Last Laugh Whitecaps 2009 Meeting Terry Fox Mom... I’m Quitting! World Cup 2010
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Contents 4 Contributors
5 Publisher’ s Note
6 Meeting Terry Fox
8 World Cup 2010
10 Apps Family Affair
12 Last Laugh
15 Mom, I’m Quitting!
16 Stillness Scores
17 Going to Rio
21 Kid Zone | Recipe
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Lindsay Marsh, Editorial Assistant Shivan Skipper, Photography/Production Equipped with a BA in English Lit and a Sus- Shivan is a multi-dimensional photographer, writer tainable Community Development Post-Bacc and designer whose all-time soccer highlight was Diploma, Lindsay spent 3 years teaching and attending his first European match in Liverpool (vs. volunteering in Japan and SW. Asia. Her pas- Westham United) last winter from the media sec- sion for sports led her to many muddy games tion. (see June ‘09 Free Kick). of soccer with boys and girls at a children’s www.radicalclarity.com home in Thailand. www.go-mad.org.
Piper Bradley Neil Humphrey, Webmaster Anna is a 17 year old Vancouver artist who is Neil is a passionate local coach and suit in the crazy for cartooning and just a bit crazy in football community. His multi-talented skills in general. She migrates around the city in her competitive sailing and the beautiful game gave cardboard starving artist box doing art for him a compass to travel extensively around the foodand stealing your single socks from laun- world. Here at home, he consults in marketing, PR, dry machines. Internet sectors and all the latest soccer junkie info. Beware Voyageurs!
Michael Oldham Armindo Fontana Mike is a soccer journalist from Edinburgh. Much to his wife’s despair, Armindo spends most of Along with Scottish haggis, he eats up any- his time playing, reading, watching, talking, coach- thing to do with the beautiful game. He is the ing, thinking and writing about soccer. What can you producer of football phone-in radio show and expect from a guy born and raised in Brazil ?! He is presently writing a book on the MLS. also believes Corinthians is the best club on earth. www.insidesoccerusa.blogspot.com
Heather McLean Heather’s specialty is healthy and alternative vegan creations. She lives in East Vancouver.
Gil Gatchalian Gil’s passion for sports, music and news events led him to photography during the Expo ‘86 era. His sporting and editorial images have appeared in numerous local and international publications. To Gil, making images that move people is priceless.
Ingrid Schneller Ingrid describes herself as a soccer mom, goal tender and a geek. When she isn’t kick- ing around soccer balls or defending the net, Ingrid can be found writing about technology, lifestyle, travel and resorts.
*! "#$$!%&'(!! +,-$./$#!0112 P’ N Editor Carrie Serwetnyk CARRIE SERWETNYK, [email protected] FIRST WOMAN CANADIAN SOCCER HALL OF FAME Photography Gil Gatchalian Shivan Skipper elcome back to Free Kick. We hope you can hunker down to read some great stories on the Mailing Address: Suite 128 beautiful game. We are very proud to share the 1917 West 4th, Avenue tale of two sisters who have represented Canada Vancouver, BC, V6J 1M7 individuallyW on the women’s national hockey and soccer team. As granddaughters of the legendary Syl Apps, Gillian and Amy reflect on the two most dominant women’s sports in our country. Advertising Inquiries 604.551.7006 With the Winter Olympics on the horizon, our hopes will go [email protected] beyond our soccer worlds and into the dreams of our Canadian athletes. Hockey is certainly the sport that will gain the most attention. Printed by Teldon Print Media Looking further down the road, the big event across the globe is really the 2010 World Cup which takes place in South Africa next summer. We are keeping you up-to date on issues and quali- Free Kick is a free publication. It is published monthly fying teams to fire up your spirit for the unprecedented challenges and distributed to retail soccer stores, stadiums, sport- and glory that awaits us. ing retailers, communiy centers, and many pick up As the excited pulse of the World Cup quickens globally, so too locations throughout the greater Vancouver area. For will the soccer interest in Canada and more so in Vancouver as more information please contact info@freekickmag. the Whitecaps prepare for Major League Soccer. Unbeknownst to most cappuccino-sniffing, sushi-slurping Vancouverites, soccer com or visit our website at www.freekickmag.com. propaganda will take up the vacant Olympic paraphernalia by Free Kick recommends FIFA Affiliated travel and next summer and soccer fever will likely be the talk of the town. ticket services for the 2010 World Cup We took a brief look at the dramas the Whitecaps endured this past season and why they truly have every reason to smile. Publisher’s Note: On top of the obvious stories gaining attention in the athletic Why “Serving the Beautiful Game”? world, I was happy to share a childhood memory when my soccer pals and I met Terry Fox on his Journey of Hope. Of course we As a magazine we have the ability to give a much needed acknowl- couldn’t have known how legendary of a figure he would later edgement to individuals who contribute their energy to soccer. Our become, but at that moment in time as we followed and cheered mission is to serve the players, fans, parents and coaches who want information and support for their passion. on his steps, he seemed legendary to us. We are also intrigued by and wish to include ideas from the Brazilian star Pele’s most renowned quote was when he called football recent Dalai Lama Peace Summit in Vancouver. "e mind, body the “beautiful game”. !e quote speaks for itself to all those who have and spiritual stillness that Eckard Tolle described during the played soccer or admired it in the stands. It hits the mark between how conference hit the mark in his dissection of concentration and the it looks on the outside and how it feels on the inside playing it. power we can draw within to maximize our abilities as athletes We feel the combination to “Serve the Beautiful Game” matches and so much more. our ambitions as a magazine. As usual, we bring you our best effort to entertain you with our Soccerscopes, Kidz Section, Red Card Yellow Card, Recipe and Copyright © 2007. No portion of this publication may the soccer mom’s point of view. Pull up your socks, stay warm be reproduced in whole or in part, without the written and we hope you enjoy our 14th edition of Free Kick. permission of the publisher. All rights reserved. Best wishes,
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!! !!"#$$!%&'(!!!3 Meeting Terry Fox By Carrie Serwetnyk Photos by Ed Linkewich
hen I was young, I was always an avid newspaper reader. I would de- Wvour most sections, especially news, sports and entertainment. I recall reading about a young man from BC who lost his leg from cancer and was planning to run across Canada using an artificial limb. "e stories at the beginning were quite brief at the time in the Toronto Star – maybe the size of a postcard. No one seemed to take too much interest in him as he hopped through the Maritimes and across Quebec.
Day by day, I followed his travels. It was rare to hear about someone crossing our country by foot, let alone with only one. In my own athletic world, I was a young teenager on a youth soccer team in Clarkson, Mississauga. In those days, most of us stayed on a number of sport squads throughout the years, so we were all pals for better or for worse on and off the field. For the most part, we walked to our own practices, hung out until random hours, and lived a freedom few kids could understand nowadays in their extensively programmed lives. As Terry Fox entered into Ontario, the word had spread about this remarkable man running a marathon a day to raise money and awareness for cancer research. "e stories in the papers became longer and more prominent, while crowds of well-wishers lined the streets to cheer him on. I wanted to be with him too. On the evening prior to Terry arriving in Toronto, my soccer team had a party at a neighbour’s house that was being “looked after” by a thir- teen year old teammate. I don’t want to mention what beverages may have been
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involved in the festivities, I just remember side, cheering him on with our handmade you, a passage of endearment for our en- that we stayed up most of the night and we signs. We were so proud of this guy - he thusiasm and silliness, but I remember his were certainly fatigued by sunrise. Look- seemed so sweet and so innocent and it burnt nose and cute freckles and his smile ing back at how I talked half a dozen of was so incredible that he was running a so close to mine. It filled me with grati- them into getting on their rickety bikes, marathon a day on one leg right across tude. riding 10 km to Lakeshore Back on the road he went, Boulevard to meet some guy and back in the papers as his they had never heard about story grew to be legendary. by 9:00am on a Sunday We stayed with him until morning is kind of remark- we knew it was time to go, able. But I believe in our un- to return to our respective der-scheduled lives, we had homes and find dinner for nothing else to do. Without our hungry bellies. any breakfast and sport- Looking back at playing ing last night’s attire, we sat youth soccer, I can definitely alone on a curbside in Port remember some games we Credit and waited. won and lost. I can see our It turns out this guy had candy stripe uniforms and became pretty popular by there are lots of trophies the time he made it to To- somewhere in a box tucked ronto. As we hung out for away. What I remember hours, we heard there was a most is the people I grew rally in Toronto where gov- up with and the adventures ernment officials there wel- and journey that shaped our comed him as a hero. Money young lives off the field. On started pouring in with the that day, I recall it was the hopes to bring in one dollar day we all wanted to be a from every Canadian. With part of something special, to time on our hands, we creat- see someone extraordinary. ed supportive signs on pizza We had no idea this brave boxes and Bristol board. man, this vision to cross a Around seven hours later, country so large, would be the glorious icon we now see an igniting spirit, carry- in the historic photos and ing an ideal so beyond our footage came hopping into imaginations that surely we sight. He was jogging with that familiar Canada. We could only ride beside him were touched in ways we cannot fathom. skip, that smile with determination and and admire his pursuit. For me, this was the day I received a kiss pain so entwined. He wore his white t- "en he stopped to take a break at the from Terry Fox. More than that, he was shirt bearing the Canadian flag and grey van, to get a drink of water and maybe the eternal reminder that so much is con- shorts. "ere was a police escort and a van some advice from his support. I believe he ceivable if we have a dream and the guts that followed, and there we were, my team changed his shirt. And then he came over to pursue it, no matter the magnitude of and I on our one speed bikes riding at his to me and kissed me. It was just a thank impossibility.
!! "#$$!%&'(!!!5 World Cup 2010 ver since it was announced that South Africa (50 per day) is worse than singled out for particular criticism. South Africa would host the first in the United States, whose population is However, in November 2008, the SA ever World Cup finals to be held around six times larger. "is is a startling government announced that around $16 in Africa, the level of global an- statistic, especially when you consider the billion would be invested in transport Eticipation for the event has been met with amount of fans that will be travelling to for the estimated 450,000 visitors dur- an equal degree of caution. Doubts have South Africa next summer. And it seems ing the tournament. Transport Minister been raised, concerns have been aired and these worries also relate to the players - it Jeff Radebe was confident that this would sceptics have been peeking around every is believed the German national team have not only be sufficient for the World Cup, corner, waiting for something to go wrong. been advised to wear bulletproof vests if but would “ensure a lasting legacy for our But as we approach the start of a year they decide to venture that could witness one of the most sig- out during their stay nificant sporting tournaments in modern in the country. times, it appears that optimism is taking But for every prob- over. Finally, soccer can become the major lem, there is a solution, talking point. and the murder rate Doubters have argued since day one that has actually dropped the country, indeed the whole continent, in 2009 for the seventh isn’t ready for such a global showpiece. time in eight years. Critics implied that a ‘Plan B’ might be "e government target necessary should South Africa fail to pre- of crime reduction of pare in time. "e United States was moot- 7% - 10% annually will ed as one potential back-up venue. be helped with the ad- But where some saw only negatives, oth- dition of 30,000 police ers sensed optimism for a country with the officers in time for the opportunity for the greatest moment in World Cup. "is will their history since the end of apartheid in take the number of po- 1994. Just over fifteen years ago, the con- lice in the country up cept of hosting a World Cup in South Af- to 190,000. "ere are also measures being people.” Only time will tell whether that rica was unthinkable. taken to prevent bad behaviour from the is the case. "e issues and concerns that have been visiting fans themselves, and plans are in "e third major concern about South raised about the event are not without place to set up criminal courts at training Africa 2010 was simply whether the stadi- foundation. But the South African gov- sites, fan parks, public viewing venues and ums would be ready in time. Some required ernment seem as aware of these issues as at borders during the tournament. slight renovations while others were being anyone, and are desperate to overcome Another major issue surrounding the built from scratch. "e Confederations them. When the curtain is raised on June tournament, especially with the influx of Cup in June, a dress rehearsal for the main 11th, 2010, they want to be ready. a large number of foreigners to the coun- event and an ideal gauge of how things "e biggest concern is crime, espe- try, has been transport, with public services were moving, was seen as a great success. A cially violent crime. "e murder rate in and the much-criticised train system being South African newspaper, !e Soweta, said
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afterwards: “Detractors said we’ll mess it "e World Cup is difficult to put a price controversy in typical Maradona fashion up. How wrong (they were). Beside South on, and for those who win it, it is priceless. with a rant to his enemies: “I’d like to thank Africa’s hospitality, we hosted a Confed- As the final qualifying teams are deter- my family and the people of Argentina and erations Cup second to none.” mined, there is still time to wonder and to nobody else,” he said to the huddled mass of Following the Confederations Cup, only hope for all those involved. media on the pitch after the match. “We’ve two of the stadiums remain unfinished, Of course, no one yet knows what is going reached the World Cup in style, taking on and an inspection of all the new stadiums to happen; whether the tournament will be and beating a great Uruguay side and doing (which included members of the Local Or- a great success or almighty failure. But as it like real men. "is goes out to the people ganising Committee and over 50 opera- the qualifying process draws to a close, and who believed, not to the disbelievers, who tional experts from FIFA) in October was fans prepare to head to the globe’s biggest treated me like rubbish.” met with positive feedback. party, there is every reason to be excited Brazilian icon Pele, an iconic World Cup "e overall cost of hosting the tourna- about what will almost certainly be the figure, welcomed the Argentine victory, in- ment is difficult to estimate, with upgrades most watched sporting event of all time. sisting: “I always say that I prefer to beat in the country’s infrastructure expecting Argentina versus Uruguay on October Argentina in the World Cup. It’s more to top $55 billion. But the tournament will 14th gave those watching a stark reminder tasty. We who love football know that Ar- create around 160,000 new jobs in total, of exactly what is at stake in World Cup gentina should not miss the World Cup.” and is expected to contribute approxi- qualifying. With Argentina a breath away "e South Americans were not the only mately 21 billion rand ($2.9 billion) to the from disaster, their manager and best ever country who enjoyed a bit of drama in qual- country’s GDP and bring in 7.2 billion player, Diego Maradona, led the Albicelestes ifying, as the United States clinched their rand ($984 million) in taxes, according to a to a 1-0 victory and a place in their 15th place at the finals with a hard-fought study by consulting firm, Grant "ornton. World Cup. "e outspoken coach sparked Continued page 14
!! "#$$!%&'(!!!2 Representing Canada: it’s an Apps Family Affair
s Vancouver begins to brace for and made the national team lat- the Winter Olympics in Feb- er on at age 27. Gillian was called ruary, soccer will go on the up for the U22 Team at age 17 backburner from the collective during the pre-Olympic year for Salt CAanadian psyche as the spotlight sizzles Lake.” on hockey, ski acrobatics and sleds flying “It’s been interesting for me being in the down mountains. With the Games in our program and seeing the parallels and dif- own backyard, I couldn’t help but wonder ferences. Funding is a big thing. Across about the parallels of our sport to our be- the board, all sports have the same base- loved nemesis, hockey – that true Canadi- line funding. But in soccer, Canada has al- an game that seems to get all the attention ways struggled. "ere was no extra money in our country despite the crammed fields floating around. We had tremendous help of soccer kids, our mad-about-football im- from Greg Kerfoot (owner of the Vancou- migrants, and the success of the MLS in ver Whitecaps) in ‘07 and ’08, prior to the As far as Toronto. World Cup and Olympics. We were lucky players go, if you are Amy Apps is a former member of the to be paid as full-time players and live in not playing in college, you are in Europe. national soccer squad while her younger residency. One hundred percent came out Many might play in the W League during sibling, Gillian, plays for Team Canada. of Kerfoot, otherwise we would have had the summer. In hockey, all the players are "e maple leaf is so tattooed in the family 3 or 4 camps. in the NCAA or the women’s NWHL, crest that hearing the name “Apps” takes With hockey, it is an Olympic sport mostly based out of Ontario, Calgary, two us back to their grandfather, the great that Canada expects to play in. Every four Quebec teams and Minnesota. "ere are Syl Apps, an Olympian pole vaulter and years they go into residency for 6 months. two leagues – in the west and the east. A three time Stanley Cup champion who It’s always August 1st and they stay there majority of the US players have moved out captained the Toronto Maple Leafs for a through the games. It’s a shorter prep to Minnesota. In Canada, Oval Extreme decade, starting in the mid 1930’s. "eir time, whereas we were trying to mimic the has a ton of players mostly from Bramp- father Syl Apps Jr, also enjoyed 727 games European club system. "at’s why we had ton, Mississauga, Calgary and Montreal in the NHL during the 70’s. everyone come to Vancouver to train. We who play year round. Both Amy and Gillian started their ath- thought it would be better to qualify and Hockey is Canada’s major sport, so it letic careers out of Unionville, Ontario, perform well. just seems like people are more willing mixing soccer and hockey in their lives. Hockey is a lot more structured. "ey to support the game and the girls. "ey Amy, five years older than her sister, ex- know exactly the format of tournaments used to have Molson as a sponsor and celled in soccer as Gillian began donning and training times. "ey go into residency they would provide a ridiculous amount of shoulder pads and a crash helmet before and it’s flat out. When it’s not an Olympic money for the girls. After Salt Lake City, even graduating from elementary school. year, there is an August Camp, November each player got a significant amount – it Camp, January is usually fitness, and April could have been $20,000 for winning the Free Kick interviewed Amy and Gil- they prep for the World Championships. gold. "ey have things set up, for example, lian to find out the similarities and dif- All the camps are funded by Hockey Can- they have a golf tournament in Muskoka ferences between the national soccer ada. Whereas with soccer, we have no idea. every year for the girls where the proceeds and hockey programs. We might have a loose idea that we might get split to the players. "ey have a lot of have a camp in January or there might be community and national backing that is “Soccer was my passion,” explained a tournament, but we always have to wait outside the norm. Why that can’t happen Amy. “I went on to play at University and see. for soccer, I’m not sure. It’s a lot more dys-
71! "#$$!%&'(!! +,-$./$#!0112 function- You come from the same fabric as your sis- make each other better so that we get to al. It just ter, so we can’t say which one of you has the the point that we have the very best team seems that higher fortitude to want to win more, but I in the world. We know that is possible to o p p o r t u - imagine it would be more fun playing for a achieve and it’s really unique to be a part nities for team expecting to win a gold medal. of it. Not only are we defending the gold funding are medal, we are doing it in our home coun- a lot easier In terms of opportunities, if your team try. With hockey being Canada’s sport, in hockey. is always going to qualify for the Olympics that just raises the excitement even more. But they have and have a shot for a medal, that’s pretty their struggles darn exciting, more so than I hope we It must be very intense amongst team- too. I’m not say- qualify and just go. mates? ing that hockey I think it’s different though - the soccer girls have it made girls do not have low expectations. "ey "at’s the thing that makes us so good because they don’t are very high and they are very hard work- is that we are so competitive with each at all, but I know ers - and the coaches. "e “organization” other, and that’s how we want it to be. We in comparison, we has so-called high expectations, but there are all fighting for a spot on this team. We struggle. is a missing gap there. You can only do so make each other better. If I don’t make But when you much in terms of being a player to succeed. the people on the ice better, I’m not do- look at it in an- When the girls are training, they want to ing my job. I think there is a pretty good other perspective, win the World Cup and the Olympics too. understanding about that in our locker the women’s hockey Maybe when a program only has expec- room that allows us to go through it every team does extremely tations to win and it’s highly funded and day – it’s a very tight group. Especially in a well and they are ex- there are high expectations from the out- year like this, these girls are family. Some pected to win gold. side, there is an edge to winning. people are going to get along better than You can’t make an argument when you others, that’s the way it is. Not everyone is have 9th, 10th, 11th ranked team in the Gillian, what do you think differentiates the going to be best friends but at the end of world versus first or second. When you expectations between soccer and hockey? the day, we all get along pretty well. are not producing results, people are go- ing to be less likely to financially support Hockey is Canada’s sport. I think because What was it like having an older sister you, which is too bad, but that is the na- of that we put the pressure on ourselves and who was competing at such a high level? ture of it. in the locker room, and we feel the pressure from our country. Gold is what we want I am five years younger than my sister. What about the pressure on the players? and it is what we have given. I think more I always wanted to play with her but she so with hockey than soccer, there is a lot didn’t really want to play with me. Abso- I don’t know what it feels like for the more discrepancy with top teams. We are lutely, growing up I think my sister was my hockey girls, I can only imagine. "ere are in a race with the Americans and always hero and she still is. She was the person I pressures from the outside. "ey always say have been. "e other teams, Sweden and wanted to be and I watched her growing a silver is a loss, whereas a silver for the soc- Finland, they are getting better, we feel up. She had a pretty tough life and she went & cer team would be a huge accomplishment. I them on our heels. In soccer there are 6, 7, 8 through things with soccer, injury after in- know the girls put a lot of pressure on them- teams that all play in a smaller discrepancy jury. And she would fight back and never selves, especially if they are playing the US. between skill levels. give up. I think that was so amazing for me "ey want to beat them every time. to watch. And she was there for me when As soccer players, we don’t know that What is like to play with a team that has I got cut from the national team and was pressure. In 2003, when they picked off such high goals? there when I played my first game and she China to make it to the semi–finals of the has been there all along the way. It has been World Cup, no one expected that. Some- It’s my life right now. It’s an amazing really cool to see her excel in a sport that is times when you are an underdog, you can thing to go out on the ice every day among different than our hockey family. She paved
creep up and steal it. 25 other girls. We are not only fighting to her own way in the soccer world and I am
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!! "#$$!%&'(!!!77 Vancouver Whitecaps...
t wasn’t the best of seasons. We can League a year prior decided to throw the in Burnaby, captain Martin Nash found point the finger at the roster and make game and start their second string team. himself seeing red after a hard tackle into note that three veteran starters were "e end result was Toronto 6 – Impact 1. Montreal midfielder Roberto Brown, who asked to step aside to make way for Toronto won the national championships. should have left the field in a body bag the youngstersI from the residency program. Why Nutrilite would ever want to spon- way he lay motionless as he was carried off "ey also let go of their stellar Cuban goal sor such a sham is one thing. How the game on a stretcher. scorer, Eduardo Sebrango to the Montre- fell such disrepute is another. We think of With Nash out, Brown bounced back al Impact. "ere were injuries, ejections moments like this happening in far-away onto the field and gazelled into scoring and lest we forget the brawl/temper tan- countries in Africa or Central America, chances moments later. Rookie of the trum between defenders Wesley Charles but not in Canada. But it did, and it should Year, Marcus Haber, almost saved the day and Charles Gbeke in front of a sold-out leave a bitter taste in soccer fans’mouths no for Vancouver after tying the game with crowd at Swanguard Stadium. Both play- matter which team you support. It only got the best individual effort of the season as ers were later fined, suspended and forced worse for the Whitecaps. he fought off defenders to bury the ball to do an embarrassing kumbaya solidarity Two days later, they lost to Montreal into the back of the net, sending White- lap around the field holding a flag as fans in league play. "en, when the USL Fi- caps fans into a frenzy. From the outside, politely snickered. nals evolved late in the Fall, both clubs it seemed justice had prevailed, until for- At the end of the day, the play on the found themselves again tête-à-tête for mer Whitecaps hero Eduardo Sebrango field was unexceptionable, landing them the title game, striving for redemption. silenced the crowd with a goal between in a 7th place finish. How they managed to Once again, Montreal got the better of the bars with less than a minute left to find themselves in the USL Final for the the Whitecaps. Down a goal on home soil play. Monteal Impact 3 – Vancouver 2. second year in a row appeared to be On the return leg at Saputo Sta- a minor miracle. Certainly stellar dium, where Whitecaps defender keeper Jay Nolly kept their season Shaun Pejics was rejected at the alive with Luongo-like theatrics. 29th minute, the deflated blue and But the real story this year is what white never recovered. Montreal happened on June 18th in a game won the USL championship. the Whitecaps didn’t even play. "e Looking back, it can only appear fact is, up until this day, there were as bitter, bitter, bitter for Vancou- enormous hopes for Vancouver to ver until one puts the year back represent Canada in the CONCA- into perspective. On March 18th, CAF Club Champions League after 2009, MLS Commissioner Don leading Toronto and Montreal in Garber announced the Vancouver the Nutrilite Canadian Champion- Whitecaps were chosen to be one ships. All that needed to happen of three cities to enter the League was for Montreal not to lose by four in 2011. "e Montreal Impact, a goals to Toronto – near impossible club that originally joined the bid odds in a sport where cobwebs tend was long gone. to gather between the mesh. In- As Vancouver prepares to enter stead, as the Whitecaps sat in the the major leagues with visions of a stands anticipating their medals, the sold-out BC Stadium and big time Montreal Impact, former winners players coming to town, surely they and heroes from the CONCACAF must be enjoying the last laugh.
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!! "#$$!%&'(!!!7) Continued from page 9 victory over Honduras just days earlier. pean champions (and "eir less-fancied opponents, subject of a one of the favourites) Spain, military coup in June, also found reason to who will look to build on their 100% record celebrate, with the US denying Costa Rica in qualifying. Germany have not missed a to spring a a ticket with less than five minutes to play World Cup since 1950, and they’ll be as surprise or two, in the final round of CONCACAF. "e difficult to beat as ever. though they’ll be doing it with a US dedicated the win to teammate Charlie Ivory Coast and Ghana will hope to new coach after Joel Santana left the man- Davies, who was seriously injured in a seri- carry the strongest threat from the host ager’s post in October after losses in eight ous car accident the night before the match. continent, with the final CAF qualification of his last nine games in charge. In Europe, Slovakia can start to prepare games taking place on November 14th to But while the national soccer team’s re- their travel plans for South Africa, and as see who joins them. Hosts South Africa are sults may have deteriorated, the country’s first-timers in a World Cup, they will be currently the lowest ranked team to have upturn in fortunes in other areas have whet- eager to show the world what we’ve been qualified, but South Korea showed in 2002 ted the appetite. With the stage set and the missing. Current world champions Italy that you can never write off the host nation curtain ready to rise, 2010 marks the biggest have stumbled through the qualifiers, and – just ask the England team of 1966. moment for South Africa since the end of will need to move up a few gears if they "e Bafana Bafana - the nickname for apartheid in 1994. Let’s hope that it can be want to once again prove a cut above the the South African national team mean- the success that billions of people around the rest. A more realistic bet might be Euro- ing ‘the Boys the Boys’ - will be hoping world want it to be.
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7*! "#$$!%&'(!! +,-$./$#!0112 Mom, I’m Quitting Soccer... I can’t stand the coach! By Ingrid Schneller
ords to chill the cockles of myself, I’ve been prone to and-roll” approach: never a soccer parent’s heart. It’s run up and down the field bothering to get out of the too late in the season to like and yell like a yappy car to attend mid-week transfer out of the team or ankle-biter. practices. Or, assuming relocateW to a different league. And it can Whatever form toxic the attitude “this too shall mean months of troubleshooting delicate coaching takes, the clues pass” when my soccer star dysfunctional dynamics between your soc- aren’t hard to miss. Yelling, grumbles about his coach. cer progeny and the coach. "is is a zone personal put-downs, sin- But when interest in where even the most angelic of parents fear gling out players for cruel the game grinds to a halt, to tread: the emotional mine-field of coach critiques within earshot we, as parents, have to and player family relationships. of the team, or even the ask ourselves this: what is "e fall-out that comes from confront- very opposite: unwanted interfering with the beauti- ing coaches can run the gamut from chilly flattery and personal at- ful game? fieldside responses by the other parents tention. While we may not be able to unravel the to a chop in the communications pipeline “You don’t need to go for Tim Bits after mystery of coaching or pin-point the cure about game and field locations. the game.” for coaching ailments, we can provide the In the past, my reputation as a pit-bull “Were you trying to lose the game for opposite - being on a field to take practice parent has preceded me. Joining a new us?” shots. We can step into that gulf between a team or league in the fall meant nods of “You’re definitely going to need to do discouraging coach and our child the player. recognition when my name was men- extra laps.” "e bottom line? Keep on kicking. tioned. Oh, her… first parent out of the “You are really fill- starting gate to confront a coach, opposing ing out that jersey.” coach, opposing team player or oppos- Ultimately, toxic ing team player’s parent. Blame it on my coaching leads to security guard license. I’ve had the dubious reduced attendance distinction of seeing my son forced from and drop-outs. an entire league, disbarred because I had While we can’t confronted bad attitudes by the coach and always stop what the assistant coach’s son. comes out of a If you’re not a pit-bull parent, it’s easy coach’s mouth, to hover in non-combat mode, easy to feel parents can provide daunted by a coach’s authority when you a presence at prac- don’t have the same level of experience or tices and games to understanding of the game. discourage inappro- On the home front, the downward priate comments or spiral of negative dynamics can be seen but report on them. unspoken: your keener suddenly misplaces Inappropriate cleats before every game. Team photos dis- comments can be as appear from walls or table tops. Illnesses lethal to a player’s and homework assignments you’ve never self-image and heard of suddenly manifest on practice confidence as smoke day. Instead of lingering after a game or creeping under a practice, your keener is now the first one bedroom door at off the field. night. As parents, we often assume the prob- As a parent, I’ve lem is rooted in a coach’s expectations or been guilty of tak- pushing too hard. As a mini-soccer coach ing the “stop-drop-
!! "#$$!%&'(!!!73 Stillness Scores Recently at the Vancouver Peace Summit, the Dalai Lama and a number of Nobel Laureates gathered to discuss global peace initiatives. One of the discussions involved the topic of creativity and wellness. World renowned writer, Eckhart Tolle, whose book The Power of Now has topped the interna- tional best seller charts, used a soccer analogy to illustrate his thoughts on the source of creativity.
news item on the BBC "ere is simply a deeply alive still- news about soccer said that ness. And out of that stillness comes the researchers had looked power. And that power is not my power at a phenomenon during or your power, it is universal power. And the“A penalty shootout. "ere is enormous that power can either become a masterful pressure at that moment on this player, kick of the ball or it can flow into other everything depends on it. "ere are whole channels and it can be born into form. It nations that depend on him to score. It could be a cessation of thinking. At that is of tremendous importance. Not on a moment of stillness, it is not just the ab- cosmic scale, but a relative scale. Re- sence of thinking, there is a power in the searchers examined what happens when stillness, there is non-conceptual intelli- the referee whistles and signals for the gence of thinking. When we measure IQ, player to shoot. all we measure is conceptual intelligence "ose players who do not pause, who but there is a much vaster intelligence in immediately shoot after they hear the every human being that is non concep- whistle are much more likely to not score tual. Not words and concepts, you can’t than those players, when the whistle goes, analyze it, but everyone has that within something that is already prepared for it they don’t immediately shoot for 3 – 5 potentially and I believe that is the source in the world in form. So this is why some seconds, maybe more. And they become of creativity. I don’t mean that when I am researchers have found, (I read this in a completely still and then it happens, asked to go and kick this ball and score, book called Outliers: !e Story of Success and the likelihood of scoring is infinitely that I go deeply within and it’s going by Malcolm Gladwell) to be masterful greater than those who do not stop. to happen and it doesn’t happen and I at something, one prerequisite is 10,000 When you ask people for some kind of ask why didn’t this happen - I’ve gone hours of practice, then the possibility explanation, people will give some kind deeply within I’ve contacted the source of arises that the vehicle is ready to be recep- of mental or verbal explanation that they power… it’s not working. Or if they ask tive to the power of creativity.” concentrate for a moment. What hap- me to come up with a pens in that moment of going within? "e great theory of physics, attention which is usually on the desired ok, I’m going to become outcome and the pressure and attention still and perhaps the on the self “me, I have to perform” - the theory of relativity or www.shanti-centre.com attention is taken away from all that and something or the uni- there is a redirecting of attention into the fied field theory or the Our team of therapists depths. At that moment I believe, it is the answer to everything can help you with: basis of the creative process. is going to come to me. Relational Issues In football, it is the rudimentary ex- It’s not because I don’t Sexual Issues/Orientation pression of the creative process redirect- know anything about Depression ing of the attention within when you physics. So it can only Problem Gambling/Addiction touch a deeper level of your being and come when there is a Danielle Duplassie, Abuse/Trauma Founder & Director that is where all power resides. And when vehicle that is ready for Anxiety you touch the power of that moment, all the power to flow into conceptual things including the concept It could be the human 604.773.3100 of me, my conceptual self - goes. mind, there could be CALL TO BOOK YOUR FREE 1/2 HOUR CONSULTATION
74! "#$$!%&'(!! +,-$./$#!0112 We’re Going to Brazil... Twice! Reactions to (More) Big News for the Soccer Nation By Armindo Fontana
few years ago my wife and I In Copacabana beach, one hundred Olympic dream, trusting that the games managed to convince a small thousand people screamed, cried, hugged would mark the beginning of a new era. group of friends here in Van- and…started to party, of course. Well, “I left work and came here to celebrate. couver to come with us to Brazil not really. "ey had started at 9am with I hope that Brazil takes a leap in quality forA the 2014 Soccer World Cup. It was the first of a series of concerts scheduled and it (hosting the games) also helps in not that hard since we promised them for that important day. Because, you my life,” said the operator of telemarket- free food and accommodation in our know, in Brazil, when we are not party- ing Kátia Mendonca. country of origin thanks to our vast net- ing, we are rehearsing for the party. So So, now it is official, Brazil will host the work of relatives and friends down there, the real one began around 1:50pm when Soccer World Cup in 2014 and Rio the who don’t know the crowd Summer Olympic Games in 2016, giv- yet that they will heard the ing you two excellent reasons to visit the have to pay for all huge news country. If you do so, I promise you some this (so, let’s keep on a gigantic of the most fun days of your life and many this to ourselves, screen set at unforgettable memories…just not free please). the beach. food and accommodation. Well, people in On Friday, And it hasn’t Brazil are extremely warm and hospitable October 2nd, we stopped yet! and party like nobody else. Who knows?! found out that "ey Maybe someone else will offer you free we will have to should cele- food and accommodation!!!! save way more brate in style! money now that After all, it’s Rio, the paradi- not every day siacal city that that a devel- serves as Brazil’s oping country postcard, was realizes that granted the right it has been to host the 2016 granted such Summer Olym- an honor. pic Games. Can President you believe it?! Lula illustrat- Hosting the two major sports events in ed what the games mean to Brazil when, the world in a matter of two years?! according to the Glogo Esporte website, I couldn’t. It took me a while to calm he cried shamelessly as he was being down when I read the big news at work. interviewed. “If I die now it would have “Awesome! "is is huge for Brazil! We been all worthy. Congratulations to the have to be there…again!” soul and passion of the Brazilian people. When Jacques Rogue, the president of Many say that Brazil is a "ird World the International Olympic Committee, country. We need to improve areas such announced that Rio had been chosen over as education and health…yes, we have a Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago, Brazil ex- lot of hard work before us but we are a ploded with joy. Inside the Bella Center, huge country and hosting the Olympics in Copenhagen, members of the Brazilian will only help us. Respect is a good thing delegation started their own Carnaval, and today we received respect.” with Pele leading the celebration as he Lula is not alone. Polls show that 85% hugged President Lula, Governor Sergio of “cariocas” (those fun loving, samba Cabral, Mayor Eduardo Paes and other dancing, beach going people from Rio) athletes. All crying! and 65% of Brazilians supported Rio’s
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Sarah... RedCard on Soccer YellowCard Free Kick caught up with Vancouver's own singing sensa- tion Sarah McLach- lan during her We interviewed people about their Foundation concert 'night-mare' dating moments. Just for at Ambleside in West Vancouver to ask about fun., you get to be the referee in this her thoughts on the beautiful game. scenario. Does this person get a red "I played soccer once or twice in organized card, yellow card or would they be a games when I was young, maybe twelve. I perfect match for your team? just went for everyone's ankles. When I saw the ball, I just decided I was going to get it. Then I would feel bad because I didn't want He showed up wearing a French football to hurt anyone. It didn't work out, but I think jersey to my Italian parents' 30th soccer is such a team sport and there is such Anniversary party! great energy." Maria, Toronto
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"#$$!%&'(!07 What’s Your Favourite Soccer Beverage? Aries: Staring at soccer player's bums will increase progesterone levels.
Taurus: Cheering for foreign football clubs may lead to new mafia connections.
Gemini: Getting a soccer ball tattoo may inspire unwanted body kicks from strangers.
Cancer: Allowing too many defensive nutmegs may lead to cruel jokes from teammates about easy passage through your legs.
Leo: Telling refs, teammates, coaches, parents, fans and administrators to #!@*!#&*!!may shorten your soccer career.
Virgo: Picking out soccer words from your Alphagetti and Alphabet cereal will prep you up for future Scrabble games.
Libra: Smoking grass will not give you higher powers from the soccer gods.
Scorpio: Wedgieing your teammates prior to games may lead to less passes in your favour. Best to leave their underwear alone.
Sagittarius: Going offside too many times will lead to unwanted affection from the linesman.
Capricorn: Bringing your date to your favourite soccer pitch to relive past glories may help maintain your single status.
Aquarius: Shooting soccer balls at the Olympic Mascots may reduce Pre-Olympic heebee-jeebies.
Pisces: Giving the opposition the peace sign rather than shaking hands may help you to avoid the Swine Flu.
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