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DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
Glad the USMNT fans are starting to discover we aren't a serious contender with MLS players representing us. About time these retards realize that playing in the MLS wouldn't qualify you for the world cup in Europe, Asia, Africa, or South America
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What helps me cope is that things are always different when the actual World Cup rolls around and it can only get better from here on.
 
So yeah, after yesterday's matches, Brazil guaranteed their ticket to North America after doing the absolute basic and beating Paraguay 1-0 at home. Slowly but steadily, Carletto is mounting his work. He even made Vini Jr. play properly while donning the yellow shirt!

Besides the three hosts, we have confirmed: Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Australia, Iran, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand.

Speaking of World Cup, Saturday begins the Club World Cup in Good Ol' Murrica. I'm strangely hyped for it.
 
South america's world cup qualifying is almost done. Argentina punched their ticket in months ago.

In fact, most of the teams going to the world cup are pretty much set. Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Paraguay.
The real interesting part is that 7th spot that will have to go into a playoff.

For now, Venezuela is 7th. Bolivia are just one point below them.

Peru and Chile are dog shit. In fact, Chile is mathematically done for. Sucks to suck. There's a long story behind their downfall since 2016, but for now, I will leave that for another post.

Venezuela's remaining matches:
Vs. Argentina (in Buenos Aires)
Vs. Colombia (in Venezuela)

It's very possible for them to lose both.
However, Bolivia are not exactly great. Away from their altitude, they are dog shit. Their remaining games:
Vs. Colombia (away, 99.9% chance Bolivia lose here)
Vs. Brazil (home at El Alto)

Hard to predict, honestly. Venezuela picking up one win would end the guessing game, but even that looks unlikely.
 
So a buddy of mine who recently got into the sport, asked me why the Super League failed and how I would run it to make it better. Now dismissing the question would be the correct answer, it was a little fun thought experiment as to how creating a completely different Super league that would get all of Europe on board would work.

The idea would be to have 2 Leagues, European 1 and 2, that would be top of the pyramid. 20 teams each that promote and relegate each other. 3 goes up and 3 go down every year. The third division would be 3 divisions, east west and central, that would divide 60 teams into these divisions based on location. The top 3 teams in each division goes into a final promotion tournament (2nd vs 3rd in a 2 legged game and winner place 1st place). Relegation would be the bottom 5 teams in each of these leagues would be relegated plus the 15th place teams from each league would play a group round against each other with the bottom team being relegated and replaced by teams in the 4th division. Speaking of 4th division, that would be the top flight of each country, consisting of teams not in the European pyramid. There are currently 55 teams that allow for teams to qualify for Champions League, so that's how many leagues would cover the 4th division. Each of these league's would be required to finish by early march, so probably 12-16 teams in these leagues. Pyramid for 5th division and down would be left to each governing body as to how they would want to do their domestic style. Using a UEFA coefficient, made up since UEFA basically makes it up anyways, the top 8 countries use the top 4 for their league to enter into the promotion playoff, next 8 get 3, 17th 18th and 19th get 2, and the rest get 1 team. I did the math so don't worry, that's 98 teams. Teams would play each other for 4 games, 2 home and 2 away drawn at random, to create a pool that eliminates everyone until there are 64 teams remaining. The 64 get drawn into 16 groups of 4 to play 6 games like Champions League from last year. The group winner will play a group runner up in a 2 legged affair (group A winner plays group B runner up group B winner plays Group A runner up, Group C winner plays Group D runner up etc etc). Winner of those gets added to the 60 teams in the 3rd division. Since this competition would start in March, these games would be done by mid May, and they would be the only fixtures on the schedule.

As for domestic cups, each country gets 1 domestic cup that teams in the European League gets to play in each season. So England can still have the FA Cup, the Carling Cup and the EFL Trophy, but any team competing in the top 3 divisions can only compete in the FA Cup.

The idea behind this was to limit fixture congestion, still have games that mattered, and have a pathway for every team in Europe to make it into the top flight while giving off the intention of the Super League to have these big time games. Having the 4th divisions play their own tournament styled in how the European competitions were like before brings more attention to lower league clubs. The third division also having so many teams get relegated along with promotion playoffs makes those 3 leagues more interesting since relegation creates an urgency to compete, with a relegation scrap happening almost every week. And the top 3 teams being eligible for promotion means most games during the season should matter.


Its a fun thought experiment. Obviously, it isn't realistic to expect this nor do I want it, but gun to my head this is probably how I would create it.
 
Mark Goldbridge said:
Brazil do the same thing, they force half the players to be from the Brazil leagues but they suck so bad.
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Did you watch Brazil in the last three years? It was the bums in europe who sucked in the games and the brazilian players at least showing a spec of desire to play. It was awful but most was on the European fucks playing like shit.

Even more when the other south american players who actually play on Brazil was scoring on us.
Chad Holdenford said:
He even made Vini Jr. play properly while donning the yellow shirt!
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Are you blind? He was the same useless fuck that we had for the last 3 years. The goal he scores was built on the insane Raphinha play that he shouldn't even attempt and the lucky pass.

And without that goal, he was the same shit as before.

Gonna watch the CWC Inter Miami vs Al Ahly soon
 
Good start, that one singer just completely gave up on the playback, just yelled yeah yeah into the mic, paused his tiktok lip sync while the playback was continuing the song lol
 
I hate these opening show stuff at football games.
Miami vs Al Ahly match started at 2 a.m. for me so I fell asleep during the half time break. But the first half was pretty good. In all honesty I didn't expect that but I was pleasantly surprised how fun it was.

If I understand the times correctly then I should be able to see the FC Bayern - Auckland match at 6 p.m. and the P$G - Atletico match around 9 p.m. Read something about how Auckland hasn't actually all their players on board bc these guy work 9-5 jobs besides playing football. Wtf?!
 
Onni Kalsarikännit said:
I hate these opening show stuff at football games.
Miami vs Al Ahly match started at 2 a.m. for me so I fell asleep during the half time break. But the first half was pretty good. In all honesty I didn't expect that but I was pleasantly surprised how fun it was.

If I understand the times correctly then I should be able to see the FC Bayern - Auckland match at 6 p.m. and the P$G - Atletico match around 9 p.m. Read something about how Auckland hasn't actually all their players on board bc these guy work 9-5 jobs besides playing football. Wtf?!
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The level disparity between these two will be the greatest of all competition.

Just wake up and watched the Bayern score the second goal against Auckland. They started blasting the can can song at full blast. And as I was typing this again they scored again and they did it again.

And they scored again. Jesus, they are using the song again. I really hope they stop it.

Holy shit I hate Americans so damn much.
 
Registration said:
The level disparity between these two will be the greatest of all competition.

Just wake up and watched the Bayern score the second goal against Auckland. They started blasting the can can song at full blast. And as I was typing this again they scored again and they did it again.

And they scored again. Jesus, they are using the song again. I really hope they stop it.

Holy shit I hate Americans so damn much.
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I had to turn my stream audio off (which is a shame because I wanted to hear how shit the American crowd were) because of how fucking cringe the commentators are waffling about "great finishes" and "nothing they could do there" when its 2 plumbers not marking an open man or the keeper has his angles so badly wrong. I feel like I'm watching baseball or golf, this is such a shitty quality boring game and yet the Americans lap that shit up so they can be like "I was there, this was my seat, this is my photo of *insert star player* and this is my 20 dollar plastic cup of beer." Genuinely some of the souless shit I've ever seen.

This tournament is a complete joke; the only people I see who want it are Americans. No goals should count towards the total for a player. FIFA, UEFA, etc. will keep diluting the sport as long as they can make money, they did the same with the new European format and introduced the Conference League.

They don't care how farcical it is to fly two teams across the world to both earn 50 million by default with such a huge gap in quality.
I implore anyone not to watch it through official means, even if it's free and certainly never buy a ticket. Even Americans, I know your sports are different, but all the reasons that football has over your sports will be wiped away if things like this are accepted.

The whole "giving teams around the world an opportunity" is such a woke cope as an excuse for the tournament to exist in the first place; they are just pawns in this to justify this farcical tournament. You destroy the fabric of the smaller leagues because a single team earns more than any other team could dream of in 10 years, and this single team "earns" that insane amount of money by being destroyed for 3 games. It also undermines the fabric of the bigger leagues that are built on strong support and top quality football since the prize money blows almost all of those leagues' yearly revenue out of the water.
 
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Registration said:
They started blasting the can can song at full blast. And as I was typing this again they scored again and they did it again.

And they scored again. Jesus, they are using the song again. I really hope they stop it.
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The jaba daba duh thingy when Bayern scores? They do that in the Bayern arena everytime, it's their goal "song".

Registration said:
The level disparity between these two will be the greatest of all competition.
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Yeah, it really shows and also Bayern is clearly playing in slow mode.
 
The problem isn't the competition, it is the place. They wanted american money so they made it in the US, the competition itself will be fine. People are watching all over the world. Yesterday there was 2 million people watching it on brazilian youtube and right now there is 1.2 million people watching this match.

There is lots of hype to the competition and everyone wants to try fighting against the might european teams and the money is too good for everyone, including the europeans.

This is actually the third game and the first two was quite fun fo watch (the first game was Mexico vs the American team that decided the final spot)

The finantial problem is the same as it ever was: European and now arabs poaching their best talent with the power of money from Africa, South America and Asia. My team sold a 16 year old prospect that wasn't even that good for some gorilion million euros to an arab team out of nowhere.

And the same happens in the lower level leagues like Brazil poaching South American talents that aren't good enough for other leagues.

THe competition itself was never the problem, but the money itself is the problem and their solution.
 
Picture-in-picture ads during substitutions and then they can't even line them up properly lol wtf

Edit: Bayern set up a new club wc record with their 10:0 win. I kind of expected this game to go the way it went but I also ngl and say that I hoped for a lil underdog suprise. A draw would have been fun enough. But we got the very obvious outcome. Ah well, in the end don't really matter to me anyways bc I have no dog in this club wc race.
There were quite a lot of seats free in the stadion and the crowd was more mildly engaging. Unlike the crowd for the opening match yesterday.
 
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The Rose Bowl looks fucking empty. I want to believe it's because it's high noon in the summer, but I hear they aren't selling too many tickets and they almost had to give them away for free for yesterday's opening.

Also, the organization is a bit too gimmicky to my tastes. Is it really necessary to introduce the starting players one by one? Judging by the players' reactions, they aren't too keen on this.
 
Joe Sixpack knows the FIFA World Cup is a big deal and will watch it next year. Joe Sixpack has no idea what the Club World Cup is. That's all.
 
Chad Holdenford said:
The Rose Bowl looks fucking empty. I want to believe it's because it's high noon in the summer, but I hear they aren't selling too many tickets and they almost had to give them away for free for yesterday's opening.

Also, the organization is a bit too gimmicky to my tastes. Is it really necessary to introduce the starting players one by one? Judging by the players' reactions, they aren't too keen on this.
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Just straight up American bullshit. They want to sell the players instead of the teams

Now in any part of the world they would come with children and those children would had memories for the rest of their lives. I still remember when I entered and it was a local match.
 
Chad Holdenford said:
Also, the organization is a bit too gimmicky to my tastes. Is it really necessary to introduce the starting players one by one? Judging by the players' reactions, they aren't too keen on this.
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It's one glorious shitshow of pure cringe and trash, it's wonderful. I mean, I share @Plastic Bag 's sentiment about the club WC for the most parts but truth is things are already so fucking fucked up that the club WC and it's money won't change anything to the worse bc things are already so bad that it can't get any worse anymore. Most of the clubs are already the most dominant clubs in their respective leagues anyways. Even the team from South Africa is already the biggest and most succesful club there and miles ahead of their national competition. Exceptions are the team from South Korea and the team from Japan who are not the national top dogs and both have still some way to go to become their respective national top team. Tried to look up Auckland, saw that they play in two fucking leagues and just gave up.

Edit: Speaking of shitshow; what a shitshow this P$G Atletico match was.
 
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They are giving yellows for almost anything. Atletico got what? 7 or 8. Palmeiras and Porto already have 1 each and it is on 15'
 
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