Men's Football FIFA World Cup 2030

[NMQ 243]

  On 10/4/2023 at 4:52 PM, Monzanator said:

Ridiculous nonsense. Good luck to teams having to travel between CONTINENTS after group stage when there's literally 4-5 days before the knockout phase. Jet lag will kill them. Expect a complete shitshow in that tournament.

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It's only the first match for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, then all the matches are played between Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Not that big of a mess. 

 

Infantino is pleasing everyone, USA in 2026, Europe in 2030, South America gets a symbolic host too, and likely Saudi Arabia in 2034. Everybody happy.

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 10/4/2023 at 5:05 PM, Olympian1010 said:

There will only be three matches held in South America. If they’re all in the group stage, it shouldn’t be too big a logistical nightmare.

 

It’s still kind of dumb, but maybe not batshit crazy 

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Honestly this is what might make it worse. Tons of people making entirely unnecessary travels for 1-3 matches....

 

Obviously it is indeed all about having paid FIFA, but they've got to make a nice story around it  

Edited October 4, 2023 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,335]

And yeah, Saudi Arabia seems super likely for 2034. Good thing North Korea isn't rich or we'd be having every event there  

[LDOG 2,418]

This is:  

 

1. Stupid.

2. Humilliating (we're being given "scraps" by the europeans).  

3. Logistically a nightmare for our teams cuz it will worsen our chances to perform in the competition.

[Monzanator 4,610]

  On 10/4/2023 at 5:37 PM, NMQ said:

It's only the first match for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, then all the matches are played between Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Not that big of a mess. 

 

Infantino is pleasing everyone, USA in 2026, Europe in 2030, South America gets a symbolic host too, and likely Saudi Arabia in 2034. Everybody happy.

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Except the teams that have to play that one game in South America and travel for the other two to Europe/Africa (FIFA got rid of the 3-team group nonsense so it will be 4-team groups again). Actually it's not that easy for the hosting teams either especially Paraguay who are far removed from their football prime. It's impossible to please everybody anyway.

[hckošice 15,101]

  On 10/4/2023 at 6:28 PM, LDOG said:

This is:  

 

1. Stupid.

2. Humilliating (we're being given "scraps" by the europeans).  

3. Logistically a nightmare for our teams cuz it will worsen our chances to perform in the competition.

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1) I´ve already seen more dumber and much more stupid things to be fair, but yeah

2) I agree. They could organize let say half of the groups in S. America, the other in Europe. then the KO round with teams travelling the globe later in Europe. Only three games is nonsense and false alms to the poor in front of the audience

3) I agree. Hopefully FIFA and organizing Committee will build the schedule in order for at least the 6 involved teams will have a longer time between their matches from S. America and Europe/Morocco

 

[hckošice 15,101]

and by the way, why exactly Paraguay ?

 

I keep thinking about it and I can nott find a single reason why. It is like someone threw a blind dart at the map and hit somewhere next to Asuncion

[Dmitry 92]

I think some European teams may send their reserve players to South America if they will play in those games

or at least to stay some of their big players in Europe without travelling across the ocean.

Edited October 4, 2023 by Dmitry

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 10/4/2023 at 6:43 PM, hckošice said:

They could organize let say half of the groups in S. America, the other in Europe.

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For the love of God and Allah and Buddah and the Spaghetti Monster and whatever, don't bring more of these ideas to FIFA for 2034, 2038 and so on  

 

Spreading it across a continent is already disastrous enough, these things should be in one country. The issue is that we've seen which kind of countries end up getting it lately when it goes to one country, so that's not promising  

Edited October 4, 2023 by heywoodu

[LDOG 2,418]

  On 10/4/2023 at 6:58 PM, hckošice said:

and by the way, why exactly Paraguay ?

 

I keep thinking about it and I can nott find a single reason why. It is like someone threw a blind dart at the map and hit somewhere next to Asuncion

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Because Conmebol HQ is in Paraguay and its president is almost always a paraguayan. They have a lot of political power. It's pretty telling that Chile doesn't get any game despite they were in the south american bid too.

Edited October 4, 2023 by LDOG