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Rob Friend

Rob Friend

Canadian former soccer player

Sep 3, 2026

Joseph Otoo
Joseph OtooCORRESPONDENT
8:45
It wouldn't necessarily have to be a group of people from the interior, from even BC or Canada.
8:51
In the Canadian Premier League, look, we've got myself as ownership group in Vancouver.
8:57
We own Pacifica on the island.
9:03
canada in our league we've got ownership groups in toronto that's that's they're from mexico we've got a local group in in hamilton we've got a canadian group in calgary that's also you know local so i think it's a mix of we've got international investors in our league we've got local ownership groups um so i think it's just about finding the right mix or there's a mix of it it could be a group of local business folk that also want to bring in some some international uh investors what's happening in in football or in sorry in soccer i call it football there's a lot of globally there's a lot of investors globally that want to invest in canada they believe canada's a really hot and right market for the growth of the game it's one of sort of the last countries they were investors believe that it's um huge growth opportunity happening in North America, happening in countries like Canada.
10:00
So I think there's certainly, I can tell you, there's a lot of interest internationally to invest in Canada.
Joseph Otoo
Joseph OtooCORRESPONDENT
11:28
And I wonder what you say to them about what moving a team from an expansion team into Kelowna would do to improve the city for people that are not keen on the sport.
11:39
There's going to always be people that are unhappy, but certainly I would say that, you know, you have to invest to bring investment.
11:46
There's an economic impact that comes with job creation.

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