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Originally Posted by Hawrylyshyn
I think a lot of this also comes from the fact that Canadian soccer was historically controlled by white British men and if you weren't a "Smith", "Jones", or "Mc---" you weren't welcome  |
Back in the 1980s when I went for tryouts for the CANUSA games in Hamilton, and then moved to Hamilton to play in high school, many of the other players were black and brown and olive-skinned. The sport was dominated by kids who had vowels at the end of their names.
And there were black kids with names like Smith and Jones playing, too.
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