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Sunday’s Canada-Panama preparatory duel, which was to take place in Vancouver, was canceled just hours before the planned kick-off. The reason was a strike by home players.
According to AFP, Canadian players do not agree with the wording of the new representation agreement, which was presented to them by the association. The last proposal was given on Thursday, the staff clearly rejected it. Negotiations on a collective agreement between the leadership of the Canada Soccer Federation and the national team have been dragging on since March.
“Negotiations have been going on for an unnecessarily long time. Canada Soccer officials have been waiting until June 2 to give us an ‘archaic’ offer. The Secretary-General and the President of the Union were available to us for the first time until June 4. For these reasons, we have decided not to enter the match with Panama. “The time has come for us to stand up for the future of Canadian football,” members of the Canadian national team said in a joint statement. They also criticized the contract, which in 2018 concluded a union with its business partner Canadian Soccer Business.
After 36 years, the Canadians qualified for the World Cup, in Qatar they will present themselves in the F-group together with Belgium, Croatia and Morocco. The players demand that the national team receive the same rewards for the matches as the men. They also demand that Canadian players receive part of the bonuses for the promotion of the men’s national team at the World Cup 2022 and that the development of the women’s competition there be accelerated.
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