Vancouver moves training facility for men's national soccer team to UBC for 2026 World Cup

The City of Vancouver announced Monday that it will move the Canadian men's national soccer team's training facility for the 2026 FIFA World Cup from a neighbourhood park, where it had met with stiff opposition from local residents, to the University of B.C.The city says it will no longer build the training facility at Memorial South Park and instead use the existing National Soccer Development Centre.There was much resident outcry over the conversion of Memorial South Park on Ross Street into a