FIFA? The notoriously corrupt soccer football people?

  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    FIFA awarding a peace price? The organization who loves to organize world cups in dictatorial regimes and countries with huge human rights violations like where slavery is used to build the football stadiums and women have no rights and are being stoned to death? Wow, their peace prize will really mean something then. Who are the nominees? Trump, Netanyahu and Putin?

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    8 hours ago

    It really is well and truly time for some of the bigger football associations to grow a fucking spine and withdraw from FIFA.

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    14 hours ago

    And the FIRST Person to Receive it will be the One Bombing Fishermen, Kidnapping CHILDREN and TESTING Nuclear Bombs! PEACE!

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    11 hours ago

    This is going to become an instant joke and meme. I’m going to make copies of the trophy/medal and send them to people I don’t like.

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    Those bent MFs selling out the very people who put them where they are. Creating a peace prize specifically to award it to a racist, rapist, paedophile,. What a demonstration of their understanding of sportsmanship.

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    I don’t even follow sports, and I was outraged by Russia being awarded host in 2018. All the experts said England should have won that bid.

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      If you were upset by Russia hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup, you should not look up Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

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          To enable Saudi Arabia to host 2034 the 2030 World Cup was bizarrely spread across Europe (Spain and Portugal), Africa (Morocco) and 3 matches in South America (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay).

          When hosts for a World Cup are selected the confederations for the previous 2 world cups are excluded, thus North America (from 2026), South America, Europe and Africa were all excluded from even applying. Conveniently leaving the door much wider open from Saudi Arabia than it normally would have been.

          • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            9 hours ago

            Maybe Israel can convert Gaza into an Olympic town and football stadium. Free workers too!

            The Olympics were also held in nazi Germany. Both FIFA and the International Olympic Committee do not care about human rights. They only care about money.

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    14 hours ago

    Somebody has seen a chance to appease Trump without carrying the name Nobel.

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    You can’t really call them corrupt if the purpose of the entire organization is to commit crime and defraud the general public. You know, like… is the mob corrupt?

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      6 hours ago

      Its like criticizing a wet coil of microwaved dog shit for smelling so much like a wet coil of microwaved dog shit. That’s its whole deal. It’s the one thing it does and it does it well. Can’t really act surprised.