Dr. Richard Bucciarelli, PhD
@RichBucciarelli
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⚽️ Ok, let's talk about player identification. Right now, there are 3 fatal flaws in the current
@OntarioIsSoccer
and
@CanadaSoccerEN
"Talented Player Pathway":
1️⃣ The great majority of the players (between 74-92%, according to Ontario Soccer's own "independent 3rd party
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⚽️🇨🇦 Canadian Men's National Team Head Coach
@jessemarsch
is right - this is unacceptable.
He has also made an excellent point regarding the need for Canada to identify talented players and get them playing at the highest level of professional/international competition at ages
"It is unacceptable that a player like Moise Bombito is not discovered until he is 23 years old: I've coached some of the best CBs in the world... and his talent level is in that category"
#CanMNT
head coach Jesse Marsch on talent scouting in Canada 🇨🇦
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⚽️🇨🇦 Ok
@OntarioIsSoccer
and
@League1ON
let's get this straight:
▶️ "League 1 Ontario Management" (whoever that is) now gets to be the arbiter of whether or not players 1 or 2 years CHRONOLOGICALLY younger - without bothering to determine whether or not said players are
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⚽️ Player development is perhaps the one area in which the incompetence of
@OntarioIsSoccer
and
@CanadaSoccerEN
is most evident.
📉 In fact, if ever we were to look at the ratio between the number of registered soccer players in Canada (which totals over 1 million), and the
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⚽️ Many people have messaged/commented on some of my recent posts about
@OntarioIsSoccer
and
@CanadaSoccerEN
, asking me to offer some solutions to the problems they face (rather than simply pointing out the problems). I thought I would give this a try, starting with the physical
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⚽️🇨🇦 I'm offering my services as a Canadian soccer propaganda translator - free of charge - to
@Jmizz20
and
@matt_f90
, in order to help all Canadian soccer players, parents and coaches decipher the recent conspicuous
@OntarioIsSoccer
messaging
(see below):
✅ "We are
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⚽️🇨🇦 This is what "moving the game forward" looks like at
@OntarioIsSoccer
...
⬇️ A good friend and coaching colleague of mine recently sent me the 2024 Halton Region Soccer Association U14 Boys Integrated Model (IModel) Qualification Tournament schedule (see below). As you can
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⚽️🇨🇦 Just finished running another round of mandatory fitness assessments for a local youth soccer club that competes in the
@OntarioIsSoccer
"player development league." These tests are mandatory, meaning that if Member clubs do not complete them and send in their data within
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⚽️🇨🇦 Canadian soccer players, parents, coaches, & fans: time to STOP burying our heads in the sand!
⬇️ Our Provincial "High-Performance Leagues" & Canadian Major League Soccer Academies do not have/have never had the most talented Canadian youth soccer players.
Change my mind.
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⚽️🇨🇦 Time for some more Canadian soccer propaganda translation...but first, a bit of important background information:
Last month, the Leadership at
@OntarioIsSoccer
included the following statements in a threat to representatives from Croatian-Canadian community youth soccer
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⚽️🇨🇦
@CanadaSoccerEN
MNT Assistant Captain Stephen Eustaquio stated after last night's game, that Canada needs to do more to promote and grow the
@CPLsoccer
in order to develop more Canadian players...and I couldn't agree more...and then this happens!
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⚽️🇨🇦 Quick follow up: in case it wasn't already obvious, the real reason
@OntarioIsSoccer
is preventing '07/08-born players from participating in
@League1ON
is so they can force these players to play for 1-2 more years in their "development league" & get their associated 💰fees.
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📈 I did some research into the financial situation in Canadian soccer...here is what I found:
💰 In 2022,
@CanadaSoccerEN
spent $54 million CAD, operating at a $6 million CAD loss. Over the 2022/23 fiscal year,
@ussoccer
spent $145 million USD ($188 million CAD) operating at a
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Three people have contacted me this week to notify me that
@matt_f90
and others at
@OntarioIsSoccer
have warned/ threatened them, not to like, comment on, or share my social media posts. Why does a Provincial Sports Organization that receives funding both publicy AND through its
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⚽️🇨🇦 Congratulations to our Canadian Men's National Team on their historic win to reach the Copa America Semi-Finals. It's amazing what the combination of talented, hardworking players and competent, experienced coaches can accomplish. With that being said, does anyone else find
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🎓 Nothing is impossible. I'm happy to confirm that I successfully defended my PhD Thesis, "Physiological Determinants of the Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test and Match Running Performance in Canadian Male Professional Soccer Players," at the
@UofG_HHNS
yesterday!
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⚽️🇨🇦 Several of my soccer friends and colleagues, including both coaches and parents, have reached out to me to get my take on this. Not sure where to begin, but here goes...
In the same year that:
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@CanadaSoccerEN
announces a $1.2 million dollar "investment in grassroots
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🇮🇹 In Italian there is a saying:
"Il pesce marcisce dalla testa"
(The fish rots at the head).
In other words, the leadership is the root cause of any organization's failure...and we have a severe rot - or, lack of competent leadership - at the head of
@OntarioIsSoccer
and
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@OntarioIsSoccer
I'm happy to hear that you are so concerned with truth, justice, and equity. In keeping with this ethos, I suggest you start with the following:
1️⃣ You say you care about "truth." Why then did you communicate that the recent 8-Year OPDL Report you published was prepared by an
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Canada too!
Pay-to-play in the US is at the level it is precisely because there is no pro/rel at the professional level.
Without an open pro pyramid, the pay-to-play business model is practically forced upon all [youth] clubs, as there's no alternative revenue mode or potential ROI without
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⚽️ Spoke w/a Canadian university Head Coach & she said the
#1
attribute lacking in recruits is aerobic fitness. Imagine if we taught coaches about fitness, and/or "high performance" programs didn't discourage players from participating in extra training that isn't "sanctioned"?
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@OntarioIsSoccer
🙄 You forgot a few other "defining moments" for 2023. Here are my TOP 10:
1️⃣ You began 2023 having somehow spent more money in 2022 than the California South Soccer Associaiton, despite serving a population of 1/3rd the size.
2️⃣ In February 2023, you unironically announced
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⚽️Last week, I provided several practical suggestions to
@OntarioIsSoccer
and
@CanadaSoccerEN
, about how we/they can improve the development of the physical component of the sport, and I thought there was a great response/dialogue (albeit NOT from anyone at the
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@CanadaSoccerEN
Here we go again with the Canadian Virtue Signalling (Soccer) Association. If you want more "inclusion," here's an IDEA: eliminate the financial & bureaucratic gatekeeping which currently EXCLUDE low- and middle-income Canadian soccer players from your "Talented Player Pathway"
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@OntarioIsSoccer
🙄 The only thing thrilling about this "journey" is the irony contained within your stated "commitment to innovation, sustainability, and player development."
❓I've got some questions:
1️⃣ How can you possibly be committed to "innovation" when your leadership
@Jmizz20
@matt_f90
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⚽️🇨🇦
@CanadaSoccerEN
and
@OntarioIsSoccer
need to hire more competent leaders, and to hold their leadership accountable based on performance and results.
⬇️Change my mind.
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⚽️🇨🇦 Wondering if anyone at
@OntarioIsSoccer
can explain how so many of their "Player Decelopment League" teams lost games to non-OPDL teams in the
@topratedseries
last weekend. If the "best players" (including 80-90% of the Provincial Team)
play OPDL, how could this happen?
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⚽️🇨🇦 An organization can survive incompetent leadership, provided its leaders are not corrupt; incompetent leaders who still possess honor and integrity will acknowledge their faults and shortcomings, surround themselves with more competent people to whom they can delegate
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@CanadaSoccerEN
⚽️🇨🇦 Guess what everybody?
@CanadaSoccerEN
has just launched the "Player Development Program Championship"!
▶️ With that in mind, I figured It was time for another edition of soccer propaganda translation.
Here goes:
✅ To start with, when Interim General Secretary
@jasondevos
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@OntarioIsSoccer
⚽️🇨🇦 Here we go again with
@OntarioIsSoccer
virtue signaling about "inclusion."
Let's see if your actions align with your platitudes:
🚫 You run a system whereby you EXCLUDE young soccer players from your "Talented Player Pathway" unless they play in your "High Performance
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@CanadaSoccerEN
⚽️🇨🇦 What happens when you combine:
1️⃣ Incompetent and corrupt leadership...
2️⃣ Coaches hired based on nepotism instead of merit...
3️⃣ A biased and exclusionary selection process and "talented pathway"?
⬆️ Our youth National Teams fail to qualify for major tournaments.
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⚽️🇨🇦 You'll never guess what our national soccer governing body
@CanadaSoccerEN
just did...it's time for some more Canadian soccer propaganda translation!
Let's start with the background information: Canada Soccer recently hired Jesse Marsch as the new Head Coach of its Men's
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@TorontoFC
⚽️🇨🇦 It looks like
@TorontoFC
and
@CanadaSoccerEN
have decided to throw their hats into the ring with
@OntarioIsSoccer
in an epic battle to see who can hire the least deserving candidates for the top jobs in their respectuve organizations.
⬆️ When the senior Men's National Team
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📈⚽️🇨🇦 It's that time of year again, when the
@OntarioIsSoccer
"high-performance league" (which they profit from) takes a 6-week "Holiday Break" and provides NO information to help players avoid the detraining they will inevitably experience (credit to
@ThermoHuman
for the pic).
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@OntarioIsSoccer
Oh the irony: the organization which does nothing but bully clubs, academies, coaches, coach educators, parents, and players, forcing them to conform to its rules and threatening them with sanctions and fines for noncompliance, is "against bullying in all its forms." Amazing!
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@CanadaSoccerEN
🇨🇦⚽️
@jasondevos
@OntarioIsSoccer
@Jmizz20
@matt_f90
Tell me your youth development and talent identification systems are broken without telling me your youth development and talent identification systems are broken.
▶️ On behalf of all serious soccer people in this country,
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@CanadaSoccerEN
What does it say about the sad state of affairs at
@CanadaSoccerEN
when a successful Head Coach, with guaranteed qualification for our Men's Team's second-straight
@FIFAWorldCup
- at home, no less - on the horizon, resigns in favor of leading the worst team in
@MLS
-
@TorontoFC
?
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⚽️🇨🇦 In case you've become tired of hearing about drones, here is some more local soccer news which you're likely to find equally ridiculous: Take a look at this screenshot of an email listing the requirements for mandatory fitness testing in the
@OntarioIsSoccer
so-called
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This is the type of competition we need more of in Canada. Expose young players to meaningful games, and they will develop.
💥 LA VICTOIRE 💥
CS SAINT-LAURENT HAVE DONE IT 🤯
@HFXWanderersFC
have been eliminated in the 2024 TELUS
#CanChamp
as the League 1 Quebec side saves the fourth penalty and buries their fifth straight to orchestrate a CUPSET ✨
🔴 Watch POST-GAME SHOW on OS YouTube
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@OntarioIsSoccer
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that
@OntarioIsSoccer
is promoting "inclusion," while simultaneously running the most exclusive/exclusionary competitive youth sports league in the world?
@matt_f90
do your organization's actions match its values?
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⚽️🇨🇦 Determining the developmental age of youth athletes is FREE & EASY to do, and it should be MANDATORY for programs with "development" in their name.
@OntarioIsSoccer
&
@CanadaSoccerEN
don't measure development because they don't understand development.
⬇️ Change my mind.
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@OntarioIsSoccer
Your $100,000 "Scholarship" is the metaphorical equivalent of putting a bandaid over a mortal wound. Your "Development League" has 4000 players & costs $5000 per player, per year (not including travel, etc.), so $100k will only cover the fees of 0.5% of the players in the league.
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@OntarioIsSoccer
Shouldn't you pledge for your "high-performance" programs to be inclusive to individuals of all socioeconomic statuses? Do talented Canadian youth soccer players who can't afford the $5-10k/year fees in your "Player Development League" not deserve to "enjoy the beautiful game"?
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As a general rule, when an incompetent government like
@OntarioIsSoccer
tells you not to do something, that something is the exact thing you SHOULD be doing. (Remember when we were told not to go outside)?
"Sanctioning" is another nail in the coffin of an already broken system.
Can someone explain to me, how a club or an academy can be held accountable for a playing unsanctioned soccer?
@OntarioIsSoccer
I’d love yo understand in detail.
I’m struggling to understand how a player can be tracked on days of and told what he or she cannot do?
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@OntarioIsSoccer
If you really want to "keep sport fun," shouldn't you start by disbanding your "player development league/talent ID programs"? I can't think of anything less fun for youth soccer players (or parents) than being coerced into a rigged system which they know is rigged.
⬇️ Thoughts?
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@kevinablue
⚽️🇨🇦 Translation time following new
@CanadaSoccerEN
General Secretary,
@kevinablue
Financial Update:
✅ Firstly, we are being made to believe that it is "transparent" to simply state that Canada Soccer begins their 2024 Fiscal Year with a $4 Million dollar deficit, over expenses
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@CanadaSoccerPR
@CanadaSoccerEN
⚽️🇨🇦 Great news everyone - Canada Soccer has now created an "Advanced Coach Education Peogram"!
⬆️ Let's first learn about this new "Program," and then I'll translate the propaganda so that it makes more sense, and also - perhaps - to determine just how "advanced" it really is...
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@OntarioIsSoccer
4️⃣ Build a system for development & identification of talented youth players that actually WORKS. Our "Player Development" Leagues should have objective ways to measure actual development. No more exorbitant fees, exclusionary policies or incompetent/biased player identification.
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@OntarioIsSoccer
5️⃣ Finally, re-build our Coach Development system from the top-down. No more
@CanadaSoccerEN
or
@OntarioIsSoccer
"Director of Development" positions go to people with no coaching experience. Prioritize merit-based hiring of expert coach educators and teach coaches HOW to coach.
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👊 Thanks Ian!
I've got lots of data (including some soon-to-be-published) to back this up. Players in the Canadian Premier League (our highest-level domestic competition) are not as fit as those in the top European professional leagues, & at the youth level it's not even close!
I agree with my good friend
@RichBucciarelli
that North American players do not train enough and that the intensity of training is not high enough in 🇨🇦and 🇺🇸 Take ownership of your own individual development. Do the extra.
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@matt_f90
@selecaoportugal
@CanadaSoccerEN
@FutsalCanada
@Ontario_Soccer
Hi Matt,
Does the knowledge you will "bring back and implement into across the country" include the fact that in Portugal, the directors and instructors in coaching courses have actual professional and international coaching experience? Will
@OntarioIsSoccer
implement this?
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Earlier today I had an enlightening, informative, and energizing 1-hour conversation with
@mattyoung101
of
@fsqsport
Seems like we've had many common experiences working in Canadian sport.
I'm looking forward to what may transpire following our initial discussions..stay tuned!
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@DinoDRossi
"Football doesn't come first at
@CanadaSoccerEN
these days."
Dino is right. What does come first?
✅ Wasteful spending of public & private money.
✅ Corrupt business dealings.
✅ Hiring of incompetent administrators & coaches, & promoting them when they fail.
⬇️ Change my mind.
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The key in Europe, above all else, is that the talent ID is done by "qualified" people. They become qualified via education delivered by experts, and experience working with/under the guidance of experts. Here in Canada, we do NOT have experts providing education or leadership.
Europe : Qualified people ID talent, invite to free academy, develop & if/when successful, sell later on for millions
North America : Parents pay big $$ for (some) academies, NIL legislation in HS's, flame out early & complain about inferior national product
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@OntarioIsSoccer
@Jmizz20
@o_n_n
⚽️🇨🇦 Imagine being the Chief Executive Officer of a "nonprofit" Provincial sports organization that, according to publicly available sources, recorded a $1.2 million profit in 2021-2022 (officially listed as "excess revenue over expenses, after amortization"), with almost $6
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2️⃣ I'm not sure there is any reason to maintain Provincial associations like
@OntarioIsSoccer
They provide no value to Canadian soccer players, parents, coaches, referees or administrators, AND they put significant financial and bureaucratic barriers to development in place.
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🇨🇦 Proud to be Canadian, today and every day. Happy Canada Day.
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⚽️🇮🇹 looking forward to working at this camp along with my friends at the Milton Magic Soccer Club, featuring Head Coach of the Italian Men's U20 National Team, Alberto Bollini.
⬇️ See link below for details:
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⚡Had a great time as a Panelist discussing the topic "Exploring Sports Science" at the 2nd Annual
@mcgillu
Sports Business Conference...can't wait to see everyone again next year!
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@OntarioIsSoccer
Oh
@OntarioIsSoccer
did you use Chat GPT to write this post?
❓"San Siro"❓
🙄 Well, at least we can take solace in the fact that your incompetence is not limited to leadership, administration, financing, coaching, and player development.
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👊This is awesome from
@TheS_Resource
and
@RichardCashman1
thank you mate!
🚀Elite Player Development!
💡 Excited to share insights from the Eric Ramsey Webinar hosted by NSCAC in a captivating infographic
@ManUtd
@Coxy3012
@TheNSCAC
@RichBucciarelli
💻
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⚽️ Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I believe soccer legend Johan Cruyff got this all wrong.
⬇️ Here's why:
Firstly, players like Xavi and Iniesta (and perhaps the most modern example of Luca Modric) are exceptionally gifted with rare and hard-to-develop qualities (namely, the
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@__RobH__
@andrewje77erson
Thanks for reminding me of this! Think of it this way:
The only 3 criteria by which a Canadian 2007-born player would qualify for the "exceptional talent" exemption are:
1. Identified by a
@CanadaSoccerEN
Youth National Team
2. Identified by the
@TorontoFC
Academy.
3. Identified
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Maybe they should start a GoFundMe account just like the
@OntarioIsSoccer
National Development Centre...
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@matt_f90
@OntarioIsSoccer
@matt_f90
@OntarioIsSoccer
@CanadaSoccerEN
How do you expect serious Canadian soccer players, parents, coaches, coach educators, referees, directors, and administrators to take you seriously when you present reports like this to them?
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@bev_priestman
@CANWNT
⚽️🇨🇦 If I didn't know any better, I would swear that
@CanadaSoccerEN
and the
@CANWNT
are trolling all of us with this post and the associated job posting.
🚫 Let's set aside the fact that the Head Coach of a Senior National Team is tweeting a job posting from a personal account,
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@ciaramccormack
Thank you Ciara! In Canada,
@OntarioIsSoccer
has attempted to censor my posts, and has even gone as far as to warn/threaten other Canadian coaches for liking, sharing and/or commenting on them. It's great to see others in our sport who are open to discussion!
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A great lunch talking soccer with my friends Dick Howard, Kos Mouratidis, and John DeBenedictis.
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⚽️ After another disappointing result, here is some free advice to
@CanadaSoccerEN
1️⃣ It may be time to proceed with insolvency. The fact that you saddled both Men's and Women's National Teams with pay disputes preceding their participation in the FIFA World Cup speaks volumes.
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⚽️📈 Another great discussion with my friends at
@BeyondPulse
What is Training Overload❓
- a training intensity that slightly exceeds your current physical capabilities
- our bodies build strength when faced with a challenge that is somewhat beyond our existing capacity
💡 Learn more with
@RichBucciarelli
:
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@OntarioIsSoccer
3️⃣ In their place, form a new Canadian Football Association. This Association can have nationwide Regional Centres, but these must be managed by the National FA. Hire employees for this Association based on merit, with a priority placed on competence, experience and education.
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@ianlearnperform
Remember Ian, IF a non-OPDL player is identified (by their own coach, for a fee payable to
@OntarioIsSoccer
) THEN they must join the "high-performance league" (from which Ontario Soccer profits)...but it's all good because the "standards" are higher there. Why even question it?
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⚡📈⚽️ An amazing first Fitness Assessment Combine with
@speedtrainingca
and our friends/partners, Elite Soccer Development, Pelino Athletic Performance Centre, and Limitless Training Systems...more to come soon!
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⚽️🇨🇦 It was my pleasure to be a Guest for the second time on the Local Soccer Show
@MilanWeeklyPOD
with my friends Marcello and Stevie! ⬇️ Check out the link below to listen.
Local Soccer Show ⚽️ Podcast Alert
We spoke with
@RichBucciarelli
to discuss Canada's performance at the U17 FIFA World Cup. What can be done at the grassroots level and beyond to make our national youth squads more competitive?
📺Full show:
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@DennisB14744850
@OntarioIsSoccer
Evidence has shown that when children become aware that they are participating in a rigged game - that is, a game in which they are not treated fairly and have a disproportionate chance of losing relative to their skills and ability - they become physiologically and mentally
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@ianlearnperform
You're very welcome Ian!
I would love to hear from the leadership at
@OntarioIsSoccer
and/or
@CanadaSoccerEN
are you ok with your National Development Centre "fundraising" in this way?
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⚡⚽️📈 New era in performance analysis! Thrilled with the partnership between my
@speedtrainingca
partner
@BeyondPulse
and Dark Horse AI, which will integrate Beyond Pulse's player activity metrics with Dark Horse's video analysis.
⬇️ Interested Canadian coaches DM for details.
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@ianlearnperform
@CPLsoccer
@L1OMens
@CanadaSoccerEN
@OntarioIsSoccer
Well done Ian! I'm working on an equation to predict the % of Canadian players, who have earned a trial in Europe, that will be eligible for the
@OntarioIsSoccer
"Exceptional Player Exemption" allowing them to play up in
@League1ON
...and the answer seems to be approaching zero!
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⚡⚽️ Excited for
@speedtrainingca
to be working with Pro Soccer Pathway at their upcoming event!
⬇️ DM or visit for details.
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@MoneyGrabFC
In Canada, it would be $100/hour, and "sanctioned" by our Dear Leaders at
@OntarioIsSoccer
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⚽️🇨🇦 In case you needed further evidence of the poor - or perhaps more aptly termed nonexistent - scouting done by our
@CanadaSoccerEN
U20 Canadian Men's National Teams,
@ArmenBedakian
has just uncovered it.
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@OntarioIsSoccer
⚽️🇨🇦 Here we go again! Our friends at Ontario Soccer have set the bar so low for their "Technical Director Diploma" that all you need is a
@CanadaSoccerEN
National "C" License (the entry-level course in Canada, taught by Canadian amateurs with no coaching education or knowledge
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@OntarioIsSoccer
@CanadaSoccerEN
Imagine that!
@OntarioIsSoccer
- the same Provincial Sports Organization, responsible for the administration of soccer in Ontario, which:
🚫 Hires individuals with almost no coaching experience in the roles of "Director of Development" and "Manager of Player and Coaching
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All 4 of these "unmanageable risks" are detrimental, but in my opinion, by far the most detrimental is the first one, as it is preventing us from optimally developing our players and coaches, and this suboptimal development is likely a leading cause of risks
#2
-4.
@RichBucciarelli
@amy13walsh
@footy_prime
ppl I talk to about private investment in soccer in 🇨🇦 point to 4 areas of unmanageable risk
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@matt_f90
🤫 Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..so, a report by an Instructor on
@OntarioIsSoccer
TD courses who worked w/several OPDL clubs & was involved in the initial launch/presentation of the league, concluded that the league is "achieving all its initial objectives"? 🤔
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@matt_f90
@OntarioIsSoccer
Add to that, the following methodological limitations:
🚫 No control groups
🚫 Presentation of only correlations, without any causal links (are we meant to infer causality?)
🚫 14.9% coach response rate & 59% player/parent response rate
🚫 No interviews of non-OPDL stakeholders
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@_ToddBeane
Why can't coaches ascribe an equal priority to all 3 of be following characteristics of players:
1. Technical ability.
2. Physical ability
3. As you call it, "intelligent application of technical prowess."
One does not need to be prioritized over any of the others, does it?
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⚡Really lookong forward to presenting and sharing some of my latest research into the use of load-velocity profiling using resisted, nonmotorized treadmills, at the
@UbrZati
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@STFC_Academy
@KULA1087
@CanadaSoccerEN
This sounds great, but
@OntarioIsSoccer
and
@CanadaSoccerEN
would probably only endorse a system like this if they could run it themselves, and we have already seen what a poor job these associations do when they are given (or simply take) power and control to run competitive
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@mattyoung101
Matt as you know (and
@GadSaad
as you may/may not know), youth sports - especially soccer, the world's most popular sport and the largest participation sport by far in Canada - is one of the areas in which we have all but eliminated meritocracy in favor of nepotism + ideology.
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@geswolfcrest
@kevinablue
@CanadaSoccerEN
🎯 The irony is, they keep raising their fees, while simultaneously refusing to use any of that money to cover the costs of their programs/services. Even worse, money is going to fund our youth National Teams, who are identified through a corrupted & biased "talented pathway."
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@matt_f90
@OntarioIsSoccer
@Jmizz20
1️⃣ You have remained complacent despite the fact that your organization requires clubs in its "development league" to submit (under penalty of fine) fitness assessment data which you know are invalid and unreliable, and which you neither look at, nor use, once they are submitted.
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@OntarioIsSoccer
@SportChek
@Glen_Shields
Did your CEO
@Jmizz20
show up to threaten the team/club with being found in "violation of compliance standards" and/or removal of insurance coverage due to its affiliation with a "third party organization"? Or do those threats only apply to the clubs that don't pay you?
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And so, just like that, an amazing month comes to an end! What a privilege to broadcast the
#EURO2024
and
#CopaAmerica2024
for
@TSN_Sports
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@OntarioIsSoccer
⚽️🇨🇦 Right on cue, the organization that has done more to both perpetuate and increase inequality in youth soccer, makes its obligatory virtue signaling post calling for "reflection on inequality."
🙄
@Jmizz20
and
@matt_f90
do you not realize that under your watch, the annual
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@UofG_HHNS
Atrium online portal:
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@matt_f90
@OntarioIsSoccer
@Jmizz20
2️⃣ You have remained complacent despite the fact that your organization communicates to young aspiring players, that they must be part of your "development league" (which you profit from) in order to be identified for/continue to participate in your Ontario Provincial program.
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Hi
@mattyoung101
excellent point. I've researched, posted, & written a lot (& published a little) about training load in youth sports (mostly soccer). A piece which is often missed/misunderstood is exactly HOW to accurately quantify "load." Sometimes, volume alone isn't enough!
Observing in season dry-land training volumes, coupled with over scheduled practice sessions + multi-game tournament weekends shows just how little multiple sport stakeholders know [or care] about load management.
Explains why so many athletes are burning out & getting injured
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