So now that we know where the WWC *isn't* going to be...

USA has the financial backing and the facilities. Australia's facilities will be taken up with other events. Granted, College Football may take up facilities in the US, but they should be able to round up enough venues at short notice to host it.

 

I want to see it in Germany. Like someone said in another thread, they can use this as a warmup for 06

 

Someone mentioned on another thread that Australia will be hosting the Rugby World Cup in September, and that's a valid point.

However, just as is the case in the USA with venue availability, there are more than enough stadia which can be used.

Outside of the MCG, which I raised earlier, I'd brainstorm some others (comparing possible WWC sites to those already scheduled to be used for the RWC), but with it being late here, I will return to this thread in the morning.

 

The u19's had some wicked turn out when they played in Edmonton and surrounding areas.

Granted, venues might be a pain in the ass, but I wouldn't mind western Canada getting em.



*crosses fingers*

 

there's like less than 2% for canada to get it...we just don't have enough venues to host it throughout the country.

:: sigh ::

elaine

 

2% is better then 0%.

I personally, doubt the US will get it.

 

in the boston globe today it said it was definately going to be in the us...

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/124/sports/Word_Cup_soccer+.shtml

 

:|

*eats words*

 

I would have preferred Australia (even though that would have meant that I wouldn't have any chance to attend games), especially *before* FIFA made that idiotic promise to China about the 2007 games...

 

Women's WC relocated to US

Thanks for posting the link to this article.

It may not be "fair" that the U.S. hosts the World Cup again, but I have to admit that personally I am very excited about this news. After finding out that the U.S. television coverage of the WWC would be scaled back greatly from the 1999 coverage, I decided that I might take a working vacation in Norway where I could at least watch most of the WC on Norwegian television.

I can now save my frequent flier miles and instead watch as much of the WC as I can in person. Maybe the television coverage here will also be expanded with the WC being relocated here.

In any event, I will be hoping that the Norwegians are based somewhere on the west coast, but I will definitely go watch Bente and company play no matter where in the U.S. it is. Of course if the Norwegian team ends up being based here in San Diego, I will have died and gone to heaven.

 

Australia will likely get the WWC to keep the competition in the region. If they do, expect the tournament to start either early (at least a week) or wait till the winter (Which would conflict with the domestic season)

As for facilities, the Aussies still have enough stadiums to host it even with the Rugby World Cup.

 

Fifa has expressed concern that not enough tickets could be sold for games to be played in Australia. And they are talking about having them all on one coast or another and that would that is not best. Have them in Blaine, St.Louis, Chicago, Tulsa and Kansas City. Then maybe the final in the Rose Bowl or somewhere in the East.

 

Nobody has mentioned Japan or South Korea which are good places that I don't believe there has been anymore than a handful cases of SARS.

 

I suppose you mean your winter over there? That would be our spring-summer season here.

Provided Australia acquires the hosting rights, I can't imagine them giving FIFA a rubber-stamp to host it too much earlier than scheduled. The AFL (Aussie Rules footy) season concludes at the end of September, and the MCG won't be available at around at that timeframe due to AFL finals matches and the Grand Final being played there.

If anything, FIFA may have to delay the start by as much as a fortnight, from what they had in mind in China.

 

We couldn't have it in the middle of the Australian winter. Are they going to interrupt the WUSA for a month?

 

Wasn't suggesting that they should. If that was the case, it would be now, or this time next year.

For the WWC to be held in Australia, it would have to start in October, or in late September after the AFL's Grand Final, or not at all.

 

Yes, late September or October but some worried about the Rugby World Cup. And we just got confused about the dates and what one person meant by summer and another by winter. Now the thing is, we could have it in July but it's too late now and next year is too far into the future.

 

the popularity of the rugby world cup is certainly much higher then that of women's soccer in australia. when the matildas qualified, hardly any of the newspapers or tv stations picked up on it. and i am concerned that if oz hosts WC 03, they will not pull crowd numbers, where as the US, crowds is a certainty.

as for stadia numbers, the US have certainly got more then australia, but if it is to be played here, i doubt it will run on the schedule drawn up for china, it will have to be earlier or later then the set dates.

to me, as ive said before, the ideal conditions maybe in jan/feb of 04 (but there are the olympics and players will have a very long year) or as dennisM said, in July, but it is too late now.

in the end, whoever gets to host it, good, cause i really would like it to be played out this year.

 

What exactly was idiotic about promising that China will be able to host it in 2007? Why should the CFA be punished for something completely outside its control.

Personally, I wonder how I am going to arrange refunds for the tickets I have already bought. Fortunately, I hadn't paid for the plane tickets to Hong Kong and Shanghai yet. Though personally, with SARS cases way up here in Taiwan, we have other things to worry about.

 

I feel that above all the well being of the athletes should be taken into consideration.

That said I would think the United States would by far be the best "last minute" host for the tourney. I think it would get its best support here in the states.

Besides, I want a up close and personal look at Miss Amy Taylor .

 

I want it in US too, but I gotta question your venue choices. Blaine is OK. St. Louis is a pretty small venue, isn't it? Chicago - do you mean Naperville or Soldier Field? Either way, Naperville is fake grass and not a great stadium. Soldier Field is way too big, lousy field and will have football lines. Tulsa I know nothing about. Kansas City has the same problems as Soldier Field and it just doesn't bring in the fans very well.

My choices are RFK (I'm biased), Crew Stadium, new Galaxy stadium, Blaine, San Jose, and something in the Northeast or Florida.

 

Boyd, I am feeling what you are saying.

Throwing a WC together is sucky on such short notice, but it can be done in this country.

You get the feeling that the centerpieces will be RFK, Home Depot, and Das Crewstadt. The centerpieces in 1999 will be used for football (Giants and Jets in the Meadowlands, UCLA in the Rose Bowl).

Other site of interest:

1) Orlando (who else uses that site?)
2) Cotton Bowl (SMU can move a date or two, yes?)
3) Hersheypark Stadium (no football until November)
4) Safeco (it's had soccer before, and the Mariners will be mathematically eliminated before then)
5) Portland Municipal Stadium

The wild cards will be the really small SSSs of SAS Soccer Park, the Busch Soccer Center in St. Louis, and the Charleston Battery's home park. Can the three of them be upgraded to host World Cup matches in less than four months?

 

I'd also point out that Crew Field is owned by Hunt and the HDC by Ansutchlz, and both are big investors in SUM, who holds the t.v. rights to the WWC.

Other than the US games, a smaller venue is fine. In fact, if you get a 15,000 crowd for Nigeria versus Argentina in Columbus, it would be fun.

My only concern is the lack of preparation time. In 1997-99, it seemed impossible to walk into a soccer game anywhere in America, from MLS to youth games, without someone handing you a WWC flyer.

 

Do you mean PGE Park (the stadium that had the hugely successful WUSA All-Star Game last season)? PGE hosts high school football as well as Portland State football in the fall.