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There are plenty of young people who finish their BA, have debt and decide to go abroad to do internships in developing countries for next to no pay.  I would think of it as the same for footballers.  You need a sense of adventure, willingness to take a risk and an understanding that you are earning a meager living for the next year or more.  The payoff is that it gets you experience, and it might lead to something more sustainable.  If not - you took a chance, you are set back financially from if you stayed home, and you go back to living with your parents looking for that desk job that allows you to comb through Voyageurs forums on Monday mornings.  

Man you go deep

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Looks like Stephen Eustaquio is set to be transferred to GD Chaves who are currently 7th in the Portuguese first division. 

I'd like to order 10 of those please.

Man, I think you're giving this whole division 1 idea way too much emphasis. Sao Tome e Principe has a Div 1 and I'd take a confident guess that it's not USL quality. D1 doesn't mean it isn't developmental league where local players (and coaches) can continue to grow in hopes to make it to a larger leagues. Div 1 just means the top of that countries pyramid.
 
@Cheeta summed it up nicely on another board (sorry I donno how to do cross-board quoting)
"If there are 100 paying jobs as Canadian footballers available out there in the CPL that's 100 jobs ambitious youth players can spend a few years chasing their dream.  They have a reason to stick with this playing footie at the best level they can without setting their lives back a decade by chasing a pipe dream in foreign lands.  And I'd bet for every one of those 100 jobs there will be 100 elite youth players willing to put off "growing up" for a bit longer because that opportunity exists.  
We all know the league is going to be a stepping stone to better things, or a place to re-invigorate a stalled career but that doesn't make it a bad thing.  Quite the opposite.  It's going to be a real fun place, you can just feel it.  "

You'd be super naive to assume that the CanPL is going to start at a higher or equal level to USL. Like you said most of these players can't get a job in the USL, yet CanPL is being started to create a development channel for this exact type of player so they don't have to go to Slovakian 5th division to play. 

Man, I think you're giving this whole division 1 idea way too much emphasis. Sao Tome e Principe has a Div 1 and I'd take a confident guess that it's not USL quality. D1 doesn't mean it isn't developmental league where local players (and coaches) can continue to grow in hopes to make it to a larger leagues. Div 1 just means the top of that countries pyramid.
 
@Cheeta summed it up nicely on another board (sorry I donno how to do cross-board quoting)
"If there are 100 paying jobs as Canadian footballers available out there in the CPL that's 100 jobs ambitious youth players can spend a few years chasing their dream.  They have a reason to stick with this playing footie at the best level they can without setting their lives back a decade by chasing a pipe dream in foreign lands.  And I'd bet for every one of those 100 jobs there will be 100 elite youth players willing to put off "growing up" for a bit longer because that opportunity exists.  
We all know the league is going to be a stepping stone to better things, or a place to re-invigorate a stalled career but that doesn't make it a bad thing.  Quite the opposite.  It's going to be a real fun place, you can just feel it.  "

You'd be super naive to assume that the CanPL is going to start at a higher or equal level to USL. Like you said most of these players can't get a job in the USL, yet CanPL is being started to create a development channel for this exact type of player so they don't have to go to Slovakian 5th division to play. 

This is not the thread for this discussion.

I think this case beckons the need to have legitimate Canada B camps and matches. Keep fringe players like Stanese involved

This thread yo-yo's between the rails and off them more than Deportivo does.

Any news on the LFC Canadian signing yet?!? 

Any news on the Liverpool signing??

It wasn't a shot at you, the work you do keeping it updated is greatly appreciated. With Dub basically creating a thread for every up-and-comer and Grizz being on the board before I was born I figured the discussion would have taken place elsewhere. 
I remember when I first joined the board whenever something was posted in the MOACAA thread I got pumped because it meant shit was happening, now more often that not it turns out to be a dick swinging contest about who knows more about a league/country/politics.

It wasn't a shot at you, the work you do keeping it updated is greatly appreciated. With Dub basically creating a thread for every up-and-comer and Grizz being on the board before I was born I figured the discussion would have taken place elsewhere. 
I remember when I first joined the board whenever something was posted in the MOACAA thread I got pumped because it meant shit was happening, now more often that not it turns out to be a dick swinging contest about who knows more about a league/country/politics.

It wasn't a shot at you, the work you do keeping it updated is greatly appreciated. With Dub basically creating a thread for every up-and-comer and Grizz being on the board before I was born I figured the discussion would have taken place elsewhere. 
I remember when I first joined the board whenever something was posted in the MOACAA thread I got pumped because it meant shit was happening, now more often that not it turns out to be a dick swinging contest about who knows more about a league/country/politics.

It wasn't a shot at you, the work you do keeping it updated is greatly appreciated. With Dub basically creating a thread for every up-and-comer and Grizz being on the board before I was born I figured the discussion would have taken place elsewhere. 
I remember when I first joined the board whenever something was posted in the MOACAA thread I got pumped because it meant shit was happening, now more often that not it turns out to be a dick swinging contest about who knows more about a league/country/politics.

Typically discussion was always kept to a minimum in this thread over the years. If discussion was warranted posters were encouraged to start a new thread, such as "Derek Cornelius trialing at Terek Grozny". That way new info. relating to a player would not get lost in the clutter of a few pages of new posts in a short time span. It makes sense imo.

You don't remember very well as you took this over from me and it was an orderly transition. I believe I took the thread over from Kurosawa, who took it over from JPG.
I would suggest or echo the simple suggestion that the list be cut and paste from the google document and both be provided on the first page of a new a thread. If google is so fucking amazing, you should be able to do this in 5 seconds.

Call me old fashioned, but the MOACA is pg 1 with the updated list and the only posts in the thread were the links to the most recent information. A no-bullshit thread, just easily accessible facts

Call me old fashioned, but the MOACA is pg 1 with the updated list and the only posts in the thread were the links to the most recent information. A no-bullshit thread, just easily accessible facts