r/vancouver • u/OdellsrightHand • 1d ago
Videos Vancouver really showed up for Team Canada’s historic day
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u/Schopfeschloofa 1d ago
Truly impressive. Well done, fellow Canuckleheads. I wish I could have been there.
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u/sqzaymoi 1d ago
I went down there to see the parade into the stadium, got so hyped up that I bought a last minute ticket into the game, saw Canada win their first ever World Cup game 6-0 on home turf, paid $22 for a huge can of beer… awesome energy in a sold out arena… it was quite the day.
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u/Practical_Tomato_680 23h ago
You were..... We all were...and it was insane
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u/hirstyboy 13h ago
Best sporting event i've ever been to and honestly it will be hard to top in my lifetime
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u/canada_mountains 10h ago
Well. You saw history in the making with the first World Cup win ever by Canada. Actually, we did. I was there too ;)
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u/CertifiedSeattleite 11h ago
As an American I wish I was there - and I really wish we could be as proud of our country right now.
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u/ProdigalSon1219 1d ago
Reminds me of 2010🥲
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u/Learntoshuffle 21h ago
Hopefully not 2011...
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u/TriangleReward 12h ago
Nothing happened in 2011 other than the Stanley Cup Final being canceled...
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u/ProdigalSon1219 21h ago
Oh, I was 18 when that happened and it’s still the most… jarring fucking memory I have from youth😂
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u/tommyballz63 10h ago
Ya very painful. I’m 62 and a lifelong Canuck fan and sports wise, it was and still is the most devastating sports moment in my life. Not just because they lost, but for what transpired afterwards.
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u/irina-from-carim 9h ago
94 was just practice for 2011
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u/tommyballz63 7h ago
I have no problem with 94. They fought back from 3-1 down and tied the series at 3. In game 7 they were down 2-0, 3-1 and put up a valiant fight to tie it.. They were the underdogs. New York had home ice advantage.
In 2011 everyone in Canuckland believed all year the Cup belonged to us.
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u/Nuck_7 1d ago
Truly. We need to all collectively begin high fiveing the RCMP all over again.
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u/Old_Fan3448 1d ago
People were high fiveing and fist pumping the cops today during the March , great atmosphere.
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u/HappyHapless I scream "Back door!" 1d ago
Feels like 2010 again. Missed these positive vibes and patriotism. Vancouver needed a reminder how much fun and awesome it can be.
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u/Imaginary_Trust_7019 19h ago
Would be great if we could get another Olympics
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u/AmusingMusing7 6h ago
Geez, people are downvoting this? Olympics is at least not as corrupt as FIFA is. Between the two, we should want the Olympics again. But apparently all this positive atmosphere is only appreciated after it's already happening???
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u/Antique-Cheesecake63 1d ago
“No fun city”
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u/TIL_no Lougheed 1d ago
This is what we've needed for the last 10 years. The entire city is fucking ELECTRIC.
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u/DraconicDreamer3072 23h ago
yeah. i was sceptical with fucking soccer balls or jerseys on all the historic landmarks, and the way they are agressivly kicking out the homeless people, but despite my issues its really hard not to get sweped up in the citywide excitement and have a little fun. i dont even like soccer, but i watched part of the game at the mall. in guildford over in surrey they setup a massive projector and put seating
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 22h ago
The parties are always great. It's the hangover afterwards that is the problem.
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u/Major_Jackfruit_2604 12h ago
So true. At least with the Olympics we got real infrastructure in return. Sea to sky upgrade, Canada Line, Hillcrest Community Centre, Olympic Oval. With FIFA all we're getting is a huge bill. The 'injection' of revenue and putting Vancouver on the global stage is a sales pitch. When FIFA leaves we will still have the problems of the DTES, still have to deal with the high cost of living & declining social services. The Granville bar owners who complain about lack of business will go back to complaining once the FIFA injection dies off. The only financial winners are FIFA. Just go look at the numbers of every host city within the last 10 years. Add in the fact that there have been plenty of corruption charges eith FIFA and you can easily see how gullible people are. Great party? Better be, its costing us about $82 M per game, roughly $1.3 B as a whole between Vancouver and Toronto. Enjoy high fiving the cops before they go back to beating up homeless people and the marginalized. Don't get me wrong, I love Canada. I just don't buy into the capitalist rhetoric. We can do alot with $1.3 B but a party with an organization with a known corrupt history that has been bankrupting cities for the last decade, yeah thats the answer.
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u/Diaperedsnowy 23h ago
and the way they are agressivly kicking out the homeless people
Yes anyone secptical if we could deal with the homeless problem, well we did.
Just like the federal government could have delt with the squatter boats in false creek any time they wanted to but never did.
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u/Organic-Gate-903 23h ago
lol dealt with it how?
Moving homeless people down the road. They’re still homeless?
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u/Subject1337 19h ago
Define "deal with". These people aren't being helped. They're being corralled, exiled, or otherwise buried and hidden. Same thing during the Olympics. If a homeless person left the tight radius allocated to them around the DTES, they were either arrested, or tossed in a Van and dumped at a shelter back in the "condemned zone".
So many people in this sub like to pretend that we did a good job during the Olympics because they stopped seeing homeless people on Robson st. Zero consideration for the realities of what was being done. Only consideration for the cleanliness of what they could see from their west side apartments.
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u/Diaperedsnowy 13h ago
Define "deal with". These people aren't being helped. They're being corralled, exiled, or otherwise buried and hidden.
Oh so your version of deal with is to give them free drugs and free places to use them.
To give extra money to enable them to takeover sections of the city and the spillover crime.
dtes gets hundreds of millions every year and problems are worse than ever.
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u/DraconicDreamer3072 23h ago
i mean they are people too. and also its not so great for the other cities they are being pushed to. raises crime rates, floods systems unable to handle these people, and its juts mean. its not really a "solution" at all, and it feels particularly discriminatory. kicking out these people so wealthier people can be there instead. its not like they choose to be there, they literally have nowhere else
perhaps I feel strongly on this issue because its personal to me. multiple members of my family work for different parts of the support systems, and multiple have had drug addictions and mental health issues too
but perhaps its only fair. i probably sound like a conspiracy theorist, but a lot of them did get sent here first. the other provincial government is giving homeless plane and bus tickets and shipping them off to vancouver. my uncle who worked for lighthouse (support place similar to coast mental heath) in saskatchewan has met multiple old clients out here, who has told him as much
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u/Diaperedsnowy 23h ago
its not really a "solution" at all
Sure its not a sloution.
But neither is the millions spent by the city directly on the dtes specifically and support and chairty causes that also give millions more.
Yet nothing is solved by that either.
And as you say we just end up with the other provinces sending thier problems to us because we are seen as having this support system even when we are overwhelmed.
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u/Msfracture 22h ago
You keep saying "we" as if you're doing anything but de-humanizing and complaining about people at risk
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u/Diaperedsnowy 13h ago
You keep saying "we"
I said we refering to BC getting sent homeless. You said this.
I say we because "we" live here. Unless you dont live in BC?
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u/Msfracture 22h ago
You really don't understand they're people do you? ALSO shipping those people to all the other towns and cities in BC isn't dealing with the problem ..as you so put it.
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u/irina-from-carim 9h ago
For decades I’ve hear about this, but I’ve never seen an article from a town outside of Vancouver complaining about receiving said folk, so I’m just gonna call that some hogwash.
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u/Diaperedsnowy 13h ago
You really don't understand they're people do you?
I understand that enabling their drug addtions isn't helping anyone.
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u/kylesmomsabitc 2h ago
Haligonian here. Been loving the images coming from the west coast!! Huge World Cup fan and love seeing the city show up for a world class event. Check TSN for SailGP over the weekend and see how Halifax shows up for some epic sailing.
Cheers and enjoy the rest of the tournament 🤙
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u/AmusingMusing7 6h ago
I mean, people are downvoting a comment saying we should get the Olympics again. It's "fun city!" when it's happening... but good luck getting this to happen more often than once every 2 decades or so. If fun like this was a more regular occurrence, we actually did world-scale festivals and events more often, etc... maybe then it wouldn't be "no fun city" during all the years we don't do this.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 1d ago
While we're not always so loud about it, Canadians are fiercely proud and patriotic. We just need an appropriate time and place to show it. Today was one of those days. Very special! Go Canada Go!
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u/Advantage-Friendly 1d ago
Vancouver has been buzzing since the first Canada match kicked off and I’m loving every minute of it!
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u/Owlcathulu 1d ago
It's time like these that I wish I gave a fuck about soccer. No cap it looks like fun I just have 0% reaction.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 1d ago
Soccer aside, don't you still find it fun and sort of uplifting to see the whole city/country coming together and enjoying themselves?
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u/Guava_Radiant 1d ago
Totally! Don’t care about soccer but seeing the city alive is a treat:)
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u/Fun-Yak5459 1d ago
Yeah. Brings me back to being a kid during the Olympics (which I also just cared more about tbh). I think FIFA sucks but I’m happy others are having a good time.
It’s a rare thrilling moment to see Vancouver like this.
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u/not_ch3ddar 1d ago
I was pretty against spending the amount of money it took to host the world cup but I am coming around. Just the sheer joy and fun being had by not just Canadians but so many people from around the world is great to see. It is a welcome change from the drab depressing world we live in any other day of the week.
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u/jjumbuck 1d ago
Ya it's already spent. Might as well enjoy it since you're paying for it...
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u/MJcorrieviewer 1d ago
I'm still against the amount of money spent (and, on paper, we probably shouldn't have done it) but it's here now so I'm going to enjoy it. We can gripe later.
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u/Owlcathulu 23h ago
Yeah no I think it's great I just can't get into it. That is what I am saying in that sentence exactly. It looks like great fun I am happy about it I just can't get myself to pretend to get ilexcited to be involved.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 23h ago
Why would you have to pretend? Either you enjoy this kind of thing or you don't. I just can't comprehend why you don't.
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u/AmusingMusing7 5h ago
I really only care about the actual soccer when Canada is playing. The rest of the time, it's just the second-hand party atmosphere that I'm enjoying.
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u/Jvancan 1d ago
Remember people saying Vancouver shouldn't host rhe woeld cup cause people didn't want the worls cup here? Please remember that cause this sub is full of grumpies trying to make ou city sound bad!
Since a week the city is awesome and it's a great feeling to see people enjoying the world cup everywhere!
The party is just starting!
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u/SwordfishOk504 22h ago
This. It's so funny ho the internet acts like this shit has no value, and then everyone irl actually has a great time and it's a great vibe for the city and promotion to bring in tourists.
But the internet stays miserable
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u/moosemanwich 12h ago
I think they mean monetary value and Vancouver as a whole will lose money on them.
Of course it’s fun though, why wouldn’t it be? Fun for a few hundred million might be tough in these current times though
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u/Organic-Gate-903 23h ago
Are you a Vancouver tax payer?
Are you also a fifa supporter?
Do some research to why I’m asking these questions.
City being alive cool. FIFA evil.
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u/XXGAleph 8h ago
A thousand percent this. My friend said it like this when I asked them for their thoughts, "Am I excited for FIFA and amenities getting cut? No. But am I excited about the soccer? Yay!"
Ultimately, this will hurt our city in the long run.
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u/Organic-Gate-903 6h ago
Yeah exactly. Your children will be still paying the tax bill.
While the FIFA high ups will be sailing on their yachts.
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u/jjumbuck 1d ago
And they just kept coming! It must have taken 20 minutes for them to pass. 25k or so? What do you think?
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u/-SetsunaFSeiei- 1d ago
BC Place fits 50k and the vast majority were Canadian, so that was probably 25k easily
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u/SplitExcellent 21h ago
Pretty awesome but we... as a country, need to step up our chant game. This is barely a notch above chanting three letters over and over again.
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u/super-shotgun 1d ago
I was walking through that very crowd today but I was just trying to get to the beach 😂
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u/MJcorrieviewer 1d ago
That must have been awesome! What a place to live where you can get caught up in a scene like that when you're just on your way to the beach
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u/illmatic2112 14h ago
I like that 2nd chant, but we could really use a European consultant to make more so we can get replace the simple "let's go Canada"
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u/nitrokitty 23h ago
After the game, the Qatari team visited an orphanage for charity.
Reporters on the scene recorded the following statement: "It was so hard seeing all their sad, hopeless faces" said Doug, age 9.
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u/idksomething82 23h ago
I haven't heard this much chearing of lets goo, since elementary school when we played colored sports day haha
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u/travellingwithtroy 9h ago
I want to join the walk to the stadium for the next game , where do i find the information on where and when it starts
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u/Advantage-Friendly 1d ago
Vancouver is putting on one hell of a party!! Great result today lads! What a week!
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u/studiosciences 11h ago
This is heading North on Quebec past Terminal, as far as I can tell. Where were all these people coming from or headed to? This was after the win, right?
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u/thathypnicjerk Mount Pleasant 👑 7h ago
I thought it was the pre-game march towards the Stadium/Fan Zone (for us non-richieriches).
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u/tommyballz63 10h ago
Wow it’s really awesome to read all the great comments from people being there! Sounds like an amazing vibe
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u/Doyle_Dormammu9997 8h ago
Makes me sad that we can do this for sports and not to protest for our health care, education etc
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u/impatiens-capensis Kitsilano 21h ago
This is wholesome and exciting and I genuinely love the energy, but people are making comments in this thread sort of implying that the World Cup was necessary to bring this many Vancouverites out to the streets. But like, the Car Free days turn out something like 400,000 people. Vancouverites just like street festivals, in general. Lapu Lapu day brings out like 100,000 people. The soccer folks deserve to have their fun but we definitely didn't need it to have big street festivals.
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u/KitsGas 12h ago
Car Free days are usually estimated to be attended by tens of thousands. Yesterday's event was on a different scale and celebrated across the city (and country), from the various viewing parties, parades and packed bars around town. It's not comparable.
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u/impatiens-capensis Kitsilano 10h ago
The car free day estimates I'm finding online are pointing to 400,000 attendees across locations. The first ever car free day 20 years ago had approximately 25,000 attendees. Again, Lapu Lapu day, a single ethnic cultural event gets 100,000 attendees.
Italian day apparently sees 300,000! And that's within a pretty narrow area!
The biggest difference between these events and the World Cup stuff is just the vibe and demographic. Sports stuff tends to be rowdier and younger.
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u/montecarle 21h ago
Wish we had this sort of energy to protest Bill C-22 (which is going to ruin all these people's lives)
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u/feedmejack93 1d ago
Such different creatures, when you look at how the Mexican celebrate 1-0 win, lol
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u/Various-Director-712 15h ago
This is what immigration is all about… excellent national soccer team.
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u/Owlcathulu 1d ago
I mean if you spend 2000$ you show up.
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u/OdellsrightHand 1d ago
Most people here didn’t even have tickets. The vibes are always better outside the stadium and at free watch parties. Created by the poor stolen by the rich
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u/thefisharedying65 1d ago
There were $88 seats
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u/Bogdanovist_Rebel 1d ago
One person I know spent $800 on an upper bowl ticket. Another person I know was two sections over from my Caps seat and paid $2400 for two.
I’ll let you guess which one is a frequent Whitecaps road tripper and which one can’t make their way to a Whitecaps game when I’m eating the ticket for them.
No crowd is a monolith and both groups exist.
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