Dear Soccer: Your Love Letter to the Beautiful Game

With less than 100 days to go until the FIFA World Cup 2026™, the excitement is building across our Province!

BC Soccer invites the soccer community in BC to celebrate the momentum by participating in the FIFA26 Vancouver’s province‑wide storytelling series that celebrates you, the players, coaches, referees, fans, families, and volunteers who have built the passion, culture, and heartbeat of soccer in British Columbia.

The very first chapter of the Dear Soccer series featured Vancouver Whitecaps legend Carl Valentine. Carl shared a powerful, heartfelt tribute to the sport that shaped his life and helped define our city’s soccer legacy.

Now, it’s YOUR turn.

As part of the BC Soccer community, we’re inviting you to share your own Dear Soccer story, what the sport means to you, how it has shaped your journey, and how it continues to bring your community together. Whether it’s a story about your first team, your local club, a life‑changing coach, the friendships soccer gave you, or the joy of watching your kids fall in love with the game… we want to hear it.

FIFA26 Vancouver has made participating simple and fun:

Record a video message
Write a letter to soccer
Upload your story online

Every submission will be part of the cultural heartbeat leading up to the FIFA World Cup™, and you’ll also have the chance to win 1 of 10 FIFA World Cup 2026™ Vancouver prize packs!

Visit Dear Soccer to learn more and submit your story.

04 Mar 2026

2026 News

BC Soccer Association

Established in 1904, BC Soccer is the largest provincial sports organization (PSO) in BC and the third largest soccer-specific PSO in Canada with over 150,000 participants, consisting of registered players, coaches, referees, administrators and soccer leaders. As a professional not-for-profit society and a member of Canada Soccer, BC Soccer is committed to providing the widest opportunities for existing and potential participants, as well as provide support in the most effective and appropriate way for current players, parents, volunteers, member clubs, leagues, and districts.

Safe Sport Statement

BC Soccer believes that everyone involved in soccer has the right to participate in safe and inclusive environments free of abuse, harassment, discrimination, and to enjoy the sport at whatever level or capacity they participate in. The welfare of everyone involved in soccer is the foremost consideration and in particular, the protection of children in the sport is the responsibility of everyone involved.