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Thursday 11 August 2011

List of best free live sports streaming sites



Hey everyone, people have been asking me what are the best free sports steaming websites out there, so I decided to make a list of my five favorite ones. 

I hope this helps you all out as I too have frustration with certain games not being televised.

3.    www.myp2p.eu

None of these sites require membership or credit card information.
Of course people should still support their local providers to keep the business going. But for those instances where you can’t, I hope this helps.

Thursday 4 August 2011

World Cup can be a reality for Canada if...



Image  from the 1986 World Cup


I know I talk a lot about hockey, but I am a true sports man. To prove it I’d like to discuss another sport I adore and a subject in which I’m passionate about and that’s soccer, Canadian soccer to be precise. 

It’s been 23 long years since the Canadian men’s soccer team graced an international World Cup pitch. 1986, that was the year we were knocked out first round in embarrassing fashion in Mexico.
Since then we haven’t even gotten a sniff, of the largest international sporting tournament.

Now some might argue that the reason for why we are so horrible at this sport lies in our population. Great soccer powers such as Brazil and Mexico have huge populations, but that argument doesn’t hold water, Jamaica Honduras or Costa Rica have way less population and somehow they all seem to find ways to qualify. Another argument is that we’re a winter country, well that may be true but so are Russia, Switzerland, and Sweden, and we even have more population then Sweden. The last argument is that Canada is a hockey first country, all our focus as a nation is in hockey. Again not true, we may be a hockey first nation in spirit, but in practice we’re actually a soccer first nation, that’s right Canadians play more soccer than any other sport. So why can’t we compete?!

It really doesn’t make much sense, we love soccer, we have enough population, and we’re even a fairly wealthy nation, so why can’t we find a way to translate that to soccer success.

There are a number of reasons; coaching for starters. Canadian soccer coaching is abysmal. One of our failings as a soccer nation is our arrogance.
We always have to have home grown Canadian coaches. Why? Other countries use foreign coaches, Portugal had a Brazilian coach, England had an Italian coach, and Greece has a Portuguese coach. If we do use a foreign coach he has to have some affiliation with Canada, why? It’s time we bring in a coaching staff from a soccer powerhouse that can teach our players properly; otherwise it will continue to be the blind leading the blind.

Secondly, open the purse and spend some money. We’re a great hockey nation because we train with the best from the ground up. Do the same for soccer. We need to spend money to properly train our youth with qualified coaches and good facilities.

But one of the biggest problems is that even when we produce a great player there is a great chance that he could play for another team like Hargraves did when he decided to play for England. We need more competitive soccer leagues in Canada so that our young players will decide to stay playing soccer. A lot of the time a player may quit soccer even if he has talent because of the overseas competition. While the growth of Canadian teams in MLS is helping, it would be better to have a Canadian first league that can compete with the big boys.

Now why should Canada waste so much money on soccer? Well there are a lot of potential benefits for having a competitive soccer team. Having a pro soccer league, we can add employment opportunities, business and fun to small towns in Canada. A good soccer team would increase our reputation in a global stage and the most important one for me is, Canadian pride and moral for being good at something that matters not just to us like hockey, but to the whole world.