https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup Japan, Senegal, Morocco sound dangerous, if we don't observe the usual football countries. Mexican players are mostly in Mexican league? Is this their decline or their league improved so much? This world cup won't be so exciting. Many great veterans will have their last world cup. Some of them are in weaker shape.
Mexico has always had most of their squad based in their local league as far as I can remember. The thing with Mexico is that they have arguably the best league outside of Europe / South America, so you'll never know what you're getting until the actual world cup. Hmm, this has always been the case for most world cups. It's a cycle, new stars will shine while others become the veterans by the end of it. Rinse and repeat.
Socceroos make collective statement to speak out about Qatar’s human rights record | Australia | The Guardian The headline says it all. The article is free and contains links to the actual statements and video.
can someone tell me, why only american allies are complaining about Qatar? I mean Mexico, Argentina, Japan, Korea are all democracies. why is it always coming from. the same culture?
Which American allies are those? As far as I can tell, everyone is OK with RUS being kicked the heck out of Qatar 2022. By the way, *always* seems to be a loose concept here. Look at 2017, for instance. Boycott nations demand FIFA strips Qatar of 2022 World Cup - report https://www.reuters.com/article/ozasp-uk-soccer-worldcup-qatar-idAFKBN1A1070-OZASP
Whoever smelt it dealt applies well to human rights abuses tbh. Almost every country has good and bad history. We hope for a good future
I agree 2006 bye to zidane 2010 bye puyol and prime Torres 2014 ciao klose and casillas 2018 bye to E. Hazard 2022 farewell Messi n ronaldo 2006 hello Messi and Ronaldo 2010 hello sergio busquets 2014 James Rodriguez! 2018 mbappe!! 2022 ?
Can't speak to the rest, but Mexico has a long history of non-interventionism (the "Estrada Doctrine").
You didn't dream it but in the end thats not what happened. Although the air conditioning seems to knock off about ten degrees C it still means its stinking hot outside the ground.
i did not talk about Russia. I talk about the call for boycot because of human rights "concern" and simply not willing to apply western culture and standards. the 2017 initiative had nothing to do with that if you follow your own link. it dealt with terrorism allrgations. my statement was exclusively on the australian initiative and the reasons they were giving.
I should add that’s in the July period when the cup is normally held. Should be fine in November/December
I am very curious how this world cup is going to play out … too many unknowns and soooo many negative things surrounding, but it is the world cup, it is the last one in perfect format of 64 teams and the whole world will come together in one single city …. gonna be very very interesting! I‘m going thru quite complicated times… hope world cup is going to help to phase out as many things as possible and enjoy it as we always used to. last 30+ years it was live, this time it’s gonna be on the telly! one more thing to get used to!!
Apparently FIFA is threatening to kick Tunisia out of the WC due to government interference. I think it's highly unlikely but who would replace them ? Would it be Mali, or the top rated CAF side which would be Nigeria. I think that Nigeria has much more lobbying power than Mali.
or Italy as the highest ranked team of the FIFA rankings which is not qualified. other than in the case of Ecuador, Tunisia would be excluded because of gaining an advantage om the pitch by fielding an eligible player. if it will be Italy, group of light becomes group of death overnight.
you can already put modric on the "bye" list as he announced it will be his last tournament for croatia.
What about the Nations League finals? Croatia fought like crazy to get into the final four. I think he realises that this could be his farewell signing off potentially with a trophy for Croatia. I personally don't see Croatia doing anything at this World Cup and it would be sad to see him signing off with a potential group stage exit.
Italy into Group D? Three European teams in the group? I doubt it. They would have to reshuffle the groups and put Italy somewhere else. For that reason, among others, I doubt that Italy gets selected if Tunisia gets kicked out. I agree that a CAF team would be selected, which is as it should be. Probably Mali, which would be great. A World Cup debutante.
I said this about the Iran rumours as well. With only 3 weeks to go it's too late to kick anyone. Just not gonna happen. I think Yuguslavia was banned very close to the start of EURO 1992 and UEFA brought Denmark to the tournament. Can anyone say how many weeks before the EUROs started did all this occur?
UEFA replaced Yugoslavia with Denmark on 31 May 1992 - 10 days before euro92 started - the day after the UN voted to impose sanctions on the country which led to FIFA suspending their membership.
In the Yugoslavia situation, UEFA had their hands tied. They had no say on Yugoslavia's sanction from futbol. In the case of Tunisia, the decision is in FIFA's hands. They could still let them play and impose a heavy fine/suspension post-World Cup.