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Time for America to roll its sleeves up and save soccer once again.
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With 4 team groups the level of play in the group stage is now likely to drop off considerably. In the 3-team groups, it was planned that 2 teams were going to advance, meaning there would always be notably weaker team to round out the 3. With groups of 4 I'm expecting there will now be 2 good teams, one average team, and one abysmal team in every group. Congratulations and welcome to your first World Cup Thailand, enjoy losing by 8 every game while the other teams try and pad their GD.
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Mar 14, 2023 16:19
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Simplex posted:Nah I'm expecting: I think Qatar still fails to qualify out of Group A
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Mar 14, 2023 20:08
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vyelkin posted:United Passions-rear end football game Player-card unlocks but every card is just Sepp Blatter.
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Mar 17, 2023 14:47
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xK1 posted:I'm pretty sure they were already having to pay the leagues for rights, I think FIFA just gets the name and the World Cup. Ya EA is going to sell a game called "Ultimate Soccer/Football 2024" or something and will put Messi on the cover and make nearly as much as they made with the FIFA name. EA still has the contract with the players' unions and the leagues.
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Mar 17, 2023 15:24
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Watch them put games in Medina and Mecca.
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Oct 31, 2023 15:29
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If it's possible, Saudi is even less welcoming to tourists than Qatar. Absolutely no one will be at this loving tournament..
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Nov 1, 2023 01:20
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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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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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