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Major Soccer Comes To Town

By 250 Sports

Friday, September 14, 2007 04:57 PM

Prince George - Event & Marketing Coordinator at the CN Center, Glen Mikkelsen, has announced that the Edmonton Drillers of the Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League will play two exhibition games here in the city at the CN Center on Dec 1st and 2nd.

The Drillers will play the Prince Goegre FC’ s made up of local players.

Tickets will be $17.00 for adults, $12.00 for youth tickets and $10.00 for children under the age of 12.

Mikkelsen says this is the first time for staging such an event. "There are a lot of soccer players in this community and they will get to see some of the best soccer around. "


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Comment Posted by: DPJ on September 14 2007 5:48 PM
Its NOT the first time. The Vancouver soccer team played a game up here in the ninetees sometime at Massich Place Stadium
Comment Posted by: Palopu on September 14 2007 7:47 PM
Why wouldnt they use the indoor soccer fields and the New Sportsplex.?????
Comment Posted by: Buzz on September 15 2007 8:54 AM
Now that we're consistently attracting some of this high calibre sports, lets just hope that a few people will show up and watch. The RBC cup was a hideous embarassment - not the organization of it, but the sea of green...the TIDAL WAVE of green at the CN Center. The Womens National Hockey team had "dozens" of fans, at best. I'm starting to think that we're NOT a hockey town, but seeing as there are 3 times as many soccer players registered as minor hockey, perhaps there will be better support for this event.
Comment Posted by: Runner46 on September 15 2007 9:04 AM
The reason they will not use the UNBC facility is that it will not be ready. Rumour has it that the heating system will not be ready to go until xmas.

Comment Posted by: realitycheck on September 15 2007 11:43 AM
Oh.... the lack of any fact checking by people on here is incredible!!

The RBC Cup was the 2nd most attended RBC ever.....the event is normally played in a 1,200 seat venue which gives the illusion of more fans, even thought none (zip, zero, nada, zilch) have ever sold out every game. The CN Centre was just too big...end of story. And the tired excuse that lots more tickets were sold than people showed up doesn't fly either...the same thing happens at every RBC (I've been to several).

As for the Northern Sports Centre comment by Runner46 please at least ATTEMPT to check your facts. The heating and cooling system is already working (that's a fact) and the reason the event is at the CN Centre is that there are no indoor soccer boards at the NSC. It is a wall-to-wall turf facility suitable for futsal and other turf sports but not the indoor soccer which requires hockey arena boards.
Comment Posted by: Buzz on September 17 2007 10:05 AM
Realitycheck: I appreciate your comments about "fact checking", but I didn't make my point clear enough regarding the empty seats. I know all about the attendance figures, etc., etc., The point that I didn't clearly make is that the organizers of our event did such a good job of promotions, we all assumed that we'd break attendance records and have much better crowds. I attended 100% of the games, and there were a few that were downright embarassing for a so called "hockey town". I do agree with you about the venue, but the organizers had thought that the Colesiem would not be big enough for the hords of hockey fans flocking that that event.