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I was expecting Spain-Portugal, but Russia is ok and even if at first I was shocked with Quatar I wanna see what they will do with the WC. 

Im ok with the being inclusive but South Africa kinda pissed me off with the Vuvuzelas, but I dont think Ill see anything that bothers me in Russia or Quatar.

I dont think Ill be attending since it will be expensive to get there( unless Im winning lots of money if I finish my law studies) but I think Ill go to Brasil 2014, since its near and I think the atmosphere will be great. 



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It's a disgrace.

The Dutch and the English clearly had better bids than Russia.

But Qatar is a complete joke. They can't even play football there, and because of hosting the wc, they now will be qualified automatically. Because of that a country like Sweden, Denmark  or Japan won't make it to the wc.
Ridiculous.



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Kasz216 said:

Except... all the stats seem to show it hasn't... it doesn't help the countries economically and "smaller market" teams seem to shrink from the pressure rather then improve.

Heck, look at South Africa.  Anywhere else in the world... I think they preform better then they did.

 

I dont know, they had a hard group(France, Uruguay and Mexico) so I dont think results wouldve been better. They even tied with mexico which was a higher level team so maybe being home did help them.



Qatar?!?!?!?!?!?! LOL

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5887300&categoryid=2731137



Soonerman said:

Qatar?!?!?!?!?!?! LOL

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5887300&categoryid=2731137


I agree with some of the video, but no one really cares whether the Americans like football or not.



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Ajax said:
Soonerman said:

Qatar?!?!?!?!?!?! LOL

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5887300&categoryid=2731137


I agree with some of the video, but no one really cares whether the Americans like football or not.

Eh, the World Cup was advertised like crazy here. The US is easily the largest market for growth, and they've had a pretty blatant effort by FIFA to popularize the sport here.



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outlawauron said:
Ajax said:
Soonerman said:

Qatar?!?!?!?!?!?! LOL

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5887300&categoryid=2731137


I agree with some of the video, but no one really cares whether the Americans like football or not.

Eh, the World Cup was advertised like crazy here. The US is easily the largest market for growth, and they've had a pretty blatant effort by FIFA to popularize the sport here.

That actually is a fair point.  As for exapnding the soccer Audience, USA would of been huge.  Espeically with baseball seeming incredibly boring,and the Premier league getting better then expected ratings on ESPN.

Also I believe Europe can't get anothe rworldcup bid till 2030.  Isn't it that you can't host a world cup if your confederation held one of the last two?


So Conmebol, UEFA, AFC... so bids for 2026 will be probably USA, then... Argentina?  Australia and probably like... Ghana?



Its a bit disappointing reading some of opinions in this thread, many of them are ignorant, arrogant, biased and uninformed.

First of all, I'm a South African, and I'm quite proud of the world cup we hosted here earlier in the year. I think it was a successful world cup, maybe not financially but it definitely helped in bringing our country together and in many other ways. I remember reading in the newspapers about articles in overseas papers, from England and Germany to be specific, about how unprepared we were and how much of a failure it was going to be. And don't forget how dangerous it would be to come here. Well we sure proved them wrong. There was no big mess ups, aside from the guy who ran on the field and touched the cup lol, that was funny tho :D.

Anyways, back on topic, i think all the English and american fans have a right to be upset about the decisions been made. In fact i don't think many countries can compete with them when it comes to hosting a world event, they prepared, they have the fans, they have the infrastructure they have everything thats needed to host a truly successful WC. And Russia and even more so Qatar simply can't compete with that. But i think Fifa have an agenda, that agenda being spreading the world cup to all parts of the world. That is all fine with me. However my main point is, if Fifa plan on spreading the world cup around, why do they even bother letting the other countries compete? To me it was clear that Fifa wanted a world cup in a Middle East country....but then why didn't they make it a region specific WC? And some people here have said that some countries didn't get the vote because they previously held the WC not too long ago. But again why let them bid at all?

I guess i think Fifa is in the wrong here, im not sure about corruption and all that. :P I hope the world cups are a success though :D and brazil should be really fun ;) 



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Kasz216 said:
outlawauron said:
Ajax said:
Soonerman said:

Qatar?!?!?!?!?!?! LOL

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5887300&categoryid=2731137


I agree with some of the video, but no one really cares whether the Americans like football or not.

Eh, the World Cup was advertised like crazy here. The US is easily the largest market for growth, and they've had a pretty blatant effort by FIFA to popularize the sport here.

That actually is a fair point.  As for exapnding the soccer Audience, USA would of been huge.  Espeically with baseball seeming incredibly boring,and the Premier league getting better then expected ratings on ESPN.

Also I believe Europe can't get anothe rworldcup bid till 2030.  Isn't it that you can't host a world cup if your confederation held one of the last two?


So Conmebol, UEFA, AFC... so bids for 2026 will be probably USA, then... Argentina?  Australia and probably like... Ghana?

For 2026 is Conmebol, Concacaf or CAF, I think the bids could be Argentina-Chile, USA, Mexico and an African Nation, taking into account that Australia is AFC, they couldn't host it until 2034... I would love it to be Mexico 2026, England 2030 (and going back to south America in 2034)



Laurel Aitken said:
Kasz216 said:
outlawauron said:
Ajax said:
Soonerman said:

Qatar?!?!?!?!?!?! LOL

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5887300&categoryid=2731137


I agree with some of the video, but no one really cares whether the Americans like football or not.

Eh, the World Cup was advertised like crazy here. The US is easily the largest market for growth, and they've had a pretty blatant effort by FIFA to popularize the sport here.

That actually is a fair point.  As for exapnding the soccer Audience, USA would of been huge.  Espeically with baseball seeming incredibly boring,and the Premier league getting better then expected ratings on ESPN.

Also I believe Europe can't get anothe rworldcup bid till 2030.  Isn't it that you can't host a world cup if your confederation held one of the last two?


So Conmebol, UEFA, AFC... so bids for 2026 will be probably USA, then... Argentina?  Australia and probably like... Ghana?

For 2026 is Conmebol, Concacaf or CAF, I think the bids could be Argentina-Chile, USA, Mexico and an African Nation, taking into account that Australia is AFC, they couldn't host it until 2034... I would love it to be Mexico 2026, England 2030 (and going back to south America in 2034)

Not a chance in hell that it will hit Mexico in 2026. That will be the peak year of the cartels!