The World Cup of Soccer is the largest single sport event in the world. It is truly the only World Competition in which most nations of the world participate. The globally televised event billions of us enjoy every four years is only the finals, the top 32 of the 280 nations whose Federations are members of FIFA. Canada can and should bid to host a World Cup as soon as possible.
Top ten reasons Why Canada should bid for a World Cup:
- A very high ROE (Return on Exposure)
- Canada successfully hosted the U20 World Cup where many of the stars who played in South Africa 2010 got their World Cup start
- Canada has successfully staged 3 Olympic Games
- Canada is one of the most successful multi-cultural countries in the world
- A large number of Canada's ethnic communities are soccer crazy
- Canada's access to a multi-cultural, multi-lingual work force makes it an ideal country to host the Cup
- With all the love and respect to our national obsession with Hockey, there are more Canadian kids registered in soccer programs than in hockey programs
- While there's no way to tell where Canada's economy will be in 2018, 2022 and 2026, currently we have one of the most stable economies in the world (bids for 2018 and 2022 may be closed already, but we could go for 2022 and/or 2026 and/or 2030)
- Because it's the "Beautiful Game" for a "Beautiful Country"
- It's the only way in the foreseeable future that Canada's National team can participate in a World Cup (host nation gets automatic pass in the top 32)
Cheers, And Viva España!
Jaime
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