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where did i go wrong in my life to let myself care this much about sports

what do you mean lebron james is going to PHILADELPHIA

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love that both bayern and stuttgart fans brought flares can’t wait to get fined together ❤️

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YEAH

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and there it is

if it’s not clear i’m a fifa conspiracy theorist who thinks that all federations are waiting to be bought lol

hi i cant reply to your posts, re 2038 or 2042. there's small rumblings germany will prepare a bid for either year. for the current 2026 system we have enough stadiums is the reasoning and until then is enough time for renovations. (iirc hamburg hsv might get a new stadium, bremen after last week will likely need to do heavy renovations asap, also germany olympic equivalent to dfb, the dosb , is preparing a bid for olympic games, 36 or 40, which could result also in renovation money)

the current rotation rules forbid a confederation from hosting again for two cycles after they host (meaning a confederation can host as frequently as every 12 years). as a member of uefa, which has member countries spain and portugal hosting in 2030, germany wouldn't be able to host in 2034 and 2038. while germany is interested in hosting and their infrastructure is primed to host, they are technically ineligible to host in 2038. they would be eligible again for 2042.

the main issue is with the 2038 host, and why i think they might change the current rules, is that so few confederations are eligible to host. uefa/caf/conmebol (2030 hosts) and afc (2034 hosts) are currently considered ineligible, leaving only concacaf and ofc. ofc is so far under the stadium requirements that they're effectively ineligible (they would need a qatar-level investment, which would be really hard to mobilize), so it would either have to come back to conmebol, which would realistically need to include mexico (already has 7 stadiums that meet at least the group stage capacity requirements) and/or the us (has more than enough stadiums to meet capacity requirements) again to host.

so either the world cup is coming back to mexico and/or the us in 2038, or fifa is going to update their rotation rules to allow for uefa/caf/conmebol to host, which would allow for select wealthier countries to become eligible sooner in the future too.

#answered #thomasmuellerr #and uefa has the most dissent (albeit extremely limited dissent) against infantino #so he would get material benefit out of updating the rules and making uefa (especialy germany) happy by awarding them the world cup #because i think they'll be more subtle than bringing it immediately back to the middle east