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it'll still be better than the inevitable World Cup: The World 2038
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Through the power of AI or whatever we will hold a world cup in the metaverse. Somehow players will still get injured
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the sex ghost posted:Through the power of AI or whatever we will hold a world cup in the metaverse. Somehow players will still get injured never forget that japan literally promised this when they bid against qatar, and it was somehow still less stupid than qatar saying they'd make artificial clouds
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https://sports.yahoo.com/fifa-bans-luis-rubiales-from-soccer-for-3-years-for-forcibly-kissing-jenni-hermoso-134044038.htmlquote:The FIFA Disciplinary Committee announced Monday that former Spanish Football Association (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales has been banned from all national and international soccer activities for three years after forcibly kissing Spanish national team player Jenni Hermoso following Spain's win at the Women's World Cup in August. Sounds like Spain wasn't loving around with this, glad they stood their ground.
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Started out with a kiss How did it end up like this It was only a kiss
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sticksy posted:Started out with a kiss Haha poo poo
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its really funny how we got the 2034 mens world cup on lock while we still dont know which country is gonna host the next womens world cup in 2027
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Grimson posted:its really funny how we got the 2034 mens world cup on lock while we still dont know which country is gonna host the next womens world cup in 2027 Australia again.
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algebra testes posted:Australia again. Hell loving yes
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IFAB has said thanks but no thanks to the idea of blue cards and sin bins, but they're going to allow trials of a new time wasting rule where goalkeepers get eight seconds to hold the ball instead of six, but the ref will visibly count down the last five seconds on their hand so the goalkeeper, players, and fans can all see how much time the keeper has left. And if the keeper is still holding on to the ball at the end of eight seconds, the trials will let competitions trial giving a throw-in in line with the penalty spot or even a corner kick, since one reason refs don't call the foul for keepers holding the ball is that the rules say they should give an indirect free kick in the box and refs hate giving those because they're so chaotic, which is a shame because indirect free kicks in the box are great.
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vyelkin posted:IFAB has said thanks but no thanks to the idea of blue cards and sin bins, but they're going to allow trials of a new time wasting rule where goalkeepers get eight seconds to hold the ball instead of six, but the ref will visibly count down the last five seconds on their hand so the goalkeeper, players, and fans can all see how much time the keeper has left. Managers salivating at the opportunity to kick off at the ref in the post match for counting too slow or too fast
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the sex ghost posted:Managers salivating at the opportunity to kick off at the ref in the post match for counting too slow or too fast The ref was eating a sandwich while counting... very disrespectful to a Premier League manager
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As long as they count down so two is either hang loose or the british jog on, and one is always the middle finger
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ilmucche posted:As long as they count down so two is either hang loose or the british jog on, and one is always the middle finger cycling tt countdown or bust
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hey what if we held the u17 world cup EVERY year and also we held it in the same place every time https://twitter.com/FIFAcom/status/1768314114433024347
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Genuine out loud lol Klopp retired because he realised that annual world cups in the middle east with qualification crammed into the fixture list is about 18 months away from getting approved
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quote:From 2024 the tournament will take place annually and will have 48 participating teams divided into 4 'mini-tournaments' of 12 teams each divided into 3 groups of 4 with the winners and best runner up qualifying to the MT semi-finals and the 2 winners qualifying to the final. The winner of each MT would qualify to a 'final four' tournament with 2 semi-finals, a third place match and a final to decide the FIFA U17 World Champions.[4] wtf is this poo poo lmao
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what?
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Looking forward to the next generation of players all retiring at 27 because their legs are gone from endless youth tournaments.
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destroying childrens bodies for ekeing out the tiniest bit of profit from tournaments nobody loving watches. FIFA needs to be annihilated
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vyelkin posted:wtf is this poo poo lmao Finally mini leagues are making it to u17 tournaments Is this them trialling a different format for a 48 team world cup?
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ilmucche posted:Finally mini leagues are making it to u17 tournaments I would guess so. Also I hope everyone is prepared for the next ten years of stories about thousands of migrant workers dying on construction sites in Saudi Arabia that will make us all angry and spark zero positive change in the world.
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Nuclear Spoon posted:hey what if we held the u17 world cup EVERY year and also we held it in the same place every time Apparently FIFA announced to member countries on the 15’th November last year that any members who’s interested in hosting the next u17 wc, should do so within 3 weeks. No mention of a 5 year deal in the FIFA announcement. Denmark wrote them after 1 week, and got a confirmation of the bid. FIFA would return later on regarding the bid. Denmark never heard anything from FIFA, until last week where they publicly announced Qatar & Morocco would host it the next 5 years. Ekstra Bladet(danish newspaper) has asked FIFA the following questions, but has yet to receive a response. Why do you choose to hold the final rounds in a country that violates human rights? What considerations have you made about being part of Qatar's sports washing? How much money do you receive from Qatar to hold the World Cup with them? You want to spread football even more. Wouldn't it be better to hold the finals in different countries? https://ekstrabladet.dk/sport/fodbold/landsholdsfodbold/fifa-haengte-dbu-til-toerre/10177221
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it's very funny to me everytime "growing the game" is used with regards to football. it's football. the only thing bigger than football is earth itself which is also a kind of football
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Nuclear Spoon posted:it's very funny to me everytime "growing the game" is used with regards to football. it's football. the only thing bigger than football is earth itself which is also a kind of football growing the [size of the bank accounts owned by the people who manage the] game
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I'm glad they're growing the game in countries where they can't grow grass and the population as a whole couldn't care less about football
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Nobody cares about the u17 WC anyway, it’s just a blindly obvious way for Qatar to bribe FIFA, and nobody will do anything
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:Nobody cares about the u17 WC anyway, it’s just a blindly obvious way for Qatar to bribe FIFA, and nobody will do anything Ya it's exclusively to solve the problem of "our Swiss banks are known to cooperate with American law enforcement, we need to now physically collect the money and not use a wire transfer."
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FIFA has always been corrupt bastards, but at least for the last WC they were being questioned, and scrutinised for their choices. It’s worrying that they are now just doing it quite blatantly and gives zero fucks. I guess we are back to the old discussion, that the only thing which would actually work is if the top10 teams would pull out and start their own association.
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I mean violence would also work
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JunkDeluxe posted:FIFA has always been corrupt bastards, but at least for the last WC they were being questioned, and scrutinised for their choices. Why would the top 10 teams pull out? I don't know where people get this idea that FIFA is at odds with the big federations when they do poo poo like this. Like, the main people pushing for Qatar 2022 were Gondrona, Teixeira, Beckenbauer and Platini. AFA, CBF, DFB, UEFA. The maneuvering so that it has to be Saudi Arabia in 2034 was done by UEFA and Conmebol.
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The team ranked 170th has the same vote as the team ranked 1st and they all like money. The idea of some noble federations breaking away into... something is a bit far fetched
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I remember on this very thread 10 years ago goons going "FIFA is gonna keep hosting stuff in shady nations because there's no way the US would give fifa all the things it demands." Turns out those goons were right about FIFA hosting stuff in shady nations. They just were wrong about the US not being shady (or the existence of any non shady nations).
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joepinetree posted:I remember on this very thread 10 years ago goons going "FIFA is gonna keep hosting stuff in shady nations because there's no way the US would give fifa all the things it demands." I think the 2026 World Cup was almost a necessity. It was selected while the charges were ongoing, while there was max scrutiny on the org, and fit into their at-the-time policy of continental rotation. Plus, as has been said before, the 1994 World Cup made buckets of money. If you can't skim off the top with construction contracts, the only other place to make money is TV, ticket sales, and sponsorships, and North America is about as good as it gets from that perspective. It couldn't be a country in Europe, and no other countries had the guts to put in bids that would be subject to criminal discovery in the (at-the-time) ongoing investigations.
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Pook Good Mook posted:I think the 2026 World Cup was almost a necessity. It was selected while the charges were ongoing, while there was max scrutiny on the org, and fit into their at-the-time policy of continental rotation. Plus, as has been said before, the 1994 World Cup made buckets of money. If you can't skim off the top with construction contracts, the only other place to make money is TV, ticket sales, and sponsorships, and North America is about as good as it gets from that perspective. Nah, it wasn't a necessity. They aren't doing this against their interests. The US, like every other nation, is fully onboard with the corruption. Hell, the US got 2 Copa Americas and the club world cup to boot. There's no good guys in football, and people are delusional if they don't think the US, UEFA, CONCACAF and Conmebol are fully onboard with this poo poo.
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It's corruption/bribes all around and Qatar and the Saudis are just the best at doing it right now
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Looking forward to the 2034 World Cup https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/1773558172269105234
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joepinetree posted:Nah, it wasn't a necessity. They aren't doing this against their interests. The US, like every other nation, is fully onboard with the corruption.
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lomzus posted:Looking forward to the 2034 World Cup lmfao this is like some horrible trifecta of sportswashing, state repression, and religious persecution
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joepinetree posted:Nah, it wasn't a necessity. They aren't doing this against their interests. The US, like every other nation, is fully onboard with the corruption. Eh, I don't think it's the US per se, more CONCACAF being CONCACAF. The Copa America thing if def just CONMEBOL/CONCACAF doing their normal grift. The US will gladly host any and all tournaments and won't be doing the usual bribing etc. But it's also the home of giant crowds, tv, and nebulous promoters. It's a lot easier to get paid in the US than in all of the other countries in this hemisphere.
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