aw shucks, too bad.
Well, people presumably don’t want to be arbitrarily arrested and dragged off to a concentration camp … or they just can’t stand fascists. Both are good reasons to boycott this criminal state. It’s about time, anyway, since FIFA is a plague too.
I’m not sure what’s funnier, the whining of these self-entitled business associations, the corruption exacted by FIFA, or the fact that they spent so much time fighting over who gets to shake down football fans that the fans just got up and left.
The fans left encouraged by ICE arresting and deporting anyone they can find.
And $15k visa bonds to enter the country didn’t help with traveling arrangements.
Yep, it has all been well managed. May be Demented Don is happy with his Peace Prize though a project management prize for this schemozzle is unlikely.
From his perspective, this is a win. A successful world cup would force Americans, at least temporarily, to think about the world as more than just them.
This keeps them isolated and ignorant.
The frog in the well… Votes for oligarchs.
And football fans love to be shakem down, dangle some new shirts or an “official ball” in front and they bite. Real accomplishment by fifa
They basically just put US sports prices on football. Turns out non Americans are not willing to pay the price of a season ticket for a Champions League team to watch some smaller football nations play against each other.
Yeah, they’d rather go to an oppressive country that used slave labor to build the stadium. Viture signaling at it’s best.
Yeah, they’d rather go to an oppressive country that used slave labor to build the stadium. Viture signaling at it’s best.
They are avoiding the US, try to keep up.
Ow no, anyway.
Great!!
How is this Possible? They gave Trump the PEACE PRIZE!
*“Piece of shit prize”
The field gets installed on the white house lawn after the cage match is taken down
Handing this event to Mexico, USA and Canada was a stupid idea in the first order.
When the World Cup is done in a European country, you can travel from location to location by train in a few hours, less than half a day. You can book your hotel somewhere independent of the game location, and move to all the games from there and be back for the night.
In the current event, you basically have to book a hotel in the games’ location, have to fly there, and usually rent a car there.
“We weren’t able to gouge the rubes. We may have to charge reasonable rates and still make a bit of profit. Dammit!”
The grift is fucking awful beyond belief.
No one can fucking afford to buy anything.
These companies that Mostly/only provide extraneous and unessential goods and services are about to start finding out.
I can’t figure out who actually thought any of this was a good idea other than marketing people and idiots who never planned to attend any of it. It’s phenomenally punitive to fans.
Short of having a private jet, who is going to more than 2 or 3 games? Who is honestly expected to just scamper around a region of a whole continent, then criss-cross a whole continent, to support their country other than people paid to by their country’s Ministry of Sport or something similar to attend every game? People who follow sports teams around the US during a season of anything are an infinitely tiny group.
Like a team outside of your small Group stage? Fuck you, the games are 4000km apart. Instead of enjoying games for the game itself, you can only be a nationalist.
If the winner of Group H gets to the final (lol) they will have gone from playing a territory spanning Atlanta to Jalisco, then literally bouncing back and forth between the West Coast and Texas until heading to NJ. They might have flown enough miles to circle the globe by the time they’re done.
What city will see even a notably economic benefit from what amounts to 6 weeks of highly compressed MLS setup? The only thing that’s concentrated here is taking expensive flights. Everything else is diluted to the point of being worthless.
This whole Cup should be considered a human rights abuse, by all accounts.
Yes that’s what they want, rich people from around the globe flying in to Miami and all the working class people can fuck off. Im just following what they designed.
This one, and the last two as well…
That’s another reason. Hosting a world cup in an European country where you can easily reach all game locations within a few hours by train or car is different than one where you have to fly a few hours to get to the next game.
The scale is off by orders of magnitude is the thing. Germany is the size of Wisconsin. Texas is slightly larger than France. Can Germany or France host the whole-ass World Cup by themselves? Sure can. Easily. Can Texas? Hell no. Even if just California hosted, that would make sense (with high-speed rail).
Can we stop with the usage of the word “aLaRm” on news headlines if people are not actually going to do anything?
“Alarm” doesn’t mean the person has to do anything. You can be alarmed without doing something about it
Good, i will not attend it even harder.
I really wish people would see past the nanometer thick veneer of shiny that FIFA and every big team puts on, hiding their extreme corruption and bad habit coverups.
Football (suck it, USA) has so much money being thrown at it from all sides that it’s no wonder it has some of the worst institutions running the show. Yet a LOT of people will still go out of their way to “support” the team, despite being too fucking poor for said team’s own tastes.
Football (suck it, USA)
Not gonna include Australia or Canada or Japan in sucking it?
Ireland has Gaelic football too so you have to figure out from context which football is being referred to.
We even play against the Aussies at a mix of the two football types occasionally which is called international rules.
Their lads are fucking massive as they play it professionally while Gaelic football is strictly amateur (all the money gets pumped back into local clubs which generally end up being very nice as a result).
That sounds awesome. More countries should mash up their sports and compete against each other. I’m thinking cricket + Turkish oil wrestling.
Turkish Oil wrestling + any sport …except pole vault.
Does Japan use the term Soccer?
Well they don’t have the English r sound but they say sakkaa.
Coulda been fubooru, but alas, it was not meant to be.
