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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Just to add Canada needs a true home ground. Forget about appeasing fans in other cities. Play at BMO field and buy all the tickets. Make it a fortress.
Other places like Suputo or Swangard or a new Vancouver stadium, arrange high profile friendlies there. Spend a bit of money to get a good team in, like Uruguay, Japan or Ireland to get experience, build up to the big teams.
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The nice thing about the interest the MLS is raising in the domestic game is that Toronto feels like a home game now and is getting some of that atmosphere you're talking about instead of it feeling like an El Salvador home game without the bags of urine being thrown.
I think Vancouver will get cut out of WCQs for the most part - the flight time for the European pros is way too far. I do think Saputo will continue to be used, especially after this big MLS expansion but if one city distinguishes itself as a partisan base I could see them focusing on one city as an exclusive home base.