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Originally Posted by Overground
Sorry, I think that should say suburban Vancouverites. Association football is played by more Canadians at the amateur level than any other sport as well. The interest is there, especially for immigrants. I think CFL will be on the decline in years to come in large urban centres, especially Van and TO.
As for how popular WFC will be in 5 years. Who knows, but the Caps were outdrawing Seattle before they went up to MLS and now Seattle sell 36k a game. We can hope that the Caps will do just as well. The attendance numbers between both cities were even similar back in the NASL days.
I think for the club to be successful in the long run it needs to control its own purpose built stadium with natural grass, which can attract better players leading to better success on the pitch, and more money in the coffers.
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I think the Whitecaps definitely need to reconsider building their stadium elsewhere, or else their stadium may never be built. BC Place, even with all of it's renovations, may not be enough, to attract the fans after year 1. so that soccer specific stadium needs to get built asap. I heard it may be 2016 at the earliest, that is a long ways away. but i have faith that the 'caps will get it done. either way, i think because there is a lot of immigrants (particularly from hk, taiwan, mainland china and india), there may be more of an interest in soccer than there would be in north american football. i think the 'caps will be successful, assuming, of course they can win their shares of games in year 2. year 1 may be a bit more forgiving, but year 2 will not be, and i think, if the caps don't win consistently enough in year 3, then some fans may begin to lose interested and commitment. so they really need to build strong, and build quickly towards fielding a competitive team out there.
who knows? maybe christiano ronaldo will come to the 'caps
haha. kidding, of course.