• potustheplant@feddit.nl
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    6 days ago

    They are corrupt, but that has nothing to do with organizing the world cup so one specific team will win it.

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      6 days ago

      It’s a conspiracy theory I’ve heard a couple times that they pair up all the strong teams and the winners typically get a favorable start. I literally couldn’t care less about the world Cup except to meme on it and FIFA though so what do I know. Maybe the corruption company that acts like the soccer Mafia is slightly less corrupt somehow.

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        6 days ago

        I didn’t get the theory. The world cup groups are defined in a televised draw. Are you saying that the draw is fixed?

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          The draw is fixed. There have been multiple instances of this, most notably France 98, where, as Platini declared years after, they deliberately put France in group C and Brazil in group A, so they wouldn’t meet until the finals.

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          6 days ago

          Yeah the organization that gave trump a FIFA peace prize to bribe him after he was snubbed by the Nobel Prize debacle would play fair… I don’t care whether they really do it or not (they probably do though) I just think memeing on them is funny