I was listening on the podcast. The ad featuring JC and Wonger talking about Forest fit in very nicely with the interview. Didn’t realize it was an ad till the end of
In other NSL news (for those interested in such things) Three days ago, NSL Vancouver qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF W Champions Cup, when the Whitecaps girls elite team repeated as League 1 Canada inter-provincial women's champions, in Hamilton. The Whitecaps recently signed several professional players of NSL-caliber, to bolster their League 1 side, in preparation for their 2024 CONCACAF W Champions Cup debut tomorrow, away to El Salvador's Alianza Women. At least some of those player are expected to be among NSL Vancouver's first signings. If the Whitecaps beat Alianza tomorrow, they advance to the tournament's group stage, which includes hosting the NWSL's Portland Thorns and San Diego Wave. Those high-profile games will likely be used to help kick start the NSL Vancouver build up to next season.
@@JeffDSalisbury Yeah, it's too bad more people didn't watch that game. I suspect many tuned in, but then turned it off when they saw the terrible picture quality. If NSL wants a lesson in how NOT to produce a game, they should watch that stream on the OneSoccer website or RUclips channel.
Brilliant!!!! Bravo!!!! Finally!! Thank you, everyone. I will be your biggest champion, and want the NSL to flourish. Ready to buy merch, buy game tickets, and spread the word in my community.
I can't help it. Will drones be allowed in this league? Asking for a friend. Yes, it is in poor taste, but as an American, I'm living down to our reputation. As a stinking foreigner, where will the players come from? I know that many Canadian NWSL players came through the US college system. Things are changing. I assume that the NSL would need to have other pipelines to fill their rosters.
This league is long over due and that may be it's downfall as they are way behind other leagues. There are a few major women's football news stories that made me pause to figure out what's going on. The first is the million $ contract of the Zambian player joining the NWSL. So I'm pretty sure this league isn't going to be able to compete with contracts that size, so then is this league asking local players to sacrifice their salaries just to play at home. Next is Michele Kang who owns 3 womens football clubs. From some brief investigation her main objective 'seems' financial, but she's also bringing some fantastic innovations to the womens game, ie cleats specifically designed for women's feet, and trying to prevent ACL injuries in women. Again I don't know if a team in this league would be something she'd be financially interested in, but her innovations to the womens game sure looks interesting. The last hurdle this league will have to over come is operating costs. We had the women's hocky league that folded because of that issue and this is a hockey nation. It'll be interesting to see how a football league survives. Good luck to all those involved. PS don't hire anyone from the CSA... lmfao.
@@dolphmanity Not sustainable for owners as nobody wanted to pay the US$50m franchise fee. MLSE said no in past few yrs. Caps have said no a few times in the past decade.
Also the centre of the sport slowly moving to Europe (which has those global, prestige established brands; e.g. Arsenal, Barcelona, etc.); as well as just the travel of east-west (a lot of the Northeast American cities are around just an hour flight away from Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax whereas Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton are much further); also the US has not only Spanish-speaking parts (Florida, Texas, California) but parts in those areas that are also culturally Latin American. If you're a French-speaking North or West African player, not only does France have larger diasporas of those communities, it's also way geographically closer to home (as opposed to Quebec or Ottawa); and the fact the PWHL and WNBA (when it comes) are both the best leagues for their respective sports in the world for women. Realistically (although I applaud the ambition and "shoot for the stars mentality") I think this league caters to young player development (i.e. players who would either wise be playing high school/university or U Sports graduates) and players in their mid/end of career who want to return home to raise kids and/or be back around family and friends.
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I was listening on the podcast. The ad featuring JC and Wonger talking about Forest fit in very nicely with the interview. Didn’t realize it was an ad till the end of
Excellent podcast
In other NSL news (for those interested in such things)
Three days ago, NSL Vancouver qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF W Champions Cup, when the Whitecaps girls elite team repeated as League 1 Canada inter-provincial women's champions, in Hamilton.
The Whitecaps recently signed several professional players of NSL-caliber, to bolster their League 1 side, in preparation for their 2024 CONCACAF W Champions Cup debut tomorrow, away to El Salvador's Alianza Women. At least some of those player are expected to be among NSL Vancouver's first signings.
If the Whitecaps beat Alianza tomorrow, they advance to the tournament's group stage, which includes hosting the NWSL's Portland Thorns and San Diego Wave. Those high-profile games will likely be used to help kick start the NSL Vancouver build up to next season.
Mont-Royal Outremont took them to penalties, too. Game could have gone either way.
Hopefully the Caps get the job done tomorrow in El Salvador.
@@JeffDSalisbury Yeah, it's too bad more people didn't watch that game. I suspect many tuned in, but then turned it off when they saw the terrible picture quality. If NSL wants a lesson in how NOT to produce a game, they should watch that stream on the OneSoccer website or RUclips channel.
Brilliant!!!! Bravo!!!! Finally!! Thank you, everyone. I will be your biggest champion, and want the NSL to flourish. Ready to buy merch, buy game tickets, and spread the word in my community.
Shots when “toil” is said
I can't help it. Will drones be allowed in this league? Asking for a friend. Yes, it is in poor taste, but as an American, I'm living down to our reputation. As a stinking foreigner, where will the players come from? I know that many Canadian NWSL players came through the US college system. Things are changing. I assume that the NSL would need to have other pipelines to fill their rosters.
This league is long over due and that may be it's downfall as they are way behind other leagues. There are a few major women's football news stories that made me pause to figure out what's going on. The first is the million $ contract of the Zambian player joining the NWSL. So I'm pretty sure this league isn't going to be able to compete with contracts that size, so then is this league asking local players to sacrifice their salaries just to play at home.
Next is Michele Kang who owns 3 womens football clubs. From some brief investigation her main objective 'seems' financial, but she's also bringing some fantastic innovations to the womens game, ie cleats specifically designed for women's feet, and trying to prevent ACL injuries in women. Again I don't know if a team in this league would be something she'd be financially interested in, but her innovations to the womens game sure looks interesting.
The last hurdle this league will have to over come is operating costs. We had the women's hocky league that folded because of that issue and this is a hockey nation. It'll be interesting to see how a football league survives.
Good luck to all those involved.
PS don't hire anyone from the CSA... lmfao.
Canadian franchises joining the NWSL would be more sustainable.
@@dolphmanity Yeah that was considered but the NWSL doesn't have a mandate to select Canadian players which is what this league wants to do.
@@dolphmanity Not sustainable for owners as nobody wanted to pay the US$50m franchise fee. MLSE said no in past few yrs. Caps have said no a few times in the past decade.
Also the centre of the sport slowly moving to Europe (which has those global, prestige established brands; e.g. Arsenal, Barcelona, etc.); as well as just the travel of east-west (a lot of the Northeast American cities are around just an hour flight away from Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax whereas Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton are much further); also the US has not only Spanish-speaking parts (Florida, Texas, California) but parts in those areas that are also culturally Latin American. If you're a French-speaking North or West African player, not only does France have larger diasporas of those communities, it's also way geographically closer to home (as opposed to Quebec or Ottawa); and the fact the PWHL and WNBA (when it comes) are both the best leagues for their respective sports in the world for women.
Realistically (although I applaud the ambition and "shoot for the stars mentality") I think this league caters to young player development (i.e. players who would either wise be playing high school/university or U Sports graduates) and players in their mid/end of career who want to return home to raise kids and/or be back around family and friends.