Author Topic: On the Eve of the new Season...  (Read 1443444 times)

slappy

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3975 on: May 16, 2014, 01:10:31 pm »
FIFA president Sepp Blatter awarding World Cup to Qatar in 2022 was ?of course? a mistake
http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/fifa-president-sepp-blatter-awarding-world-cup-to-qatar-in-2022-was-of-course-a-mistake/story-e6frf423-1226920623265

yes...but the bribes were oh so nice and big..

FIFA is a mafia.


Russia for 2018 and then Qatar 2022... tells you all you need to know.

Don't know which is worse the IOC or FIFA.

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3976 on: June 02, 2014, 09:50:27 am »
Corruption allegations rock Qatar's successful 2022 World Cup bid
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/02/sport/football/football-qatar-world-cup-sunday-times/index.html
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atomic

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3977 on: June 02, 2014, 11:28:31 am »
Corruption allegations rock Qatar's successful 2022 World Cup bid
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/02/sport/football/football-qatar-world-cup-sunday-times/index.html

I was thinking: why would you bribe to hold an event no one cares about?  But then I guess this is a pretty big deal in some countries. 

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3978 on: June 02, 2014, 11:47:20 am »
Corruption allegations rock Qatar's successful 2022 World Cup bid
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/02/sport/football/football-qatar-world-cup-sunday-times/index.html

I was thinking: why would you bribe to hold an event no one cares about?  But then I guess this is a pretty big deal in some countries. 

And by 'in some countries' you mean the rest of the entire world.

atomic

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3979 on: June 02, 2014, 01:37:50 pm »
Corruption allegations rock Qatar's successful 2022 World Cup bid
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/02/sport/football/football-qatar-world-cup-sunday-times/index.html

I was thinking: why would you bribe to hold an event no one cares about?  But then I guess this is a pretty big deal in some countries. 

And by 'in some countries' you mean the rest of the entire world.

Canadians don't care about soccer do they? 

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3980 on: June 02, 2014, 02:06:17 pm »
Canadians don't care about soccer do they? 

They're not really a separate country are they?  I've always considered them the 51st state.  Take that Puerto Rico!
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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3981 on: June 02, 2014, 02:14:38 pm »
Corruption allegations rock Qatar's successful 2022 World Cup bid
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/02/sport/football/football-qatar-world-cup-sunday-times/index.html

so not surprisin...how else could anyone explain them being selected....



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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3984 on: June 05, 2014, 03:45:18 pm »
No this doesn't have me excited, AT ALL.

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3985 on: June 06, 2014, 10:18:22 am »
just keeps rolling on in...

17 Reasons Why The Qatar World Cup Is Going To Be A Disaster
http://www.businessinsider.com/qatar-world-cup-disaster-2014-6
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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3986 on: June 06, 2014, 03:46:10 pm »
just keeps rolling on in...

17 Reasons Why The Qatar World Cup Is Going To Be A Disaster
http://www.businessinsider.com/qatar-world-cup-disaster-2014-6


7. Playing it in winter will totally screw up the European leagues.

this could be crazy if all the big name players won't participate and then sending the b-team to the WC

17. They probably won't sell beer in the stadiums

YIKES!
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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3987 on: June 06, 2014, 03:55:06 pm »
16. It'll get drowned out by football in America.
 
The World Cup is the only time when mainstream America pays attention to soccer. If it has to compete with the NFL it'd be a disaster, especially if it's held in January and goes up against the playoffs.



No one in America cares about the World Cup.  They can hold it on the 4th of July and people still won't care.  Most of the reason given are pretty lame except the worker conditions and the lack of beer. 


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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3988 on: June 06, 2014, 04:06:48 pm »


No one in America cares about the World Cup.  They can hold it on the 4th of July and people still won't care.  Most of the reason given are pretty lame except the worker conditions and the lack of beer. 



No one?

Plenty of people do..Its full of bars that show Premier League and people go on weekends to watch the games early in the morning! You don't see all the people driving cars with Barcelona, Real or whatever logos? I guess hispanics Americans don't count for you??? 53 million plus of them don't count? They're nobodies.

And they're not even the ones watching Premier League games...

The MLS League? Nobody cares about that...Nobody in Seattle cares..they only average about 44,000 plus for home games!!!!!!! Those people don't exist in the Atomic world.

Come on now dude... the "nobody in the US cares about soccer" argument is played out man... the new New York City Football Club just signed David Villa for crying out loud. You may not know who he is but plenty of people do.





atomic

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3989 on: June 06, 2014, 04:21:10 pm »


No one in America cares about the World Cup.  They can hold it on the 4th of July and people still won't care.  Most of the reason given are pretty lame except the worker conditions and the lack of beer. 



No one?

Plenty of people do..Its full of bars that show Premier League and people go on weekends to watch the games early in the morning! You don't see all the people driving cars with Barcelona, Real or whatever logos? I guess hispanics Americans don't count for you??? 53 million plus of them don't count? They're nobodies.

And they're not even the ones watching Premier League games...

The MLS League? Nobody cares about that...Nobody in Seattle cares..they only average about 44,000 plus for home games!!!!!!! Those people don't exist in the Atomic world.

Come on now dude... the "nobody in the US cares about soccer" argument is played out man... the new New York City Football Club just signed David Villa for crying out loud. You may not know who he is but plenty of people do.






DC United has over half of RFK seating eliminated for their games.  And looking at the crowd it looks like mostly illegal immigrants.  Soccer is way down on the list of favorite sports for Americans...behind NFL Football, Baseball, NBA Basketball, College Basketball, Nascar, College Football, Golf...

Maybe you see a lot of that stuff in DC because there are a lot of foreigners livng there.   But I am talking about people born in America.   They don't like soccer.  We don't even have a DC United thread on here.  We have three baseball threads. 

My point being they don't need to make any altercations to their schedule for us.  We won't care either way.  Let them played in Quatar or Russia as I am sure they will appreciate a heck of lot more than us. 

People watch Premier games because they are anglophiles.  If people like soccer here they wouldn't be watching premier games anyway they would have the best soccer players in the world here and they would support their local teams.  DC united average 13k fans a game last year.