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Talent is universal, opportunity is not. An essay about chance, visibility, and the search for football talent in Canada.

A Game of Forking Paths https://t.co/qmb9Iu0zwD

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$1 million. It wasn’t just a prize. It was a six-year countdown with a FIFA World Cup at the end. The story would have written itself every single year.

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@ChrisMurphyCT warns in @TheAtlantic that for-profit firms are buying up the rituals of US youth sports and selling them back to parents.

Systems rarely tighten all at once. Some thoughts after visiting an ancient rainforest.

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Just finished tryout week.

Some thoughts about youth football that weave together Ottoman trade history, sporting kluges, long-tail probabilities and the bittersweet reality that childhood is finite.

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@RichBucciarelli The following piece on academies comes from our 2011 report, A League of Our Own, prepared as part of a study into the viability of a D2 pro league. The report contributed to the development of League1 Canada. I think the analysis still holds up today.

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Where have you gone, Marco Tardelli?

Football—just another asset class to extract value from?

Or still a game before it’s anything else?

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@colinelmes @GregorYoung @pjvangarderen No ticket stub, but I do have the first program.

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@bradleyrbaker @marktewks @TeamCanada @SquamishNation @rmasmyth @GaileBaker @Khelsilem @Wilsonius19 @Korywilson @tewanee Sincere congratulations, Brad. Well done!

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@SportMgmtProf @eva_havaris Congratulations, Eva.

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The biggest field ever! Canada used to have one of the smallest club championships in world football. In a study we led for Canada Soccer, we recommended expanding the CanChamp to include teams from D3 to help attract investment in player development. https://t.co/FWrQrn9Mj5

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@StevenMarcScott Growing a football culture is the product of a virtuous circle that begins & ends not with the narrow interest of one thing/group, but with the global health of the game writ large. The process then cycles back to the beginning & repeats, reinforcing itself after each revolution.

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2 weeks before Pele made his NASL debut he watched the Whitecaps beat Cosmos in NY. Vancouver started the game with 9 Canadians. "I didn't realize they had so many Canadian players on that team. They played very very well."

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@tariqpanja @UnffclPrtnr Blame Canada! The moment captured from a different angle.

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I guess it runs in the family! The Whitecaps' player budget in the first season was cd$47,000.
Interestingly, in 1984, when the Whitecaps folded and the entire NASL went under at the same time, youth football registrations in British Columbia dropped 30% over the next two years.

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December 11th-On This Day in BC Sport History: 1973

At league meetings in Orlando, Florida, the North American Soccer League awards Vancouver a franchise at the same time as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. NASL commissioner Phil Woosnam instructs Vancouver GM Denny.../2

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@salishsea86 @League1BC https://t.co/uVgrgKzoiq

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Lots of governance models were investigated when the CPL was being imagined, including the J-League which launched in 1991 with 10 teams. A 2nd division wasn't added until 1999. Here's a link to one of the many studies we accessed. https://t.co/zByKhTL3AA

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@dbelcham But do we know how the Japanese FA works? They might be set up differently from CSA, which influences things

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Australia, Japan and the Korea Republic all through to the round of 16. This from a study we led back in 2016 arguing that investing in a professional league can help strengthen and improve a country's national team program.