Colin Miller: Former Canadian head coach and 1986 World Cup player breaks down the upcoming match against Morocco
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Let's take care of some price from the historic wall center. Our next guest is a former coach head and assistant with the Canadian men's national team.
Who is Colin Miller and why is his perspective on Canada vs Morocco important?
A former player on the Canadian men's national team went to the 86 world cup, Mexico, 61 caps, five goals for Canada all time. He of course called calls white caps matches for CKNW and chorus all It has been a long time, Colin Miller, but we are absolutely delighted to have you on the show and talk about this huge match on Saturday.
How are you, my friend? I'm good, Matt. It's a pleasure to see you and Mr. Price. You're right, it has been a little while, but always delighted to be back on the show and hopefully I can make sense of what's going to transpire here on Saturday.
Condolences on your other team, too. Not making it through. Yeah. I know they had a lot of fun, the Scots did, but alas, they did not get through.
They just gave Brazil two goals. It's got to drive a coach and a Scotsman crazy. They just gave Brazil two goals.
We have a heart of gold. We have a heart of gold. We drank Boston dry. Not just we, I had help in Ohio this time of year. But it was everything you could imagine with the Tartan Army. My son and I and a few friends were down at the Scotland-Haiti game in the stadium. And goodness me, guys, what a thrill it was. What a privilege it was. A wonderful atmosphere. It was just a night that we'll never forget. And the rest of the tournament, well, let's carry on with how Canada are doing.
The colonies have really had fun, like New Zealand, Australia, Canada. We've all had just a real good party, haven't we? Absolutely. We know how to do it.
Thank God the English invented this game. And if I can speak Scottish with him for a second, like a bra bit of business from the Tartan army, that's super John McGintoon is a belter. And there was good crack hat in both Boston and South Florida at a boy call.
You put that through Google translate into Scottish.
Yeah.
If only they could find a good nips and tatties place in New England. Colin, we wanted to – well, first of all, hey, before we get going, I saw that Paul Dolan, Bobby Leonard-Ducey, Carl Valentine were interviewed on the TSN set the other day. And Luke Wildman has been pushing this file and going on them for it. There have been a lot of builders of the Canadian soccer project who got it to this stage. And we're talking to one right here from his home in Abbotsford. Colin, it must be so rewarding for someone like you who has poured their life into the game to see this event and see this team and see this country getting swept up by the beautiful game.
Yeah, I think it's fabulous, Matt. You're right, the builders, the people that we were sitting around, I took my son, Ryan, to the Canada-Switzerland game at BC Place, and to the section that we were sitting in, there was a lot of alumni there, coaches and players, or ex-players, I should say, and it was just great seeing the faces and and players that had played before my time that were there as well um i i i just thought i was it was such a privilege to sit in amongst those guys because it wasn't always yeah first class seats and uh you know air conditioned everywhere you go that's for sure i remember And Big Dolly will back me up here. When I first started with the national team, you know, we used to get a pair of Copa Mundial and World Cup football boots from Adidas.
And by the end of my career as a player in 1997, I think was my last cap, we got a pair of socks. Sorry, I tell you, I got three pairs of socks. So rather than getting two pairs of football boots, we got three pairs of socks. So things certainly changed on a downward spiral for a while. Oh my gosh.
No, I mean, there was a time, Colin, where the Voyageurs were protesting outside of stadiums for Canadian matches, turning their backs. To the action. I mean, Blake and I were doing the show years ago with the loss to Honduras. And remember that to get into, what do they call it, the hex? Qualifying. The hex, yes. And we sat there and said to ourselves, okay, is this ever going to happen for this country?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–0:12
2
Who is Colin Miller and why is his perspective on Canada vs Morocco important?
0:12–5:50
3
How did Colin describe the atmosphere he witnessed at Scotland’s World Cup matches?
5:50–13:03
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What historical changes has Colin seen in Canadian soccer from his playing days to now?
13:03–22:00
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