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East_Clintwood dijo:
Denmark vs Ukraine was abandoned after Christian Eriksen appears to have had another heart attack on the pitch. Thankfully the pacemaker he got after the previous one appears to have done it's job and he was able to walk himself off. Even so, that has to be it for him now, right? Anyone letting him play after that is fucking insane.
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Its pretty sad that his career will end this way. Was hoping he could play this world cup and then either go back to Ajax or Odense Boldklub and finish his career where it started
Milles d'Allemagne dijo:
Shambolic that the American posters in this thread are all fat and need fat people shirts even by American inflated sizing.
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Ok euro poor. Go pay 3 of whatever unvaluable currency you use to put some ice in your drink
 
It's whatever style was the thing at the time. My shirt from 1996 is a Large but fits like XXL since that's how they were back then.
 
Speaking of shirts, I've been wondering since 1998 how Argentina's goalkeeper was able to wear a black shirt when they had their dark blue away shirts on against England. Seemed like a color clash.
 
Onni Kalsarikännit dijo:
So with the world cup starting soon I wonder: How hyped are people in your country, around you, etc and how hyped are you?
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The hype is certainly there down here in Brazil, but I feel it's been more "cautious" ever since 7x1 happened.

Back in the day, all freaking streets were painted in the national colors, with flags and decorations hung on strings across the lampposts and whatnot. Nowadays, those painted streets diminished in number, and it's mostly a sort-of corporate thing to do that in supermarkets and other commercial establishments.

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But whatever, people will still watch the games, and the celebrations and fireworks will still be heard across the streets whenever Brazil scores and wins a match.
 
This fucking game is so damn fun.

I still didn't manage to win 7-0, only 2 with 6-1


I cant believe my team played against germany 3x in a row just to lose against germany in the final

And the other run I lost the semis in penaltis because messi missed one then I list another in the alternates PK.
 
Onni Kalsarikännit dijo:
Didn't they stop this whole The Line thing bc they realized it's really fucking stupid and impossible to build?
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Some fun excerpts from Wikipedia:

> The initial plan called for the city to span 170 kilometres (110 mi) at a height of 500 m (1,600 ft) and a width of 200 metres (660 ft), with the capacity to accommodate a population of 9 million (25% of Saudi Arabia's 2022 population of 35.5 million)

> Saudi Arabia stated that it aimed to complete a 5 km (3.1 mi) segment by 2030, with completion of the full 170 km (110 mi) project in 2045. In 2024, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reported that the first phase would only be 2.4 km (1.5 mi) long; Saudi officials denied this and stated that the project was continuing as planned

> In 2024, after $50 billion had been spent, the project was reported to be facing problems of large cost increases, many long delays, and a possible lack of sufficient inhabitants to make the city a modern business hub

> The Wall Street Journal said that a 2023 draft board presentation estimated completion in 2080 at a cost of $8.8 trillion—25 times the annual Saudi budget—and $370 billion by 2035 for the first phase, mostly funded by the Saudi state, with the hope of later private investment.

Dixieland Buckaroo dijo:
That said, the US kits are moving.
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Other than the big, awkward blank space in the back, I genuinely like the 2026 US kits. The only other one that I like more is the 1994 away kits.
 

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Chad Holdenford dijo:
The hype is certainly there down here in Brazil, but I feel it's been more "cautious" ever since 7x1 happened.

Back in the day, all freaking streets were painted in the national colors, with flags and decorations hung on strings across the lampposts and whatnot. Nowadays, those painted streets diminished in number, and it's mostly a sort-of corporate thing to do that in supermarkets and other commercial establishments.

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But whatever, people will still watch the games, and the celebrations and fireworks will still be heard across the streets whenever Brazil scores and wins a match.
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Here's something to think about.... every World Cup held in a CONCACAF country has had a South American winner.
 
cypocryphy dijo:
Here's something to think about.... every World Cup held in a CONCACAF country has had a South American winner.
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2030 will be fun then. Being held jointly between Spain. Portugal and Morocco.
But, seeing as it is the tournaments 100th birthday, the first three games will be held Montevideo, Uruguay, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Estadio Asunción, Paraguay.

That should ensure FIFA a big payday!
 
Just a reminder that there's a round of 32 this year, in addition to the round of 16. So only 16 teams get knocked out before the elimination rounds (every 4th place team and the 4 worst 3rd place finishers; 8 3rd place teams will advance)- so your team is likely to make the knockouts (and possibly make history by getting knocked out in an entirely new way).

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Tom Nook's Gloryhole dijo:
I'm loving the forced controversy of the world cup mind, the media are full on with "The US is a fascist dictatorship" and it's funny as fuck. Turns out, if you've got a criminal record you can't get into the US and that's somehow incredibly surprising to travelers.
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I think they're just used to it being such a big event elsewhere that normal policies are suspended whereas the US populace mostly doesn't care and thus the potential political fallout is negligible.

tbh I have very little sympathy because the reason it's even here in the first place is that so few countries are willing to host. FIFA has priced themselves out of pretty much everywhere except the rich world and people are shocked to discover that rich world actually has rules and laws.
 
Fcret dijo:
I think they're just used to it being such a big event elsewhere that normal policies are suspended whereas the US populace mostly doesn't care and thus the potential political fallout is negligible.

tbh I have very little sympathy because the reason it's even here in the first place is that so few countries are willing to host. FIFA has priced themselves out of pretty much everywhere except the rich world and people are shocked to discover that rich world actually has rules and laws.
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Bullshit.

Morocco wanted to host this year cup and got outbid by US, and they still hosted Afcon recently.

There are so many countries that still want to host it. Or do you think China doesn't want the world to see them hosting a big event after the 2008 Olympics that was a gigantic success?

The truth here is that anyone who doomposts about this WC is correct but FIFA is even more of a culprit because of their past decisions. The Copa America 2024 Final was a gigantic redflag and the teams suffered stuff that wouldn't fly anywhere else (literally football pitches with wrong dimensions). Then the clubs WC happened and it went mostly alright. Except the retarded weather stoppage that american law has that stopped some games for hours. So what FIFA did? Moved the competition to another date that isn't summer so rain can't delay matches? Nah, still let it happen in summer when in 1994 it was proven as a fucking mistake. And what about the amenities that Qatar had in 2022 with a gigantic aircon? Where is it for both players and public?

And their shit decisions isn't just affecting whoever goes to the events, but whoever is watching from home with shit angles, bad camera layout, really bad zooms since they hired american companies to do it. The Argentina x Iceland friendly will start now and even the hymn section is gutted with the most dogshit angles ever seen.

I just hope the games are good enough DESPITE both FIFA and Americans trying to ruin the tournament with every decision they make.

Edit: and let me remind you of Confederation Cup that existed was held in order to test the host nation before the world cup and the two tournaments that USA held showcased lots of failures. What if one match gets delayed a single day only because of the weather? What happens to the other matches that needs to have 3 days of rest before it?
 
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