Canada boasts both female and male national teams for soccer. However, only one of those teams has shown success in recent years while the other one has little to no success at all. The female Canadian National team have become a success story in Canada and their fame really exploded following the 2012 London summer Olympic games. It was the first time Canada has won any traditional team medals since winning silver at the 1936 games (SOURCE). Currently the Canadian women are ranked 7th according to the FIFA ranking and have always been successful in the World cup. They have also won multiple medals in both CONCACAF and the PanAmerican games.
When we look at the men’s team however things are not looking very good for them. Having no success other then winning the CONCACAF gold cup in 2000, the men have failed to qualify to the World Cup since 1986. Furthermore, the men are ranked 112th in the world and are behind countries according to the FIFA standings like Punta Cana and Haiti.
The failure of the men’s team can be attributed to multiple factors however one factor stands out more then others. Most of the great talent that Canada breeds end up leaving to play for their country of origin rather then playing for the country that has raised them, Canada. The most prolific example of this type of behaviour was with Owen Hargreaves. He was born and raised in Calgary however his father was English, Hargreaves was a great talent and instead of choosing to play for Canada he decided to represent England. In 2006 he was rated one of the best players to play in the World Cup that year while also receiving English Player of the year award.
A great article written by Jared Mercer called, The State Of Canadian Soccer Defectors, essentially...
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...ayed a strong role in the increase of soccer participation as 1 in every 5 Canadians now is a visible minority and with soccer being the most played sport worldwide many are bringing this sport culture to Canada. Moreover, the hosting of international events has led to an increase in media exposure that has allowed more Canadians to experience professional soccer either on TV or at a stadium. The expansion of the MLS has given Canadians a chance to enjoy soccer at their front door and with European stars making their way to NA the league has been truly put on the map and has increased in popularity and viewership. As a Canadian, one must wonder what will the Canadian sport culture look like in the future. With immigration rising and soccer gaining popularity with the general public will the “beautiful game” as it is known around the world one day be Canada’s game.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that decision makers need to change the men's national team soccer identity and culture in order to keep talent within canada. adidas signed a $200 million (u.s.) sponsorship deal with the mls.
- Opines that future research should look at the social and cultural impact that soccer has had on canada with a focus on new canadians.
- Concludes that soccer participation has sky rocketed throughout the years and now is the most played sport in canada with around 900,000 registered participants with the csa.
- Explains that canada boasts both female and male national teams for soccer, but only one has shown success in recent years.
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- Explains that the sport of soccer has overcome many changes through the years. women's soccer is considered a sport that both genders participate in.
- Explains that women's soccer was limited to gym classes, random pickup games, and intramural college tournaments. the craig club girls soccer league was established in 1951.
- Explains that the creation and growth of women's soccer in the us was a process of assembling the components.
- Explains that women's soccer has changed dramatically over the years, including a new style of the game and artificial turf fields, which are 110-120 yards long by 70-80 yards wide.
- Explains that women's soccer has developed new rules of many years. the penalty kick was introduced in 1891, which used to be called the "kick of death."
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- Opines that hockey can be a symbol of an arena where various differences and similarities are demonstrated to the society.
- Argues that hockey is a fast-paced game, with violence, and aggressiveness, but women play it differently than men. hewson mentions how boys at an earlier age are given more importance and are forced upon to play hockey.
- Explains that the hockey-youth-canada relationship isn't a natural one, since it's still predominately white. natives who were and still are the real canadians were excluded from hockey.
- Explains that regionalism is a very important factor in differentiating canada as one nation.
- Explains that both parties considered canada to be separate from each other. the story of riel, a french speaking native who executed an ontarian named thomas scott was one of the stories that led to the hatred between the two provinces.
- Opines that divisions in canadian society that expressed themselves politically as the desire for separation fed the unity of the game by fuelling competition along municipal, provincial, and most importantly, linguistic lines.
- Analyzes how quebec's political parties are seen as "separatists" and vice versa from quebec towards ontario and the rest of the "english" speaking provinces.
- Analyzes how hockey's similarities help overcome social cleavages amongst us as a nation.
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1555 wordsRead More - The Geography Of Canadaexplanatory essayAs stated before, Canada has a population around 35 million people, but that doesn’t mean that it will stop growing. Like many other developed countries, Canada has an aging population. They have a median age of around 40 years old. Canadian society is often depicted as being "progressive, diverse, and multicultural". When most people think about what kind of sports are played in Canada, one of the first to come to mind is ice hockey. Historically, Canada has been mostly influence by the French, British, and the native aboriginal cultures. Many Canadians value multiculturalism and see Canada as being characteristically
In this essay, the author
- Explains canada's demographics are similar to the united states in many aspects, but at the same time, it has a lot of differences.
- Explains the cage framework of canada, starting with its cultural aspect. canada is rated high on its aspect of individualism.
- Explains that the next part of the cage framework is administrative. canada was a british colony and received its independence on july 1, 1867.
- Explains canada's geography has its advantages and disadvantages. it is the second largest country in the world in terms of surface area.
- Explains that canada exports about $458.7 billion of goods and services a year. it imports crude oil, chemicals, and durable consumer goods.
- Explains that canada is a democracy with parliamentary government and constitutional monarchy. the constitution is made up of unwritten and written acts, customs, and traditions dating back to 1763.
- Explains that canada has the tenth largest economy in the world. it has 19 million people in its labor force with an unemployment rate of 7%.
- Explains that canada is like most developed countries in the social analysis aspect of the pestel framework.
- Explains that canada is an industrialized nation with one of the world's most highly developed science and technology sectors.
- Explains that canada is second to russia when it comes to the amount of surface area for a country in the entire world.
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1125 wordsRead More - Hockey: Canada's Gameopinion essayThe defining moment of the importance of hockey in Canada was “The Goal of the Century” in 1972. It was the evening of September 28th; the site was Moscow – U.S.S.R. In the midst of the Cold War, a game-winning goal by Canadian hockey player Paul Henderson at the end of the third period with only 34 seconds left on the clock vaulted Canada to a victory at the Summit Series and put them on top of the hockey world. The heart and character of Canadian hockey internationally began. “The exact moment of that spectacular goal has become a reference point in our national collective consciousness.”- R. Eagleson (Foreword). It was the climatic goal watched by almost every Canadian, and their pride swelled to amazing heights. Hockey is more than just a game in Canada, it is a celebrated history. Hockey is Canada’s identity. “Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inho...
In this essay, the author
- Opines that hockey should be named canada's true national sport. hockey is in the blood of all canadians.
- Opines that hockey is more than just a game in canada, it's celebrated history. hockey captures the essence of canadian experience in the new world.
- Concludes that professional hockey has a significant effect on the canadian economy and should be recognized as canada's true national sport
- Opines that hockey should be considered the true national sport of canada due to the increasing popularity of the sport.
- Opines that hockey should be considered the national sport of canada due to its countless decades of celebrated, memorable history.
- Opines that hockey is a vital part of canada's history, distinguished by achievements and challenges.
- Opines that hockey is more than a game to canadians.
- Explains leacock, stephen. quote garden, "quotations about hockey." last modified september 9, 2010.
- Describes thestar's best-ever business year highlighted by record revenue.
- Explains forbes' "nhl team evaluations: #1 toronto maple leafs." forbes lists 2006/31/biz_06nhl_toronto-maple-leafs_312012.
- Explains that the air canada letter to the nhl is itriguing. the article was last modified march 10, 2011.
- Analyzes the nhl's "best-ever business year highlighted by record revenue." last modified april 13, 2011.
- Explains the nhl in winnipeg: the economic impact.
- Cites condotta, bob, the seattle times, "us-canada hockey game most-watched sporting event in canadian history."
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1422 wordsRead More - Media Coverage Of Women's Sportsopinion essayWhen it comes to women's sports and popularity in the 21 century it has been little progress made toward gender equality for woman sports, now in the 21 century more kids and adults know who some of these females athletes are but as far as media coverage goes for female athlete are in the shadows of the male athletes dominance and the tradition that males developed in sport due to what gender establish athletics first, because women sports were brought up years after men athletics had been established.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that there has been little progress made toward gender equality for women's sports in the 21 century.
- Opines that even though progress was made in the appreciation of women's sport, the media coverage is still treating women sports as if we were still in 19th and 20th century not televising the big moment in female athletic
- Analyzes how women's sport is still ignored even with the rise in ticket sales. the lady bears are 24-2 overall, 13-1 in big 12 play, and sit one game behind texas for the conference lead.
- Explains that the lady bears drew a larger crowd in their home opener against houston baptist university than the men did against oral roberts university.
- Explains that the lady bears have played 10 games this season against ranked opponents. only two of them, at tennessee and a home game against oklahoma, have been broadcast on the espn family of networks.
- Opines that female athletes in the 21st century never were as popular as men sports, but they have gained some of the respect and recognition for their performances in their sport.
- Opines that the media coverage for female athletes doesn't promote anything close to and action shots where the female athlete is fully dressed and focus on coming out victorious in their sport.
- Analyzes how sports illustrated portrays female athletes completely nude holding equipment pertaining to the sport of the athlete or partially naked wearing bathing suits in sexual provoking poses that portray that sex is more important than portraying the athletic woman image on the cover of magazines
- Analyzes how the information about the female athlete's personal life has nothing to do with her career milestones, upcoming game, season stats.
- Explains that even if one wanted to participate in a sport, it would have to be very lightly active movement because of the assumption that females couldn't endure regress activities without fainting due to their poor fitness level, which ultimately caused people to think less of female athletics overall and that
- Opines that women's sports are a waste of time because they aren't supposed to be playing sports because of the original stereotypes that woman are too feminine and easy going to actually be dominating figures in their sport.
- Opines that the lack of coverage of women's sport is due to not enough people like the game to push for more broadcast games.
- Opines that the low coverage numbers are due to a number of ratings and the amount of revenue women sports bring to the television station broadcasting.
- Explains that stereotypes are constructed because of what is portrayed by the media. women athletes have to decide if they should conform to the stereotype and become whatever society has set for women or become their own individual.
- Explains that women's sports get about 4% of media coverage on television, which isn't a lot because of that split between all levels of sport in female athletics.
- Argues that women sports have to split a television station with other television shows or games will even be partially aired to allow the channel to cover other games.
- Opines that women's sport jumped in popularity in the 21st century and the number of female participants is over 500%. sports media coverage is still at an all-time low.
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1641 wordsRead More - Researching Profit of Pro Football in Ottawaopinion essay1. ENDICOTT, SCOTT. The Ottawa Citizen, Wednesday, 8 March 2000. Realism revives hope for Riders
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- Explains that the best articles concerning the possibility of a professional football team here in ottawa have been found in newspapers.
- Argues that a canadian owner would be appreciated better, and hold an image with the community. the article makes humorous comments about the poor leadership displayed by previous owners.
- Opines that stats canada and the cfl will provide a more generalized conclusion once combined with the survey results.
- Explains that by comparing the existing cfl teams attendance, an average will be calculated in order to assume a typical forecast.
- Explains that 1.6% of the population over 15 played football in 1998, based on the 387 thousand football players in canada over the age of 15.
- Explains that the average annual attendance for a cfl team is 223,168.
- Explains that in order to calculate the break-even point for the possible new rough riders, we must first examine the total costs and expenses of owning the team.
- Analyzes how the 1998 grey cup game drew 3.06 million viewers, up 20.5% over 1997, based on the $20.91 average ticket price.
- Opines that the future of professional football in ottawa was not favorable to eager investors. the salary cap amount chosen for the break even analysis was the maximum allowed by the league.
- Opines that a discount for amateur football players could be offered to increase the demand.
- Opines that cfl looks south for new ottawa franchise owner.
- Explains that the rough riders were a professional football team in ottawa between 1876 and 1996. the team was revoked by the canadian football league (cfl).
- Explains that the ottawa rough riders were financially collapsed in 1996 after a series of deficits and losses began in the mid-eighties.
- Analyzes how the cfl has changed since the ottawa rough riders' departure in 1996, and explains how those changes would benefit a profitable situation.
- Explains that the questionnaire was comprised of nine questions, mostly yes or no type answers. the purpose was to create a questionnaire that would not appear long and annoying to individuals.
- Explains that the salary cap refers to the maximum each team is allowed to spend ($2.5 million a year) on personnel including coaches, players, and trainers. the capital generated from ticket sales would account for the franchise's total revenue.
- Opines that the research lacked in terms of testability. the sample size is really small in order to eliminate the margin of error.
- Opines that realism revives hope for riders. casey, tom, leroux, jacki, and murray, caroline.
2513 wordsRead More - Women in Professional Sportsopinion essayWomen are becoming a bigger part of the professional sports world. The number of professional sports for women is growing at a very fast rate. Right now though, the comparison of women's professional sports to men's professional sports still varies greatly. For example, men's professional sports range from wrestling to football to skateboarding. Women on the other hand, do not have the opportunity to participate in these professional sports. But this is changing quickly. Women are beginning to receive the same opportunities in sports as men.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that the 1972 education amendment to the civil rights act, title ix, allows women to participate more than ever in the sports world.
- Explains that women are becoming a bigger part of the professional sports world, but the comparison between women's and men’s sports varies greatly. women are beginning to receive the same opportunities in sports as men.
- Explains that television, radio, and written broadcasting of women's sports are at a great disadvantage compared to men.
- Opines that men get paid four times as much as women do in professional sports. this is unfair, especially since women are more dedicated to playing the sports than receiving money for it.
- Concludes that women are rising to the challenge of making women's professional sports just as important, if not more, than men. it has been a long travel to reach such heights, but one well worth it.
437 wordsRead More - IS - Essay 2analytical essayCanada’s foreign policy intent was limited because of deployments that kept the military from being unequipped and becoming a high power. They are only put into conflicts that they are able to control the environment. During this time, Canada’s military had little capabilities. They were not known as a world power. Even though they were not as powerful as most countries, they wanted to take on a role as a middle power which was good for them.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how robert w. murray and john mccoy's article, "from middle power to peace builder: the use of the canadian forces in modern canadian foreign policy," explains how canada went from being a middle power force to becoming an active force in peacebuilding.
- Explains that canada's foreign policy intent was limited because of deployments that kept the military from being unequipped and becoming a high power.
- Analyzes how murray and mccoy discussed the security of having a middle power foreign policy and why it is bad to have co-peace-building foreign policies.
- Analyzes how murray and mccoy define national security by discussing how canada strives to become a super power and the influence of the united states on canada.
- Opines that while canada continues to grow on an international level, a deeper look at their foreign policies is necessary.
- Explains that canada's goal of becoming a dominant country on an international level was to help establish world policies, which consisted of orderly adjustment, peace, and order.
- Analyzes how canada's involvement in afghanistan showed that they were not ready to become a high-power country. they used their security to build the foundation of their foreign policies.
- Analyzes how murray and mccoy talked about how the change in foreign policy affected canada's economy and military. they were considered weak links and didn't benefit from their plan.
- Analyzes how murray and mccoy discussed canada's involvement in afghanistan and how it showed canada that their policy was ineffective.
- Explains that canada changed its foreign policy to peace building after 9/11, and set forth a new form of military approach in afghanistan.
- Analyzes how murray and mccoy discussed facts and gave a history timeline on how canada’s change of foreign policy was not effective and how it hindered the country.
- Analyzes the murray and mccoy article, from middle power to peace builder: the use of canadian force in modern canadian foreign policy.
1113 wordsRead More - Our Biased Culture is Hindering Women in Sportsanalytical essayAlthough women have been given so many freedoms in this field, it is the social aspect, the audiences of sports, the people of our biased culture that is now hindering women who wish to be known as athletes and competitors. Our culture is filled with deeply imbedded ideas about power and strength and competition being masculine qualities, and for women to want to embody these things is confusing and goes against our unconscious stereotypes about the abilities and attributes of men versus women. The acceptance of women in sports becomes not a matter of ability of talent in their field, but rather is based on ways women can be what is considered by our culture to be feminine while they play their sport. If a woman can still be what the average person thinks of as a woman while also displaying talent, her "masculine" attributes can be more accepted by the audience and so the woman is more accepted.
In this essay, the author
- Argues that our biased culture is hindering women in sports. title ix has allowed teams of girls for almost every sport as well as better opportunities for sports scholarships to college and many other privileges only given to boys.
- Argues that women's acceptance in sports is not a matter of ability of talent in their field, but rather based on ways women can be what the average person considers as feminine while they play their sport.
- Explains the stigma of strong women as masculine, base, not as good and pure a character as more demure, quiet, passive women.
- Explains how prejudices can be unconscious but still very apparent in the field of sports. sports have been present in cultures from which ours derives for centuries.
- Analyzes how women have tried to gain acceptance while still playing their sport by balancing their femininity with their culturally masculine traits. the movie blue crush shows how desperately many women try to be accepted as likable people who are also athletes.
- Opines that culture and social mores rarely take into account freedoms of the individual and the choices individual make. it may take time for these desires to be acceptable by our society.
982 wordsRead More - The Lack of Women's Sports Coverageopinion essayThroughout history, women have had to struggle for equality in all elements of our society, but no where have they had a more difficult time than in the area of athletics. Sports is a right of passage that has always been grafted to boys and men. The time has come for our society to accept women athletes and give them the attention they deserve.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes the lack of coverage of women's sports by television stations, newspapers, and magazines.
- Opines that sports is a right of passage that has always been grafted to boys and men. it's time for society to accept women athletes and give them the attention they deserve.
- Explains that professional women's sports haven't been around too long, although it does have an extensive history and root system. vasser became one of the first women colleges in the united states.
- Describes how gertrude elderly became the first woman to swim the english channel freestyle in 1926.
- Opines that women's sports have been around for some time and are continually increasing in popularity. however, production quality is uneven and behind that of men’s games.
- Explains that the national basketball association signed a three-year sponsorship deal with marketers including coca-cola, general motors corp., and lee jeans trusting the nba could bring forth compelling sports entertainment to market women.
- Opines that there is not much room for women's games on the networks, and advertisers are not convinved that the way to reach them is through their sports.
- Opines that networks and journalists have the power to choose to cover women's sports more, and they choose not to.
- Explains that the most popular sporting event in march is "march madness," which is the ncaa championship.
- Explains that magazines like shape, sports traveler, and fitness have not covered women's sports or athletes, but rather the fitness of women.
- Explains that parents today are the first generation to fully and whole-heartedly support their daughters as athletes.
- Opines that women's sports are played too early in the evenings, which is when most people are coming home from work or eating dinner with their families.
- Opines that women's sports journalism and media coverage, like the best suff about male athletes, will tackle the psychology, sociology, and physiology of sports.
- Cites kort michele, cynthia lucias, and benita fitzgerald. "no flash in the pan: seven reasons why women's sports are here to stay."
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