to happen, well, we need to convince a bunch of guys in suits at the CSA to reform itself via a vote at some mysterious general meeting. And once that happens, the silverware and glory will finally start rolling in, soccer will exceed hockey as the country’s most popular sport, and we will win ten World Cups in a row.

Or something like that.

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