'It's too small a country. Football and the World Cup are too big for that," Blatter, who was acquitted of corruption last summer , told Tages-Anzeiger . “The choice for Qatar was a mistake. At the time, we agreed in the executive committee that Russia would have the 2018 World Cup and the US that of 2022. That would have been a gesture of peace if two long-standing political opponents would organize the World Cup one after the other.'
"A week before the 2010 FIFA congress, Michel Platini called me to say that our plan would not work," Blatter recalls the period in which Qatar was awarded the World Cup. He was invited to the palace of President Sarkozy who had just had lunch with the Crown Prince of Qatar. Sarkozy told Platini: ' Look what you and your UEFA colleagues can do for Qatar when the World Cup is awarded.' I then asked him: what now?'
Sepp, what would you do if your president asked you for something? ' I then told him that the question didn't occur to me because we don't have a president in Switzerland. It turned out exactly like this: thanks to Platini's four votes, the World Cup went to Qatar instead of the United States. That is the truth.'
“Of course it was also about money. Six months later, Qatar bought fighter jets from the French for $14.6 billion.'
Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
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Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
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Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Will still stink.
Watch yo mouth!
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Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Will still stink.
Watch yo mouth!
Ha. I love watching good ⚽️ and I will certainly root for the US, but dude....we have to celebrate (wildly) if we get to the round of 16. We stink. Always have, relative to the rest of the world.
Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Will still stink.
Watch yo mouth!
Ha. I love watching good ⚽️ and I will certainly root for the US, but dude....we have to celebrate (wildly) if we get to the round of 16. We stink. Always have, relative to the rest of the world.
Getting out of the group is the expectation, not a cause for celebrating wildly.
Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Will still stink.
Watch yo mouth!
Ha. I love watching good ⚽️ and I will certainly root for the US, but dude....we have to celebrate (wildly) if we get to the round of 16. We stink. Always have, relative to the rest of the world.
Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Will still stink.
Watch yo mouth!
Ha. I love watching good ⚽️ and I will certainly root for the US, but dude....we have to celebrate (wildly) if we get to the round of 16. We stink. Always have, relative to the rest of the world.
Getting out of the group is the expectation, not a cause for celebrating wildly.
2006-2014 we did OK. Like I said that 2006 team was going to do things, they had a lot of grit to them.
Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Will still stink.
Watch yo mouth!
Ha. I love watching good ⚽️ and I will certainly root for the US, but dude....we have to celebrate (wildly) if we get to the round of 16. We stink. Always have, relative to the rest of the world.
Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Will still stink.
Watch yo mouth!
Ha. I love watching good ⚽️ and I will certainly root for the US, but dude....we have to celebrate (wildly) if we get to the round of 16. We stink. Always have, relative to the rest of the world.
Getting out of the group is the expectation, not a cause for celebrating wildly.
2006-2014 we did OK. Like I said that 2006 team was going to do things, they had a lot of grit to them.
2002 was a great run. They outplayed Germany in the quarterfinals- I remember some of the German players falling to the ground when the whistle blew.
Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Will still stink.
Watch yo mouth!
Ha. I love watching good ⚽️ and I will certainly root for the US, but dude....we have to celebrate (wildly) if we get to the round of 16. We stink. Always have, relative to the rest of the world.
Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Will still stink.
Watch yo mouth!
Ha. I love watching good ⚽️ and I will certainly root for the US, but dude....we have to celebrate (wildly) if we get to the round of 16. We stink. Always have, relative to the rest of the world.
Getting out of the group is the expectation, not a cause for celebrating wildly.
2006-2014 we did OK. Like I said that 2006 team was going to do things, they had a lot of grit to them.
2002 was a great run. They outplayed Germany in the quarterfinals- I remember some of the German players falling to the ground when the whistle blew.
I remember 06 being like that. The game against the Italians was actually bloody. Italy went on to win it that year and that French player with the Z name head budded the chest of that Italian and the best flop I'd seen in a while came from that.
If a call or two went in favor of USA rather than neglected, that World Cup would have been much different.
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Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Will still stink.
Watch yo mouth!
Ha. I love watching good ⚽️ and I will certainly root for the US, but dude....we have to celebrate (wildly) if we get to the round of 16. We stink. Always have, relative to the rest of the world.
Getting out of the group is the expectation, not a cause for celebrating wildly.
Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Will still stink.
Watch yo mouth!
Ha. I love watching good ⚽️ and I will certainly root for the US, but dude....we have to celebrate (wildly) if we get to the round of 16. We stink. Always have, relative to the rest of the world.
Getting out of the group is the expectation, not a cause for celebrating wildly.
Prepare yourself for disappointment
Realistically I am not sure there are any expectations on the team going into this. They weren't in the last WC, they played poorly in the most recent tune ups and they are the youngest team in the tournament. Getting out of the group would be a HUGE step in the right direction
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Odd full stop i live in london and i wouldn't bother going to stand and watch them get on a bus. Over paid primadona . Who will never win anything. England is a football hype machine built up to fail. Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
I think this about USA's team every year. In 2006 they were robbed, but every other year they stink or are just ok.
This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Will still stink.
Watch yo mouth!
Ha. I love watching good ⚽️ and I will certainly root for the US, but dude....we have to celebrate (wildly) if we get to the round of 16. We stink. Always have, relative to the rest of the world.
Getting out of the group is the expectation, not a cause for celebrating wildly.
Prepare yourself for disappointment
Realistically I am not sure there are any expectations on the team going into this. They weren't in the last WC, they played poorly in the most recent tune ups and they are the youngest team in the tournament. Getting out of the group would be a HUGE step in the right direction
Maybe it's a year or two too early but we have talent. It will be a disappointment if we don't make it out of the group. Say what you want about those 2 friendlies but Wales has been in much worse form and hasn't won a game since they beat Ukraine to qualify for the WC.
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If you go by the world rankings, Group B is a really tight group. England are the obvious favourites for the group, but USA are 16th, Wales 19th and Iran 20th so there isn’t much between them.
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Maybe it's a year or two too early but we have talent. It will be a disappointment if we don't make it out of the group. Say what you want about those 2 friendlies but Wales has been in much worse form and hasn't won a game since they beat Ukraine to qualify for the WC.
It’s our first time at a WC for 64 years. We may be the underdogs but honestly, I’m already celebrating!
“Do not postpone happiness”
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soccer, at the lowest level of kids kicking a ball around, is fine. at the highest level, I don’t care for it….prima donnas and fans acting like it’s the end of the world. add qatar to that…..pass.
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'It's too small a country. Football and the World Cup are too big for that," Blatter, who was acquitted of corruption last summer , told Tages-Anzeiger . “The choice for Qatar was a mistake. At the time, we agreed in the executive committee that Russia would have the 2018 World Cup and the US that of 2022. That would have been a gesture of peace if two long-standing political opponents would organize the World Cup one after the other.'
"A week before the 2010 FIFA congress, Michel Platini called me to say that our plan would not work," Blatter recalls the period in which Qatar was awarded the World Cup. He was invited to the palace of President Sarkozy who had just had lunch with the Crown Prince of Qatar. Sarkozy told Platini: ' Look what you and your UEFA colleagues can do for Qatar when the World Cup is awarded.' I then asked him: what now?'
Sepp, what would you do if your president asked you for something? ' I then told him that the question didn't occur to me because we don't have a president in Switzerland. It turned out exactly like this: thanks to Platini's four votes, the World Cup went to Qatar instead of the United States. That is the truth.'
“Of course it was also about money. Six months later, Qatar bought fighter jets from the French for $14.6 billion.'
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Fair play to them though. Looks like they are having fun.
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This year? We actually have a star on the damn team so let's see.
Getting out of the group is the expectation, not a cause for celebrating wildly.
He cant get in a prem team.
But workmen make a team not stars.
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2002 was a great run. They outplayed Germany in the quarterfinals- I remember some of the German players falling to the ground when the whistle blew.
If a call or two went in favor of USA rather than neglected, that World Cup would have been much different.
Thats a massive loss
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also that russia got an olympic games & world cup....reminds you of another bs games in the 1930s
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Say what you want about those 2 friendlies but Wales has been in much worse form and hasn't won a game since they beat Ukraine to qualify for the WC.
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“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
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“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
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