Interviews: The Vince Ursini Interview
Posted on Monday, August 23 @ 08:58:25 EDT by rhi |
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A soccer in the veins memoir of low budget life in Canadian pro soccer. Ursini, the torch carrier for Canada's only professional soccer league, opens up about the CSA, the A-League, the owners and why we need the CPSL.
The conversation took place between CPSL chairman, Vince Ursini, and Nuke Soccer webmaster, Saul Markowicz.
It is the Canadian Professional Soccer League, the CPSL. But is it Canadian and is it professional?
Yes and yes.
All your teams are from Ontario. Shouldn't it really be the Ontario Professional Soccer League?
I'm very comfortable with the name. Not as a description of where we are right now but of where the league plans to be. And it plans to be a division two, multi-provincial and, eventually a Canada wide league.
With regards to being professional, yes we are a professional league. We have players that are being paid. Unlike having an amateur league with no one being paid or with some being paid under the table. There are also players in the CPSL not receiving money. More importantly, the CPSL structure allows youth to play up in the league and to maintain their amateur status.
However, I believe we should all work towards a goal of, one day, players playing in this country professionally and being able to make a living at it. We are still far from it, but that's ideally where we want to go.
Read the complete interview here.
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