The message behind the news about the awarding of the 2030 World Cup is: The 2034 World Cup will go to the rogue state of Saudi Arabia and the chainsaw monster MBS. Sounds strange, but it’s true: FIFA acts much more transparently than the IOC when awarding its mega events.
Among brothers: human rights violator Sheikh Salman (FIFA, Bahrain), butcher Mohamed Bin Salman, dictator friend Infantino, butcher Putin. (Photo: President of Russia)
It was Joseph Blatterwho raved about future interplanetary competitions at the 2014 FIFA Congress in São Paulo. Interplanetary competitions, he shouted. Blatter, the FIFA dictator at the time, was rightly ridiculed for this.
A year later, Sepp’s world collapsed in a very earthly way: dozens of FIFA officials were arrested in the USA RICO Act accused of organized crime and sentenced to hundreds of millions of dollars in reparations and many decades in prison. Blatter had to resign and a few months later he was expelled from his compatriot in a highly dubious manner – with the help of the Swiss justice system Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino replaced, who not only comes from the same canton (Valais), but also from the same mountain valley, grew up in Blatter’s neighboring town and also follows his tradition in many other ways.
This Wednesday, Gianni Infantino had a four-minute video distributed on his propaganda channels in which he explained the decision of the FIFA Council, which is subordinate to him, but not yet interplanetarybut one intercontinental To introduce competition: In 2030, the men’s World Cup will be held on three continents for the first time.
What at first glance sounds like a crazy decision is actually not. Because in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay Only one game is played at a time, including the opening game in the legendary Centenary Stadium, so named because it opened on Uruguay’s 100th Independence Day. 1930, during the first World Cup.
100 years later, in 2030, FIFA is celebrating Centenary World Cup anniversary. That fits.
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