Last thing i heard about it is that the commitie orginizing it when bankrupt and it most likely wouldent happen this year.

 

commite of what? and it was very successful last year so i dont see any resaon for there not to be it this summer.

 

The company that organized the tours went bankrupt. they are going to try tours again, but are not sure when.

 

do you know of any web site that i can go to inorder to find info on it?

 

ya i heard it was bankrupt as well......and they canceled it till further notice

 

This is the company's site http://www.championsworld.com/
seems like it hasnt changed since the summer though

 

thanks alot i apretiate it!

 

i have heard this weekend that games are going to be schedueled in toronto and montreal for this summer, and rummor has it they will be better teams this year, like barca chelsea man utd, juve (in canada)!!!!

 

As far as i'm aware there will definitely be another ChampionsWorld series this year, the company are having financial difficulties but i'm sure i read somewhere that they're being taken care off quite comfortably.

Celtic have definitely been negotiating with the organisers for a return trip this summer, i know that for a fact. Man Utd won't be there though, they're going to China this summer.

Should be another great event. :thumbsup:

 

Man Utd won't be there though, they're going to China this summer.

Thats even better p bring on Arsenal!

 

bring on chelsea!! and mybe real madrid..... :nasty:

 

As far as i'm aware there will definitely be another ChampionsWorld series this year, the company are having financial difficulties but i'm sure i read somewhere that they're being taken care off quite comfortably.

Celtic have definitely been negotiating with the organisers for a return trip this summer, i know that for a fact. Man Utd won't be there though, they're going to China this summer.

Should be another great event. :thumbsup:

Montreal will host Juventus,FC Porto, Liverpool and one other club,
sometime in July. Celtic from what i hear have declined to be part
of the Champions Series this year :depress: .

 

The dates they mentioned on Soccercentral for the tournament were July 24 to 31. That's just a week.

 

what about games in toronto? any news there?

 

Montreal will host Juventus,FC Porto, Liverpool and one other club,
sometime in July. Celtic from what i hear have declined to be part
of the Champions Series this year :depress: .

That's wrong mate. Have a look at the article on this thread.

http://www.xtratime.org/forum/showthread.php?t=155924

I'm 99.9% sure that the Irish communities across North America can look forward to seeing the Bhoys again this summer.

 

what about games in toronto? any news there?

No news on Toronto yet, with a bit of luck some news will soon appear,
the Champions League group would love Celtic back,with their massive
following, there was rumours the "the other" half of the old firm would
be coming but the group figures "the other side" don't have the
following to fill the stadiums in North America.

 

That's wrong mate. Have a look at the article on this thread.

http://www.xtratime.org/forum/showthread.php?t=155924

I'm 99.9% sure that the Irish communities across North America can look forward to seeing the Bhoys again this summer.

Well thats good news that they might come back,with additions(new)
to the squad.I was at the skydome for the Bhoys visit last summer,
and it was great meeting all the follow bhoys supporters.

 

im sure there will be games in toronto seeing as how there was last year, and toronto is the biggest city in the nation, but what do you guys think?

 

Troubled tour plans return
By Peter Mallett
Globe and Mail, Wednesday, March 9, 2005

A revived ChampionsWorld Series tour hopes to bring top European teams to Montreal and Toronto this summer but unpaid debts to Canadian soccer's governing body may stand in the way of its return.

Despite applying for bankruptcy protection earlier in the year, ChampionsWorld LLC said yesterday that the New Jersey-based organization has received new financial backing and is in negotiations to stage games at Toronto's recently renamed Rogers Centre and Montreal's Olympic Stadium this summer.

However, ChampionsWorld still owes $250,000 to the Canadian Soccer Association for games last year at Toronto's SkyDome and that could stand in the way of any encore performance.

"The gate issue from last year hasn't been resolved yet and we hope in the coming days we will be sitting down with the CSA, solving the problem and move forward on this," said Charlie Stillitano, chief executive officer of ChampionsWorld.

Promoters of international soccer games are bound by Canada's governing body, which requires an 8-per-cent cut of gross gate receipts from international games.

In only its second year of operation last summer, ChampionsWorld says it spent $30-million (U.S.) to stage its nine-team, 11-game North American Tour but ended up in a $3-million (U.S.) cash shortfall. CSA chief operating officer Kevan Pipe said his organization has yet to see any of the money owed.

"Last year when we created their file we made some concessions to them as far as payment but in order for them to go forward there would have to be better protection in place so we do not have to go through the same process," Pipe said.

ChampionsWorld spent close to $500,000 converting SkyDome's artificial playing surface to natural grass by installing 105,000 square feet of natural grass. It hopes to do the same this year.

Last year's two games in Toronto were some of the best attended on the tour with a July 31 game between English Premiership club Liverpool and Portuguese side FC Porto attracting 40,078 fans. A record-setting soccer crowd for Toronto of 50,435 attended a match between Glasgow Celtic and AS Roma the next night.

Stillitano said returning to Canada this summer was a natural fit because of the base of knowledgeable soccer fans and the lack of baseball in Montreal.

 

i dont know if this is a yes or a no to the champions world comeing back, but im hopeing its a yes, im sure they can resolve 250,000 $ of owed money, they can get back that money in the first 5 minutes of a game in toronto lol! but i hered that there wil be for sure games in montreal this summer on TLN (tella latino), which is a toronto t.v. station.

 

The CSA should stay out of it, they are a money hungry only group that has no interest in what is good for the sport in this country. More top class soccer, less CSA.

i dont know if this is a yes or a no to the champions world comeing back, but im hopeing its a yes, im sure they can resolve 250,000 $ of owed money, they can get back that money in the first 5 minutes of a game in toronto lol! but i hered that there wil be for sure games in montreal this summer on TLN (tella latino), which is a toronto t.v. station.

 

The CSA should stay out of it, they are a money hungry only group that has no interest in what is good for the sport in this country. More top class soccer, less CSA.

I'm no fan of the CSA, but they are the only source of funds for Canada's national teams, and they sure as hell don't get much help from the federal government.

The CSA needs that $250,000 from last year's tournament. I wouldn't want to see our national teams suffer financially even more than they already have to, just so some New Jersey entrepreneur can line his pockets.

 

me personaly (and i know this is worng to say) would rather see top europeans clubs come to toronto/canada in the summers than see our national team do any better than they are doing. the canadian national team dosnt go anywhere or do anything productive, and the only place we will se improvment is if they where to qualify for the world cup.

 

Um, excuse me, Kez, don't you have it backwards? First we qualify for the World Cup and then we improve?

We have to improve (a lot) if we ever hope to be in the WC again.

We're one of the few nations in the world that doesn't have its own professional domestic league. Right now, our players can only improve by playing for non-Canadian clubs, and MLS teams in the US aren't exactly throwing the doors open to us, because they rightly want to develop their own domestic players. A Canadian MLS club could do the same for Canadian players.

And who says we can't have both an improvement in our national team and summer exhibition games featuring visiting European clubs?

 

I am very skeptical of this happening in Montreal. Besides the bankruptcy of ChampionsWorld in the United States which was Chapter 11 (not pretty!) there is also the issue of suitable facilities which Montreal LACKS. The Big OH is not going to go over well and there is also the issue of training facilities.
I know for a fact that MILAN (who is mentioned in the Montreal tour) has not confirmed nor even begun negotiations for coming in the summer.