++Sky News++ captured his words, as he explained: “”Yes, I asked for a review by FIFA. I spoke to a man [Infantino] who is highly respected. I’m the one who got them to do it, not Biden. Biden was asleep.”

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[–] 27 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

Holy shit. As an American seeing the marketing and advertising for the world cup is sick. It's so cringy... I feel bad for all the authentic people that love the sport.

I wouldn't doubt if there's some business going on with FIFA on large corrupt scale though... American football is losing its pull of American culture... They needed a new sport to help them create submissive people.

It's about to get soulless like Hollywood and marketed pop music. ...and the Americans will froth over it like hungry zombies.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    American football is losing popularity and we're trying to replace it with soccer? lol jesus fucking christ

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    And here's me, loving that our sports are becoming international. The WBC this year was fucking awesome to watch imo, and I think it's cool that American football is expanding in other parts of the world. We can only imagine what an eventual "World Football Championship" would be like.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I agree it's cool on the surface... But you know it's going to lose authenticity exponentially.

    That's why I feel for the people who are genuine about it. It's a double edged sword that probably won't care about the genuine people.

    It's like every authentic thing America touches starts to oxidize, and rust.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I don't think the US needs a new sport, most of the country is either brain dead from American Football, Basketball, NASCAR, Baseball. Basically anything the USA has invetend for themselves and every other country couldn't give a shit about.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Yeah most people in the US don’t give a shit about soccer, so I don’t get why you’d bother rigging it or other manipulation. Other than just because you are Trump and you just rug and grift and do shadey shit for no reason other than to do it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Rugby, netball, any motorsport, cricket…turns out different regions like different things, but there are often analogues.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    You have named sports that aren't overtly native to one country. Yes of course the "US sports" have leaked to other countries, but they are the best at them and have a far greater following on TV, in league structure, in money pumped to and from. If the US turned its attention to sports away from what they host at home they could be world leaders in rugby, cricket, motorsport or netball, yet they're happy to just circle jerk themselves with what they already have. And I'm fine with that. They already smash athletics. I don't want them being good at everything.

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