Canadian Soccer Association to bid for 2026 World Cup

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    CSA president Victor Montagliani, left, is aiming to change the culture and take Canadian soccer to a whole other level. (Sam Leung/Canadian Press)

    It has been less than a 100 days since Victor Montagliani was elected president of the Canadian Soccer Association, on a campaign of culture change and promising to take Canadian soccer to the next level, and already he has the CSA aiming high.

    On the phone from British Columbia, Montagliani confirmed to CBC Sports that the CSA has had discussions with FIFA about hosting a Men's World Cup. And while the next bidding process will not start for a couple of years still, Montagliani and the CSA are clearly already laying the groundwork to bring the world's largest sporting event to Canada.
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    "It's not only a possibility; it's something we intend to do," Montagliani said. "We have verbally told FIFA that when the bid process begins for the next available World Cup, which would be the 2026 World Cup, that the CSA will be one of the countries putting in a formal proposal.


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    Canadian Soccer Association says it will make a play to host 2026 World Cup

    TORONTO – It’s official: Canada wants to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

    And Canadian Soccer Association president Victor Montagliani publicly announced Thursday that he hopes hosting the “granddaddy of them all” can do for Canada what it did for the USA in the aftermath of the 1994 World Cup.

    “We’ve already started our preliminary discussions with our FIFA partners and with CONCACAF,” Montagliani told reporters at a press conference unveiling the CSA’s new five-year strategic plan.

    “The bid would not be in until 2018-ish, but the process has to start now, and the first process is you have to put up your hand and say, ‘This is something that’s required, that we want to do."

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