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Conspiracy time.
Because of the 250 years of independence, the final will be rigged to be USA/England and the USA will win controversially.
Then trump will keep the trophy
Debunked. Thank fucking Christ.
4-1 jajajaja
He already kept the FIFA trophy won by someone else and infantino had to give a copy to the winners https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fifa-soccer-club-world-cup-trophy_n_68755c06e4b0b1c6f12569ae
I'm already suspicious the USA have got as far as they have, yes Norway are ranked two places below, but Haaland is far far better than anyone the US can field. Chances are given the USA would have had plenty of Lantino countries in their qualifying group, they're only chance of getting into the World Cup was automatic due to hosting it. I don't know, maybe I'm being to harsh. Still it is utterly unbelievable that FIFA have reversed this.
It genuinely feels like group stage was scripted to get them further in the tournament because they were a host nation. The team playing last night looked very different from the group stage team.
I feel like the script was for Balogun’s red card was supposed to be the reason for them to lose; but trump wanted to insert himself into the play to look like a hero “saving balloon” so then they had to change the script on why they would lose.
The host countries are usually setup to get out of their group. US has generally been good enough on their own to get to quarterfinals when they qualify, but that’s when the real tourney begins.
Holy shit. As an American seeing the marketing and advertising for the world cup is sick. It's so cringy... I feel bad for all the authentic people that love the sport.
I wouldn't doubt if there's some business going on with FIFA on large corrupt scale though... American football is losing its pull of American culture... They needed a new sport to help them create submissive people.
It's about to get soulless like Hollywood and marketed pop music. ...and the Americans will froth over it like hungry zombies.
American football is losing popularity and we're trying to replace it with soccer? lol jesus fucking christ
I appreciate you calling me by my full name.
I thought your last name was Onnapogostik
I heard it was Inthehandholes
And here's me, loving that our sports are becoming international. The WBC this year was fucking awesome to watch imo, and I think it's cool that American football is expanding in other parts of the world. We can only imagine what an eventual "World Football Championship" would be like.
I agree it's cool on the surface... But you know it's going to lose authenticity exponentially.
That's why I feel for the people who are genuine about it. It's a double edged sword that probably won't care about the genuine people.
It's like every authentic thing America touches starts to oxidize, and rust.
I don't agree with that. Imo professional sports lost its authenticity years ago when they started letting advertisers and sponsors dictate the games.
The nail in the coffin was legalized sports gambling, and NIL in college.
I don't think the US needs a new sport, most of the country is either brain dead from American Football, Basketball, NASCAR, Baseball. Basically anything the USA has invetend for themselves and every other country couldn't give a shit about.
I wouldn't exactly throw baseball on that list. it's plenty popular in plenty of countries outside the US.
Rugby, netball, any motorsport, cricket…turns out different regions like different things, but there are often analogues.
You have named sports that aren't overtly native to one country. Yes of course the "US sports" have leaked to other countries, but they are the best at them and have a far greater following on TV, in league structure, in money pumped to and from. If the US turned its attention to sports away from what they host at home they could be world leaders in rugby, cricket, motorsport or netball, yet they're happy to just circle jerk themselves with what they already have. And I'm fine with that. They already smash athletics. I don't want them being good at everything.
Yeah most people in the US don’t give a shit about soccer, so I don’t get why you’d bother rigging it or other manipulation. Other than just because you are Trump and you just rug and grift and do shadey shit for no reason other than to do it.
They need to create new reason the human centipede reason to exist! Via the illusion of change and novelty.
You have the right of it otherwise, but one player usually can't carry a whole team on his own. Not even a phenomenon like Haaland.
Granted, they have a few other good players like Ødegaard too, but that's still not necessarily enough to beat a well-managed team and Pochettino managed a few of the biggest clubs in the world before taking the US gig.
Still, even if nothing else looks suspicious, the first withdrawn red card since 1962 at the request of the despot in charge of a host country is in itself enough to warrant an asterisk.
That might actually get people around the world to pressure their leaders to take action against the USA. From what I understand about most of the rest of the world, soccer is taken very seriously.
france will lend a player to the americans, who then goes on to score the winner in extra time.
Statue of Liberty play, right?
Maradona had the hand of god, this will be the boot of liberty, the elbow of freedom or something else utterly wank
At the end of the match, they will reveal the top scorer on french team had gotten honorary citizenship just before, so his goals will count towards usa. Fifa will protest at first, but then taco will call fifa boss again...
Will one of Starmer's last acts as PM be to try and get Quansah's red card overturned?
No, because he has some honor.
Never did. He only has ambition. Where was you when he was taking all these gifts?
does he ? when did this happen ?
You know he didn't have to resign right? He literally only did it for honor. The uk political system is driven by honor. They even pressured Boris Johnson to resign. Could you imagine a US president resigning before their term was done?
The UK hasn't had a single prime minister fill out their full term since 2015
Ah, i see the confusion now, you're talking about the "honour killings" kind of honour, the excessive toxic pride kind, like "leaving before you're kicked out to try and save face".
"I don't think i can win so i won't compete", isn't honour, it's pragmatism.
I'm not even throwing shade for it, it's a good call.
I was thinking of the idealised honour where you do the subjectively right thing, for the subjectively right reasons.
Its driven by money/power/control, same as any modern political system.
See the "leaving before you're kicked out" section from above.
I'm not sure how this is relevant but it is factual.
I absolutely agree! Honor in the sense of social obligation isn't a force for good, and can often be a very toxic force. UK politics is fundamentally broken and leads to countless problems for the people living there. I'm glad I left the country, I just try to help people be clear eyed about the ways it's different to the US, because it's very different and worth understanding on its own terms.
Nah, just the Neoliberal version of "honor", which is timidness and excessive politeness, if not less obvious collaboration.
I hate that this doesn't sound as astoundingly stupid as it should thanks to the current state of affairs.
Way to ruin the next season of Ted Lasso...
/s
I bet it'll follow this script down to a T, hehe. I'll show myself out.
Tbh I've kind of suspected this might be the outcome.
And then everyone will clap
The US will be losing and then some French players will help from the sidelines.
And then Canada will come down and set the locker room on fire
I was thinking the same thing
God, how fucking stupid would it be if this turns out to happen?
I'm saving this, just in case... maybe you got a career as psychic ahead of you.