World Cup
Hank Moody
I'm fine. I'm disgusted with my life and myself, but I'm not unhappy about that.
USA up 1-0 in 39th minute. Pulisic scores and we have life!!
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I've never liked a US national team because it always felt like a foreign legion.
Worst performance since 78
I feel bad for Mexico, they looked good today but had a tough group.
Our pipeline looks pretty good these days. We had a "donut" group last world cup with a mix of too old and too young, but our youth have developed.
6500 people died building the stafiums because of no work safety protocols.
Iām not minimizing the slave labor conditions and other atrocities. Indeed, I am 100% in agreement with you pointing out the hypocrisy. But sports washing is real. Once the games begin, the political and humanitarian issues start to fade. This could be Messiās last World Cup. Or Ronaldoās. We get to see Neymar and Kylian Mbappe. World class athletes playing world class soccer doesnāt even cover it. And we get beautiful moments like Pulisicās goal on an outstanding team play. It wonāt ever be all good or all bad, but donāt be blind to the good because thereās (a lot of) bad.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/football/ā¦
According to this article a Qatari government official told CNN last month: āThe 6,500 figure takes the number of all foreign worker deaths in the country over a 10-year period" and he goes on to say they weren't all necessarily related to World Cup projects. As if it's somehow more acceptable that they died on other projects.
Hassan Al-Thawadi, known as the "Qatar World Cup Chief", puts the number of fatalities directly related to World Cup construction at somewhere between 400-500.
So World Cup-related or not, there has been an average of almost two construction deaths per day, in a country that's roughly the size of Connecticut. By comparison, the Hoover Dam was built about 90 years ago and there were a total of 96 deaths throughout the five-year-long project, or
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... or less than two per month.
So aside from the horrific death count, does anyone else wonder whether or not an industry losing 2 workers per day is capable of building a stadium that is safe to occupy by 10's of thousands of fans all jumping up and down in unison?
They're just soccer fans bro, not like there was anyone important, I mean really if they were football fans,(I mean real football, not some sissy sport) they would be taking real precautions
LULZ
Blatter called this world cup a mistake.
Infantino is the one pretending like Qatar is a great choice and how gays and everyone are really safe there. He actually tried to pretend like Qatar has human rights
Maybe itās a changing of the guard with the U.S. moving up a few rungs.
One thing I respect about soccer is there are no slow, old men who get by on some niche skill like baseball or to a lesser extent football. Every man on the field is fast and in great shape. Thereās a ton of foot races for the ball and you see, consistently, that they can all fly.
"And whatever bad you can say of the Qataris (and you can say a lot) they are most definitely not cheap."
Okay, so imagine I'm a gozillionaire and I spend a Billion dollars building a humongous palace to honor myself. 400-500 people died during construction of my Billion dollar house. I'm not exactly sure how many because I'm not really counting. I mean fuck it, who cares right?
Turns out if I had spent $1.2 Billion instead of just $1 Billion, I could have hired engineers and construction managers who follow known safety practices, and most likely there would have been zero deaths. But DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME CHEAP because I spent a Billion fucking dollars man!
@stud. Iāve Lon been a fan and student of the game. I love soccer and have a fair bit of knowledge about tactics. More than that, I understand that I know a micro percentage of what the Europeans and South Americans know. The game looks simple but is incredibly complex. Itās like poker. You can teach someone how to play in ten minutes, but to be a pro? It takes a lifetime and you may never be done learning. I also love football and baseball. When I hear people say soccer is boring I know it just means they havenāt tried to learn it. And thatās ok as long as they arenāt being condescending about it. That is as you say a small mentality. John Oliver (second time Iāve mentioned him today) had a great line. āThe World Cup is like the Super Bowl, if the rest of the world gave a fuck about the Super Bowl.ā
Not exactly. I'm suspicious of a regime that has so little consideration for human life (other than their own) and still thinks they are building a great reputation on the world stage, while 500 people died to make it happen. In fact, I'm more concerned that "the world" apparently doesn't give a crap about those men who died, and still thinks this is some kind of step forward toward unity and peace on earth.
And I'm saying what other reason could there be to build a project so carelessly that 500 people get killed, except to save money, and that money is more important to them than human lives (other than their own). I mean seriously, in any normal place like the USA, if one guy dies on a construction site it's a major deal. There will be a work stoppage and a huge investigation. News reports. Law suits. Changes to the construction code. In Qatar they kill two people a day and no one even notices.
As far as the quality of the stadiums, think about this. In today's world, if you gathered together the finest engineers and contractors and told them to build a magnificent arena, that would be luxurious and safe for the sports fans... and then told them not to worry how many peasants might die during the construction because we don't give a fuck about that, do you think any of them would sign onto the project?
England looked great today. Theyāre my pick to win it all if they get by France next game. If not then France.
I put $100 on England at the Borgata sports book in 2018 and they lost in the semi-finals. I feel even better about them this time.