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Originally Posted by EnvisionSaintJohn
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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This cost benefit for 1 or 2 games does not make sense. 1) these would need to bring capacity to 45,000. 2) add a grass field and 3) the CFL configuration for the stands is 150 yards where, soccer needs 120ish yards so the end zones, which are some of the best seats, would be 20ish yards from the nets. 4) the media / press box is not large enough 5) there are not enough private suites. The amount of money to spend on that and then to have FIFA all approve that is not going to happen. Mosiac is a great stadium and has great fans but your argument makes no sense what-so-ever