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Author, journalist with The Sports Network, CTV. Former Toronto Star foreign correspondent & contributor to NY Times 🇨🇦 rick.westhead@bellmedia.ca DMs open
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Canada Soccer’s next big bet: A true national plan for its best teenage players

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By Rick Westhead Verified
| The Sports Network (TSN) Verified
For years, Canada has produced elite soccer players almost by accident. The country has had stars who emerged from immigrant communities, private academies, university programs and the academies of Major League Soccer clubs.
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From GPS vests to baking soda: Inside the science powering Canada’s World Cup push Original

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By Rick Westhead Verified
| The Sports Network (TSN) Verified
Florence, Italy — On a grey morning in late February, several hundred coaches, scouts and league executives from across Italy filed quietly into a conference room at the headquarters of the Italian Football Federation where Jesse Marsch, head coach of Canada’s men’s national team, stood ready to talk about data. This is the language that now underpins elite sport, where data is treated as a currency and marginal gains are pursued with almost scientific obsession.
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Canada’s soccer players call for action from companies, government over online abuse Original

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By Rick Westhead Verified
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VANCOUVER – Players on the Canadian men’s national soccer team are calling on social media companies and the federal government to do more to hold users accountable for racist abuse, death threats and hateful messages sent to athletes online. With Canada co-hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup, several national team players say abuse from social media accounts, often from people who keep their identities hidden, has become a routine part of representing the country.
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