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What we’re being asked to celebrate isn’t the birth of Canadian soccer. It’s the birth of an organization, of a collective of bureaucrats and space-fillers who took a game that had already been prominent in this country for over twenty years, regimentized it, and has turned us into a fifth-rate soccer power.

Once upon a time, Vancouver led North America in youth development.

A good sign for a team is when it wins, and wins well, while playing a bunch of lesser-known players for the second game in two weeks.

It’s a pity that Sporting Kansas City’s image remains so comical because, in recent years, they’ve been doing so much right.

I’d love to bring Jose Mourinho to Metcalfe Street to clean house but let’s assume that’s not practical. Better Peschisolido than somebody from a similar level who’d be getting in completely over his head, or some washed-up old goon who’s taking the job for a paycheque at the end of his career than for his reputation at the beginning of it.

If you’re interested in the recent history of Canadian soccer, I intensely recommend it. I’m just not sure it’s the kind of recommendation Paul James will want.

The Vancouver Whitecaps have announced that chief executive officer Paul Barber will step down effective February 29, 2012. To call this a shock is an understatement.

The MLS Re-Entry Draft is one of the many, many means that Major League Soccer uses to redistribute its talent. The advent of the Re-Entry Draft was one of the consequences of the league’s 2010 collective bargaining agreement with the Major League Soccer Players Union.

Be happy with the win. It was a good thing. But it didn’t “show” the naysayers anything new.

When you think of a Most Valuable Player, you think of the lynchpin of a team; the player without whom the entire system collapses. Dwayne De Rosario was not the key ingredient to his teams’ success. In fact, as I will demonstrate after the jump, acquiring Dwayne De Rosario actually made teams worse.