Saudi Arabia 2034

Anyway Infantile has indicates that Oceania will get a crack at hosting in 2040. So a joint bid for NZ with the Cook Islands.


England will have a centenary WC in 2066. Pity not many of us will be around to see it.
 
Festa’s right. They normally don’t name the host 11 years in advance, so is it a surprise they have only found one willing nation this far out?

Can’t believe it’s happening again. I wonder if FIFA are going to do anything about stopping the folk building the stadiums dying on the job? Or is it simply not their problem (like it wasn’t in Qatar)?
 
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Without wishing to detract from the fact this is a travesty of a system with corruption at its core, Saudi Arabia does at least have one major difference to Qatar, in that it is a large country with several cities capable of hosting an event of the size of the World Cup. The thing that really got me about Qatar (and my Dad used to work on construction sites there in the 2000's and had a really tough job trying to impose Western standards of safety, so I'm not forgetting that aspect) was that the Country has one city, and not a particularly sizeable one - it was like awarding a World Cup to Birmingham or Munich.

Presumably it will have to be a Winter World Cup again also.
 
GingerTravel said:
Without wishing to detract from the fact this is a travesty of a system with corruption at its core, Saudi Arabia does at least have one major difference to Qatar, in that it is a large country with several cities capable of hosting an event of the size of the World Cup. The thing that really got me about Qatar (and my Dad used to work on construction sites there in the 2000's and had a really tough job trying to impose Western standards of safety, so I'm not forgetting that aspect) was that the Country has one city, and not a particularly sizeable one - it was like awarding a World Cup to Birmingham or Munich.

Presumably it will have to be a Winter World Cup again also.
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Jeddah, Riyadh and Dahran? Can't think of any more, unless they plan on sticking a stadium inside Neom.
 
WeeGord said:
After the farce that was Qatar, FIFA would do well to somehow block this.

Sportswashing for this disgusting regime shouldn't be allowed.
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Why was it a farce?

One of the best world cups in a long time, well organised, hardly any trouble and the people that i know had nothing but to say good things about the place and how smooth it went
 
Thornaby90 said:
Why was it a farce?

One of the best world cups in a long time, well organised, hardly any trouble and the people that i know had nothing but to say good things about the place and how smooth it went
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You mean the multiple broken promises, the multiple arrests for displaying Pride flags that actually turned out to be either national or state flags or the random assaults by police and marshals on people video recording around the stadiums. That well run event?
 
Thornaby90 said:
Why was it a farce?

One of the best world cups in a long time, well organised, hardly any trouble and the people that i know had nothing but to say good things about the place and how smooth it went
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The tournament itself was an excellent tournament, I'm referring to the fact it went to a non-footballing country, the stadiums were largely deconstructed and there were hundreds and hundreds of deaths of immigrant workers to build them.

That in itself should ring shamefully in FIFA's ears for an eternity.
 
I hope this encourages UEFA and/or the major football playing nations to abandon FIFA. Not fit for purpose and they could organise better competitions themselves.
 
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