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Originally Posted by JHikka
One of them needs close to half a billion to be suitable for use under a timeline that I find highly suspect. Why include Saputo on the list if Olympic is such a surefire inclusion?
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Saputo is there as a bid for a training base. They want a team to set up camp there for the tournament. Probably same for Ottawa.
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Originally Posted by SaskScraper
I agree with you elly63, out of all the cities in Canada to potentially host World Cup, Vancouver and Edmonton would be top two based on past experience of holding large international sporting events including the largest soccer matches to come to Canada in recent years. The rest of the world really wouldn't care what cities in Canada host. At least Edmonton with second tallest city skyline in the country in next couple of years would at least give it a big city look to the event especially with Commonwealth being largest operable stadium in Canada.
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Largest soccer matches in Canada? I believe Montreal has the record. 61,004 in 2015.
Tall skylines? Really?