Now, avoid bringing international events (and money by extension) to the United States until it stops with this Republican bullshit. It needs to be cutoff and isolated. Don’t reward it for this behavior. Reminds me of this, and we all know how it all turned out:
I’m so happy its over.
Look if you like organized sports fine. You have my vote.
But God… I just don’t care.
The organization is so thoroughly corrupt that I have no interest in it. Especially because I don’t like football/soccer that much to begin with
I prefer female volleyball.
Explain yourself
It’s the shorts. I err I mean he likes the shorts.
The only reason I knew it was happening this year was because of all the shit the orange diddler was doing to meddle with it by denying/deporting refs and players, make it about himself, and outright cheating.
Every other instance of it I didn’t know until is see a post about the winner
My mistake was only watching the final game live. Turned out to be a real snoozefest, with very, very few even mildly exciting moments.
How bad was it? Spain had 12 shots on net. Argentina had 0. Zero.
I think that any other game in the tournament would have been better to watch.
Not liking something like this isn’t a brag… it’s just one less thing you can enjoy in life. One less thing you can watch. One less thing you can talk about. Etc…
The entire world partied for a month and you’re over here thinking you’re better because you were too cool to join in on the fun
Nobody likes that guy that tells himself he was, “too cool” to go to the party
The entire world partied for a month
A whole lot of the world doesn’t give two shits about soccer… especially FIFA’s, for obvious reasons you seem to be willfully ignorant of.
To be honest I’m a little sad to see it go because this has been the most I’ve seen other Americans take an interest in soccer, expanding their horizons beyond their own border a bit, and the banter between countries was fun in a way the Olympic medal farming doesn’t quite capture.
Yep. For all the corruption, it’s just awesome to see people celebrating together over and over. So fun.
Didn’t even notice it. Heard that Spain won though. Congrats to them.
Spain? That can’t be right. I heard England was doing well. Who does Pele play for? Can anyone recap it for us?
Alright, so Japan played Brazil with Hatsune Miku on the line and lost. Then Brazilian Hatsune played Norway and lost. Then Norwegian Hatsune played England and lost. Then English Hatsune played Argentina and lost. Then Argentinian Hatsune played Spain and lost. Now Spanish Hatsune Miku is the ultimate winner.
World Cup in what sport?
Football
I’m just glad the late games are over.
European, I see
Seriously, thank fuck.
Next week baseketball or superb owl or some other shit will start. It never ends. Never.
baseketball
I should really get around to watching that movie. I saw it in the TV guide like 20+ years ago as a kid, but never watched it even though it sounded funny. Thanks for reminding me
superb owl
Wouldn’t some superb owls tbh.
That was pretty invasive I must say. Even at the grocery store, everywhere I looked it was FIFA on deodorant, cookies, cans of soup, flags, towels, napkins, shorts, hot dogs…etc., etc., ad infinitum. Sheesh!
I dont watch it but I did appreciate seeing so many people happy and enjoying something. I think the world needed that little break. Anyway back to regular programming, millions dying in Ukraine and war in the middle east pushing us closer to economic depression.
Are you sure about that?
Think about it: only the people of a single one of all participant countries will end up happy (because their team won it) whilst everybody else will end up unhappy (because their team lost).
Granted, there are a few cases of a bit of happiness, like for the people of Cape Verde, without actually winning it but following unexpected very good positions, but those are a minority and tend towards smaller countries (which usually don’t have enough population to have enough World-class players even if they’re football-crazy, hence why any good result is a surprise).
I would say that logically, all in all at the end of it big single sport world cups like this generally end up with far more people unhappy because of it than the people which are happy.
Yes. I might be disappointed The Netherlands didn’t at least beat Morocco, before succumbing to France, but that doesn’t mean the World Cup made me sad. It was incredibly entertaining, many unforgettable moments, beautiful goals. I’ll never forget some of these moments.
A competition only makes you sad if you are a sore loser.
While the games are playing out there is happiness and excitement and celebration and sure when your team loses it can be sad but its just a game and there are worse things to be sad about. Its nice to feel sad about a game and not im sad because the world is falling apart.
For most people the world cup is not that serious and even for the ultras its more excitement than unhappiness. Think about the world cup as the total journey and not just the end result.
Same. I’m grateful our national team got knocked out pretty quickly. I was not looking forward to all the partying and noise in the streets if they’d won. Now I can just get on with my day without all the hassle :)
