Whats your opinion on the FIFA football worldcup?

[Kovlak]

The FIFA worldcup started before the matches kicked off. Sky high prices and dynamic pricing, helped with turists' concerns, to make the worldcup a significantly more difficult proposition that would innitially be for football (soccer) fans to enjoy.

But now that the competition has started, with le good and le bad, how do you feel about the worldcup? Is it a decadent spectacle or a global celebration around a massively popular sport?

I'm curious because FIFA seems to be spending the air time to tout how great this worldcup has been.

 

[X Lod]

Hey friend, it's been a while. Everyone already knows my opinion: I don't like soccer, but Brazil is winning, it seems like Zika is gone.

 

[Graw]

There are more junkies and crime has increased in my town now because Vancouver needed to pretend it isn't in fact full of homeless junkies and shipped them off to all the small towns in BC for the world cup. Just like they did for the Olympics. I'm not a fan.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I wanna torture everyone who calls it "soccer" but, other than that, it's been fun >:D

One thing that's pissing me off is the lukewarm approach to penalty kicks that's been showing across the board — PKs are seen as gifts from the gods, and I have seen more than a couple players telegraph just how badly they were gonna miss their shots even as they were running to take them.

Perhaps it hasn't sunken in yet...

YOU ARE IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES, BOYS! Show some hustle!

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

Not my cup of tea.