Earl Cochrane new Canada Soccer General Secretary

[Sal333]

14 hours ago, narduch said:

Apparently Cochrane was actually given this role months ago

I would have preferred if he was given a roll instead of a role.

[Sal333]

 

I'll give you a hundred to one odds Cochrane is at this very minute singing this song to himself.

Obviously, Bontis and CSA board members are the backup singers.

Edited July 14, 2022 by Sal333

[Metro]

13 hours ago, gigi riva said:

He has become the new Fergie Oliver  of Soccer . Jays fan would know who I am talking about .

Wheeler kisses kids on game shows in a creepy manner?

[K-Dub]

23 hours ago, Ally McCoist said:

Discuss.

WTF!?

Surprised/Not Surprised...

[Cadeau]

Players have asked for the government to step in and investigate. Alistair Johnston should keep hitting the media circuit....he's very eloquent and the best for that role imo

[Mattd97]

For an organization under such intense scrutiny over its financial aptitude, boasting of an “extensive global recruitment process” which spent six months scanning and spanning the globe with over 70 candidates reportedly interviewed, only to settle on that guy two doors down the hallway was maybe not the boast Canada Soccer thought it was.

 

 

That's a great line in that posted article

[Kadenge]

2 hours ago, Mattd97 said:

For an organization under such intense scrutiny over its financial aptitude, boasting of an “extensive global recruitment process” which spent six months scanning and spanning the globe with over 70 candidates reportedly interviewed, only to settle on that guy two doors down the hallway was maybe not the boast Canada Soccer thought it was.

 

 

That's a great line in that posted article

sounds a lot like how government departments hire for a position

 

[narduch]

Awesome headline.

https://www.thestar.com/sports/soccer/opinion/2022/07/14/canada-soccer-gave-its-players-the-middle-finger-with-earl-cochrane-move-now-theyre-really-fighting-back.html?rf&fbclid=IwAR3-_33ysaqbfkk0HmgbD4ziwoWcs3PYclvS8yBty5tTpq2vqk7fUWoITX4&mibextid=bVmsRV&fs=e&s=cl

Edited July 15, 2022 by narduch

[ECW]

God help us. 

[Cheeta]

11 hours ago, narduch said:

Awesome headline.

https://www.thestar.com/sports/soccer/opinion/2022/07/14/canada-soccer-gave-its-players-the-middle-finger-with-earl-cochrane-move-now-theyre-really-fighting-back.html?rf&fbclid=IwAR3-_33ysaqbfkk0HmgbD4ziwoWcs3PYclvS8yBty5tTpq2vqk7fUWoITX4&mibextid=bVmsRV&fs=e&s=cl

That's the spirit!

[The Pessimist]

 

 

Poor players getting the middle finger from Canada Soccer. Isn't that what they did to their fans when they cancelled the Panama game at the last minute?

 

[The Ref]

This guy Cochrane is an arriviste politician who wont stop until he is president of Fifa.  Never liked him.

 

[Wingback6]

Just stepped down

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/earl-cochrane-steps-down-general-secretary-canada-soccer-1.6817430

[toontownman]

[Shway]

Now what….don’t believe the hype.

[Kent]

I'm not sad, but I am surprised.

[Gian-Luca]

He never really inspired confidence when he spoke. On the other hand, he probably leaves on a high note as he probably never looked better than in the pointless-waste-of-time heritage committee meetings, where he was aided by the utter incompetency and rampant stupidity of the politicians holding his feet to the fire over such issues as FIFA hiring Adriana Lima.

[RJB]

Was he pushed or did he jump?

It really doesn't look great the two leaders have bailed on the heels of our best stretch ever - men and women! - as well as us co-hosting the next mens world cup.  Seems like the next four years would be years you'd want to be around for.  Not sure what both of them quitting says about things, but I don't think it says good things. 

Edited April 21, 2023 by RJB

[Wingback6]

2 hours ago, RJB said:

Was he pushed or did he jump?

It really doesn't look great the two leaders have bailed on the heels of our best stretch ever - men and women! - as well as us co-hosting the next men's world cup.  Seems like the next four years would be years you'd want to be around for.  Not sure what both of them quitting says about things, but I don't think it says good things. 

These guys were core to the problems in the CSA. Or at the very least willing enablers of existing dysfunction. Great opportunity to start fresh. What the players want, and most of us fans as well, I would deign to conjecture.

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

 

6 hours ago, toontownman said:

...given the way Nick Bontis exited it's not safe to assume that's how it unfolded. In a few days will we hear that he got hired by CONCACAF shortly before this press release was issued?

[Ottawafan]

7 hours ago, Wingback6 said:

These guys were core to the problems in the CSA. Or at the very least willing enablers of existing dysfunction. Great opportunity to start fresh. What the players want, and most of us fans as well, I would deign to conjecture.

Fascinating to see posters back these bureaucrats who have consistently steered the CSA poorly over the players who have felt their needs were not addressed.  Put the players first.  

[CanSoccfan11]

Personally I don't feel it matters who is in charge. The same issues have persisted for a long time and across multiple leaders.  It's a systemic issue and until they fix that it won't matter which people are in charge.  This is just more rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

[narduch]

Cochrane was a pariah at TFC and should have never been hired by CSA in the first place.

Good riddance 

Edited April 21, 2023 by narduch

[Shway]

50 minutes ago, CanSoccfan11 said:

Personally I don't feel it matters who is in charge. The same issues have persisted for a long time and across multiple leaders.  It's a systemic issue and until they fix that it won't matter which people are in charge.  This is just more rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Exactly how I feel. 
It was just easy to blame Bontis and Chochrane. 

[Unnamed Trialist]

52 minutes ago, Ottawafan said:

Fascinating to see posters back these bureaucrats who have consistently steered the CSA poorly over the players who have felt their needs were not addressed.  Put the players first.  

Which players? 

The MNT and WNT seem to want to throw every player in the CPL and in L1s across Canada (the highest women's tier in the country btw) under the bus. 

Apart from the women's appeal for more camps for women's youth internationals, never reflected in any corresponding statement by the men, the players are "us", the cause is "us", they seem to think they are the only ones whose needs are not being addressed. 

As elites, especially the men in terms of club salaries, but the women increasingly as well, they are not necessarily in conditions to defend their fellow players, and do not do so in practice.