Canada to get WPSL team?

[narduch]

Saw this on Twitter. 

Not familiar with this league. Seems to have a PDL type set up.

 

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

Judging from where some of the likes are coming from it might be the women's side of the proposed D2 league that appears to have been shelved for now on the men's side of things. We'll find out soon enough.

Edited December 3, 2021 by Ozzie_the_parrot

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

Could be related to this:

 

[_Vic_]

We have had women's teams in foreign D2 leagues for about 20 years. It's always been and still is a sh*tty solution to our vacuum in terms of developing the women's game. It's like buying your way out of a problem and acting like you're ok when you're just hiding from it while it festers.

Four of the seven members of the Swedish FA Board of Directors are women. And they weren't hired for their gender, they include the President of the women's league, the Chairman of a club and the Chairman of a district FA.

Unfortunately I think it will take that kind of political revolution here before any worthwhile change ever happens.

[narduch]

57 minutes ago, _Vic_ said:

We have had women's teams in foreign D2 leagues for about 20 years. It's always been and still is a sh*tty solution to our vacuum in terms of developing the women's game. It's like buying your way out of a problem and acting like you're ok when you're just hiding from it while it festers.

Four of the seven members of the Swedish FA Board of Directors are women. And they weren't hired for their gender, they include the President of the women's league, the Chairman of a club and the Chairman of a district FA.

Unfortunately I think it will take that kind of political revolution here before any worthwhile change ever happens.

According to wikipedia 3 different Canadian teams have played in this league in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Premier_Soccer_League

• Vancouver Angels British Columbia (2000)
• TSS FC Rovers British Columbia (2018-2020)
• Windsor Essex FC Ontario (2015)

Concacaf is supposed to be launching a Women's Champions League in a couple of years. Will Canada even send a rep?

 

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

There's a Kitchener based soccer academy called FC Berlin that has a team in WPSL that appear to play their home games in Buffalo:

https://www.berlinfa.com/

https://www.therecord.com/sports/soccer/2021/02/05/kitchener-based-fc-berlin-shuffles-into-buffalo.html

...Kitchener-based FC Berlin recently put its foot in the door of the professional-development league by expanding its presence in Buffalo, N.Y., where it will run an expansion team this spring with a roster of Canadian players. FC Berlin made its initial foray into Buffalo last year by placing a men’s franchise in the United Premier Soccer League.

The end goal, said FC Berlin director of academies Santiago Almada, is to work with the WPSL in establishing a Canadian division and transitioning to a team that would operate in Waterloo Region.

“We’re doing all the player signings right now and we’ve already signed our first four players, a bunch of Kitchener-Waterloo girls that play in the States, which is pretty cool,” said Almada, head coach of the women’s team and a player on the men’s team...

[narduch]

 

[toontownman]

Seems like a potential Canadians Womens league rather than Canadian teams taking part in a N.American one. Fingers crossed. 

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

Looks like the latter scenario packaged to look like the former to be honest given WPSL is an existing American league. Given MLS Next Pro also just got announced the CSA appear to be softening their stance on sanctioning cross-border leagues.

[Big_M]

this is amateur ball...wpsl is a league based in the states with over 100 teams...may to july then go back to your college team...womans version of usl2/npsl/upsl

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

As is the case with PDL, NCAA compliant is a better description than amateur. The website is exactly the same as the American one as far as I can tell:

https://wpslcanada.com/about-the-wpsl

[narduch]

 

[zeelaw]

Tweet from Dino Rossi about it...

 

Edited December 8, 2021 by zeelaw

[_Vic_]

Two AMAZING tweets.

Thanks so much for sharing them.

Hope returns to the horizon.

[red card]

So many fell for it including being retweeted by Sportsnet & CBC. But at least a few are putting things in their proper place.

 

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

 

[_Vic_]

Posted as damage control and marketing hype by a WPSL team owner.

Yesterday's gone.

Amen.

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

 

 

[_Vic_]

Not a fan of US Soccer Leagues or their promotion puppets and misdirection. It's NOT about NWSL.

 

[Big_M]

They are saying its a separate entity and will begin as d2 league with a goal to establish a pro division in the next 2-5 years

 

[_Vic_]

The name is the tell. They are another cheap suit who it appears will say and do anything they can. Like using our Olympic athletes to promote themselves. And throwing hyperbole and waving the red and white when at the end of the day it's red, white and blue.

Do they have CSA sanctioning for this? If they do a good question is how and why; if they don't they take the Ballon d'Stupide.

[Ansem]

Yanks sure likes to take us for desperate idiots.

The lack of CSA in this is really telling....

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

...it would be easy enough for them to issue a press release saying they have no plans to sanction this. They didn't hesitate to make clear that the only pro soccer group getting sanctioned to use THF would be the Forge in CanPL when local politicians talked about seeking other would be soccer tenants.

Meanwhile in addition to the TSS Rovers co-owner other groups you would expect to be on board if it's the same people as the would be men's D2 that appears to have been shelved are starting to tweet about it:

 

Edited December 10, 2021 by Ozzie_the_parrot

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

It definitely seems to have ruffled some feathers though:

 

[_Vic_]

When people will bite on anything regardless how backwards it is, it really demonstrates how clueless people are about women's soccer in Canada.