ReggieBush
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Absolutely FUMING that Vancouver will not be one of the host cities for the 2026 World Cup. It's a disgrace that we have turned down the honor of hosting the world's biggest sporting event!
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It definitely sucks, but I'm also tired of FIFA using the prestige of the World Cup as leverage to lobby for practically anything they want. No event should be important enough to give a supposedly non-profit sports governing body that kind of power.
If you don't care about FIFA corruption, that's fine, but I expect the organization responsible for acting in the best interests of the world's most popular sport to be held to a higher standard. If it takes a few cities saying no to hosting, so be it.
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We can't know that Vancouver would've gotten a QF. It's a joint bid with the US and Mexico. With that many larger cities and bigger soccer hubs than Vancouver even if we got 3 games, they're probably prelims or early rounds. Canada would get 10 games in this arrangement to be split among Van, Edm, Tor, and Mon, if we'd said yes. I'd imagine Toronto would get a QF and that would probably be the only QF played in Canada.
Besides, if the North American bid loses to Morroco, can't they bid again for 2030 and maybe BC will say 'yes' then.
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@Where's Wellwood We would have got a QF. We have the best stadium of the 3, it was practically a given
