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So… after the ridiculous peace prize trump is now even forcing FIFA to manipulate the game in their favour.

If Europe had any balls we would just go home and start a new organisation to replace the corrupt FIFA. We should have never even accepted to play in trumpistan

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I remember being pleased when we got rid of Blatter

    I guess I thought he was the bottom of the barrel

  • recursivepickle@piefed.socialEnglish
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    24 days ago

    The real irony, which I’m sure is lost on Trump, is that Balogun is only able to play for the US due to his birthright citizenship, something the Trump administration is actively trying to get rid of.

    Balogun played for England until 2023.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      23 days ago

      “Birthright” is such a terrible term for that way of obtaining citizenship.

      Isn’t it also a “birth right” to get citizenship based on the citizenships of the parents who gave birth to you?

      Jus soli is “birthright”, jus sanguinis is also “birthright”. It’s only naturalization that is a way to get citizenship that isn’t a result of your birth.

  • myster0n@feddit.nlEnglish
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    24 days ago

    There is only one possible path we can take now, however terrible it may seem to some : we have to root for Belgium to win that match.

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Bends the knee? Hell, they’d open wide enough for him to go balls deep if he just asked. They’d give the rustiest of trombones…the reachiest of reach arounds. We haven’t even talked about the mahogany canoes…

    • john_t@piefed.eeEnglish
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      24 days ago

      Yeah. They even used “forcing FIFA”. Just like I “force” my landlord to give me a place to live in exchange of rent.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I had heard some initial reports that it was suspended due to the way it being reviewed was against the rules. Something about using slow-mo before calling for the review or something. I had hoped that was the case, because this was the alternative. My already extreme disgust for FIFA somehow got way worse.

    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgEnglish
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      24 days ago

      I doubt it. All the big clubs profit from it and seem to be doing well with all the money they pay players and management. A new football association would not have the sponsors, name brand recognition and relations behind it to get FIFA clubs play against non FIFA clubs.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        24 days ago

        Soooo…fans need to start boycotting sponsors until FIFA cleans house or a new association props up?

  • MrNesser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    24 days ago

    He & FIFA have basically invalidated every red card in the tournament.

    If it doesnt stick for the USA it shouldnt stick for anyone else.

    World football really needs to move away from FIFA as an organisation.

    • moustachio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 days ago

      They absolutely should, but they won’t because Europe has no backbone when it comes to FIFA.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Most likely the real story is that money changed hands. These old corrupt bastards aren’t that complicated, even though they are secretive.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      24 days ago

      The way things are done nowadays, the payment is done later with highly paid “opportunities” offered to the people who did him that “favor”.

      That’s how politicians who do favors to the right people end up nominated to highly paid political positions or get non-executive board memberships, gold plated consulting gigs or millionaire “speech circuit” gigs in companies of a domain they have no expertise at all in but whose top companies they helped a lot.

      During your time holding decision maker power you make “friends” with your executive, legislative or legal decision of people who are either very wealthy or hold power to nominate people to very lucrative sinecures and later they “reciprocate that friendship”. This by the way also applies inside the Private sector - for example with Fund Managers buying a lot of services from some specific Investment Banks and later, by an amazing coincidence, ending up a Traders in said banks.

      As for the public sector, all you have to do is look at the sources of income after they left of plenty of ex-POTUS or ex-EU Commission members and compare it which who they favored whilst in power.

      • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        23 days ago

        So when my company holds a “con” and invites all kinds of useless speakers to babble for a few minutes, is that all just a scam that they’re running to pay each other.

  • itisileclerk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    24 days ago

    When the USA loses in the round of 16 to Belgium, Trump will call Infantino and tell him to change the score.

  • notannpc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I mean, that criminal investigation didn’t go away just for the made up FIFA peace prize. This was inevitable.