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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
It's embarrassing now that we don't have a venue for the 2015 Women's World Cup. That is TRAGIC. We also missed out at the 2007 U-23 FIFA World Cup. Embarrassing.
For god sakes, MONCTON is a choice venue over Calgary for WORLD CUP SOCCER. . . . MONCTON!!
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Unfortunately, this has a lot to do with Alberta Soccer. It's a lot of political nonsense. Combined with their little respect for Calgary as a soccer city and our lack of facilities, we are ridiculously far down the totem pole when it comes to even being considered hosting national team games and events.
During a stretch of women's friendlies last year as the team was preparing for the Olympics, they hosted a game versus China in Moncton. The CSA was floored with the amount of support for soccer, especially women's, in that region. That particular match exceeded the expectations of everyone involved. It left a great impression and that's why they were selected. The Moncton pitch is one of the country's best maintained and is the only one with actual grass for the Women's World Cup.
But I digress...
I don't want to totally derail the thread with soccer talk because I could yammer on for hours about the whole thing.