Socceroos / Matildas / World Cup / Asian Cup

[gerkin greg]

Nope

It will be a poo fight, there are huge protests there that are starting to turn violent, safety & corruption is a massive concern, there's even talk they may move the whole thing to the US

+ can't be stuffed flying 40 hours to find my overpriced hotel overbooked leaving me with nowhere to stay, then getting to my seat to find 20 people sitting in it

+ The host cities are too difficult to travel between if you only have a day or two between games

Better off going to Montevideo or Buenos Aires and watching it from there if you want the vibe without the headfuck

[Francois Jackson]

thats true Gerks but il be in the states from early May, so im over that side

family straight home from Miami and away to go meet the fellas there.

i only want to see one Australia game and one game in Rio. If we score some joint like Recife well then il stay in Rio and watch 2 games.

12 night trip max. Private apartments are the way i book these days. Did it in NYC last year and paid peanuts for a big 2 bedroom apt on level 30 direct with the owner.  Hotels are a waste of money.

[Judge Roughneck]

Might be no world cup.. Brazilians not happy campers.

[Francois Jackson]

bents most Olympics and a few world cups i heard the same thing over and over again. Will never happen.

south africa wasnt going to happen due to crime

Greece olympics wasnt going to happen due to unfinished stadiums.

WC will proceed. Blatter will step in with his dirty money

[Judge Roughneck]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBrFLGNvV7U

[tiga]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBrFLGNvV7U

Well that post was relevant to the current discussion Bents.  Might as well post this then... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78gMad9hEkI

[Judge Roughneck]

where is the association football thread?

[gerkin greg]

how come soccer fans insist australia call the sport 'football' yet call the national team the 'socceroos'?

cant have it both ways

fwiw it's soccer in this country and always will be

[Judge Roughneck]

Many non Australia fans ie. English regard it as a silly term.

And say Australia n national football team

[dwaino]

Just stick to calling it wogball so there is no confusion. Go Woggeroos.

[gerkin greg]

Brilliant

[Judge Roughneck]

The 'Australian National Football Team'.

Is pretty straight forward.

31    Nigeria   785   -3      
32    Japan   765   -2      
33    Hungary   759   0      
34    Romania   750   0      
35    Algeria   737   0      
36    Serbia   723   4      
37    Venezuela   712   -1      
38    Albania   690   5      
39    Ukraine   687   -2      
40    Korea Republic   666   2      
41    Republic of Ireland   659   -2      
42    Tunisia   652   -1      
43    Panama   649   -5      
44    Paraguay   640   0      
45    Wales   638   4      
46    Bulgaria   628   6      
47    Australia   619   0      
48    Costa Rica   617   0      
49    Jamaica   602   4      
49    Zambia   602   -3      
51    Burkina Faso   594   -1      
52    Honduras   582   -2      
53    Bolivia   578   5      
54    Turkey   573   -10      
55    Slovenia   568   0      
56    Slovakia   565   -2      
57    New Zealand   551   30      
58    Uzbekistan   550   8      
59    Central African Republic   543   5      
60    South Africa   542   -4      
61    Iceland   541   12      

[Judge Roughneck]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kwfKRJJhL4

[tiger101]

Give it up Frank. They aren't going to give back the money. The world cup would of been a great event to hold but in hindsight the money would of been better spent on growing not just soccer but all sports at grass root level across Australia.

FFA chief Frank Lowy has demanded that FIFA, world soccer's governing body, pay back the $43 million worth of Australian taxpayer dollars wasted in the futile World Cup bid as questions over the probity and the desirability of staging the competition in Qatar continue to mount.
Australia,with significant government support and funding, staged a lengthy but ultimately pointless campaign to win the right to stage the 2022 renewal of the world's biggest sporting event.
At a controversial meeting of FIFA's executive in Switzerland in December 2010  it was revealed that tiny middle eastern nation Qatar had won the right to host the 2022 World Cup in the northern hemisphere summer - despite the fact that temperatures in the Persian Gulf regularly topped the 40 degree mark at that time of the year.
Australia was one of the first contenders eliminated , having secured only one vote in a campaign built around the fact that FIFA wanted to stage the tournament in the middle of the year.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/football/frank-lowy-demands-fifa-to-compensate-for-2022-world-cup-time-shift-20130917-2tx0c.html#ixzz2f9ohrMxS

[Judge Roughneck]

A) why shouldn't the FFA get the money back? FIFA has 'changed the goal posts' by moving the WC to the middle of the domestic football season. Its not a realistic scenario. la liga and the EPL are not going to shut for a year.

B) the bid was  good idea. A WC in Austria would have made billions at a small outlay (40 odd million bid) and word have changed the changed the sporting landscape in this country forever. A world cup in Australia would grow the sport immeasurable. 50$m was worth the risk.