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You are not doing your position help if you are comparing Canada's bid to Qatar. ![Stick Out Tongue :p :p](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
But Qatar does?
You are not doing your position help if you are comparing Canada's bid to Qatar.![]()
Yes, there's no point comparing a country like Canada that will never host the World Cup to a country like Qatar that will.You are not doing your position help if you are comparing Canada's bid to Qatar.![]()
I still really like the idea of dual Great Lakes bid. Some of the cities, especially on the US side, could use the limelight too. Most also have the required infrastructure as well. I'd include Montreal, Hamilton, Toronto, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and Milwaukee.
That is not a bad idea.
I'd remove one of Rochester/Buffalo and include Ottawa or K-W.
If Ottawa, it could jump-start an MLS bid for Canada's capital as well. I wonder if the Senators would be willing to pitch in.
No idea, but nothing you've said makes it an impossibility either. Nations have combined forces for bids before, most successfully and recently Japan and Korea.It is a totally unworkable idea. Cities/Regions cannot bid for world cups (I am sure we have gone over this before)....only a country's national governing soccer body (with the full financial backing of the country's government) can bid. So, again, which of the USSF or the CSA is going to make that bid?
No idea, but nothing you've said makes it an impossibility either. Nations have combined forces for bids before, most successfully and recently Japan and Korea.
You are not doing your position help if you are comparing Canada's bid to Qatar.![]()
But that's my point - the other poster claimed that Canada is unable to host a World Cup because we don't have enough stadiums (stadia?) of the right size, whereas Qatar doesn't even remotely qualify in terms of infrastructure (no where near even Canada's level), yet they are hosting the event in 2022. I agree that they obviously won the bid through sheer political corruption, which however renders the argument that Canada doesn't qualify in terms of facilities entirely moot.
No wonder why the United States have hosted every single CONCACAF Gold Cup (sometimes joint with Mexico).Not entirely.......I don't know about the corruption but I will take people's word for that....but in addition to whatever they spent getting votes...they are committed to spending $16B on stadiums and, by some estimates, nearly $200B on other infrastructure.
All countries that bid on the World Cup do so knowing they are going to spend Billions on stuff like this (notable exception is our main competition the USA who are stadium and infrastructure rich and are essentially a "just add water" instant WC).....the bigger issue to Canada is not so much how short of stadiums we currently are, but who/how is going to spend the billions needed to produce a competitive bid.
No wonder why the United States have hosted every single CONCACAF Gold Cup (sometimes joint with Mexico).
can you imagine the USSF saying "sorry LA, NY, Chicago, Dallas, SF, Miami, Atlanta, etc....it is our turn to bid but we are leaving you guys out of the bid and throwing our support behind a bid that will see games in
Mexico