Support Canadian Soccer

slamo · Post edited by piltdownman at 2012-04-20 14:21:23

http://www.cansoc.org/content.php?212-charity-tickets

Moved to Canada National Team

GoF · Post edited by Blue_and_White_Army at 2012-05-06 16:24:05

Nice idea and all but I'd much rather help a local try and get to see the Whitecaps for that money and not some kid in Toronto.

#SupportLocalFootball

cixceven

Agree with GoF. Good on 'em for this, but I'd rather support a local initiative.

piltdownman · Post edited by piltdownman at 2012-04-20 14:23:38

I like the idea alot. And just because it doesn't exist here ... yet ... doesn't mean it's not something we shouldn't get behind.

Blue_and_White_Army

I'll get behind it when the CMNT gets out to Vancouver.

slamo · Post edited by slamo at 2012-04-20 15:09:06

That's a good idea too - we should see how much we can raise and see how many local kids we can send to BMO.

You know this is the Voyegeurs not TFC - this IS local!

Or I guess we can all watch on TV and mock Toronto for all the "foreign" fans in the stadium and complain that it's not "really" the Canadian team etc. and bemoan the lack of matches in Vancouver and live up to that whiny Vancouver reputation - I'd think 5000 tickets purchased by Westerners would be a much bigger statement. But that's just my opinion.

...and while we're at it Fuck Africa too!

cixceven

piltdownman said: I like the idea alot. And just because it doesn't exist here ... yet ... doesn't mean it's not something we shouldn't get behind.

It does exist here, in a certain form, kids up front. Raising some money to buy Caps tickets for them would be something I would be wholeheartedly behind.

Brenton · Post edited by Brenton at 2012-04-20 15:15:54

Well, local to Toronto, where the kids are and the games are.

This year The Voyageurs have teamed up with the Youth Engagement arm of Toronto Community Housing to send kids to a World Cup Qualifier who would not normally get to go to a game.

Great cause, I hope they do well.

EDIT: Here's the discussion thread on the Voyageurs site.

slamo

Yeah I forgot - Canada doesn't have a national team - BOO Teal!!!

Lord_Bob

Canada has two national soccer team's: the women and the women's U-20.

GoF

It's also not just the whole east/west thing but where does it all stop?

We, as a group, have our own chosen charity. Money is being asked of members to support that charity initiative, to buy Southsiders merchandise, to help fund tifo with raffles, tailgates etc, bus trips, beer tasting events etc etc.

People don't have a bottomless pit of money and back in 2009 and 2010, one of the charges some members laid at the board was that the group was constantly asking members for money for various things.

Not a lot has changed and yes, people can only give within their means, but you don't want people to start to feel uncomfortable that all we ever look for is money for various projects, no matter what the merits of them are.

slamo

Oh yeah, totally. But there are always things people can do when they have info. I bought two tickets for REB for his birthday and Koda is having his friends buy a ticket for his birthday in lieu of gifts. It's simply info - nothing more nothing less.

GoF

Nice touch by Koda. Not a lot of kids like that. You've raised a good 'un.

td04

How can they be charity tickets if the organization states it is not a charity.....................

slamo

^^more like one with too much crap around the house! :-D

cixceven

td04 said: How can they be charity tickets if the organization states it is not a charity.....................

Just like our Charitable Causes Committee is not a charity. Charitable acts don't require CRA approval!

vancouversoccerman

As for the appeal, it's coming from The Voyageurs...a separate NATIONAL supporters group. I would encourage anyone who supports our national teams to get behind this. But I don't think anyone's suggesting we do this as a group.

OldFan

Blue_and_White_Army said: I'll get behind it when the CMNT gets out to Vancouver.

That may be a long wait!

piltdownman

GoF said:

We, as a group, have our own chosen charity. Money is being asked of members to support that charity initiative, to buy Southsiders merchandise, to help fund tifo with raffles, tailgates etc, bus trips, beer tasting events etc etc.

People don't have a bottomless pit of money and back in 2009 and 2010, one of the charges some members laid at the board was that the group was constantly asking members for money for various things.

Not a lot has changed and yes, people can only give within their means, but you don't want people to start to feel uncomfortable that all we ever look for is money for various projects, no matter what the merits of them are.

Big difference is in 2009 when we had the foundation meetings we wanted to eliminate asking members for cash to cover things such as trophies, tifo, and incidental costs. We wanted to avoid the passing the hat around to fund projects that had occurred before that point.

Now all those things are funded through membership fees and the sale of merchandise. No one is forced or even encouraged to donate money to 'the cause'.

Sure we sell merchandise and put on events which have a cost to our members but we have a directive from those same meetings in 2009 to organize events and road trips. For the most part those are done with a zero profit margin as a benefit to our members.

This initiative is not even a southsiders thing but rather a Voyageurs effort. And it's not even the board, or even a board member, pushing it. But rather a general member. that said I personally think it's a good thing and personally will be buying a ticket for some poor kid who lives in toronto.

slamo

Well said and well done. We need to expose kids to Live soccer and get them dreaming of playing for Canada.

Blue_and_White_Army

FYI, a new Voyageurs flag is on sale. Three feet by two feet; $10 plus $5 shipping.

http://www.cansoc.org/content.php?217-Voyageurs-Flags

Brenton

You can probably read that script from as far away as ten feet!

dochawk

we should start a BC base Canadian supporters group, just a suggestion.

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