TORONTO

Councillor Mark Grimes wants to look at whether the City of Toronto can score the 2026 World Cup.

Grimes will ask council Wednesday afternoon to order staff to study co-hosting the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup with other cities in Canada and the U.S. within one day’s drive of Toronto.

The motion also asks staff to look at finding sponsorship to have a live broadcast on July 13 in Nathan Phillips Square of the 2014 World Cup finals match in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“World Cup 2026 could be coming to North America I hear,” Grimes told the Sun. “We’re going to do some exploratory work ... let’s explore it, let’s see what can happen.”

Grimes argued showing the 2014 World Cup final in Nathan Phillips Square would be “awesome” and help create some hype for the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games.

Grimes’ motion isn’t the only one set to be kicked around by council on Wednesday.

In a motion dubbed “Potholepalooza,” Councillor Mary Fragedakis is asking council to approve an additional $4 million for road and sidewalk repair and maintenance and road reconstruction to address “road deficiencies” popping up this spring.

A separate motion from Mayor Rob Ford asks council to approve planting a garden of 100 red poppies in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War and to commemorate John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Fields.