NMQ 222 Posted October 4, 2023 #11 Share Posted October 4, 2023 41 minutes ago, 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. 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. Josh and thepharoah 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,570 Posted October 4, 2023 #12 Share Posted October 4, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, 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 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 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,570 Posted October 4, 2023 #13 Share Posted October 4, 2023 And yeah, Saudi Arabia seems super likely for 2034. Good thing North Korea isn't rich or we'd be having every event there orangeman and Josh 2 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDOG 2,199 Posted October 4, 2023 #14 Share Posted October 4, 2023 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. NearPup, Josh and hckošice 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,604 Posted October 4, 2023 #15 Share Posted October 4, 2023 49 minutes ago, 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. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,285 Posted October 4, 2023 #16 Share Posted October 4, 2023 5 minutes ago, 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. 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 Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,285 Posted October 4, 2023 #17 Share Posted October 4, 2023 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 Gianlu33 and Josh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmitry 92 Posted October 4, 2023 #18 Share Posted October 4, 2023 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,570 Posted October 4, 2023 #19 Share Posted October 4, 2023 (edited) 45 minutes ago, hckošice said: They could organize let say half of the groups in S. America, the other in Europe. 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 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDOG 2,199 Posted October 4, 2023 #20 Share Posted October 4, 2023 (edited) 33 minutes ago, 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 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 Griff88, Roamingrover86 and hckošice 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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