{"id":428154,"date":"2023-03-02T07:38:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T12:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428154"},"modified":"2023-03-02T04:42:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:42:39","slug":"former-athlete-charmaine-crooks-named-canada-soccer-president","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/former-athlete-charmaine-crooks-named-canada-soccer-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Former athlete Charmaine Crooks named Canada Soccer president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Olympic athlete Charmaine Crooks was officially named acting president of Canada Soccer on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Crooks, 60, is the first woman and person of color to lead Canada Soccer after serving as vice president for two years. She will take over from Nick Bontis, who resigned on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian women&#8217;s team, the reigning Olympic champions, recently escalated their protest over pay equity issues when they wore purple shirts that read &#8220;Enough is enough&#8221; ahead of their opening match of the SheBelievesCup in February.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f &#8220;I know and understand the calls to get this right&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charmaine Crooks named new acting president of Canada Soccer \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CanWNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CanWNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CanMNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CanMNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CanPL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CanPL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DETAILS \ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/szqFJy74Iv\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/szqFJy74Iv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zeGZ9eEdS1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zeGZ9eEdS1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OneSoccer (@onesoccer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/onesoccer\/status\/1630970568039071751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8220;The job ahead for our organizations, our sport, and for the players who wear our Canadian jersey, is as important to me as any race I&#8217;ve competed in,&#8221; Crooks said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Crooks competed in five Olympics and won a silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Games as a member of the women&#8217;s 4&#215;400 met\u0435rs relay team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Olympic athlete Charmaine Crooks was officially named acting president of Canada Soccer on Wednesday. Crooks, 60, is the first woman and person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":428155,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17452],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17899],"acf":{"announce":"She is the first woman and person of color to lead Canada Soccer","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\/428154"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428154"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428154"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}