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Originally Posted by elly63
Totally ridiculous takes but what I've come to expect. Why does there need to be a soccer "culture"?
The beauty of NA sporting culture is that usually you can go to a game, sit by an opposition fan and usually expect to enjoy a game without personal injury. Of course there have been exceptions but that is the norm.
Why do we need to copy someone else's culture? The Canadian NT has their own culture. Without looking it up do you know what the Ho and Phillip's Bakery are? That's part of our culture, culture that was organic not copied. Do you know what the Vs are?
Canada will earn respect doing just what we are doing now, by having a good soccer team and players. Do I need to post examples of articles to show you how the team has respect. There have been plenty of videos and the player movement should tell you that.
I'm not sure if these "wishing' posts are some form of AI or trolling out of the blue but I already heard them more than 20 years ago and they were BS then and still are, and for some reason usually propagated by Celtic fans for whatever that is worth (see BigSoccer)
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The Canadian NT mostly has had mostly a culture of losing, until very recently. I am also a hoops supporter!
Though, I am
not a fan of AI!
Again, Elly... I just think you can't see the big picture here, and you're stuck in your ways. I'm really not trying to convince
you of anything here, as you're too stubborn to be convinced of anything, I think.
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Originally Posted by trueviking
I’m from Winnipeg. My city has almost a million people. The 7th largest city in the country. Its only professional soccer team averages 3,000 fans per game….in a 32,000 seat stadium…This dream about having professional teams in every town and city across the country is ridiculous.
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I'm from Winnipeg too.
I'm sure if, one day, the Winnipeg Football Club was in a relegation battle with the Regina Football Club they'd get 32,000 people in those seats!
I don't think the dream of having professional clubs in the top 20 or 30 CMAs in Canada is a ridiculous one, at all. Association football (soccer) is one of the most popular sports in Canada and continuing to rise in popularity.
Professional football leagues in Europe have professional clubs among the top two or three divisions in places that could be considered towns or small cities.
There's also been EPL stadiums with barely more than 10,000 seats. There's no reason why every professional club in Canada would beed a stadium of 20,000 or 30,000 + seats.
This is a map of some of the smaller places in Europe with clubs in the top flights of European football.
If we looked at places in these same countries with professional clubs in the second and third divisions, there would be lots of places even smaller than Canada's smallest CMAs. Same with some of the other top flights in smaller countries.
I just think Canada is missing out by not adopting this type of professional league format. I think it would be a far more exciting situation that the system that exists today.
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