TORONTO -- The Canadian Soccer Association unveiled its plans yesterday for a 30,000-seat stadium in Toronto. Now all it needs is the $81.2 million to pay for it.

The CSA plan calls for $9.7 million from Toronto and $31.15 million each from the provincial and federal governments -- 88 per cent of the funding in total.

And if the governments don't step up, soccer officials -- whose own cupboard is bare -- say the project is dead.

"If it doesn't happen now, you're never going to see a stadium in Toronto," said CSA president Andy Sharpe.

"You're just going to be left with SkyDome and you definitely won't see international games here, of any calibre."

Added FIFA vice-president Jack Warner: "You better believe it. That is the view of the CSA, as well as FIFA. And I tell you that if it doesn't happen now, it won't happen as far as we are concerned in our collective lifetime."

Warner's view is the time is right because of the number of Canadians playing soccer (more than 800,000) and the recent success of Canadian teams.

While the CSA said the news conference was scheduled because the design phase of the waterfront stadium is complete, the event was clearly intended to put some pressure on government to step up to the plate.

Gord Prisco, an aide to Ontario Tourism and Recreation Minister Brian Coburn, wouldn't comment on the stadium project, saying the ministry hasn't yet received a formal request for the funding.

Warner, who doubles as president of the CONCACAF federation that governs North and Central America and the Caribbean, upped the ante by saying he would support a Canadian bid to host for the 2007 world under-20 men's championship -- over a bid from his native Trinidad and Tobago -- if the stadium project gets the required financial backing.

Warner also said he would support a Canadian bid to host the 2007 FIFA Congress, the world governing body of soccer's annual meetings.