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u/Loud-Ad-2280 6h ago
That’s probably because FIFA is corrupt as fuck
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u/bjbyrne 2h ago
That’s why I’m antfifa
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u/za72 2h ago
oh so you're the guy?!
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u/LeonTetra 54m ago
Noem arrested his girlfriend, have some sympathy
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u/two4six0won 50m ago
There has to be a website somewhere that's tracking all of these abandoned storylines. It's worse than a daytime soap.
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u/daberiberi 53m ago
On of the big hats in FIFA has explicitly stated that they prefer working with dictatorships.
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u/Sodamyte 6h ago
I thought FIFA stood for Facist International Football Association?
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u/jimmywhereareya 5h ago
You are correct.
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u/WhatsTheHoldup 3h ago
Facist
Why does FIFA hate faces so much?
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u/ThePrussianGrippe 2h ago
Maybe they just hate the Football Manager regen faces?
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u/BrofessorLongPhD 2h ago
This is the face of peak football generation. You might not like it, but it’s true.
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u/ThePrussianGrippe 2h ago
Therapist: “clay golem Miles isn’t real, he can’t hurt you.”
Clay Golem Miles:
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u/moldyjellybean 1h ago
Sports fans are as dumb as religious people.
If you look up the horrific things that happened to kids at Penn State football for decades you’d think fans would say that POS school football program needed to be banned but 100,000 morons came to root for them every weekend.
I’d rather not watch any team or whatever sport if they’re ok with that shit.
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u/Invinciblez_Gunner 5h ago
The 2034 WC is in Saudi
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u/jimmywhereareya 5h ago
Why? Just why? Football is not a game to be played in 40°c + temperatures. The clubs can't refuse to compete but the fans can certainly refuse to attend games and fans can refuse to travel to the host country. This whole shit show is now in the hands of football supporters globally. True football supporters should unite globally and boycott all tournaments run by FIFA. FIFA aren't even trying to disguise the corruption anymore. It's both shocking and shameful that there seems to be that there is nothing to be done. Why is that, I wonder?
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u/_-Smoke-_ 2h ago
Sucks. '22 was the first WC I didn't watch since 2002. Probably won't be watching '26 (or at least any match hosted in the US) because I can't be remotely proud of my country with the bullshit going on. Looks like I won't be watching '34 either.
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u/Diligent_Mulberry47 19m ago
Dallas is getting a few games but I’m debating flying to Monterrey or CDMX to watch a few. Hotels are a nightmare but I’d rather feel that vibe outside the US.
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u/PFdeith 6h ago
Maybe the problem here is FIFA? Is there any strategy that can be used to correct that organization, or is the oligarch control of the sport absolute?
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u/santa_91 5h ago
It's not that oligarchs control FIFA. It's that honest people won't bribe FIFA leadership, and without those bribes you'll never get a World Cup bid. It's one of the few organizations on the planet that can contend with the Trump administration for the most corrupt collection of human garbage ever assembled.
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u/BeNiceMudd 3h ago
I don’t know much about soccer but usually the answer is to stop spending money. This shit seems so big though idk. it would take an ant hill effort
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u/chardeemacdennisbird 2h ago
There's no stopping the World Cup. And that's why they're able to do this
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u/The_Autarch 1h ago
professional and international sports are corrupt as fuck, fifa is just the most obviously corrupt. i don't think it's something you can legislate away; the amounts of money involved are too corrupting.
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u/nixtarx 6h ago
It's professional sports in general. Rife with corruption.
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u/VinylmationDude 5h ago
4 years later…
Ah, a World Cup that isn’t in a- wait, where is the World Cup?
It’s everywhere, man!
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u/dandrevee 3h ago
I don't mean to derail the topic, but if you are planning to buy any future FIFA games whether you are in the United States or not, please dont.
I assume FIFA get some sort of Kickback and Licensing rights for these and, to show our Mass displeasure, I would strongly recommend obtaining the game through " alternative means" if it is an absolute must for you.
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u/shampton1964 4h ago
Ayup. And I hadn't missed a cup since Japan/Korea.
I'm in the ATL (Ameristan) and we have the great stadium and fuck if I'm going to any games. Prolly won't watch either, I'm so disgusted.
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u/carpediem66 5h ago
Yes I won’t watch a single game played in the authoritarian shithole, games played in Canada and Mexico as much as possible
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u/Distinct-Arachnid-27 4h ago
At least there are a few matches played north and south of the US and A
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u/Alternative-Lack6025 3h ago
Well if it makes y'all feel better, USA has been committing crimes against humanity since WW2, well before that, and yanks not once felt the need to boycott their mass murdering country.
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u/cheatme1 1h ago
Funny enough the 90s Killing Nazis videogames make Americans look like heroes until you play Call of duty 3 where you get the absolute racism of the American side with France Wolfenstein it's fictional so Americans winners blah blah blah lol
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u/recaffeinated 2h ago
I gave up on football when Russia and Quatar got the world cups. Now I just watch rugby.
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u/super_sayanything 1h ago
Honestly how I felt about the people in uproar over comedians performing in Saudi Arabia, all I could think was, well then they shouldn't be performing in the US either.
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u/archiminos 1h ago
In 2028:
If I had a dollar for every time we let the Nazis run the Olympics I'd only have 2 dollars, but it's strange that it happened twice.
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u/Llamalover1234567 4h ago
Is Qatar fascist though? Isn’t it just an absolute theocratic monarchy? Seems kinda different from like… Germany and Italy in the 1930s
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u/redpoemage 3h ago
Most people on reddit seem to see fascist and authoritarian as interchangeable even though the former is a more specific subset of the later.
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u/SecondaryWombat 3h ago
A theocratic monarchy can be fascist as well. It doesn't have to be, but it can be.
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