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World Soccer XXX: We Have Men Too!

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Kepler said:
I thought that was just another filthy naked FIFA money grab.
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Partially yes, but it was being championed by the power countries in Asia as well. Japan, Korea, Iran, the Saudis and Australia really want more meaningful games against the European powers instead of China, Bahrain, Vietnam and Oman.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Partially yes, but it was being championed by the power countries in Asia as well. Japan, Korea, Iran, the Saudis and Australia really want more meaningful games against the European powers instead of China, Bahrain, Vietnam and Oman.
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Is there a way to do Interleague Play as part of qualification?
 
Kepler said:
I assume this is the UN Security Council problem. You do what you can to be democratic but the bullies are never gonna give up their power.
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And in all honesty the European clubs have gained huge amounts of power with the obscene amounts of money they’re pulling in these days.

Club soccer has grown immensely in the last 30 years with rise of the J.League, MLS, Liga MX, the A.League, and the K.League but they’ve also stagnated in growth because the Euro leagues have invaded their markets and grown to dwarf the others. Even 20 years ago top Brazilian and Argentine clubs could rival some Euro clubs but now those leagues are shells of their former selves while the Euro leagues scoop up their young players at younger and younger ages.
 
Jimjamesak said:
And in all honesty the European clubs have gained huge amounts of power with the obscene amounts of money they’re pulling in these days.

Club soccer has grown immensely in the last 30 years with rise of the J.League, MLS, Liga MX, the A.League, and the K.League but they’ve also stagnated in growth because the Euro leagues have invaded their markets and grown to dwarf the others. Even 20 years ago top Brazilian and Argentine clubs could rival some Euro clubs but now those leagues are shells of their former selves while the Euro leagues scoop up their young players at younger and younger ages.
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Is there an overarching association of associations? That's what you would need. Someone with the authority to impose salary caps and limit developmental rosters so UEFA can't dominate the world.
 
Kepler said:
Is there an overarching association of associations? That's what you would need. Someone with the authority to impose salary caps and limit developmental rosters so UEFA can't dominate the world.
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I mean FIFA theoretically could, they already impose age limits on transfers, but that would likely just lead to Super League part deux.

As long as tv networks continue to fork out hundreds of millions to foreign leagues instead of domestic leagues (looking at you NBC and CBS), nothing will really change.
 
Well, speak of the devil…

UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, has spent more than a year in talks with a representative group for elite clubs about a new model to replace its so-called financial fair play rules, the cost-control mechanism that has for a decade sought to limit team expenditures as part of an effort to promote competition.

UEFA has finally alighted on a replacement. Teams’ soccer-related spending, according to people briefed on the regulations, will not be able to surpass 70 percent of their income, a regulation that appears watered down from the strict salary cap that had long been championed by UEFA’s president, Aleksander Ceferin.
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Of course, it doesn’t really do anything to combat the gap between clubs in Europe and really only will effect mid-table teams.
 
SonofSouthie said:
Was reading this article: https://www.espn.com/soccer/orlando-...-of-gay-banner
and came across this article that was embeded in that one,
Talk about fkd up.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-s...e-its-changing
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The Orlando thing seems like a misunderstanding from stadium security that happens way too often in stadiums.

The Washington Spirit thing is a classic “owner holds on to ownership as long as possible to extort more money from the sale” situation that any league would have trouble dealing with.

Merritt Paulson is a POS as noted here by me previously. The NWSL players can take solace that they’re equally as s-tty on the MLS side as well.
 
Sounds like there is social media movement in Mexico to do the “p*to” chant at the US game in an effort to get Mexico kicked out of the World Cup. Apparently the fans are trying to force changes in the leadership of the FMF after the riot in Queretaro and the lack of serious punishment (among other things).

So that’ll be interesting tomorrow.

(no links as the only stories on it are in Spanish)
 
JF_Gophers said:
That would literally achieve the opposite at some point.
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Can't have misogyny without women.

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Kepler said:
Hmm. "Protesters will kill one woman a day until gender equity achieved."

social change ur doin it wrong
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The amount of hoops many Mexicans will jump through to defend the chant is always amazing to me. This whole campesinos, “don’t tell us how to live!” attitude on it is ridiculous.

Mexican soccer has always been a s-tshow. If they actually cleaned up and ran things competently they’d have won a World Cup by now.
 
Japan qualifies after beating Australia 2-0 in Sydney. Australia is off to the 5th place playoff and likely the Intercontinental playoffs.
 
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