Edmonton Sports Talk

[Glenco]

Originally Posted by YegFan

Edmonton is not in Qatar or Russia where bids for such events are financed by the national government. Here, we don't understand that you get a chance to showcase your city and your brand in history. So, it is a much harder climb for Edmonton to convince politicians and taxpayers to complete overhaul the stadium.

I went to both qualifying games in November last year. Commonwealth, simply put, is 30 years behind what new stadia around the world look like.

They keep talking about the turf....But this place needs a major redo.

I knew right when Vancouver was asked to jump back in that FIFA did not like the Edmonton proposal. Missed opportunity. The North American bid was announced 4 years ago. So much could have been done between then and now to bring the facility up to a decent standard when the FIFA team showed up. Instead, they were still trying to obtain assurance from the province to pay the minimum.

Totally mishandled by the City and all the affiliated useless agencies such as Explore Edmonton, Global Edmonton, etc....

So you don’t think the UCPs foot dragging and when they did agree to make unrealistic demands on FIFA had something to do with a failed bid. Give your head a shake.