Article plus long, mais en anglais bien sur...
et en passant si quelqu'un a l'amabilité de m'expliquer en terme clair que signifie ceci:
The board (...) fearing that an import would eventually leave and take his expertise with him.
Ouch!
La bonne nouvelle s'est que le directeur technique sera surement nommé dans peux de temps, 7 candidats ont été entendus. Je mise un petit 2 sur un canadien de la cote-ouest, un type de le genre de Lenarabazurdi.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/sports/070514/s051449A.html
TORONTO (CP) - The Canadian Soccer Association is on the verge of naming under-20 coach Dale Mitchell as coach of the national men's soccer team.
The announcement, expected this week according to Canadian Soccer Association president Colin Linford, will end a long search process that drew candidates from Canada, Europe and South America. Canada has been without a coach since Frank Yallop quit last June to become coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy. The Canadian men are currently ranked 94th in the world, sandwiched between Libya and Ethiopia.
Linford confirmed in a conference call Monday that the new coach will be a Canadian but declined to identify him. A source intimate with Canadian soccer confirmed that Mitchell is the choice.
The four final candidates from Linford's selection committee were Mitchell, under-17 coach Stephen Hart, Brazilian Rene Simoes and Argentine Ozzie Ardiles. Linford said Ardiles was dropped from the list before the board made its choice.
Linford said the board made it clear that it wanted a Canadian coach and that it wanted the jobs of head coach and technical director to be separate.
That knocked Simoes off the list, although Linford declined to say if the Brazilian was his preference. Money was not a factor in the decision in the end, he added.
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Simoes is a well-travelled coach who took Jamaica to the 1998 World Cup. Ardiles is a former star player who has managed in Argentina, Croatia, England, Israel, Japan, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.
"I will be honest and say I had a preferred candidate but I didn't present that person as a preferred candidate. I presented all of those to the board and they made the final decision," said Linford, who declined to detail whom he had favoured.
"My opinion really is just to lead the board in a direction," he added.
Linford said he believed the board had options but "decided - and they have the right to do that - to choose a Canadian coach."
Linford said that the board was "very, very adamant" about wanting a Canadian, fearing that an import would eventually leave and take his expertise with him.
Hart has served as interim Canadian coach since Yallop left while Mitchell was an assistant to Yallop. Both Hart and Mitchell are well respected by the senior team players.
Linford said the soon-to-be-announced coach "is the No. 1 (choice) because the board has said this has to be the man and we've gone along with it.
"And I think when he is announced, he will assure everybody that there's no question about his abilities and we're going to move on from there."
Mitchell will likely remain in charge of the under-20 team until the July world under-20 championship is over. Hart is expected to guide the senior side at next month's Gold Cup in the U.S.
The announcement is expected Thursday.
Mitchell, 49, has excellent credentials.
The Vancouver native took over the under-20 team in February 2002, guiding it to the world championships in 2003, 2005 and 2007.
He came from the Vancouver Whitecaps of the A-League, where he served as head coach for two seasons and was named A-League Coach of the Year in 2001.
Mitchell played in the NASL, CSL, APSL, MISL and for Canada. He is tied for Canada's all-time international scoring lead, with 19 goals in 55 appearances from 1980 to 1993.
The Canadian Soccer Hall of Famer also played in the 1986 World Cup.
He was an assistant coach to Paul James with the Canadian under-20 team in 1999-2001 and an assistant coach with the under-17 team in 1996-1997.
Notes: Linford said the CSA is "not too far away" from naming a CEO. Seven candidates have been interviewed, three of them twice. ... Linford denied that former COO Kevan Pipe, fired in November, received a $1-million severance package. "It was nowhere near $1 million." ... The CSA says the ongoing dispute involving Canadian internationals Charmaine Hooper, Sharolta Nonen and Christine Latham has gone to the Sports Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada, an independent body, for a hearing later this month. The three were in disagreement over the national team's residency program in Vancouver.