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Message: [QUOTE="Flutterby, post: 2258040, member: 1853"] FTR, the NSW govt is still paying off the Sydney Olympics. Yes a number of industries (mainly tourism) did get a huge financial boost and I wouldn't call it a financial disaster, but to still be paying off one event 10 years on is ridiculous. As a spectacle and event, the Soccer WC would be amazing to have here and would bring a number of benefits, but I don't believe it will be a financial windfall and would likely run at an overall loss (most major sporting events do run at a loss with the governments just picking up the excess losses and spreading it over years). The main problem as far as I see it is that the Soccer WC is traditionally (probably always - I don't follow it that closely) held in countries where Soccer is THE game. In most cases there is no competing football code let alone 2 or 3 as we have here. And in cases where there is another code it is so minor compared to soccer that they really wouldn't get a say in what happens to their season during the WC. Additionally in most of these countries the majority of venues are Soccer venues - they don't share with other sports. A lot of the venues are also used to hosting big soccer matches and wouldn't require as much upgrades as would venues here. IMO a Soccer WC in Australia will cost more than it would in most other countries that would host it. The fact is that here in Australia at the moment Soccer is the number 3 football code, therefore FFA and FIFA need to realise that if they want to have their WC here, they are going to have to make some concessions that they wouldn't have to even consider in other countries and be more flexible/relaxed in their requirements. [/QUOTE]

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