Who is Walter Seiber and why has CSA hired him to speak for a Women's event ?

[Trillium]

Just who is Walter Seiber, why would the CSA hire him, what is his background and conflicts ?

For those who want to understand just how the international sport system functions, the old boys network and the payments etc. google Walter Seiber, read the links .... then wonder just why we need reform at the CSA.

[Bill Spiers]

Just who is Walter Seiber, why would the CSA hire him, what is his background and conflicts ?

For those who want to understand just how the international sport system functions, the old boys network and the payments etc. google Walter Seiber, read the links .... then wonder just why we need reform at the CSA.

You asked the question but you also appear to know the answer.

Walter is well respected within FIFA. It makes perfect sense (to me) to enlist his help with the bid for the 2015 WWC.

However, you seem to be implying something untoward here. Instead of talking in circles, why don't you come right out and say what you mean.

[Trillium]

You asked the question but you also appear to know the answer.

Walter is well respected within FIFA. It makes perfect sense (to me) to enlist his help with the bid for the 2015 WWC.

However, you seem to be implying something untoward here. Instead of talking in circles, why don't you come right out and say what you mean.

http://www.shejumps.org/blog/561-pro-female-athletes-being-discriminated-against-left-and-right-this-winter

The vote in the FIS had only one member vote against the inclusion of a women’s event and has also raised some questions. Who was this one person and what did they have against the women jumping? Apparently 114 qualified people considered the sport sufficiently developed and only one did not. Walter Seiber is one man that has openly voiced his opposition to women’s inclusion. He also serves on VANOC and is vice-president of the Canadian Olympic Committee.[25] How can one man in the public eye not be held accountable for open gender discrimination? Where are the Canadian people who are well recognized for and long have fought for equality? Where is the sense social responsibility we have as members of society to speak out against these travesties? We have to ask ourselves how a sexist man was allowed to hold two very powerful positions on the organizing committees? People like Walter Seiber and Jacques Rogge, the IOC president, with unethical views and standards should not be in positions of such great power.

So again one has to ask ...who is he and why did the CSA hire him to advise on the Women's World Cup bid ?

[CoachRich]

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Where did you see that he was hired?

I know that right after the CONCACAF win the CSA hired 3-4 new office staff.

[Trillium]

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Where did you see that he was hired?

I know that right after the CONCACAF win the CSA hired 3-4 new office staff.

16 febuary 2011 Toronto Globe and Mail...page R9 . Neil Davidson of Canadian Press.... "bid consultant Walter Seiber" I extrapolate consultant to be paid, probably at the rate of 1000 per day plus expenses....

[Joe MacCarthy]

Just who is Walter Seiber, why would the CSA hire him, what is his background and conflicts ?

You've never heard of Waldo von Erich?

I don't know what you trying to imply but this guy is connected. Exactly the type of person to deal with the suits at Fifa.

Walter Sieber is world-renown expert in the organization of major sport events. He was vice-president of the COC from 1985 to 2009 and director general of sports for the meticulously organized Montreal 1976 Olympic Games that garnered high praise by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Following the Games, Sieber became the Director of la Régie des installations olympiques de Montréal and was invited to be an advisor for the organizing committees of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games and the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games. Sieber was a board member for the Calgary 1988 Olympic Winter Games; appointed Canada's Chef de Mission for the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville; vice-president of sports for the Toronto 1996 and Quebec City 2002 Olympic bids; and he sat on the board of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

In 2000, Sieber was appointed by the IOC's Program Commission to study and provide recommendations on the Olympic sport program. Since 2004, he has been a member of the IOC’s prestigious Candidature Acceptance Working Group.

Sieber is also recognized as a leading authority on the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), for which he has managed many World Cups and World Championships over the past two decades...

And if you want to imply that he is sexist, well then, he'll get along just great with Septic Bladder, he of the women should wear "tighter shorts" fame.

[CoachRich]

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Been thinking now and if this is a new hire when did the job opening go up on the CSA? Why was he hired before we know we have the WWC ? Did the CSA use a open and transparent hiring process?

[Richard]

Probably not, this guy is well known and was probably targetted. Not the sort of thing one puts out to public tender.