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Pook Good Mook posted:Incidentally, if China ever does start qualifying readily for the finals expect to see an even larger call from the Middle East to get their own league. Especially if Australia stays in the Asian federation. Personally I'd be all for the Middle East getting a league if FIFA also requires that Israel be in it. Surely this would just be a major exercise in nose-cutting and face-spiting? The AFC's ranking is held up by Japan, Korea and Australia, the best they could hope for without them is a couple of World Cups where one Arab team gets hosed harder than they did by Sykes and Picot and then afterwards being relegated to a play-off with New Zealand/Jamaica for a single spot.
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This was a story I read back when they had the final teams qualify for 2014, there was an interview with someone in FIFA that if the AFC wasn't expanded then the middle east would seek their own confederation. What I took was, give us a better chance to qualify our rented players or we start spending our money elsewhere.
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Blue Star Error posted:The death toll was at ~1000 just counting Indians and Nepalis over a year ago. Out of nowhere Kwagga has just gotten a semi.
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Feb 25, 2015 00:16
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How are they all dying are they really clumsy?
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Pissflaps posted:How are they all dying are they really clumsy? Qatar is hot
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Nepalis have thicker blood due to living at high altitude and as a result producing more red blood cells. When they work at sea level dehydration and heat stroke thicken their blood and the excess stress on the heart leads to cardiac arrest. edit: But anyone working in the conditions the Qataris provide would die of heat stroke in the same fashion. Its just white people tend not to be so poor that working for a few cents a day in the desert seems a good option.
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Kurtofan posted:Qatar is hot hot drat
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Kurtofan posted:Qatar is hot Kind of glad the World Cup is going to be in winter then. Good on FIFA for using their brains in this situation.
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Der Shovel posted:This poo poo is making me irrationally angry and I'm melting down IRL a bit over here. A bunch of corrupt cunts ruin the greatest sporting event in the world for their bribes, cover their lies with more outrageous lies and not only get away with it, but also get rich doing it. Same.
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Oh, this is just getting better and better:'quote:The date of 18 December remains a strong possibility for the final - it is Qatar’s national day and also falls on a Sunday, and would be early enough for the festive club programme in England to take place. And quote:Valcke told a news conference in Doha after a Qatar 2022 organising committee board meeting: “It’s not perfect, we know that - but why are we talking about compensation? It’s happening once, we’re not destroying football.
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Football is dead, it can't be destroyed any more than it already is
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I can't wait to see the thrilling Premier League matches that will result from players flying home from the World Cup and having to play in club matches two days later.
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Bundesliga has a 10 day winter break, which is apparently why Germany won??
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vyelkin posted:I can't wait to see the thrilling Premier League matches that will result from players flying home from the World Cup and having to play in club matches two days later. More reason to have homegrown players then IMO. Smart managers can start investing in English talent now and by the time the World Cup comes around they'll have their full squad back home and rested within a couple of days of the group stage finishing.
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Hamas Rodriguez posted:More reason to have homegrown players then IMO. Smart managers can start investing in English talent now and by the time the World Cup comes around they'll have their full squad back home and rested within a couple of days of the group stage finishing. The way the Premier League TV deal is going, by 2022 every single player who goes to the World Cup will be registered with an English club and paid 100k/week or more.
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At the same press conference: quote:The 2021 Confederations Cup will not be held in Qatar, FIFA announced on Wednesday.
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It's going to be tearjerking when the Qatar national team wins the cup on their national day
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Tigren posted:At the same press conference: and also because none of the stadiums will be ready by then either
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I don't give a poo poo about where the World Cup is played as long, the working conditions etc, I just want a World Cup that's played in the summer and not in an environment where the players will die of heat exhaustion. gently caress you FIFA. No more sitting in a park with cold beers on a hot summer day watching the footie on a big screen w. mates, rip.
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Hegay posted:I don't give a poo poo about where the World Cup is played as long, the working conditions etc, I just want a World Cup that's played in the summer and not in an environment where the players will die of heat exhaustion. gently caress you FIFA. No more sitting in a park with cold beers on a hot summer day watching the footie on a big screen w. mates, rip. oh poo poo i didnt even begin to think about the viewing experience for me. loving hell. watching indoors no big screens out in the centre of the city gently caress
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Hamas Rodriguez posted:oh poo poo i didnt even begin to think about the viewing experience for me. loving hell. watching indoors no big screens out in the centre of the city gently caress I think watching a game on the big screen on the edge of the christmas market with a hot cup of gluhwein or vin brule might be fun but it is a drastic shift and there are too many clothes to wear during this time imo.
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lol at "TV" we'll have holographic displays where you gather round and watch the players in 3d like on star wars by then. Fact.
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4k illegal internet streams ftw bring on 2022
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JFairfax posted:4k illegal internet streams ftw bring on 2022 You know drat well FIFA will spend millions to shut down one illegal online stream before they spend a cent in workers' conditions.
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Lmbo if you think you'll get a beer or a nice hot toddy under the International Caliphate.
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So they moved the african championship to the summer? Uhh
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Gigi Galli posted:I think watching a game on the big screen on the edge of the christmas market with a hot cup of gluhwein or vin brule might be fun but it is a drastic shift and there are too many clothes to wear during this time imo. An italian that likes glühwein. shameful.
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Syncopated posted:So they moved the african championship to the summer? Uhh they could hold it somewhere down below the equator so it could be in the winter.
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Guitar_Hero posted:and also because none of the stadiums will be ready by then either Isn't that the whole point of the confederations cup? To be a kind of dress rehearsal for the World Cup?
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Syncopated posted:So they moved the african championship to the summer? Uhh Syncopated posted:So they moved the african championship to the summer? Uhh The juiciness of forcing the poorest continent to play in a hot as gently caress summer just so some oil barons get their way.
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Well, at least this should make certain that the 2023 Asian Cup won't be held in the Middle East or Australia. 
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oldman posted:Well, at least this should make certain that the 2023 Asian Cup won't be held in the Middle East or Australia. I hope the 2021 confed cup is held in Australia and they rub FIFA's faces in it the whole time.
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African AIDS cum posted:I know how that is lol
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quote:Fifa has effectively admitted handing a lucrative World Cup television rights contract to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox network in order to head off the threat of legal action over the decision to move the Qatar 2022 tournament to winter. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/25/fifa-world-cup-tv-rights-jerome-valcke-fox-telemundo-legal-fight Incredible. What a bribe.
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They are going to give the 2026 cup to USA with no tender too and I'm going to have a big gay meltdown about it
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Watch the no-bid award to fox end up being called a bribe attempt of a US company, and THATS what ends Fifa
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There was clear court and royal enquiry tested evidence that Fox were in breach of the foreign corrupt practices act and the FBI declined to investigate or bring forward charges for prosecution. I doubt something as minor as a no bid contract would make them act if literal bribery of public officials and police didn't. Also alleged complicity in at least 2 murders.
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Blue Star Error posted:They are going to give the 2026 cup to USA with no tender too and I'm going to have a big gay meltdown about it If we're lucky Blatter will have died before anything to do with the 2026 world cup happens and FIFA will meltdown instead
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