2026 World Cup to have 48 teams, 3 16 team groups?

That's his way of joshing around with his good buddy Macron

But honestly, who cares? Fuck FIFA

 

agreed, I just wanted the world cup when my sons will be 12 and 10. Cool memories.

 

There's still a chance. I'm fine lying in this bed that Loretta Lynch made. At least the spotlight is on them now. The governance is fucked though (small countries = large countries)

 

I'm ignorant to the situation but really?

 

It's a joke, but who knows. Could be a shot at France and him and Macron look like pals.

 

I've already accepted that we won't be getting the bid

 

Honestly I viewed it more as a shot at the specific countries and less as a direct shot as FIFA

 

I read a recent update that Morocco might not make it to the vote because of deficiencies in their bid. That gave me more hope.

 

I thought I read earlier it was confirmed that both bids will be part of the vote. I don't feel like finding the tweet again though.

 

Wahl just tweeted that both bids will be voted on after all

 

Yeah, shoulda of kept scrolling through my timeline. He retweeted that tweet that I posted and hour ago, then about 20 mins later Wahl (as well as everyone else in the world) started tweeting that both bids WILL be in the vote.

 

Common sense would suggest that FIFA trying to pull the Moroccan bid at this late stage means there are seriously fatal flaws with it.

So no way it isn't the run away winner.

 

I'm trying to picture Qatar's rating vs the US (no Canada or Mexico) when that shitshow happened.

 

Their rating was shit. Don’t remember ours.

 

Don’t know why anyone else would try to seriously challenge our bid. The only reason we weren’t awarded 18 or 22 was extreme corruption.

 

Their bid was the worse one of the bunch from what I remember, can’t find it now. Found ours and the only medium risk issues we had were: we weren’t guaranteeing them tax exempt status, needed to enact some legislation on a few items inrelation to legal issues, and travel times because the sites were spread out.

 

They’ve already picked up France and Germany supporting their bid. It’s gonna be a shit show again

 

I just read Qatar ranked 5th out of 5 and Russia ranked 4th out of 5.

 

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/s...id-they-will-vote-for-in-2026-world-cup-race/

No clue how credible that source is but I’ve been seeing twitter rumblings that SA was leaning our way for a couple weeks. I think there’s like 13 other southern African countries that will vote in a block and follow SA’s lead so that would be a huge coup.

 

I wish someone would put her in the meat grinder they put her vagina in

 

Treasonous

 

I chuckled

“Hopefully FIFA can stand up and step in and say, ‘If we’re going to reward you, let’s look at everything and point out where you can fix certain things,’” Solo said.

Her call for greater transparency from the USSF came after speaking at the London launch conference for the Foundation for Sports Integrity, which has one named official who would not disclose the source of funding for the group or who paid to hire lavish facilities at a Four Seasons hotel."

 

When will Hope Solo go away

http://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-wor...-should-not-vote-us-as-host-of-2026-world-cup

 

Are you unable to look two posts up?

 

Yes

 

Solo said. “I want to see promotion-relegation in the NASL and the MLS."


The NASL isn't even a league that's currently working haha

 

I think we can all agree that when it comes to Hope Solo nobody wants more transparency.

 

So we’ve got Concacaf, Conmebol, the South African voting bloc (10 votes), hopefully oceana follows Aus and NZ who support us. The rest of Africa will probably go Morocco, I bet UEFA goes Morocco. I’m thinking this whole thing goes down to who takes the majority of Asia and I have no confidence at all.

 

Also, the 4 US territories are allowed ti vote due to a FIFA ruling last week but news is coming out now that all 4 will abstain from voting on either bid.

 

Here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/08/sports/worldcup/fifa-vote-world-cup-2026-host.html

 

A lot of the late night stories I’m seeing are saying that the United bid will make so much more money than Morocco that we’re going to get a lot of small country votes.

 

The Times of London reporting that weve secured 130 total votes. No clue how they’re getting that number or how connected they are.

 

We just need 104. Sounds like we have 54 already locked up.

 

NYT predicting a win

https://mobile.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/06/12/sports/soccer/12reuters-soccer-fifa-2026.html

 

South Africa is for the United bid. Think we are going to pull this off

 

Fox sports go app has the presentation live and will go live on fs1 at 630am

 

Fs1 is running regular scheduled programming while checking in with Moscow periodically. Good start Fox