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Isn't Eustaquio a #10? Never seen him play tho.

Tommy Wheeldon Jr said Cavalry designs will be out in the next couple weeks. Not sure actual kits. York 9 are doing that launch late November which will reveal the first players, and with that I assume, the kits. I'm sure CanPL is looking at November/early December to have them ready for Christmas. All speculation at this point though.

Absolutely.  The increase in quality was undeniable.  Skill levels were doubling, but the budgets were the same.  Simply organic growth from having the same player pool train/play in a professional environment.
In those 6 years, we produced a quality European roster.  And it was the young guys that really benefitted.  
Peschisolido was 15 when he first broke into the first team.  In a few years he was becoming a legend in England, playing for West Brom, Sheffield United, among others.  He is legendary to those clubs to this day.
Radzinski was 15 as well.  Had a hugely successful career in Belgium, and EPL with Everton.
Bunbury (who is supervising the CPL trials) led Maritimo to the Portuguese Cup, Europe, Most Valuable Foreign Player and all time goal scorer for Maritimo.  Alex is another legend in Portugal.
There were lots of other guys that went on to lengthy, impressive careers in Europe.  And they all credited the CSL with their careers.  All the young raw, potential Canadian talent that has wasted away in MLS academies over the years can now have the opportunity to truly blossom and reach their full potential.  And that is why the CPL came to fruition.  To stop the rot and put us back on the map.  Whatever initial budget we need to make this league successful in the long term,  is good with me.  
 

Do you really need to pay 25 players like that when maybe 15 or 16 at most will be getting significant playing time? As long as the core of the roster is training full-time filling out the rest of the roster with local guys that can train with the team some of the time on weeknights and be called up from local amateur or semi-pro clubs and youth teams when needed is no big deal. I'm skeptical that you can make this fly in the smaller 200,000-500,000 markets otherwise. Ottawa is a different story being an almost MLS-sized market, so it's difficult to make one size fit all but longevity and expansion are more likely by catering to the needs of the smaller markets rather than the larger ones.
Edit: and just to provide an example of how this can work well for Canadian soccer. Having that local low budget component to the roster is how the 1990 London Lasers provided Jason Devos with the first stepping stone to being a CMNT mainstay.

I honestly could care less what the CPL budget is.  It can be 1.2 million, $850,000, $700,000..........who cares.  Nor do I care if CPL is better than Ottawa Fury, or has a bigger budget, etc.....In the big picture, it's meaningless.
CPL is in it for the long haul.  CPL need a viable, sustainable business plan.  I believe they have that.  If they can stick to the script, it will grow in quality every year.  And if the old CSL is any indication, the difference in quality year to year will be massive.
As a season ticket holder, that's what I want and expect.  A Canadian league that's in it for the long haul.  The rest will take care of itself.
 

I'm sure I read that Surrey will actually be bigger than Vancouver by 2030. Placing a team there makes a lot of sense for the long term.
If we end up with pro/rel to a "CanPL 2", I could see multiple teams across the Lower Mainland, including the tri-cities (PoCo/Co/PoMo?)

Coquitlam is an interesting idea, but I think that Surrey has the greatest possibility. It has a large population, a rapid transit line and will soon have two LRT lines, and is South of the Fraser River which will make it more attractive to those living in the Fraser Valley. It is also far enough removed from Downtown Vancouver that I doubt it will have too compete too much with the Whitecaps. In my dreams, it is also far enough west in the Lower Mainland that there would be room for another team in Abbotsford once soccer overtakes hockey as our number one sport.

CPL bound. Hopefully after a solid season although that would probably then mean MLS bound!

Even it it will, it's kinda hard to be critical when we've been saying for years there should be more Canadians on Canadian MLS teams. Montreal is finally doing it, thumps up for trying!

Cloverdale would be a disaster. No one from Vancouver would attend - how many would drive from there? Few, at best.

RIP ACBC.
 

CSA doesn't rely on USSF coaching courses at all - that people choose to attend them is their decision. CSA offers all the necessary courses to coach in Canada.

No seriously, how would they know some random kid at Juventus was born in Toronto? Or are you proposing they hire someone to contact every kid at every youth club across Europe to find out if they have a connection to Canada?

Yes a player has responsibility to do everything they can to develop. But, at what point do serious questions need to be asked of the Whitecaps development system that they are merely developing USL-level players, and have been since the academy started.

Yes a player has responsibility to do everything they can to develop. But, at what point do serious questions need to be asked of the Whitecaps development system that they are merely developing USL-level players, and have been since the academy started.

Yes a player has responsibility to do everything they can to develop. But, at what point do serious questions need to be asked of the Whitecaps development system that they are merely developing USL-level players, and have been since the academy started.

Yes a player has responsibility to do everything they can to develop. But, at what point do serious questions need to be asked of the Whitecaps development system that they are merely developing USL-level players, and have been since the academy started.

Yes a player has responsibility to do everything they can to develop. But, at what point do serious questions need to be asked of the Whitecaps development system that they are merely developing USL-level players, and have been since the academy started.

Yes a player has responsibility to do everything they can to develop. But, at what point do serious questions need to be asked of the Whitecaps development system that they are merely developing USL-level players, and have been since the academy started.

For me Petrasso is the biggest and best tournament surprise. Davies has 3 goals from open play, and that's wonderful but TBH not totally unexpected. Petrasso being a fairly dominant defender at right back - now that solves a tonne of CMNT problems!

For me Petrasso is the biggest and best tournament surprise. Davies has 3 goals from open play, and that's wonderful but TBH not totally unexpected. Petrasso being a fairly dominant defender at right back - now that solves a tonne of CMNT problems!

For me Petrasso is the biggest and best tournament surprise. Davies has 3 goals from open play, and that's wonderful but TBH not totally unexpected. Petrasso being a fairly dominant defender at right back - now that solves a tonne of CMNT problems!

For me Petrasso is the biggest and best tournament surprise. Davies has 3 goals from open play, and that's wonderful but TBH not totally unexpected. Petrasso being a fairly dominant defender at right back - now that solves a tonne of CMNT problems!

For me Petrasso is the biggest and best tournament surprise. Davies has 3 goals from open play, and that's wonderful but TBH not totally unexpected. Petrasso being a fairly dominant defender at right back - now that solves a tonne of CMNT problems!

For me Petrasso is the biggest and best tournament surprise. Davies has 3 goals from open play, and that's wonderful but TBH not totally unexpected. Petrasso being a fairly dominant defender at right back - now that solves a tonne of CMNT problems!