World Cup soccer/football thread
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@Daniel Gross exploitation. Dynamic ticket prices (4 US AGs have launched investigations), the water fiasco (where FIFA said it would no longer allow spectators to brings refillable water bottles to fill from taps at the statiums, forcing people to buy $5 - $10 bottled water from the concession; some sort of compromised was reached--too late), and FIFA's issuing the FIFA Peace Prize to none other than the orange menace. It's clear that FIFA is only concerned with money and they'll kiss anybody's ass for it (like much of the corporate world), not football.
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@bernard I noticed the list of their corporate partners. It reads like the list of the corporate entities backing my investment portfolio. This ubiquitous corporatism having infiltrated almost every aspect of our society is unfortunate and when it can't be escaped directly, private- public partnerships are there chasing people down in the way that Alice was famously chased down by the cards. I like football (soccer) much better than American football (which I loathe) but I'll join your boycott with pleasure not that they'll care about the money I wouldn't have spent in the first place.
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Futbol is the only game I’ll watch and the World Cup is the only time I’ll watch it.
US-Paraguay was a great match but Scotland-Haiti was even better. Haiti dominated the entire match but couldn’t figure out how to make a goal.
Fascinating.
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Unabashed corruption. Glad I'm boycotting. Why even play the game when this level of cheating exists? I can't link the article from the NYTimes because I'm not a subscriber, but these paragraphs were lifted from it...
President Trump called Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, on Wednesday and asked him to review the suspension of the United States’ top goal scorer, Folarin Balogun, after he was given a red card in the team’s match that night against Bosnia and Herzegovina. On Sunday, FIFA announced that Mr. Balogun would be eligible to play Monday against Belgium after it reversed the suspension.
The reversal is highly unusual and the first time since 1962 that FIFA has allowed a player to appear in a game when they would have been suspended. It also comes as Mr. Infantino has spent years trying to curry favor with Mr. Trump.
Last year, FIFA created and gave Mr. Trump the FIFA Peace Prize amid the president’s public, but failed, campaign to win the Nobel Peace Prize. FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Pascale Van Damme, the president of the Belgian federation, did not reply to a message seeking comment.
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