CanPL and CFL: Much better to be friends than enemies 19 Apr 2018 But, when dealing with the city bureaucracy, this is still early in the game. It’s time for the various stakeholders to come together. It’s time for dialogue.
Big day for CanPL next Wednesday: City of Edmonton to discuss making changes to Clarke Stadium to benefit FC Edmonton 12 Apr 2018 The City of Edmonton's Community and Public Services Committee's agenda for its April 18 meeting includes a discussion on "Support for Professional Soccer in Edmonton."
Another deep Canadian run helps the case for a second team in the CCL: And it stands to benefit the CanPL 11 Apr 2018 And the glaring, obvious truth is that Canada, despite only having one team in CCL, year after year performs better than the United States, which has four slots in the tournament.
The CanPL and midseason friendlies? “That’s something we will have to examine down the line” 6 Apr 2018 "In the short term, we think we will have a very busy soccer season that includes our league schedule along with a very robust Canadian Championship – something that will be very important to our member clubs.”
Open letter from FC Edmonton GM Jay Ball on CanPL campaign: “For me, it’s about the community” 25 Mar 2018 I’ve used a lot of that resilient and resourceful thinking since I came to the club almost two years ago. I’ve been very fortunate, our owners, Tom and Dave Fath, have allowed me to bring in new ideas and approaches. However, If someone had told me that within my first two years I would take over a struggling front office, work spend two seasons trying to get it the so hard to take it to the next level, then shut it it down and, just a few months later, be faced with possibility of try to launching it all over again, I would never have believed them.
Edmonton experiences the big-tent soccer evangelism of the Canadian Premier League 23 Mar 2018 Beirne can say all he needs to say about not wanting CanPL to be compared to MLS. But he knows, deep down, that this will always be the first place fans will go to. There are three Canadian teams in MLS. MLS games are on Canadian national TV. And, of course, American fans will look at neighbouring Canada as it begins to unravel itself from the U.S. soccer system. They will ask: “If Canada can have single-table, why can’t we?” And we know the fervent anti-MLS factions that exists in the U.S. will use Canada as an example as they continue to fuel their self-destructive Soccer Warz.
CanPL president Beirne begins Edmonton visit: “Up to 20 parties” have shown interest in joining league 22 Mar 2018 Of course, as Beirne will be shaking hands, meeting and greeting, over the next two days, a lot of topics will be covered. We talked about a few Wednesday night.
Why Canada needs its own league: A perspective from a soccer parent 15 Mar 2018 The CanPL will debut in 2019. This letter offers some insight to why the Canadian Premier League will be so important to soccer families in this country.
To be evangelical CanPL boosters, we can’t be preaching to the choir 6 Mar 2018 But I worry that supporters groups will gather in same soccer bars, talking to the same soccer people, about how excited they are for the dawn of the CanPL. They’ll encourage the same people who bought season tickets a week ago to, well, buy season tickets.
FCE to CanPL? It will require “the greatest comeback story in the history of Edmonton sport.” 21 Feb 2018 If FC Edmonton, which left NASL at the end of the 2017 season, is to field a pro team in the Canadian Premier League in 2019, the club needs its fans to rally. It needs a massive ground game to sell season-ticket commitments. And, maybe, if the team is to survive, Wednesday’s night’s meeting of soccer supporters will be remembered as the Alberta Capital’s very own Tennis Court Oath, soccer style.