Our Current Development Structure Is Quite Poor

By Jason de Vos CBC Sports

Offside: Fixing Canadian soccer – Player Development
If you haven’t yet read the Canadian Soccer Association’s ‘Wellness to World Cup’ long-term player development plan, I suggest you do so. It outlines a plan to reform Canadian soccer from the house league level to the elite level.

The document is available here: Wellness to World Cup.

While the long-term player development plan makes some very good points regarding coaching and player development, many of which I agree with, it fails to put forth a structure for elite player development.

Changes to the existing structure could have a dramatic effect on our ability to produce players capable of succeeding at the international level. Our current development structure is quite poor, and reform is desperately needed in order for us to turn our fortunes around.

Here are some of my thoughts on how we can do that.

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