Will the CPL have a Chivas?

[Robert]

9 hours ago, Serie_AHH said:

This would be a really cool idea.  A Chivas or Atletic Bilbao (to take it a little bit further) could be successful, on-field, in a league that has come out and said it is about developing domestic players.  It wouldn't be that much more of a stretch for clubs to take that on.

The way that Jim Brennan always talks about York having it's own identity from Toronto, I think York could have been that club.  Having 9 municipalities, with large populations and their proximity to the most populous city in the country there would be enough prospects. 

All that's needed to field a team of local players is the will to do so. When I was growing up in the Netherlands there was a club in the Eredivisie representing a small town of less than 20,000 inhabitants that signed only players from that town.

FC Volendam was founded as Victoria on 1 June 1920 by local fishermen. By 1923, the club had already been renamed to its most famous denomination. In 1977 RKSV Volendam split up in RKSV (non-pro) en FC Volendam (pro), this situation is still actual today.

Being from the piously catholic village of Volendam, the club quickly joined the Catholic Football Association of the Netherlands. In 1935 and 1938, Volendam won that competition and, in the Second World War, was forced by the nazis to join the KNVB. In 1955, the club joined the professional football league, soon establishing its reputation as the Heen-en-weer club (the back-and-forth club) due to the many times the club was promoted and relegated throughout its history.

Throughout the years, Volendam spawned many talented players, such as Wim Jonk, Edwin Zoetebier, Arnold and Gerrie Mühren. The club also has an accomplished scouting and youth system, which spreads across many different countries.