Jesse Marsch

But the passion project that I've had since I've been here is building the sport in the

And soccer is widely talked about in Canada as the highest played sport by youth, but it doesn't always translate to the higher levels because the overall infrastructure and then development paths haven't been ironed out.

And it starts a lot with what we've

uh been lacking as a federation so with kevin blue the secretary general with peter agruso the president of of canada soccer you know our vision is to build an infrastructure everything from a training facility to to more robust youth teams and programs and to also build a style of play like an identity of the way we want the game to be

And I'll be honest, guys, we've used Canada hockey in so many ways as the beacon of what we can achieve in this country.

So we're not trying to take this country away from being a hockey country.

We all know how passionate everyone is about the sport here.

But we do think that along with basketball,

Soccer can continue to grow and we can really use the athletic qualities that we have of the kids and of the youth and really start to build something that can be sustainable and very successful for the future.

So that part is really exciting.

There's a lot of people in the communities that I think really want to work together and help the sport grow.

And we just want to channel everybody's energies in the right way so that we can give our kids the best chance to be great.

Yeah, well, look, when we get to the knockouts, right?

All right, guys.