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    Excerpts of the following story posted on January 12, 2022 are from: https://canpl.ca/article/valour-fc-announce-update-to-coaching-staff-add-jay-bhindi-as-assistant. Courtesy of CANPL: https://canpl.ca/article/valour-fc-announce-update-to-coaching-staff-add-jay-bhindi-as-assistant Valour FC today announce the club has added Jay Bhindi to its coaching staff, while also retaining Assistant Coach & Director of Youth Development Damian Rocke and Goalkeeper Coach Patrick Di Stefani. Bhindi will serve as the club’s Assistant Coach & Video Analyst. “I worked with Jay in Ottawa and he’s since grown a lot in his career,” said Valour FC Head...

    Photo Credit : www.canpl.ca Excerpts of the following story posted on January 12, 2022 are from https://canpl.ca/article/hfx-wanderers-fc-adds-ex-real-madrid-coach-alejandro-dorado-to-staff. The Halifax Wanderers Football Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Alejandro (Alex) Dorado as First Team Assistant Coach to Stephen Hart. Dorado, who hails from Madrid, Spain boasts an impressive coaching resume, most recently serving as Assistant Coach to Rafa Benitez at Dalian PRO in the Chinese Super League. He began his coaching career as a youth coach for the Spanish...

    The following article is from Robert Glazer's Friday forward on January 10, 2022: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/heres-why-failing-prepare-means-preparing-fail-2022-robert-glazer/?trk=eml-email_series_follow_newsletter_01-hero-1-title_link&midToken=AQGgWYn8AI_qww&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=34GifzCzY8CG41. A few months back, I was invited to deliver a keynote speech at an event for a few hundred executives. Though the speech was less than an hour, it was many hours in the making.  A few weeks before the event, I joined a call with the organizers to confirm the content, my start time, presentation time and other logistics. Then, I trimmed my slide deck to ensure it matched the allotted time—my cadence is one slide per minute.  When I traveled to...

    So we have all; been on the short end of what we thought was a bad official's call, but nothing is like this treatment from the 2022 Africa's Nations Cup tie between Tunisia and Mali. The only thing that we can think of is that he was looking at the heart monitor and not his watch. Here's the update from Sports Illustrated: https://www.si.com/soccer/2022/01/12/tunisia-mali-africa-cup-nations-referee-chaos-video ...

    Photo Credit: Courtesy of Spain's News: https://spainsnews.com/rayo-vallecano-andoni-iraolas-masterpiece/ The following excerpts of the tactical analysis of Andoni Iraola's Rayo Vallecano by Thomas Harris (@ThomHarris_) from January 11, 2022 is courtesy of Breaking The Lines: https://breakingthelines.com/tactical-analysis/tactical-analysis-andoni-iraolas-rayo-vallecano/ Scour the length and breadth of Europe – maybe even the world – and you’d be hard-pressed to find a football club quite as fascinating, or quite as baffling, as Rayo Vallecano.  Known to many as the last of the Spanish neighbourhood clubs, Rayo’s famous...

    Phot Credit of David Clanachan.courtesy of www.canpl.ca: https://canpl.ca/article/commissioner-david-clanachan-awarded-exclusive-cpl-rights-to-windsoressex-county-and-to-step-down-as-first-cpl-commissioner Excerpt of this story courtesy of Canpl.ca by Canpl staff originally posted January 10, 2022: https://canpl.ca/article/commissioner-david-clanachan-awarded-exclusive-cpl-rights-to-windsoressex-county-and-to-step-down-as-first-cpl-commissioner. Toronto, ON (January 10, 2022) – The Canadian Premier League (CPL) announced today that Commissioner David Clanachan has been awarded the exclusive rights for a CPL expansion club in Windsor/Essex County. The launch of an expansion club is contingent upon delivering a soccer-specific stadium and other expansion criteria to League standards. Subsequently, Clanachan will step down as the first Canadian...

    Excerpts of this opinion piece: Tuchel Cements Control After Lukaku's Power Play from January 8, 2022 by Oisín Doherty / @O_Doherty_99 are courtesy of Breaking The Lines: https://breakingthelines.com/opinion/tuchel-cements-control-after-lukakus-power-play/. Courtesy of the Coaches Voice: https://www.coachesvoice.com/cv/thomas-tuchel-jurgen-klopp-chelsea-dortmund-psg/ Romelu Lukaku has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons this past week. In an interview with Sky Italy, the Belgian found himself at the centre of a storm of controversy, as he revealed his displeasure at the style of play and tactical approach...

    Courtesy of the Northern Tribune: https://northerntribune.ca/fc-edmonton-player-salaries-2021/ The following story by John Jacques is courtesy of the Northern Tribune on January 2, 2022: https://northerntribune.ca/fc-edmonton-player-salaries-2021/ After months of rumours, this weekend saw it come to light that the Canadian Premier League had taken over day-to-day and football operations for FC Edmonton while helping club owner Tom Fath look for a seller for the struggling CPL side. As it turns out, it hasn’t just been the league office helping FC Edmonton through its tough times. Northern Tribune has...

    Courtesy of: https://www.istockphoto.com/search/2/image?phrase=illegal+drugs Courtesy of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) January 4, 2022: https://cces.ca/news/2022-prohibited-list-is-now-effect Ottawa – January 4, 2022 – The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) reminds the Canadian sport community that the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) 2022 Prohibited List came into effect January 1, 2022. The 2022 Prohibited List and the Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes include several changes, most notably an in-competition ban on all injectable routes of administration of glucocorticoids. To avoid an inadvertent doping...

    The first Irishwoman to coach in men’s soccer, LISA FALLON hopes to be a role model for the next generation. STEPH FAIRBAIRN on Women's Soccer Coaching meets her and discovers the unlikely inspiration that showed her it wasn’t a man’s world. Courtesy of Galway United: https://galwayunitedfc.ie/lisa-fallon-appointed-first-team-head-coach/ Excerpts of the following story are from the December 2021 Issue of Women's Soccer Coaching by Steph Fairbairn available at womenssoccercoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Issue-013-Dec-2021.pdf Growing up in Dublin in the 1980s, Lisa Fallon had one female soccer...