{"id":427804,"date":"2023-02-27T16:16:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T21:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427804"},"modified":"2023-02-28T07:24:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T12:24:17","slug":"canada-soccer-chief-bontis-resigns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-soccer-chief-bontis-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada soccer chief Bontis resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">Canadian Soccer Association&#8217;s president Nick Bontis stepped down on Monday, acknowledging change is needed to achieve labor peace with the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ca\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement from Canada Soccer President<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadaSoccerEN\/status\/1630310738047774727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">The move followed a letter from provincial and territorial soccer leaders asking Bontis to step down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">Earlier this month, the Canadian men asked for Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge to remove the Canada Soccer leadership if it was \u201cnot willing to take immediate action to respond to the players\u2019 demands and concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">\u201cIf Canada Soccer is not willing or able to support our team, new leadership should be found\u201d Canada women&#8217;s team said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">Although Bontis is out at Canadian soccer, his status is rising in international soccer politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">Last week he was named a vice president for North America at continental soccer body CONCACAF \u2014 a four-year mandate that runs through the men\u2019s World Cup in 2026 in Canada, the United States and Mexico.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Component-dfp-0-2-48 apnews_article_midarticle_1\" data-card-id=\"sovrn-article-midarticle\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Soccer Association&#8217;s president Nick Bontis stepped down on Monday, acknowledging change is needed to achieve labor peace with the men\u2019s and women\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427805,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17519],"news_category":[14236],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"On Saturday he was named a vice president for North America at continental soccer body CONCACAF","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427804"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427804"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}