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Old 07-29-2019, 11:36 AM   #1799
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame View Post
Show me a Canadian city the size of Edmonton that can fill a 60k seat stadium for a match between a random Welsh and Spanish team, and I'll show you a warm tropical island off the coast of Nunavut. I'll wait.
I will counter with the following question....

...why is a Canadian city the size of Edmonton hosting a friendly between a Welsh team and a Spanish team? A city which has completely failed to support their local team in all but probably two games in the last 9 years?

And while not 60000, Regina drew 15000 for a friendly between the New York Cosmos and Valencia in 2017. So a smaller city drew 3 times as many people for a random Spanish team vs an American team.

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