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The Canadian Premier League is starting to pick up steam, and by all indications, FC Edmonton will be on board when the upstart professional soccer circuit kicks off in April 2019.

On Friday, the CPL held an owners meeting in Edmonton, which included FC Edmonton’s Tom Fath.

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FC Edmonton is expected to be one of the flagship franchises, which will be revealed individually starting next week.

“It’s a really good bunch of people, both the owners and the CPL staff,” Fath said. “Definitely there is a movement to all pull in the same direction. We were the Canadian team in the American league before and our rivals were not exactly close. So this has a lot of potential, and we’ve always said we’ve been coming to their meetings for a year and we have to be convinced that it will work and there’s a few ingredients to that. It’s looking a lot more positive than it did last November.”

Fath and brother Dave Fath started up FC Edmonton in 2010 and were one of the original members of the resurrected North American Soccer League.