America now FIFA's savior

[bore]

Good work. Now give us a World Cup damnit.

If both 2018 and 2022 get re-votes, USA is probably the only country with the infrastructure available to organize an entire world cup in less than three years. Hell, the state of Texas alone has enough stadiums to do it

I think most of the big european countries could do it quite easily as well - they certainly have enough stadiums to not need more than one or two upgrades/new builds.

[Simfan34]

Former President of CBF (Brazilian Confederation of Football), José Maria Marin, served as governor of São Paulo between 1982-83. He was lieutenant to Paulo Maluf (PP-SP), who is also wanted by American justice.

Of course he would have been deputy to Maluf...

I'd be surprised if Russia gets its hosting revoked, but Qatar, considering the slave labor conditions in building the infrastructure, and the fact there are reports that over a thousand migrant workers have died already, seems likely. And that would give seven years.

This raises in interesting point:

If Blatter is re-elected as FIFA president and Michel Platini gets enough support for his proposed withdrawal of UEFA (of which Russia is a member) from FIFA, can the world cup still take place in Russia and can Russia still participate in the world cup?

Of course, the easiest solution for Russia would simply to switch membership from UEFA to the pro-Blatter Asian Football Confederation I guess.

You mean the Arab Football Federation?

[The Dowager Mod]

Sepp Blatter just resigned, guess the money trail finally reached him. LOL.

[7,052,770]

Good work. Now give us a World Cup damnit.

If both 2018 and 2022 get re-votes, USA is probably the only country with the infrastructure available to organize an entire world cup in less than three years. Hell, the state of Texas alone has enough stadiums to do it

I think most of the big european countries could do it quite easily as well - they certainly have enough stadiums to not need more than one or two upgrades/new builds.

Why don't they make a "rule" that from now on, World Cups only play in existing stadiums, rather than building a wasteful slew of new ones every time?

There are dozens of countries that have enough high-enough-capacity stadiums to host it. Hell, with some clever scheduling you could host one in Mississippi alone.


While we're on the subject, how much progress has been made in Qatar's stadium building? The only thing more wasteful than building all of those stadiums just for the World Cup would be to build a bunch of stadiums for nothing...

[morgieb]

Good work. Now give us a World Cup damnit.

If both 2018 and 2022 get re-votes, USA is probably the only country with the infrastructure available to organize an entire world cup in less than three years. Hell, the state of Texas alone has enough stadiums to do it

Our sporting infrastructure is fine. Lots of big rectangular stadiums here, though obviously not as much as there is in America.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I kind of want a beginning-to-end timeline of this scandal because I'm not sure I understand it very well.

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And In a spectacular bit of bad timing, the U.S. now officially releases it's big budget celebratory wankfest (previously it was limited to more lucrative markets like Portugal and Azerbaijan). Some of the released scenes look hilarious.

[dead0man]

And In a spectacular bit of bad timing, the U.S. now officially releases it's big budget celebratory wankfest (previously it was limited to more lucrative markets like Portugal and Azerbaijan). Some of the released scenes look hilarious.

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Sorry, should have clarified: Fifa releases for the U.S. domestic market its own biopic, featuring Sepp Blatter as a corruption fighting, egalitarian super benevolent freedom fighter.

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It's interesting to compare this to the women's World Cup. Canada got to be host because no one else cared enough to bid. They beat China in the starting game today.

[Simfan34]

Sorry, should have clarified: Fifa releases for the U.S. domestic market its own biopic, featuring Sepp Blatter as a corruption fighting, egalitarian super benevolent freedom fighter.

It grossed something like $960 in its opening weekend.

[Simfan34]

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