If Salt Lake City can have MLS, Calgary surely can. There seems to be a committed and engaged ownership group with a stadium plan and latent corporate support.
The question marks for Calgary are the historical lack of fan support and can its match day revenues (which are shared with the league) balance out the inability of Calgary's geography to help land the big (US) tv contract.
A flexible 20K to 40K stadium will help.
IF MLS ever gets to expand to 28 and up, Calgary is in the conversation. It will be the largest soccer league in the world by number of clubs with ~23 by 2018 and no pro/rel system so 28 clubs isn't too far fetched.
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