In a country where the national pastime is unquestionably hockey, the summer clearly belongs to soccer as witnessed by the growing success of the sport within USL over the past six years. Three of the past four-1 championships have been won by Canadian clubs for example. “With the recent rapid Canadian expansion and the new direction our new USL ownership group is taking that includes a commitment to working with the teams at all levels, we are planning on opening a full-service Canada USL office in 2010 to work with our teams and the [CSA] more closely in continued development of the sport,” said Papadakis.