The Footie Fool

Experience has shown me that when an organization has bad news, they release it on a Friday afternoon when most newsrooms are shutting down. But the blogosphere never sleeps and there is already sizeable recation to the news that Dale Mitchell has been let go. I’ll be posting more about this later, but my kids [...]

Earlier today the CBC announced that coverage of CONCACAF Champions League soccer will be drastically reduced next year due to the current financial crisis that is gripping Mother Corp. Whether this means a reduction in the amount of coverage or a complete cancellation of their coverage is hard to tell from the story. As a [...]

A great interview with Whitecaps President Bob Lenarduzzi on It’s Called Football this morning. Now, it’s probably not news to those who are more in the loop than I that the franchise fee Vancouver paid to the MLS was $35 million – $5 million less than the (what I thought) was a “non-negotiable” $40 mil [...]

The Wandering Canuck was in Belgium recently and snagged an interview with Canadian national Tomasz Radzinski. There are some choice cuts in the article, including this nugget on his future with the MNT. Q: Have you officially retired from international football? T: No I haven’t officially. I have been approached by the CSA to see [...]

From MLS press release: Vancouver, British Columbia, will be the home of Major League Soccer’s 17th team, MLS Commissioner Don Garber announced on Wednesday. The Vancouver MLS team will begin play in 2011 at the newly-renovated BC Place Stadium in the city’s downtown entertainment district. The venue will undergo approximately $365 million CDN in improvements [...]

I have no new information to add to Duane’s post last night at The 24th Minute that “multiple sources are reporting tonight that Dale Mitchell has been relieved of his duties as head coach of the Canadian men’s national team and will be assigned new responsibilities.” Except that it would make for a super fantastic [...]

Team 1040 is reporting that MLS officials will be in Vancouver this week to announce that the Vancouver Whitecaps will be joining the MLS in 2011. The team is in Tanzania this week playing some friendlies in Africa. (which, as an aside, makes me go wtf – a USL team can manage Friendlies against world [...]

As a Canuck soccer fan, you know it can sometimes take a lot of work to track the progress of our players in all the leagues they play in around the world. To help, I thought I would share a tool that I use to help me keep track of the comings and goings of [...]