The Soccer Show hosted by Nigel Reed & Bobby Iarusci conducted an interview with TFC defender Doneil Henry, and with Vincent Ursini chairman of the Canadian Soccer League (CSL), where he discusses the league's legal battle with the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA). Podcast aired on April 25, 2013.
The Soccer Show hosted by Nigel Reed & Bobby Iarusci conducted an interview with TFC defender Doneil Henry, and with Vincent Ursini chairman of the Canadian Soccer League (CSL), where he discusses the league’s legal battle with the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA). Podcast aired on April 25, 2013.
I think there is a conspiracy to discredit or destroy the league. Of course this is just speculation but around the end of 2010 or early 2011 Dino Rossi had a club in the CSL and I think Rafael Carbajal was a part owner they were disgruntled with the league and left to form some breakaway league from the CSL. Talks of reform and promises on soccer development to provincial bodies were made by the CSA . I think sometime around in 2011 the OSA gave provisional approval for a new division 3 league for Ontario. Ursini returned to the CSL in 2011.
Around 2012 charlatan Ben Rycroft was already making speculations and theories that the CSL lost favor with the CSA and could lose its sanctioning. Around late 2012 or early 2013 CSA decides to implement the Easton Report. Rycroft releases CBC article with no creditable sources to testify on information given only states an anonymous CSA source (it seems like all his sources regarding the CSL are anonymous) that the CSA has cut ties with the CSL over match fixing. No official report released by the CSA or even the CSL mentions this. Month after CSA writes to the CSL that they are de-sanctioned. CSL takes them to a government sports tribunal and judge rules in their favor the league is sanctioned for one more season.
In 2014, CSA de-sanctions the league once more and CSL applies to OSA, but application rejected no answer as to why. I believe CSL has filed litigation against CSA. League1 Ontario debuts same year with Rossi as Commissioner, Carbajal as Technical Director, and Rycroft employed by OSA as Communications Manager for the league. To me it looks like the CSA will do whatever it takes to implement the Easton report even at the cost of destroying existing provincial leagues that contributed a lot to the development of Canadian soccer then the CSA has ever done. Only to install their lackeys as their replacements. Why not make it an equal level playing field for both leagues in order to allow competition to increase and bring up the level of soccer in Ontario. Instead they put stumbling blocks on a existing league that contributed a lot more to the national program then some breakaway league has.