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Vancouver, FIFA drop public park in favour of UBC for World Cup 26

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The FIFA World Cup 26 committee has moved a training site from a popular east Vancouver park to the University of B.C. campus.

The National Soccer Development Centre at UBC’s Point Grey campus will act as a team base camp and training facility for the upcoming World Cup .

Many neighbourhood park users were outraged when it was announced last July that Memorial South would be closed to the public for 1 years for construction to upgrade the community gathering place temporarily into a FIFA training site.