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World Soccer XI: To South Africa, and Beyond!

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Midweek 3-3 draw against Chelsea and then 0-0 against Liverpool? Confusing as to where the scoring went against a lesser defensive team. :confused:
 
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Most of the college football stadia didn't make the most recent cut. There's only one or two left. And I think even those are longshots due to field size issues (and how much it would cost to fix that).

Current stadiums still alive in the USA 2018/2022 bid.

1 Michigan Stadium 108,000 Ann Arbor
2 Cowboys Stadium 111,000 Arlington
3 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 93,607 Los Angeles
4 Rose Bowl 92,542 Pasadena
5 Cotton Bowl 92,200 Dallas
6 FedExField 91,704 Landover Maryland
7 The Meadowlands 82,000 East Rutherford
8 Arrowhead Stadium 79,451 Kansas City
9 Jacksonville Municipal Stadium 77,000 Jacksonville
10 Invesco Field at Mile High 76,125 Denver
11 Dolphin Stadium 74,916 Miami
12 Bank of America Stadium 73,500 Charlotte
13 Cleveland Browns Stadium 73,200 Cleveland
14 Husky Stadium 72,500 Seattle
15 Gillette Stadium 71,693 Foxborough
16 Reliant Stadium 71,500 Houston
17 Georgia Dome 71,250 Atlanta
18 M&T Bank Stadium 71,008 Baltimore
19 University of Phoenix Stadium 71,000 Glendale
20 Qualcomm Stadium 70,500 San Diego
21 LP Field 69,143 Nashville
22 Edward Jones Dome 67,268 St. Louis
23 Lincoln Financial Field 67,594 Philadelphia
24 Ford Field 67,188 Detroit
25 Qwest Field 67,000 Seattle
26 Raymond James Stadium 65,857 Tampa
27 Citrus Bowl 65,616 Orlando Florida
28 Lucas Oil Stadium 64,200 Indianapolis
29 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum 63,026 Oakland
30 Soldier Field 61,000 Chicago
31 Stanford Stadium 50,500 Palo Alto
32 RFK Stadium 45,600 Washington

I thought I heard the list was cut to 27 this week but I can't seem to find evidence of that.
 
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alrighty them... no world cup for no.cali.!

All Bay Area stadiums are unsuitable right now, but by 2022 I'd imagine the 49ers new 68,000 seater should be built. Northern California is too attractive a market for FIFA to ignore if they have an option.
 
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All Bay Area stadiums are unsuitable right now, but by 2022 I'd imagine the 49ers new 68,000 seater should be built. Northern California is too attractive a market for FIFA to ignore if they have an option.

The winners are being announced in a years time so I assume the bids will need to be finalized in 6 to 8 months, so unless the stadium is set to be built by then, or one of the existing agree to undergo renovation in that time you likely won't see the Bay Area as a venue. Particularly as existing structure is one of the strong suits for the US bid.

Of the 32 stadiums, there are 27 cities represented, for what I am going to assume is 12 spots (didn't see a target number on the site, so assuming 12 based on Germany '06 and Brazil '14)

My guess is LA, NYC, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, Dallas and Seattle are safe bets to be chosen. Given that there are 4 Florida cities in contention, I'd guess 1 venue is chosen from Florida. With 4 assumed spots left I'd bet they come from Houston, Phoenix, Kansas City, Bay Area, or St. Louis. Possibly Detroit too since Columbus isn't on the list and they have two stadium options and those stadia are better options than Cleveland and I can't see USSoccer picking Indy.
 
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The winners are being announced in a years time so I assume the bids will need to be finalized in 6 to 8 months, so unless the stadium is set to be built by then, or one of the existing agree to undergo renovation in that time you likely won't see the Bay Area as a venue. Particularly as existing structure is one of the strong suits for the US bid.

Of the 32 stadiums, there are 27 cities represented, for what I am going to assume is 12 spots (didn't see a target number on the site, so assuming 12 based on Germany '06 and Brazil '14)

My guess is LA, NYC, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, Dallas and Seattle are safe bets to be chosen. Given that there are 4 Florida cities in contention, I'd guess 1 venue is chosen from Florida. With 4 assumed spots left I'd bet they come from Houston, Phoenix, Kansas City, Bay Area, or St. Louis. Possibly Detroit too since Columbus isn't on the list and they have two stadium options and those stadia are better options than Cleveland and I can't see USSoccer picking Indy.

They're selecting the bid but from the write ups I remember there will still be a lot of discretion in the bid for city/venue selection especially for facilities that are in the planning stages. They might select Stanfurd stadium as a placeholder for the region. In LA for example FIFA would almost certainly select the City of Industry Stadium that seems to have a pretty good shot at getting built.

If theres a brand new stadium in the Bay Area on line by 2017, I don't think FIFA, an organization that loves to ignore its own rules, wouldn't select it as a site.
 
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Must be nice...

to be fair, most south africans still use a combination of shiny stones and the barter system. ;)

(Yes, to the sensitive out there I know its over the top... grab a beer, relax, take a walk, and ease that anger away.)

Frankly, not knowing how the affluent/everybody else stuff skews I'd suspect that's not unreasonable.
 
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to be fair, most south africans still use a combination of shiny stones and the barter system. ;)

(Yes, to the sensitive out there I know its over the top... grab a beer, relax, take a walk, and ease that anger away.)

I'm pretty sure someone who finds a fact offensive isn't going to go for that. :rolleyes:
 
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They don't waste time with complex and time consuming scams, they just rob you.

Fortunately I just got an email from a Nigerian prince and he's going to give me lots of money, so I'll be able to go to the World Cup in style...
 
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The winners are being announced in a years time so I assume the bids will need to be finalized in 6 to 8 months, so unless the stadium is set to be built by then, or one of the existing agree to undergo renovation in that time you likely won't see the Bay Area as a venue. Particularly as existing structure is one of the strong suits for the US bid.

Well considering that most places aren't going to go through with renovations or new buildings without winning the bid, I'd say no bid has their stadium lists/bid city lists finalized.

And remember it's far from a sure thing that the US will actually win one of the bids. England, Benelux, or Portugal/Spain could easily win 2018 and Australia could win 2022. The US has does have 3 strong things going for it, attendance and stadium capacity, ticket sales, and advertising revenue (and potentially TV revenue. A World Cup in the US could inspire some serious bidding for TV rights between ESPN/ABC, FOX, Univision, and NBC/Telemundo). But a lot negatives as well: It's the US (we aren't well liked), it'll be hot (major complaint from the 94 World Cup), it's too spread out, and we just hosted in 94.
 
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All I would have claimed is that we were getting drawn into a position, and it wouldn't necessarily be 2. You had a 1/3 chance of being right. :)

Close enough to being props for me. :)
 
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What a joke penalty decision deep in stoppage time. There better be 5 or 6 extra minutes after this with Palacio milking this as long as possible.
 
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detroit - AA 107k
dallas - new cowboys stadium 100k (with standing room tickets:rolleyes: not grass)
los angeles - rose bowl 98k
san fran - stanford stadium 85k
columbus - ohio stadium 101k
wash dc - fedex 92k
nyc - new giants stadium 82k (grass or field turf?)
knoxville - neyland 104k (throw one to the south ;) )

Most of the college football stadia didn't make the most recent cut. There's only one or two left. And I think even those are longshots due to field size issues (and how much it would cost to fix that).
Yeah, Don't really see how they could get a regulation Soccer field in the Big House without raising the field level up about 20 feet, but then you have the problem of not being able to use the tunnel there as well.
So an imaginative South African could make a lot of money buying tickets and selling them for about $60....

They don't waste time with complex and time consuming scams, they just rob you.
Yeah, that's a scam the Nigerians would run, and they would probably go about 50 bucks easy.
 
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your WC 2010 predictor!

WC2010.XLS

If you want to improve it, such as make it break ties past goal differential, the protected sheet password is "wc".

Otherwise it seems to work well.
 
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your WC 2010 predictor!

WC2010.XLS

If you want to improve it, such as make it break ties past goal differential, the protected sheet password is "wc".

Otherwise it seems to work well.

I had Serbia losing three times and their W-L-T showed up as 0-0-0

Also has the bracket setting up wrong. England and the US are shown as being able to play each other in the quarterfinals, teams from the same group can't meet a second time until the final.
 
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I had Serbia losing three times and their W-L-T showed up as 0-0-0

Also has the bracket setting up wrong. England and the US are shown as being able to play each other in the quarterfinals, teams from the same group can't meet a second time until the final.

good to know, those are easy fixes to make.

Its hard to catch everything on the first pass. :o

Edit: and they are now fixed. :)
 
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