CSA Kissoff

By Ben Knight Globe & Mail On Soccer

Knight: Time to abolish the CSA
With a stern 3-1 dismissal in Honduras last night, the Canadian World Cup dream has been expunged. We have about 44 months until it comes up again.

There is a lot of work to do.

Between now and June, 2012, the entire governing structure of soccer in Canada needs to be torn down and rebuilt. New people, new structures, new sources of funding, new ideas – all will be essential, and none will come from the ancient, creaking, existing bureaucratic mess.

Dear CSA: You tried. I know. I’m fully prepared to believe everyone on Metcalfe Street is concerned about the situation, and wishes things could be better. What you completely fail to understand – always – is that the mess cannot be fixed by the structure that created it, and that all of you are part of that structure.

If you were a government, you would have fallen. If you were running a business, the shareholders would have voted in a new slate of directors. However much you talk about reform, you fail to grasp that the first and most important reform is removing all of you from power.

So – how are the rest of us going to accomplish that?

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