The Montreal Gazette's Pat Hickey (via @jasondevos) doesn't seem to think so. While he pithily writes that the problem with the CSA is that it's "run by amateurs," he immediately follows that with "the biggest problem may be the failure to recognize that Canada simply isn't a soccer nation."
If anything, it's the other way around, i.

Lejos debe quedar la idea de que el futbol solo es para varones , puesto que cada vez más mujeres se inclina por este deporte desde practicarlo formando equipos amateurs en escuelas, la colonia o simplemente con las amigas o porque no también con amigos.

This has to be the worst Turkish National team, that I saw in a long time...
Turkish Football instead of going forward, it is going back to 80's again!
In Berlin, Germany, Turkish National team thrashed by Germany with the score of 3-0
We were never in the game .

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It's unfortunate for Joe Cole that in the month he makes a statement about being in the worst form of his life, this ad (above) featuring him playing amateur five-a-side football is released by Nike.

Why? Well, it seems that the temptation to remark upon the status of his team (Liverpool, currently residing in the second from bottom spot of the EPL) being not entirely dissimilar to a bunch of amateurs has apparently been too much for many commentators.

Source: The Kathmandu Post

KATHMANDU, DEC 21 -
Raj Kumar Ghising and Buddha Chemjong scored a goal each to give Nabil Three Star Club's (NTSC) a 2-0 win over Friends Club and secure a berth in the semi-finals of the British Gurkha Cup at the Dashrath Stadium on Tuesday.

Hacía tiempo que no hablábamos con alguno de los amigos del blog y he querido retomar una vez más la sección de entrevistas con un gran invitado: Dani Navedo, gran blogger que está al frente de El fútbol es injusto... a veces y que destaca por ser uno de las bitácoras con más coherencia y que abarca más temas en un campo tan difícil como lo es el de la información deportiva.

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This week on the show Ginge returns with his Dynamo recruiter Brian Zygo.

This week on the show Ginge returns with his Dynamo recruiter Brian Zygo...but nobody cares about those two. Michelle Rodriguez joins the panel and shows us amateurs what radio professionalism is all about. http://www.csrnusa.com

No cabe duda que el futbol como Deporte-Fenómeno va mucho más allá y es mucho más que los reflectores y parafernalia que rodea al negocio actual, al que estamos habituados generalmente cada fin de semana más otro tipo de competiciones adicionales como la Champions League, La Copa Libertadores, La Eurocopa, La Copa América, Eliminatorias y obviamente el Mundial.

No cabe duda que el futbol como Deporte-Fenómeno va mucho más allá y es mucho más que los reflectores y parafernalia que rodea al negocio actual, al que estamos habituados generalmente cada fin de semana más otro tipo de competiciones adicionales como la Champions League, La Copa Libertadores, La Eurocopa, La Copa América, Eliminatorias y obviamente el Mundial.

Anyone who has ever had to explain a joke knows this is a risky course of action. The more detailed your reasoning, the less people are likely to laugh. FIFA president Sepp Blatter clearly isn't familiar with the principle and has decided to explain the recent decision to rule out using goal-line technology during football matches.

Chelsea went four points clear of Manchester United today with a tight 1-0 win at home over Bolton but it wasn't your usual fantasy footie suspects who did the damage...
Thousands of fantasy managers were keeping a close watch on the Chelsea match after Fernando Torres didn't appear for Liverpool on the weekend due to an injured knee.

Allmediascotland is covering an NUJ Scotland campaign to stop amateur's reporting on sports events:Says a letter being sent to newspaper sports editors, 'Kick the Amateurs into Touch' aims "to maximise the number of real journalists reporting on sporting events, particularly football matches".I'm probably a bit more relaxed than a former freelance journalist should be about all this.

For two different reasons, there were two games played on Wednesday. Since Lars Sivertsen is notorious for only being happy about doing one preview and review per week, I'll put up a short and informative (on the internet, nobody can see you trying to keep a straight face) post about these two games.

For two different reasons, there were two games played on Wednesday. Since Lars Sivertsen is notorious for only being happy about doing one preview and review per week, I'll put up a short and informative (on the internet, nobody can see you trying to keep a straight face) post about these two games.

With the World Cup Finals fast approaching here's my Top Ten World Cup Upsets that will give hope to every so-called lesser country.

A 32 year old Croatian player, playing for Mladost FC, collapsed in a county match and died.

After all these years we finally lost to PAOK.

I left this game for so late because, well, I don't really feel like talking about it. We played terrible, like a bunch of amateurs. It was obvious PAOK weren't putting all their effort into the match yet they still out played us. We played with no direction, no passion.

I remember when I was in seventh grade and played for the school's football team. We thought that we were quite good, at least in comparison with other schools. I thought so as well until we got to play against Lechia Gdansk's youth team and got demolished 0-8. Polish players may experience the same feeling after the game against Spain.

Por Sebastián Gallagher

Suiza 0 - Honduras 0
Los suizos no pudieron con la historia y se fueron de esta copa del mundo cuando realmente lo esperaban. ¿Honduras?, de lo más flojito junto a la Corea del Norte.
Suiza hace 2 mundiales que hace un solo gol, tomemos ese dato y listo.

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Robert Lewandowski and Lukasz Piszczek were finally presented by Dortmund at the weekend. Lewy will wear the nr 7 shirt while Piszczek will keep his nr 26 from the times when he played for Hertha. Dortmund's first training session ended with a friendly against the amateurs from Hoeder SC. Lewandowski scored three in an 8-0 win.

They're coming fast and furious now, MLS academy signings. Colorado announced their first today, DC United will sign their third, FC Dallas just promoted three at once to start the month, and more will undoubtedly make their way from schoolboy amateurs to MLS professionals in the coming months.

Eight days after Forest fans realised they were getting nothing to improve their hopes for the new season, the club finally issued a response to the criticism they have, rightfully in my opinion, received. But rather than Mark Arthur apologising for his public naming of targets and making the club's Acquisitions Panel look like the amateurs that they are, he prefers to treat the fans with contempt and an air of arrogance [.

We're up to the fourth of our five episodes of the 1985 BBC Scotland documentary series, "Only a Game? The Story of Scottish Football", this evening, and tonight's episode is on the subject of "The Game" itself. This episode shines, possibly more than any other in the series on the strength of its archive footage.

It's all about the computer!

This winning vs development argument always seems to revolve around technique. I discussed a bit in part I of this series how a coach can only go so far in technical development. But people talk over and over again about how our professional player's lack of technique is the biggest problem.