Canadian soccer has become a fight about money, just as people are starting to watch
You know one thing that everyone in Canadian soccer has become world-class at in the past few years? Releasing statements. Canada is the Argentina of soccer statements.
“There’s not really words to describe how it feels to be here,” Canadian player Janine Beckie told TSN over the weekend.Canadian soccer’s endless, low-boil civil war over money isn’t new. Players have been grumbling about funding for years. For some reason, it always comes down to plane tickets. This time around, the stickiest concrete example given of how Canada Soccer cheats the women’s team was that Beckie once had to pay for her own airline upgrade to premium economy.
Second, beyond basic necessities, we are all owed the same thing in our professional lives – whatever we can negotiate. Canada Soccer is to blame for letting it get to this because its No. 1 job is making sure things never get to this.
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