I really like Jason De Vos as a soccer commentator. He is perhaps better as a commentator than he was as a player. And he wasn't too bad a player by Canadian standards. Though he did play a lot of his footie with what could be considered less than "technical" UK teams - not to mention really poor Canadian national squads. Maybe it is his playing experience that caused his recent outburst against Canada's Women's Team manager Even Pellerud - an outburst that really impressed the Globe's William Houston:
"It's an outdated style of football...Against the best teams of the world, it doesn't work...Pellerud's team plays a direct, long-ball game rather than a possession game...If you play against teams that are maybe tactically naive, who are in their infancy... that will work for a period of time..But against the best in the world, the likes of Sweden, the United States, Norway, Germany and Brazil, that's not going to work...I don't for a second believe that the Canadians aren't good enough to play a possession style of football...It all comes down to the philosophy of football they're being coached to play."
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