Not the South American players…they love their national teams.
Tbh I question why it should be on the players. If people seriously think we shouldn’t be having this tournament, surely it’s on the governments, footballing authorities and management of teams before the 25 individual players (& their replacements) are asked to come together to stop this.
Basically a political stand shouldn’t be left to your winger and DM.
It’s not a coincidence that it’s the same issue as climate change.
People say they want someone in authority to deal with the issue, but they won’t stop buying the lifestyle whose effects they say they want clamping down on.
And they know the people in power are there to make sure the excitement doesn’t stop, that everyone makes serious money, so they splurge on exciting spectacles for them to join in with. And those people have power because anyone who urges restraint is going against what the audience and keeps enthusiastically showing they want.
At some point, people have to walk away from the exciting lifestyle choices offered, and just boycott the offerings so that the people organising it are shown that they have no support from the public and can be replaced by people who will act seriously.
That’s why they and their well-rewarded broadcasters keep telling us that’s the one thing we shouldn’t be doing to express our discontent.
And people buy into it, because they’re addicted and don’t want to give up the lifestyle, even as it gets less and less enjoyable, and more and more obviously a disaster for everyone involved except the corrupt, who thrive on the opportunities as everything falls apart.
Football at this level is a key part of the End of the World Party that we’re funding and supporting. We all know it.
When are supporters going to deal with what they know they have to do to deny the corrupt their power, and stop joining in so that they lose their power?
We can’t keep expecting someone else to come and make the the problems go away. We know that’s not going to happen.
I’m old enough to remember when we did this whole song and dance around Qatar and then nobody gave a shit about player workloads or FIFA corruption or human rights once it kicked off…
It’s shit like the club world cup which will have players noping out of. No way people don’t go to a world cup.
I struggle to find how the revamped Club World Cup will have much appeal. They are basically disregarding the many decades’ history of the Intercontinental Cup/ yearly CWC format for a new 4 year tournament that is more associated with national teams.
Could should mean should at this stage.
It’s just going to get worse and worse and worse. But you are relying on the morals of a bubble of peop
This feels worse than Qatar. The fiddling with the award ststem to demean the other Continental Sporting Bodies of Africa and South America’s opportunity to host the competition properly simply because they knew it wasn’t financially worth it is the most sickening part in my opinion. It just shows they wanted to speed up process to manipulate the system to get Saudi their World Cup to get their money and retire happily ever after.
It also decreased any chance they would face competition in their bid at this time within Asian/Oceanic confederations.
It’s so blatant abd Infantino horrible horrible smug face knows we all know but can’t do anything about it because… eh… on surface level the award system has been processed “correctly”.
