Mitchell hopes to remain with national team

[The Ref]

quote:Originally posted by LMW

You would be wasting your time. The CSA does not care about soccer and the fans in this country. When 2012 comes around, Canada will have a similiar record like the one we have now. The only way to stop this from happening is to contact youth soccer, businesses, the pro players and tell them to boycott the CSA. This means DO NOT give any money to this organization. Stop being nice to the CSA. THEY HAVE TO GO!! They are a RECREATIONAL SOCCER ORGANIZATION. A new soccer organization has to be started. Time to get vicious and declare total war on the CSA. No more Bulll****e. This is the only way to get what people want on this board. Proper development and a team we can be proud of in the future.

As much as I agree with you about the CSA, wouldn't youth soccer clubs need to start not being associated with their respective provincial associations who are the ones paying the fees to the CSA? I believe there might be some adult leagues who do not belong to provincial associations already because they get nothing in return. Perhaps we as Voyageurs (once a formal organization) could negotiate with an insurance company on behalf of a large group of youth clubs to provide for liability and medical expenses to the kids as they would be losing this benefit if they margin themselves from Provincial orgs. Similar insurance negotiation will need, albeit temporary, arranged for referees as well. As an aside point, do we need provincial associations at all? What is the magic that causes some arbitrarily geographical need to satellite (redundant?) associations.

[VPjr]

quote:Originally posted by The Ref

Perhaps we as Voyageurs (once a formal organization) could negotiate with an insurance company on behalf of a large group of youth clubs to provide for liability and medical expenses to the kids as they would be losing this benefit if they margin themselves from Provincial orgs. Similar insurance negotiation will need, albeit temporary, arranged for referees as well. As an aside point, do we need provincial associations at all? What is the magic that causes some arbitrarily geographical need to satellite (redundant?) associations.

The whole insurance issue is a red herring. So many clubs are led to believe they need the provincial assoc. because they could not simply go out and get their own insurance when in fact, they most certainly can.

Look at SAAC in Ontario. They have their own insurance. Look at all the unsanctioned clubs in Ontario with as few as 200-400 registered players...they all have their own insurance. It's not hard to get. I could make two or three phone calls and get the name of a broker who would happily insure all the soccer clubs in Canada, one by one.

I am astounded that the biggest clubs in Ontario (like Oakville, with 10,000+ registered players) would not negotiate their own insurance deal and opt out of the OSA deal.

Realistically, the biggest clubs in provinces like Ontario, Alberta, BC and possibly Quebec, don't really need their provincial associations. they just need to get organized. but that is easier said than done