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    File Photo: Brendan Rodgers Leicester City Excerpts of the following article by Luke James / @LukeJames_32 from January 16, 2022 is courtesy of Breaking The Lines: https://breakingthelines.com/opinion/leicester-citys-sharp-decline-under-brendan-rodgers/. Football is a relatively simple sport; it’s why it’s so revered around the world. After all, all you need to be able to play the beautiful game is an object to kick, a handful of other competitors, and some markings that vaguely hint at where the goals should be. Jumpers, if you will. That...

    Photo Credit: Courtesy of Olds College Broncos Athletics The following story is courtesy of Olds College from January 10, 2022 https://www.gobroncos.ca/general/2021-22/releases/20220110hgzxuf. The Olds College Broncos Men's & Women's Soccer/Futsal programs called upon a former ACAC foe as Allan Siwela was hired to be the new Head Coach of the soccer and futsal programs at the college. Siwela arrives in Mountain View County after having previously served two different stints as the Assistant Soccer & Futsal Coach at Medicine Hat College...

    Photo Credit courtesy of the university of Regina Cougar Athletics: https://www.reginacougars.com/news/2022/1/13/womens-soccer-astrid-baecker-named-womens-soccer-head-coach.aspx The following story is courtesy of the University of Regina Cougar Athletics from January 13, 2022 https://www.reginacougars.com/news/2022/1/13/womens-soccer-astrid-baecker-named-womens-soccer-head-coach.aspx University of Regina Director of Sport, Community Engagement & Athlete Development Lisa Robertson announced Thursday morning that Astrid Baecker has been named the head coach of the Cougars women's soccer team. Baecker, an alumna of the Cougars program, served as the U of R's interim co-head coach this season and helped lead the team to a...

    https://canpl.ca/article/canadian-premier-league-announces-date-for-2022-cpl-u-sports-draft From the CPL Media Release: January 12, 2022: https://canpl.ca/article/canadian-premier-league-announces-date-for-2022-cpl-u-sports-draft Toronto, ON (January 12, 2021) – Today theCanadian Premier League announced that the 2022 CPL-U SPORTS Draft will be held on Thursday, January 20, 2022.  The LIVE broadcast presentation will be hosted by CanPL’s Kristian Jack on @cplsoccer YouTube, Twitter,  Facebook, CanPL.ca and on OneSoccer and YouTube at 8PM ET. Following a successful 2021 draft that provided several U SPORTS draft picks a CPL opportunity, top rated, Canadian University soccer players from coast to coast will have an opportunity to earn a spot on a...

    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...