Franz Bakingpowder
New Member
I'm having a bit of a moan here, but please tell me if I'm wrong:
I help coach a U-18 Boys Metro team, and 4 of our players who are involved with the National training center twice a week arrived at training Thursday night telling us they can't play in our League game Sunday because they have to play for the "Training Centre".
The National training centre have put on 3 games for the weekend to assess players. One on Friday night, one on Saturday, and one on Sunday at 11:30 AM. Well, we kick off with our team for a league game at noon! Do you think anyone from the CSA Training centre called us to ask if this was ok? Nope! They just informed the players to be there!
We've now had to cancel our game because we don't have enough players to field a team because we've lost these 4 players. What a joke! The reason behind the 3 game marathon is that they've got some WOMEN'S National team coach coming in to Vancouver and he'd like to see them play. Why does he have to see them play when Derek Possee is the Head Coach of this team? Do they really require 3 games all on one weekend to assess these players when they train at the training centre twice a week? I'd understand if the team was preparing to travel somewhere, or if they were preparing for a tournament, but they aren't. Why doesn't the CSA send people out to watch these players playing on the weekends?
With pillicks like these running Canadian Soccer, you wonder why we aren't successful! Who's running this Circus??
Franz
I help coach a U-18 Boys Metro team, and 4 of our players who are involved with the National training center twice a week arrived at training Thursday night telling us they can't play in our League game Sunday because they have to play for the "Training Centre".
The National training centre have put on 3 games for the weekend to assess players. One on Friday night, one on Saturday, and one on Sunday at 11:30 AM. Well, we kick off with our team for a league game at noon! Do you think anyone from the CSA Training centre called us to ask if this was ok? Nope! They just informed the players to be there!
We've now had to cancel our game because we don't have enough players to field a team because we've lost these 4 players. What a joke! The reason behind the 3 game marathon is that they've got some WOMEN'S National team coach coming in to Vancouver and he'd like to see them play. Why does he have to see them play when Derek Possee is the Head Coach of this team? Do they really require 3 games all on one weekend to assess these players when they train at the training centre twice a week? I'd understand if the team was preparing to travel somewhere, or if they were preparing for a tournament, but they aren't. Why doesn't the CSA send people out to watch these players playing on the weekends?
With pillicks like these running Canadian Soccer, you wonder why we aren't successful! Who's running this Circus??
Franz