I have a great idea for a book. It would be a Canadian version of a story told other places. However, we Canucks are just wacky enough that I think it would have a unique angle.
I want to follow the Canadian national team from the start of a World Cup qualifying cycle through to the end and chronicle its story. I even know what I'd call the book: Kick Hockey - chasing a football dream in a land of ice and pucks.
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It would be a comedy, clearly. It would have to be because our plight in this sport is nothing if not funny (the root of humour being tragedy after all). The only problem is that I'd have to guess right. The story only works if it has a happy ending. I'd have to pick a cycle that Canada qualified out of.
And that might be a lot of travel for me at 80.
It's not quite the epic story I dream of telling, but MLSsoccer asked me to write two parts of a series on the state of the game in Canada. The first is up now.
I don't want to give too much away, but someone well known in the soccer community told me that Canada's best chance at getting back to a world Cup might not come to 2022.
Like I said...funny.