Former men's national team player and Whitecaps assistant head coach Colin Miller will be the new head coach of FC Edmonton, the team announced on Tuesday.
Miller was a member of Canada's World Cup team in 1986 as a player, and went on to serve as assistant head coach and interim head coach of the national side in the early part of last decade. He later had a brief stint on the coaching staff of Derby County before returning to coach the Victoria Highlanders and, eventually, move into the Whitecaps system.
FC Edmonton had been in search of a new head coach since it fired Harry Sinkgraven in September. Miller's appointment will unite a long-serving member of the Canadian soccer community with a team that has prided itself on offering opportunities to young Canadian players during its first two years of NASL play.
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Coinciding as it does with word that Frank Yallop has won MLS coach of the year honours for 2012, Miller's appointment surely already has some wondering whether we'll have another Canadian head coach in Major League Soccer before too long.
But for now, the focus should be on what Miller will be able to do in the city of Edmonton, both with the franchise and with the young players he'll have at his disposal, and what effect that could have on the Canadian soccer landscape.