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    BCSPL/Metro/Tier 1

    This is going to be a bit of a rambling rant, so please bear with me it on. My son has moved into U13 this season and I'm very confused by the decisions and direction of youth soccer at this point. I think BCCSL incorporating Metro into their umbrella is a step forward. From what I have heard...
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    Canadian Premier League - Startup Spring 2019?

    Will be very interesting to see if the teams in this league also pursue a youth development program to give more kids more opportunities other then just Whitecaps/TFC. Having a strong second layer of youth development and giving extremely talented teenagers an opportunity to play pro football...
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    Protecting One's Own Turf - BCSPL and White Cap's Showcase

    Wow, thank you for that read. Very interesting. I'm just seeing the tip of it so far, but many of the points you make already ring so true. It's such a shame.
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    BC Coastal Soccer League

    There are a few members here that have gone through the mill from the sounds of it, so I have a question. Mountain United just finished picking there U13 intake team. They definitely went a certain direction in the players they picked, all highly skilled foot dribblers that have the tendency to...
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    Best Academy?

    I just think the simple fact that someone is trying to start an academy league is incredible. This is what happened in Ontario and eventually OSA had to recognize them and brought them into the fold. BC needs to do this as well, and everyone in BCSA that is afraid of these private academies is...
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    John Herdman new MNT gaffer

    One of the things I've heard is that the Men's program has a lack of funding. Funding is driven by success, and since the women's program has had success, they receive far more money than the men. During the last international break before Christmas, the men's side didn't even have the funds to...
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    BC Coastal Soccer League

    With the amount of snow in Squamish, very little chance those games will get played before the end of February.
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    2018 Provincial Cup

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    Four District Youth Soccer 2017/18

    When i go through the Ontario Soccer website and their pathways/vision, does their program seem way ahead of BCs? It certainly seems that their is more opportunity to develop further with more choices? Having a club league and academy league, the whole setup of the OPDL compared to BCSPL leading...
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    Category 1 and 2 - change to youth landscape

    If all this was to happen, I would think that it was a positive change and would be perhaps from the workings of DeVos in his new position. Why do I feel so doubtful that it's going to happen in my kids youth soccer days? He's just about to go into U13 and we have to consider BCSPL or Metro...
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    Four District Youth Soccer 2017/18

    Damn, that's a really depressing read. It's such a shame that it's this way. Seeing my son and his team compete in Italy at the U11 age, the gap technically is not huge. It was more the spacial awareness, shielding and vision that was the bigger difference. Athletically our kids were definitely...
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    Four District Youth Soccer 2017/18

    I think the first step would be to make HPL free for the kids that make it. Paying 5 times the cost over Metro when you are supposedly the elite of the Province seems counter productive, those kids if in Europe would be getting the full pull. How do you supplement the revenue? Let the teams self...
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    BC Coastal Soccer League

    And they couldn't even nail down the U11-U12 schedules for the smaller West group. Names still missing from contacts and only 3 games posted. Makes me worried that the whole season will be a sh*t show and when teams need to be tiered, it won't happen and groups will remain woefully unbalanced...
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    BC Coastal Soccer League

    With my boy hitting that age group next year, this kind of makes me worried. He's right on the fringe of being an BCSPL player but would probably be better for him to play Metro to be a leader and get more touches. The cost is a factor for BCSPL, what's going to happen with SPL2? Travel is an...
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    BC Coastal Soccer League

    This is what baffles my mind...... From the BCCSL Website. IMPORTANT: Ignore the fields and times that are listed on the gotsoccer site and only go by the schedule that you received in and Excel sheet. It is up to the home team to contact their opposition asap to let them know the game details...
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