Canadian Premier League clubs and players are always online. Being online is great. You’re online right now. Isn’t this nice?
A benefit to having the WiFi running like a cozy fireplace this winter? Seeing fun stuff happen.
This week saw a flurry of submissions to the “Dolly Parton Challenge” hit the Canadian soccer landscape. A viral trend started by the legendary country singer herself, each meme features a photo for social media networks LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Tinder.
How you want to be perceived to a group of professional peers on LinkedIn is a lot different – one would hope – than on a dating app such as Tinder. Makes sense?
Most CPL clubs got in on the fun, offering some of their more aesthetically-pleasing players and coaches forward to be properly enshrined in meme form.
Quickly, before we begin: We need a Dolly Parton Challenge featuring Cavalry FC coach Tommy Wheeldon Jr. His suits would work for all four, no?
Until Wheeldon Jr. gets involved, here are some of the best Dolly Parton memes we found from the Canadian soccer world.
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FC Edmonton midfielder Edem Mortotsi kicks us off with professional, family-oriented, cool, and undersized-horse-potentially-pony photos.
#DollyPartonChallenge featuring Edem Mortotsi (@edemwale).
You’re welcome 😉 pic.twitter.com/APrBzk4kN9
— FC Edmonton (@FCEdmontonNow) January 24, 2020
York9 FC’s latest signing Michael Petrasso was ripe for the picking. “We have all these photos! Let’s use them!”
Woodbridge msn status update: Reach Sus linx cell pic.twitter.com/6vZyJYp32k
— York9 FC (@York9FC) January 24, 2020
Cavalry FC’s Dominick Zator: Right fullback, centre back, and… meme?
Dominick Zator definitely showing his versatility here.#dollypartonchallenge | #canpl pic.twitter.com/ZbZHh0weH5
— Cavalry FC (@CPLCavalryFC) January 24, 2020
Iconic Wanderers fan @bluefacewanderer doesn’t change for no one. Lazy or true to yourself?
Here’s Jonathan Osorio of Toronto FC. All you need are sunglasses, baby.
Mr. Osorio, Jonathan, Oso, Os. pic.twitter.com/ZofPhfpzX9
— Toronto FC (@TorontoFC) January 24, 2020
Another Canadian international. How accurate is this for Samuel Piette?
Notre bulldog a de ces styles! ? @samuelpiette
? #DollyPartonChallenge #IMFC pic.twitter.com/V6I8vsvUyo
— Impact de Montréal (@impactmontreal) January 24, 2020
Stephen Hart makes the cut. Before you criticize his Tinder photo, take a look at his reply: “Coaching is a lonely profession.”
We're doing it!#DollyPartonChallenge pic.twitter.com/32BAogoUmH
— HFX Wanderers FC (@HfxWanderersFC) January 24, 2020
Okay, chivalry and honourable achievements, sure, but what makes York9 Tinder?
— Marty Thompson (@martythompson_) January 24, 2020