Soccer in Canada | Canada Hosting the 2026 World Cup

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Originally Posted by elly63

No one is stopping you from posting your Fantasy League but there's a reason why they call it Fantasy. I've dealt with tons of Euro poseurs over the years and thought I was done. You've shown me I was wrong, they still exist.

I have to ask why would you want us to copy something else when no one wants it or implemented it when we had the chance? I'm a Canadian not a Euro poseur.

But again I can't stop you from hijacking a thread about the reality to post your fantasy foreign influenced opinions.

There you go again... trying to mischaracterize what I'm getting at here. You might think I'm some sort of Euro snob or "poseur", but I'm not. Europe is not the only region to have won the world cup, or with good professional football leagues. I've mentioned South America, Africa, and Asia many times in this thread already, but you're the one who keeps trying to label me as some sort of Euro-elitist or whatever.

I'm someone who respect the global traditions of association football (soccer) and am someone who prefers national professional leagues with systems of relegation and promotion. I just happen to think it would be good for the professional game in Canada, and eventually, good for the national team, for the CPL to embrace the global norm and implement a system of relegation and promotion.


Moreover, i still think it would be a good thing for Canada to shift away from the usage of the term football, and embrace the global norm, which is to call the sport football, not soccer. We already have more than one form of hockey in Canada (ice hockey, ball hockey, field hockey, roller hockey). So there's no reason we couldn't also have more than one form of "football" (association football and Canadian football). Imo, before the 2026 World Cup of Football would be the time to make the biggest splash with this "term change", but I do get it's extremely unlikely to happen.

To be clear though, I think the biggest issues with the professional game in Canada is the lack of relegation and promotion for the CPL, along with the fact that the three biggest "football clubs" in Canada not being part of the CPL, but rather part of the MLS, a league governed by the US Soccer Federation.

In the long run, I think it would be a lot better for the professional game in Canada, for the top football clubs to join the Canadian Premier League, and leave the American Major League Soccer.