Rule bars Surrey team from tournaments because too many players are white - Polidicks

[quote]A Surrey soccer player was barred from his final tournament because he's not of South Asian descent. The player's mom, Debbie Christiansen, told Surrey Now that her son and his U13 teammates from the B.C. Tigers Sports Club have been side-lined from competing in the United Summer Soccer Association because of a controversial rule from the Indo-Canadian Soccer Association. The rule states that a maximum of four imports - players who aren't Indo-Canadian - are allowed in all boys' U13 and U14 divisions. Christiansen's team has seven imports, but they went through the registration process in April and competed in numerous games without any problems. "We had been playing . . . through-out all the tournaments and nobody ever said anything," she said. It wasn't until her son's team won the semifinals that concerns came to light. "The coach from the opposing team lodged a complaint against us that we had too many import players and they felt that they should be in the final because we broke the rule. Our feeling was this . . . was sour grapes," she said. While the team went on to the final, they gave the win to the opposing team to avoid a $500 fine. According to David Eby, executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, the soccer league's rule is legal. Section 41 of the provincial Human Rights Code states that non-profit social organizations operating primarily to promote the interests of an identifiable group or class "must not be considered to be contravening this code because it is granting a preference to members of the identifiable group or class of persons." The USSA is a registered non-profit and fees are put toward running the league. But Eby said "there's clearly a discrimination happening here based on race," and suggested Section 41 be reviewed. "Is that the thing we want to promote in Canada?" he asked. According to United Summer Soccer League president Sim Sumra, the rule has been in place for 40 years because it's "funded through temples and made for Indo-Canadian communities." "The particular club that took the registration - they obviously either bypassed it, or skipped it, or just didn't realize it at that time - they're held accountable for that problem," he said. Sumra said the USSL is open to all ethnic backgrounds - it's only tournaments that enforce the rule. "[USSL] doesn't have funding from our temples whereas all our tournaments . . . whether it's free food, stuff like that - that's always been part of our temples' donations," he said. "The funding [from] the temples was for Indo-Canadians to succeed and develop as high as they can in that sport." The USSA governs the league. Sumra also said bringing in strong non-South Asian players changed the perspective of the tournament. "It became more of a winning [perspective] than it was of participation," he said. "[The tournaments] should not be as competitive - they're more for making sure that the kids stay away from the troubles out in the world, for instance gangs and drugs." Christiansen hopes they'll revise the rule so future players, regardless of ethnicity, can get on the field. While Sumra said the rule has already evolved over time - increasing from zero imports to four - they'll look at the rule again for next year, but they're concerned about overcrowding. "As a volunteer-driven organization we only have certain resources for funding and field capacity to even host more teams in the tournaments - it's a mass number of over 2,000 participants playing weekly in tournaments." [/quote] [url=http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Rule+bars+team+from+tournaments/7086217/story.html]**SOURCE**[/url] The sensationalist title is from Google News. I didn't just stretch it a bit. Regardless, you got to be fucking kidding me. You're making us feel like minorities here. I thought we were over this bullshit?

I'm from Surrey, such a fantastic place over here :v:

This is absolutely beyond retarded.

I don't think this is a racial issue. It's more of a problem with clubs buying foreign talent. I think either the FIFA or UEFA was planning to add a rule where clubs were required to have a certain percentage of national players, to stop clubs from buying their way to the top. Ofcourse the big clubs didn't like it, and after a lot of threats, the FIFA/UEFA decided to drop the plan.

[QUOTE=V12US;37229796]I don't think this is a racial issue. It's more of a problem with clubs buying foreign talent. I think either the FIFA or UEFA was planning to add a rule where clubs were required to have a certain percentage of national players, to stop clubs from buying their way to the top. Ofcourse the big clubs didn't like it, and after a lot of threats, the FIFA/UEFA decided to drop the plan.[/QUOTE] they are under 13 years old, hence U13. I don't think FIFA or EUFA care that much about the competitions of childrens football.

[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;37230046]they are under 13 years old, hence U13. I don't think FIFA or EUFA care that much about the competitions of childrens football.[/QUOTE] The FIFA/UEFA aren't involved. I was just pointing out something similar.

This isn't how you promote equality...

[QUOTE=MIPS;37229578][url=http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Rule+bars+team+from+tournaments/7086217/story.html]**SOURCE**[/url] The sensationalist title is from Google News. I didn't just stretch it a bit. Regardless, you got to be fucking kidding me. You're making us feel like minorities here. I thought we were over this bullshit?[/QUOTE] Wait a second, this is very much against the canadian bill of rights

isn't this like disqualifying a basketball team for having too many black players?

Racism works the other way too.

I don't see how things like this are legal, doesn't that class as racial discrimination?

Indo-Canadian Soccer Association

North Surrey: Indian Surrey: All kinds of brown South Surrey: Asian White Rock: Old people So how is there too much white?

Guys, the law is there to prevent international trading of players. There is no case of racism. There is a limit of 4 "imported" players so there won't be rich people buying better players around the world to win. Yes, it is somewhat stupid and it may breach some laws but it had some practicality to it.