FIFA International Match Calendar: Proposed Changes & General Discussion

How about tying it to cosmic events such as a blue moon? This is surely what the celestial Gods would want.

 

You have to register yourself as a country with your confederation to be included. There's nothing in the rulebook that forces you to take part.
Any such rule would be torpedoed by the European Supreme Courts as abuse of power anyway.

 

Who is Gustavo López?

 

Gustavo López is an Argentine sports journalist for ESPN and La Red. Which means it could be true information or baseless rumours.

 

That's not the journalist, that's a random person from Florida

 

Random person equals subject matter expert in the Twitterverse.

 

I got to hand it to you, man
It is a joy to watch some of your posts

You got a great sense of humour

 

I'm not sure we will know if it's a game changer after one match.

The first European Cup final in Paris had an attendance of 38,000 in a stadium that held close to 50,000.

The second European Cup final was in Madrid and featured Real Madrid, so the attendance was 124,000. That really made the tournament come alive.

 

Why are they waiting so long to play the inter-continental playoffs? They are waiting until like the 14th day of the FIFA window to actually play the NZ-Costa Rica match. Easily had time to play a two-legged playoff. NZ had to schedule a needless friendly against Peru just to avoid the rust from setting in.

 

could someone post a link to the official FIFA webpage that sets out clearly what qualifying matches are remaining and when they are being played?

 

https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/qatar2022/qualifiers

Basically there are 4 matches left:
7 June: UAE v Australia
13 June: UAE/Australia winner v Peru
14 June: Costa Rica v New Zealand
Sept: Brazil v Argentina

The first 3 are all in Qatar with kickoff times of 2:00p EDT/20h00 Paris

 

Thanks for the reply.
I understand what games are left, but unless I'm missing something that link does not show them, does it?

 

Hasn't Brazil - Argentina been postponed?

 

Postponed, yes.
Cancelled, no. FIFA wants it to be played.

 

Conmebol has to be the most parasitic organization in soccer.

 

That's a good decision. The last expansion was only in 2016. It's way too early to even thing about another expansion. For some of the lesser sides (end 2nd tier and 3rd tier sides) qualfying for the EUROs should remain an achievement to be proud off. E.g. Kosovo qualfying for a 24 team EURO tournament would be far more impressive than for a 32 team EUROs.

We don't need to further dilute the tournament.