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I think it’s far more insidious for a soccer writer to worry about their career rather than write what they think.

You get that “something” by taking soccer seriously, from the ground up.

In countries where football is the only sport of importance, that’s fine, fans love it, papers will cover all they can. In places like the US and Canada, two nations in the midst of an MLB season, just having finished the NBA finals and about to see off the Stanley Cup, casual soccer watchers aren’t going to spend much effort looking into why WCQs are more important than Gold Cup matches.

The goal now is to build support for the Canadian national men’s team on the back of the resurgent Canadian professional game.

Long suffering fans of Canadian soccer writhe and gnash teeth over how to force the CSA to implement this vision across the provincial associations. But why wait for the relatively financially-hobbled CSA to make it so?

If we’re interested in drawing these fans to the Canadian game, we shouldn’t attempt to shut them out by patronizing them.

It need not be a budget breaker, and I think there would be enough interest for a modest circulation and pro-bono submission.

So there it is. The old Canadian soccer victim act is dead. Long live Canadian soccer. Welcome to Media Takedown.

This doesn’t mean the end of soccer writing as a career for the aspiring sports journalist.

It’s odd how soccer people, even the most intelligent ones, seem to put so much importance on a soccer shirt.