It also should be noted that the entirety of Canada's recent success in soccer came off exclusively from the backs of the WNT. If Herdman doesn't get hired and remake the program into winners, then we don't have him invariably getting hired to do the same thing to the MNT, leading them to their first World Cup birth in generations.
The fact of the matter is that the CSA are effectively using the WNT as mules and expecting them to capitulate to their statements about being poor, when they are nowhere near that. The MNT knows that too, considering the rumors just last month about Herdman bolting from the team, and the (AFAIC, still ongoing) spat between Alphonso Davies and the CSA. They're in full support of the WNT in this considering a rising tide lifts up all the boats. In fact, about the only thing that the leadership of the CSA one could consider a good thing is the realization (and indeed, push) to give Canada it's own professional leagues for men and women, considering 95% of MLS/USL sides only really care about the development of their own, American players, and that there are large swaths of Canada that have no real soccer presence, or absolutely could use more teams then just the one (Vancouver/GTA/Montreal) MLS side.
But of course, nothing will really change unless the feds put the fear of god into the CSA like they are currently doing with Hockey Canada. The CSA will simply sweep it under the rug because they believe they can still operate like it's 2003 and no one gives a shit about soccer in this country.
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