Ninja Scooter
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It's the money. For all of the corrupt fucks involved a country with no infrastructure is probably preferable because they can take their cut of the contracting.
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Donald Trump could wreck the US' chances of hosting the 2026 World Cup
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It's the money. For all of the corrupt fucks involved a country with no infrastructure is probably preferable because they can take their cut of the contracting.
Vicetrailia
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For travel restrictions Trump could just make exemptions during the peroid.
Alex_Mexico
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Yup. If this corrupt fucks didn't cross that line of Qatar 2022 they could still be in office accepting bribes and kickbacks. They're the perfect example of flying too close to the sun.
sturgboski
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Pfft his fan base doesnt care. If it was a sport a shooting unarmed minorities, wildlife or I guess car wrecks or American football, maybe.
The axis of evil with America
Alex_Mexico
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Gotta love how in the US soccer is seen like a liberal's sport. Something only enjoyed by "communist loving progressists" when it couldn't possibly be a more conservative sport. And more capitalistic than, say American football.
In soccer they don't have salary caps or draft pick order priority given to the worst teams. That's why you have sometimes only two top teams dominating in some European leagues. If anything the NFL is more communist than world soccer. Also this sport is the last major sport in the world to embrace technology as help for referees. They just accepted goal line tech in 2014 and are studying replays as an option.
It doesn't get more conservative than soccer when you talk about team sports.
The term snowflake is really lame, but I digress
There's only been one joint World Cup in history (Japan & South Korea) The idea was never a serious one.
If it's going to a North American country, it'll be USA. Canada has the infrastructure, but artificial playing surfaces would be a problem. They were fine for the Women's World Cup, but the big national associations won't want their prize cows playing on plastic fields
I would like USA 2026 and China 2030 or an AU-NZ 2030 joint bid(very hard given that AU is in the Asian Federation and NZ in the Oceania one)
Yes I know about Uruguay 1930, but I'm Argentinian and don't want to throw money away in a joint bid.
Edit: Just realized that if Europe doesn't get a WC before 2034 that would be 28 years since the last one in western Europe(!)
Yes I know about Uruguay 1930, but I'm Argentinian and don't want to throw money away in a joint bid.
Edit: Just realized that if Europe doesn't get a WC before 2034 that would be 28 years since the last one in western Europe(!)
Do Americans even want the World Cup hosted there? It's the WORLD, not America Cup, that means a bunch of dirty illegal foreigners are coming in. I think Republicans and Trump supporters probably don't want this to happen anyway, so this is actually good news for them. Tourism and its associated industries are evil anyway since they just cater to foreigners.
Mysterious
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Toronto-New York-Chicago-Montreal-Philadelphia
Hoping by then NYCFC works out a place for their stadium within the 5 boroughs.
so you are saying something good can come from trump being president?
this and the olympics both tend to just cost countries a ton of money don't they?
I'd rather not waste tax money on either *shrugs*
I know it won't be put to good use with the administration either way but still.
this and the olympics both tend to just cost countries a ton of money don't they?
I'd rather not waste tax money on either *shrugs*
I know it won't be put to good use with the administration either way but still.
BrianRoyale
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Do we even want to host the World Cup? Seems like a money pit for the country and a cash win for FIFA.
gutter_trash
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the World Cup is not a money pit if you are already Stadium Ready and transit ready
gutter_trash
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Montrealer here,
the Olympic Stadium is garbage, astroturf.
The Saputo Staidum is too small in terms of seating capacity
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The Trump supporters in my life will be happy if we lose a World Cup bid because they don't want stadiums full of foreigners raping and murdering everyone in sight every time a game lets out.
Your right. America is finished. Countries will never want to associate with America again. The world? Screw America. Screw NAFTA. Screw American buying imports from other countries. Screw American exports. America's done.
And damn, corrupt FIFA won't allow the World Cup in America because of their ethics. But I guess having it in Russia in 2018 was okay because Russia paid all that money.
World Cup doesn't require any new stadiums for the United States. The 1994 World Cup still holds the highest attendance for any world cup because we already have football stadiums that easily handle it. The finals would probably be in the new Rams stadium that'll open in a couple years that's privately financed.
Dreams-Visions
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Why would we want World Cup?
perfectchaos007
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Oh NOW FIFA wants to play the morality card? When they gave the last WC to fucking Qatar and all of their human rights violations? Pfft, ANY COUNTRY can get a world cup if they throw enough money at FIFA.
ah, I guess it wouldn't be that bad then.
Alex_Mexico
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Russia plays in UEFA. You own that shit, lol. Western or otherwise Russia counts as a WC held in Europe as far as FIFA is concerned.
If CONCACAF gets 2026 it would've been 32 years since the last WC held in this region btw.
I don't see any references to morality though. FIFA aren't going to let the US host it if they won't guarantee that all players will be able to participate.
The Omega Man
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He should get Ann Coulter to organize it, I've heard she loves Fútbol
RedAssedApe
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yeah its pretty much mad libs at this point
Yeah I know, I'm just saying that it's a crazy development given that "western Europe, somewhere else, western Europe" has been how it was done since post WW2 until Germany 2006.
Alex_Mexico
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LMAO.
How could I forget that opinion piece she did during 2014's WC. Jesus Christ....
Alex_Mexico
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From 1930 to 2002 that "somewhere else" was always the Americas. Now with 2018 Europe will have to wait a record 12 years to host again when it used to be every 8. It also took until 2002 to host it outside of Europe/Americas (it was Asia) and until 2010 for Africa.
Also when Brazil hosted it was the first time in 36 years since a WC was held by CONMEBOL (South America).
Europe had it great, not to mention the schedule for games always catering to European tv hours. During the 1986 Mexico WC games were routinely held at noon in the scorching June Mexican heat just to accomodate a 7pm time for Europe. Nevermind people over here trying to watch weekday games in the middle of the day while at work.
ExplodingKetchup
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Nooo pls I want to go to a world cup game!!!
Dark Ninja
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Good send the World Cup and Olympics to bring down the other countries. The greatest weapon.
CyclopsRock
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What are you talking about? "Have to"? They don't have to. No one is telling them to. It was the associations themselves that were considering it to improve their chances. And European countries have banded together before to host international tournaments.
That's never going to happen. They're going to be in Yankee Stadium forever.
It's not so much morality as it is entire teams wouldn't be allowed to enter the US to compete due to Trump's ban.
BigJonsson
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andythinkpad
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Who fucking cares. Can US make it to 2026?
Can we make it to March 26?
andythinkpad
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What will happen on March 26? Kim 3 will nuke california?
The World Cup is huge in the US, and we've hosted it before. Hell, the last time the US hosted the World Cup everyone made tons and tons of money off it.
Ah ok, thanks.
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