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North America’s bid to host 2026 World Cup jeopardized by falling U.S. popularity
The Washington Post ^
| 12-18-2017
| Steven Goff
Posted on 12/19/2017 8:04:25 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020
Where is that tiny violin?
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:06:54 AM PST
by
txrefugee
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To: Trump20162020
Oh noes!! Now Ill have to continue to watch a sport I really dont give a Shiite about on TV (when nothing else is on and the world is ending).
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:08:53 AM PST
by
FlipWilson
(The)
To: Trump20162020
Gee, who would ever think the Washington Post would frame it this way?/s
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:09:20 AM PST
by
daler
To: Trump20162020
Americans don’t want to watch men run around in short pants kicking a ball.
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:09:22 AM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: faithhopecharity
Good. The less foreigners in my country, the better I like it.
Dr. Xenophobe
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:09:49 AM PST
by
bagster
(Even bad men love their mamas.)
To: Trump20162020
Wait until they analyze how many soccer jerseys, and how much beer, they can sell in Morocco. It is coming to North America, despite the fact that Canadian soccer has gone from weak to practically non-existent...
Who would even travel to Morocco?
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:10:13 AM PST
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: txrefugee
Bill Shultz explains(at 1:50 mark)
HERE
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:12:15 AM PST
by
RckyRaCoCo
(FUMSM)
To: Trump20162020
I’d rather the US host the Cricket World Series before anything soccer. (And the Cricket World Series doesn’t exist yet.)
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:15:22 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai; Trump20162020
Correction: World Series Cricket doesn’t exist anymore; it existed briefly from 1977 to 1979.
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:17:20 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Trump20162020
I remember the good old days when soccer wasn’t considered a sport here.
No loss.
To: Trump20162020
👍🏻EXCELLENT!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼We don't have to fork over billions to build stupid sport centers!!
To: Trump20162020
Excellent! We don’t want to help soccer by popularizing it in the worlds largest consumer market. That would make those soccer nerds around the world rich.
Instead, we should give them a sharp scalpel and a suture kit to safely remove their nose from their ugly faces.
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:18:47 AM PST
by
Tenacious 1
(You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being rich or stupid!)
To: Trump20162020
A writer
nailed it when he said as a kid, soccer was pushed on us, and so was the metric system and for the same reason: The rest of the world did it; America was stubborn and behind. We needed to embrace the real football, soccer, played by thin, small, virtuous Third Worlders, who had no equipment save a ball, and maybe a few sticks for goals. Nets, too, if they were really lucky.
I never gave in to that sentiment, and stuck to American exceptionalism vs Globalist hegemony. However, with a few changes...
....maybe we could be swayed and soccer would be more popular.
To: Trump20162020
To: Trump20162020
Boo hoo hoo.
I can’t possibly care no less.
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:20:11 AM PST
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
To: Lurkinanloomin
Actually the 1994 World Cup, played in the US, still holds the record for highest attended tournament - and there were few games in 94 then in subsequent tournaments.
The dolts that run FIFA should be fired on the spot if they pick MOROCCO over the US.
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:20:31 AM PST
by
safeasthebanks
("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
To: BookmanTheJanitor
To: Lurkinanloomin
Americans dont want to watch men run around in short pants kicking a ball. ... and flopping around like fish out of water in faux-pain when one player farts in the general direction of another. Lord help them when they actually touch each other and the red cards slice through arteries and players die.
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posted on
12/19/2017 8:21:09 AM PST
by
Tenacious 1
(You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being rich or stupid!)
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