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I would define 'awesome' as a world cup with no concacaf poo poo teams
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Akileese posted:So if this happens does CONCACAF still get 6.5 spots? Cause that'd be really awesome. The Caribbean would get 5, the rest 1.5. The Caribbean is the reason CONCACAF gets so many spots in the first place.
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stab posted:who would be the ten From the CONCACAF wiki: North American Zone (NAFU) USA  Mexico  Canada  Central American Zone (UNCAF) Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama The rest are all in the Carribean zone (CFU)
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Jan 11, 2017 20:45
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I hope MS13 is represented in the WC
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Weaponized Cum posted:I hope MS13 is represented in the WC "In a surprise move, the FIFA executive council has voted to give the California prison system .5 slots for the expanded world cup!"
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Its hilarious also that NZ gets automatic qualification too.
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:From the CONCACAF wiki: Oh that doesn't change a thing outside of Nicaragua and belize Canada can't beat any of those teams (you see because that's how poo poo Canada is at soccer) edit: that also means the real poo poo in CONCACAF is the Caribbean countries holy lol I didn't realize that 90% of the qualifiers come out of the "North America" section
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Worth noting there were also some whispers about combining conmebol and concacaf in the event of a 48 team wc. Not that I imagine anyone, except maybe Bolivia, would be in favor of that.
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Can you imagine the travel? Canada playing away to Chile or Argentina and then flying back to play at home 3 days later? That's farther than London to Johannesburg and back. There's no way we combine with CONMEBOL.
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Yeah as much as it would be great for many CONCACAF teams to improve in a tougher competition, the travel makes no sense. Not that "making sense" has been FIFA's main concern tough, so who knows...
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Yeah and that would widen the door for a US non qualification if they have to face some grown up opposition and FIFA wouldn't want that.
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algebra testes posted:Its hilarious also that NZ gets automatic qualification too. New Zealand managed 3 points in the 2010 World Cup.
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Shrapnig posted:New Zealand managed 3 points in the 2010 World Cup. Only team that had zero losses in the entire tournament
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Redczar posted:Worth noting there were also some whispers about combining conmebol and concacaf in the event of a 48 team wc. Not that I imagine anyone, except maybe Bolivia, would be in favor of that. This would be good because no CONCACAF team would ever qualify for another World Cup
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vyelkin posted:This would be good because no CONCACAF team would ever qualify for another World Cup Costa Rica probably would be OK
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Jan 12, 2017 04:35
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There's no way this would happen unless the caribbean fas got their own federation first
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silvergoose posted:Wait how is it going to ruin the Ashes In order to support developing cricket nations, Australia will be required to select three players from the US, and England will be required to select eleven Englishmen
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:Can you imagine the travel? Canada playing away to Chile or Argentina and then flying back to play at home 3 days later? That's farther than London to Johannesburg and back. Worth noting that Canada to Chile is a shorter distance than Australia to Iraq, which is a thing that is literally happening now in the WC 2018 qualifiers. Not saying it wouldn't be dumb but don't think travel distances are going to deter FIFA from doing something insane. Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:Worth noting that Canada to Chile is a shorter distance than Australia to Iraq, which is a thing that is literally happening now in the WC 2018 qualifiers. Back when there was a team from Vladivostok in the Russian PL, I always wanted them to qualify for UEFA competitions and get drawn with a team from Portugal or Spain, just for shits and grins. And whines.
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Alexeythegreat posted:Back when there was a team from Vladivostok in the Russian PL, I always wanted them to qualify for UEFA competitions and get drawn with a team from Portugal or Spain, just for shits and grins. And whines. Even the trips to Moscow were 10 hours IIRC. Imagine the furor.
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Holy poo poo Vladivostok have an away tie in the 2nd division against a side in Kaliningrad. It's 10k km.
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Holy poo poo Vladivostok have an away tie in the 2nd division against a side in Kaliningrad. It's 10k km. Imagine the collective sigh of relief when they were relegated Also, that kind of poo poo is why there's perpetual talk of just splitting the second division into western and eastern zones But, of course, that would gently caress over the PL again There's no good workaround
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Jan 12, 2017 17:50
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Come on, big FAs, break away from FIFA/UEFA already.
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:Worth noting that Canada to Chile is a shorter distance than Australia to Iraq, which is a thing that is literally happening now in the WC 2018 qualifiers. It should also be pointed out that all of the good South American/African players have their club sides in Europe, anyway, so they're already flying several thousand miles during an international break Most of the Australia squad is actually better off playing in Iraq than they are in Sydney, and not just because of the reduced risk of racial violence flaring up
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Jan 12, 2017 19:43
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It doesn't matter if these lovely conferences get new franchise slots, UEFA will still win the championship.
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UEFA for the win.
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jyrka posted:Come on, big FAs, break away from FIFA/UEFA already. This is the eternal "wanting Donald Trump to get impeached" equivalent of our people. 
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I doubt the big European FAs will be the first to break away, they have too much to lose if it goes bad. I can see a FIFA replacement starting with US/Mexico/Japan/Australia/South Korea. None of those countries compete in important international competitions outside the World Cup, they have a low tolerance for FIFA's corruption, and they are big and wealthy enough for the international community to take notice.
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Alexeythegreat posted:Back when there was a team from Vladivostok in the Russian PL, I always wanted them to qualify for UEFA competitions and get drawn with a team from Portugal or Spain, just for shits and grins. And whines. Glad I'm not the only one who wanted this. FullLeatherJacket posted:Most of the Australia squad is actually better off playing in Iraq than they are in Sydney, and not just because of the reduced risk of racial violence flaring up The Asian Champions League was nuts for this poo poo when Australian club sides would have to travel to Kazakhstan. Which is apparently the worst because none of the connecting flights line up, and they don't have their own aircraft like the national side.
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algebra testes posted:Glad I'm not the only one who wanted this. Your point stands about travelling to Central Asia but Kazakhstan is part of UEFA not the AFC. With the high travel costs and low TV and price money, the Asian Champions League is a total money pit.
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They have at least split the ACL into West and East until the final (though only pretty recently, IIRC). Granted, all the good teams are in the East, but at least the logistics are marginally less insane. It's still terribly organised and doesn't even get televised here in Australia or, I'm pretty sure, in Japan. Not sure about anywhere else.
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oldman posted:Your point stands about travelling to Central Asia but Kazakhstan is part of UEFA not the AFC. With the high travel costs and low TV and price money, the Asian Champions League is a total money pit. gently caress, I'm the idiot that confused Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
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Marco Van Basten, who is now FIFA's technical director, is proposing rule changes. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/marco-van-basten-fifa-plans-change-football-a7534186.html They include: quote:Restricting players to 60 games a year. Replacing penalty shootouts with eight-second run-ups. Introducing orange cards and sending players to sinbins for 10 minutes. According to other articles/reports I've seen, other proposed changes include getting rid of the offside rule and extra time and splitting matches into 4 quarters. And of course it will be up to the clubs and not the national FAs to make the fixture reduction happen. Should this go here? I think it should.
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Jan 20, 2017 15:29
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Getting rid of the offside rule is so Van Basten it hurts.
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Jan 20, 2017 16:08
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I love the idea of getting rid of offsides. Because football without offsides was really dumb, and people think "man, that sounds good!"
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Jan 20, 2017 16:14
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I like the idea that getting rid of offside would somehow encourage attacking football instead of encouraging teams to park even more players inside their own penalty box.
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Jan 20, 2017 16:22
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Every single game would devolve into 10 players inside their own penalty box hoofing the ball into the opposing sides penalty box where their lone striker is standing by the goalpost.
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Jan 20, 2017 16:35
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Devolve Dravs? or evolve?
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Dravs posted:Every single game would devolve into 10 players inside their own penalty box hoofing the ball into the opposing sides penalty box where their lone striker is standing by the goalpost. loving turn football into a game of Worms why not.
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I would be interested to see how binning players for 10 minutes for certain infringements would impact games. Not sure what infringements should result in a binning. Maybe professional fouls that currently result in a yellow? A binning for persistent fouling or bad fouls might work as well.
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