I really don't get why there's such a need for thousands of hotel rooms and 4+ star hotels to host a few soccer matches, when there's more than enough fans in Saskatchewan to fill up their stadium for one or two world cup matches at exorbitant prices, with seats reserved for fans from around the world equivalent to how ever many hotel rooms there are in Regina or something like that.
For the teams. They could have built a luxury high rise with 4+ star hotel amenities, which could be converted to mostly residential housing post World Cup.
I just think lack of hotel rooms is a really lame reason to exclude the best football stadium in the country from hosting even a single match of the world's biggest sporting event, the World Cup of Football.
Not only is Mosaic Stadium the best football stadium in the country, Rider fans provide the best atmosphere, and they would be the majority of the fans in the stadium. I get Regina is a smaller city, but we're talking about one or two soccer matches here, not Regina hosting an entire World Cup lol.
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