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We moeten eerlijk zijn, we gaan pure middelmaat krijgen, maar dan beter Belgische middelmaat dan buitenlandse middelmaat. Het enige voordeel is dat Tedesco de lat zodanig laag aan het leggen is, dat we in het begin snel tevreden gaan zijn.
 
Wel hilarisch hoe ze 2030 verspreiden over drie continenten zodat het in 2034 weer de beurt is van Azië. Anders moest Saudi Arabië tot 2042 wachten.

Normaal doet FIFA nog een minimale hoeveelheid moeite om de corruptie wat te bedekken, nu is het echt zo flagrant dat het verkochte boel is.
 
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Wel hilarisch hoe ze 2030 verspreiden over drie continenten zodat het in 2034 weer de beurt is van Azië. Anders moest Saudi Arabië tot 2042 wachten.

Normaal doet FIFA nog een minimale hoeveelheid moeite om de corruptie wat te bedekken, nu is het echt zo flagrant dat het verkochte boel is.
Kan ook zijn dat buiten Azië er eigenlijk geen enkele continent is dat de volledige mep wilde betalen? Waardoor ze het opdeelden over de 3?

Terwijl in SA ze over die kostprijs voorlopig niets lijken te geven.
 
Kan ook zijn dat buiten Azië er eigenlijk geen enkele continent is dat de volledige mep wilde betalen? Waardoor ze het opdeelden over de 3?
Het heeft ook te maken dat het een jubileum is (100 jaar WK) en Uruguay was het eerste land dat het WK organiseerde en wss willen die niet heel dat tornooi organiseren en zijn ze op dit gedrocht gekomen.
 
Kan ook zijn dat buiten Azië er eigenlijk geen enkele continent is dat de volledige mep wilde betalen? Waardoor ze het opdeelden over de 3?

Terwijl in SA ze over die kostprijs voorlopig niets lijken te geven.
Australië wou het toernooi graag organiseren in 2034 maar het hele proces was reeds van in het begin in het voordeel van Saudi Arabië geregeld. Geen sprake van een open, eerlijk en democratisch verkiezingsproces.


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FIFA also announced the details of a concurrent bidding process for the 2034 World Cup, which was being brought forward by about three years. And because of FIFA’s rotation policy, which says the tournament can’t be hosted by the same confederation more than once in 12 years – and since FIFA’s clever 2030 trick took not only UEFA off the table, but the South American and African confederations, too – that meant it would have to be staged in Asia or Oceania. Or both.
The timestamps tell the story. At 2.12am AEDT on Thursday, October 5, 2023, FIFA made an important and unexpected announcement. By email decree, the sole candidates as host of the 2030 men’s World Cup were anointed: Spain, Portugal and Morocco.

Then, at 3.11am AEDT, another announcement. The Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF) announced its intention to bid, making it the first out of the gate for 2034. Australia had not even woken up.

Saudi Arabia’s interest in hosting a World Cup had already been well-established – but only as one of three nations, together with Greece and Egypt, which had announced a bid for 2030 the year before. That one was scrapped when it became clear Spain, Portugal and Morocco were in the box seat.
Now, suddenly, somehow, the Saudis were ready to go solo.

And then, at 3.32am AEDT – just 21 minutes later – one more email. This one was from the Asian Football Confederation, and contained a declaration of “full support” for the SAFF bid from president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa. He praised FIFA’s processes and said the “entire Asian football family” would stand united in support for the Saudis.
Plans for a three-way bid between Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia had been previously floated – those discussions were immediately resumed, as confirmed by Erick Thohir, the billionaire chairman of Indonesia’s football federation, who said Malaysia and Singapore were interested, too. There was enough will between the ASEAN nations to move forward with an intention to bid, sources say.

But FA’s decision to initially go against the so-called “Asian football family” did not go down well. Through political back-channels – and then, soon enough, in full public view– FIFA and the AFC made it clear that any bid from that part of the world would not get up. “You’ve had your turn,” FA was effectively told by high-ranking officials according to one source, referring to the Women’s World Cup.
Not for the first time, Australia had been thoroughly outpointed by a rich Middle Eastern state whose ambitions in football were not solely about the sport itself, but much, much bigger, and being driven by the highest level of government – in Saudi Arabia’s case, Mohammed bin Salman, who has become increasingly close to Infantino. But at least there was the illusion of democracy in 2010, when a vote was taken before Qatar was awarded hosting rights for the 2022 World Cup. This time, the race was won before it even began.
The 2034 World Cup will be the culmination of a long-term plan by Saudi Arabia to build power and influence in football through many years of strategic investment, sponsorships and political scheming. It has been assisted in no small part by Infantino. He has personally engineered closer ties between FIFA and the oil-rich kingdom, and appears to have stacked the deck to achieve the exact outcome the world governing body wanted.

Stanis Elsborg is the head of Play the Game, an initiative run by the Danish Institute for Sports Studies promoting democracy, transparency, and freedom of expression in world sport. Putting aside the obvious human rights concerns for the migrant workers who will be tasked with building the stadiums and infrastructure for the Saudi World Cup, Elsborg says FIFA’s process has been a “governance disaster”, and that its decision to give interested nations just 25 days to confirm their desire to bid “reeks of orchestration”.
“It’s hard to see it any other way,” Elsborg told this masthead.

“No democratic country could realistically pull together a serious intent of interest in that timeframe. It wasn’t about creating competition or being transparent – it was about locking in Saudi Arabia as the host without any challengers.”

Het WK 2034 moet het orgelpunt worden van decennia lange investeringen in internationaal voetbal door de Saudi's in een poging om het regime wit te wassen en aantrekkelijker te maken voor het Westen.
 
Dégoûtant maar dat is nu éénmaal de staat van het huidige voetbal. Niemand zou hier nog van moeten schrikken.

De hele voetbal wereld is rot tot op het bot helaas, jammer want het is een heel fijn spelletje om naar te kijken.
 
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