World Cup 2018/2022

[ArteEtLabore14]

Originally Posted by Benzito

That's funny that you mention badminton as the Asian sports fetish (totally true, BTW). Just judging from the NCAA and NFL, I think more than a handful of black kids play football, too.

He said when he was growing up. He's probably old. lol

 

[clockwise]

Originally Posted by Pantisocrat

The following comment is so idiotic I just I have to laugh. First of all, America is made up of many tribes, and each tribe roots for a certain sport. When I was growing up, the Mexicans played soccer, the blacks played basketball, the Puerto Ricans played baseball, the Asians played badminton, and most of the whites played football, while everyone else played dodgeball. It just happened that the majority of Americans favor "American" sports. How many Mexicans show up to watch ice hockey? How many black people watch the America's cup? And now, let's be honest, how many white Americans watch soccer? No one in the US gives a damn about the World Cup...and the ones that do were Europeans pretending to be Americans. Secondly, when does hosting correlates with power projection? The driving force behind these decisions is economic. Nike and Adidas want to create new markets, that means getting Middle Eastern girls to buy soccer cleats and those fat ass Russian millionaires to finally buy a soccer ball to lose weight. Third, the selecting committee is dominated by Europeans, and many of them hate USA out of pure jealousy. This is psychological drama left over from WWII.

Makes perfect sense.

 

[StephenHero]

So it's illegal in Qatar to drink or be drunk publicly. That has to be encouraging for fans.

 

[frenchy]

Originally Posted by StephenHero

So it's illegal in Qatar to drink or be drunk publicly. That has to be encouraging for fans.

tell that to half a million drunk brits/germans/polaks

 

[Benzito]

Originally Posted by ArteEtLabore14

He said when he was growing up. He's probably old. lol

I think they integrated sports in the 50s and 60s, so he's really old. Clue #2: He mentioned badminton. I'm guessing that sport hasn't been popular since I was in the 7th grade (and I only played it cuz I am part Azn).

 

[ibleedwhite]

The English cant catch a break. they can't win anything.

 

[StephenHero]

Uh, the Olympics?

 

[victorga]

I will say this about the US Soccer Federation, I'm glad we didn't get the bid. Don't get me wrong I can't wait til the next one on American soil and I'll go to a dozen games. However the leadership of US soccer is so bad right now, if we would've been awarded host duties Sunil Gulati, and to an extent Don Garber, would be validated for mediocrity. There's no excuse for the US to not be a perennial top-10 team, even as the 4th or 5th most popular sport here, we have the athletes.

Hopefully this is the wake-up call the federation needs to actually start doing things right and stop settling for surviving the group stage.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by StephenHero

So it's illegal in Qatar to drink or be drunk publicly. That has to be encouraging for fans.

Originally Posted by frenchy

tell that to half a million drunk brits/germans/polaks

I thought I covered this already.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

By the way, saying that NOBODY cares about soccer in the US is a bunch of BS.

 

[benecios]

Originally Posted by ibleedwhite

The English cant catch a break. they can't win anything.

I don't even know what this means.

 

[cerfvolant]

Originally Posted by Dewi

I'd be surprised if 2026 wasn't back in Europe. They seem to do a Europe, other continent, Europe, other continent rotation, or at least they have done since Sweden hosted in 1958.

Newish FIFA rules says that since it is happening in UEFA zone in 2018, they cannot bid for 2022 and 2026. Countries in UEFA can only bid for it in 2030.

and the Qatar decision,

 

[alan]

Knowing Qatar, theyll do whatever it takes to make this work. Theyll end up with a few billion deficit even if that makes it work.

I always thought theyre a favourite, the voting probably IS flawed but they have to be a favourite. I like the idea of the WORLD cup going to new places, and here youre talking about Qatar but that entails the whole arab/muslim/middle eastern world that will be hosting it for the first time.

And it was a very impressive bid, only reason to deny that would be if you had TECHNICAL expertise saying it wouldnt work.

 

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[TheIdler]

WTF is Qatar going to do with all those stadiums in 2023?