Dear Canadian Soccer Federation: Get your shit together!
After the ups&downs of the World Cup and the damp squib showing in the recent Concacaf Finals vs the US...you NEED to have a great Gold Cup. Believing they'd see it the same way - the day tickets went on sale (over a month ago) for our 1st home game vs a yet to be named team I got tickets for my family. Low and behold this week they annouce pretty much every 1st string player is left off the squad...no Davies, David, Larin, Buchanan or Estaquio...well that sucks (and once people found out ticket sales basically stopped) but hey we've been drawn with Guadeloupe so that's an "easy" start. Hell they don't even have a FIFA ranking as they're an overseas department of France...so book those 3 pts!
Nope. With a disjointed lineup of kids getting their first caps and 2nd string vets who looked a step off all game they put in a woeful display...and scored an OG in added time to hand Guadeloupe a 2-2 draw that their players celebrated like nobodies bid'ness. I'll repeat...they have no FIFA ranking.
On top of it the TV ads...still show Davies. It's basically how, in the same week that the new head Jason DeVos mentions not being able to play friendlies vs higher ranked teams due to the cost and being hamstrung by the multi decade CSB contract (basically sold all the advertising rights to a 3rd party), to kill all the goodwill built up over the WC cycle. It's maddening. I've lived through many decades of bad footy here...but now that we have a decent squad...they have no idea how to use it.
Now off on my hobbled leg to get shredded in my 7v7 league...hooray?