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.

 

[Lod 10]

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.

 

[seaglass]

It's always boring until the later stages when it's the best teams playing each other, then it actually gets competitive. So far I've only watched England's opening game because they were playing Croatia and they're a strong team. That was a good one. I'll probably watch the one against Congo tonight, they should win but never underestimate England's ability to mess it up.

 

[Majora Fi]

 

[Skellerick]

Love it, I always watch all the games I possibly can. The passion of billions represented in each team. And they usually give their all, especially in the final stages to bring happiness to their people. Great stories, underdogs beating favorites, tension, people being together to cheer, love It.

 

[JG509]

I know for sure that Mexico (the entire population, everywhere) has gone crazy over every one of the matches of the country's team, commendable passion indeed but

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

I know for sure that Mexico (the entire population, everywhere) has gone crazy over every one of the matches of the country's team, commendable passion indeed but
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Why i have the feeling that Sonic is staring at the boobs of that lady?

 

[Princess Viola]

don't give a rats ass about soccer or the world cup and i never will.

it's gonna be hell though cause i'm gonna be in massachusetts starting tomorrow and they're playing a match in boston next week at gilette stadium (no i don't care what FIFA's fuckass corporate rules say, it's called gilette stadium NOT boston stadium. for starters: it's not even in boston so the FIFA approved rebranding cause of their fuckass rules isn't even accurate)

 

[seaglass]

don't give a rats ass about soccer or the world cup and i never will.

it's gonna be hell though cause i'm gonna be in massachusetts starting tomorrow and they're playing a match in boston next week at gilette stadium (no i don't care what FIFA's fuckass corporate rules say, it's called gilette stadium NOT boston stadium. for starters: it's not even in boston so the FIFA approved rebranding cause of their fuckass rules isn't even accurate)

Tbf I understand the frustration as the Patriots are the only vaguely relevant sports team out of New England given how ass Celtics currently are

 

[Aldia Aldia]

I don't care for football outside of WCs, and even in this one I've only watched half a game.

That said, @Samantha we're up against each other this sunday!!

 

[CraigJinx]

A bunch of overpaid, overrated, ballerinas prancing around for a couple of hours and selling corporate products to the audiences on TV and in the crowd.
Foorball is by far the wokeist and most corporate sport on the planet which is a real shame considering the roots of the sports as the working class game here in the UK.
These football players at the top have no clue of what the people of the countries they claim to represent have to go through on a regular basis as they get thousands PER WEEK to kick a ball around AND get given a shit tonne of freebies on top of that like clothing and cars. A fucking disgusting "sport".

 

[seaglass]

Foorball is by far the wokeist and most corporate sport on the planet

I don't disagree on the corporate and overpaid stuff, but how is it woke? I can't think of anything less woke than all the football ultras who beat the crap out of each other after 10 pints of lager

 

[PrismRed]

Not my thing, not enough blood and explosion for my taste, from where I'm from however the hype is not as big as it was compared to previous years for some reason.

 

[CraigJinx]

I don't disagree on the corporate and overpaid stuff, but how is it woke? I can't think of anything less woke than all the football ultras who beat the crap out of each other after 10 pints of lager

The sport is woke, the fans do not want all this corporate shit, the real fans want the heart and passion of the pre Premier League era of football when players got stuck in and money wasn't their primary reason for playing the game.
Claiming that the womens version is on par with the mens is woke nonsense because it just isn't and that goes for all sports, not a sexist thing just a physical fact and nonsense Pride and bending the knee politics have no place in any sport, it is supposed to be an escape from the insanity of the Western world.
When this sport was created it was played by the working class for the working class, an escape from the 12-14 working days and something separate from what was going on in the world or their world to focus on.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

money wasn't their primary reason for playing the game.

But money is the number one reason why all kids pick up a sport nowadays. And it's neither shallow nor greedy.

For many across the world, it's their ticket out of poverty — and wanting to work towards your family's well-being is a very noble pursuit.

It's not exclusive to football, either.

The late Jose Fernandez, the great Pedro Martinez, the hot-headed (but passionate) George Bell, the beautifully talented Edgar Martinez... they all dragged themselves to MLB tryouts with the last of their money to have a shot at a better life, some times after grueling factory shifts or without speaking a lick of English.

Not everyone lucks out in life and gets noticed by a scout after going to an Ivy League school, not even in the richest countries on earth.

These football players at the top have no clue of what the people of the countries they claim to represent have to go through on a regular basis as they get thousands PER WEEK

That's objectively not true, though.

As stated above, many clawed their way tooth and nail out of desperate situations ranging from barren wastelands and dead-end economic landscapes to war-ravaged towns and totalitarianism.

Does that account for everyone? Of course not, but I'd wager that it is still the vast majority of players in the tournament, especially Latin Americans, Africans and the sons of immigrants workers born in (and playing for) European lands.

I'm not defending the complete monetary orgy of the sport, only pointing out the fact that it rarely starts at the bottom.

 

[CraigJinx]

But money is the number one reason why all kids pick up a sport nowadays. And it's neither shallow nor greedy.

For many across the world, it's their ticket out of poverty — and wanting to work towards your family's well-being is a very noble pursuit.

It's not exclusive to football, either.

The late Jose Fernandez, the great Pedro Martinez, the hot-headed (but passionate) George Bell, the beautifully talented Edgar Martinez... they all dragged themselves to MLB tryouts with the last of their money to have a shot at a better life, some times after grueling factory shifts or without speaking a lick of English.

Not everyone lucks out in life and gets noticed by a scout after going to an Ivy League school, not even in the richest countries on earth.


That's objectively not true, though.

As stated above, many clawed their way tooth and nail out of desperate situations ranging from barren wastelands and dead-end economic landscapes to war-ravaged towns and totalitarianism.

Does that account for everyone? Of course not, but I'd wager that it is still the vast majority of players in the tournament, especially Latin Americans, Africans and the sons of immigrants workers born (and playing for) in European lands.

I'm not defending the complete monetary orgy of the sport, only pointing out the fact that it rarely starts at the bottom.

You should be involved in a sport because you have passion for the sport not passion for the money. Many players these days are manufactured in the money machine where learning to fanny around diving all over the place is a higher priority than actually playing the game like a grown up. A bunch of overrated, overpaid, walking advert, toddlers trapped in adult bodies.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

Im more of an NFL guy rather than a football one (which is weird from where i live)

But the changes they did on the ruling and handling of the game is (for the most) really positive. Seeing how they twisted the rules to waste time, how they will just fake injuries to stop plays and gain time was always something I got infuriating with. So Im glad they are addressing these issue, like they should have done like 20 years ago.

'content' wise, its a been a really good cup: lots of surprised and lots of goals, which is not that common iirc, so there is a lot of more entertainment.

That being said, this is the FIFA, it is a well known mafia and we can already see they just want to give the cup to Argentina.

 

[TheWanderer]

My country got humiliated to oblivion I don't think we will recover from this

 

[Bakuma1997]

Moneywashing scheme between countries to keep the masses entertained enough so they don't bother them with petty requests such as maintenance of the streets, law enforcement and healtcare, worse is the displacement of people over a glorified ball game

 

[DjQuick2008]

England doing the business for a change. Big teams gone already plenty of on pitch drama plenty of off pitch drama.

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Moneywashing scheme between countries to keep the masses entertained enough so they don't bother them with petty requests such as maintenance of the streets, law enforcement and healtcare, worse is the displacement of people over a glorified ball game

im awakened too but lighten up.

 

[Bakuma1997]

im awakened too but lighten up.

Sorry, reading these replies put me in a too realist mood

 

[DjQuick2008]

Sorry, reading these replies put me in a too realist mood

yeah i know i have to dumb down half my conversations too but part of that is no point telling people what they arent ready to hear.