Happy #BHM2025! 🎉 Shoutout to Joe Fletcher and Kiara Hackett for joining 60 leaders in the Ontario Soccer family in a powerful letter of encouragement to the next generation of Black leaders in our sport. 🙌🏿 ✉️ loom.ly/pesjLrc They also wanted to provide the following personal message, reflecting on their own lived experiences. ⚽ Joe is a decorated, retired Canada Soccer and FIFA Match Official, who received the Canada Soccer International Achievement Award in 2015. Joe’s other accolades include officiating the 2014 and 2018 World Cups, the Concacaf Champions League Finals and Major League Soccer. ⚽ Kiara is a Match Official and grassroots Coach with pickering_fc, and a varsity player with the UNB Reds (unbreds). As a Black female in sport, Kiara faces many barriers, and we hope her message inspires the next generation of Black women to never give up, just like her! ♀️ 💪🏿 Let's celebrate and uplift Black excellence in sport! #PlayInspireUnite