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Originally Posted by Thunderball
We have to be able to field a competitive squad though. I have a feeling that will be a factor in deciding who hosts in 2014 or 2018 (I believe that's when it could be North America's turn again). No one wants to see a host country in by default miles out of their depth, which they can definitely be accused of in this tournament (I wouldn't say they were out of their depth totally, seeing as they would likely be one of the four teams from CONCACAF anyway... a testament to this tournament's glaring issues).
With that, the focus now needs to be on proper training and development. Canada has proven that they can host these events, and if there's a big enough tournament, like the World Cup, there is the money to overhaul their stadia and have eight proper host cities.
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i thought that FIFA did away with the host country automatic qualifier for the world cup, at least it was discussed by FIFA in the last few years. i thought that the japan/korea was the last world cup to include the host.
Edit: nevermind, i see that south africa has an automatic qualifier for world cup 2010, so evidently this still continues. i know that they had discussed this issue, perhaps it never got approved by FIFA. oh well.