Results for tag: Fifa
Posted by:
CoinFlip
on Dec 2, 2010 at 04:28:23 PM
For those unsure on the merits of the two countries to be holding the next World Cups...
|| ||Russia||Qatar||
||Rivals || Two of the 4 favourites to win the last World Cup || Two countries holding the tournament in the last 20 years and one who can't pay people to go to club matches ||
||Temperature || Warm but mild in summer || Hot enough to make a Brazilian baulk ||
||Population || 141m || 1.4m ~3x the amount of people who will attend English professional football each week ||
||National Team will... || Play impressive football but lose bravely in the semis || hopefully still exist by then but even in 10 years will be worse than Austria were ||
||Fans will...|| Hopefully turn out in numbers pending FIFA ticket policy, European fans will help numbers|| Presumably be shipped in ...
Posted by:
CoinFlip
on Dec 1, 2010 at 02:18:17 PM
It's sometimes hard to understand exactly why football has become the global dominating force which it now represents when it seems to have almost completely eroded any goodwill.
The truth and accuracy of the recent press allegations at FIFA officials taking bribes almost doesn't matter. FIFA's reaction has been exactly what you'd expect of a gravy train masquerading as a charity - dispute the right of the media to investigate in that manner rather than investigate or even condemn the reported offences. Many charities struggle to follow a capitalist business model to maximise profits and yet FIFA's specialisation in profit making suggest there are indeed many personal profit-driven interests within the business.
In the World Cup in South Africa, GDP increase for the economy was...