Olympian Charmaine Crooks named Canada Soccer’s interim president
Canada Soccer named five-time Olympian Charmaine Crooks its interim president on Wednesday, because the embattled nationwide sports activities group seems to dealer labour peace with its males’s and ladies’s groups.
Crooks, who had been serving as vice-president of Canada Soccer’s board of administrators, takes over from Nick Bontis, who resigned on Monday. The government change comes within the wake of a letter from provincial and territorial soccer leaders asking Bontis to step down given the bitter labour dispute.
Canada’s World Cup males’s group refused to play a deliberate exhibition towards Panama final June at Vancouver, whereas the Olympic gold-medal profitable girls performed the SheBelieves Cup final month solely after Canada Soccer threatened authorized motion.
The males’s and ladies’s groups have demanded Canada Soccer open its books, together with its settlement with Canadian Soccer Business, which arranges sponsorship and broadcast offers.
Crooks has beforehand served as a board director with the Canadian Olympic Committee and was a member of the International Olympic Committee’s Athletes Commission. She gained a silver medal as a member of the 1984 girls’s 4×400-metre relay group in Los Angeles and was named to the Order of Canada in 2012.
Also Wednesday, the Canada Soccer board named Kelly Brown, government vice-president at Arterra Wines Canada, as its performing vice chairman.
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