Russia to host the 2018 World Cup

[MasterBlaster76]

Whats the only thing more annoying than vuvuzelas? forcing all the women to wear burqas

Good point - maybe not burqas, but don't they expect women to cover up there? Especially their heads.

There was certainly lack of professionalism in the way they handle that situation.

About Russia hosting the 2018 World Cup, are they planning to expand their current stadiums or build some new ones? Pretty sure they would right? From what I've just checked, the biggest stadium is the Luzhniki Stadium with a capacity of 78 360 and the second biggest capacity is only 36 000+. What a huge difference in that!

Against:

List of football stadiums in England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Plus the Olympic Stadium presumably - what's that, 70,000? 80,000?

Isn't Luzhniki Stadium the one with a plastic pitch, that they refused to change for a CL Final? Why change it for a World Cup? Shambles.

 

[JBlues08]

Against:

List of football stadiums in England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Plus the Olympic Stadium presumably - what's that, 70,000? 80,000?

Isn't Luzhniki Stadium the one with a plastic pitch, that they refused to change for a CL Final? Why change it for a World Cup? Shambles.

Yeah. That was the stadium and it's rather inconsistent of them changing that pitch for the World Cup and not for the Champions League as well.

Was the Olympic Stadium listed as one the stadiums in the England's bid?

 

[.::Stevo::.]

Edit: @Stevo - this WC would be what the Aussies need - right now, you're on the cusp of becoming a respectable side. Dunno what this will do to football down under.

It's exactly what football in Australia needed. Our old domestic competition was ditched earlier in the decade to make way for the new "A-league". In 05 we qualified for the World Cup which turbo charged our league and support for the game in general.

At the moment our league is in a little down, crowds are becoming poor, and some clubs are losing financially. If we were given 2022 it would of been massive, unprecedented actually. It would of elevated football to a major competing code of football in Australia whilst providing world class football dedicated facilities which the A-league needs. We were very confident as fifa preach about pushing the game into markets where football has yet thrived. USA has been done, so that only leaves Australia and Oceana right?

Honestly this may kill domestic football in Australia. And to only get ONE vote, finishing last behind Japan and Korea (both held it in 2002 and one on the verge of war) is just mind bogglling.



Also on the England of view, to spend over 430 million pounds simply to get 2 votes (1 of your own) you would at least expect to gain some feeback where you went wrong (probably because your not rolling around in corupt oil companies). I watched all the bids and would of voted for England in an instance.

It's a shame, England do so much for World football. They invest so much money and time into smaller developing countries who now are even able to beat England, yet get no recognision from FIFA. England should withdraw all their money from international football projects and invest it in your national team and win both the 2018 an 2022 world cups to stick it up them!

 

[War]

A disgrace that England did't get it. The boys in charge of FIFA are clueless.

 

[harrisb]

The problem was that FIFA didn't look at the good things of each bid. Instead, they looked at which countries hadn't hosted it before, and which ones are least developed. Australia would have been no good as it is an established and well developed country. The next few World Cups are in Brazil (2014), Russia (2018) and Qatar (2022). They aren't exactly the most developed countries in the world compared to England and Australia.

 

[Covvy]

So basically Fifa think they are god, going to undeveloped countries and making them all better.

 

[harrisb]

Look at the last one, it was in South Africa for God's sake, apart from Brazil, they don't have any footballing history, which is what FIFA should be promoting. They want all this legacy stuff, but do they know what a legacy is, they seem to think that a legacy just means using the World Cup to develop a country. Not about creating history that people remember.

 

[Highlander999]

So basically Fifa think they are god, going to undeveloped countries and making them all better.

If that was the case, Australia would have got it then

 

[Ollie_H]

No, it would have gone to scotland.

 

[ARay]

I think it could be a strategic and political reason to develop football in those parts. I guess its fifa's way of pushing a developed infrastructure for football in Russia and Qatar.

 

[1iram1]

I heard Qatar are going to have solar powered air-conditioners in all their
stadiums + They are building an underground indoor stadium which can't be that bad.

 

[mattfb]

If that was the case, Australia would have got it then

Yes. Exactly. I know you're being a smart-arse but that's exactly right.

Like I said on page one our league is in a slow decline.

I went to a match against a side from New Zealand on Wednesday night. Sydney vs Wellington. It was pouring with rain and I have to under-take 2-2 and a half hours travel overall including a 20 minute walk to the stadium. I was there with 4,000 other people. That was the second or third time this season we've broken our overall lowest crowd.

But I go with the hope in my heart of this sport growing in this country eventually. The World Cup would do just that. To have that hoped ripped out by the World Cup going to Qatar? It hurts. If we lost fairly to a country like USA I would accept it.

 

[Biggy]

If that was the case, Australia would have got it then

lmao, where are you from again?

 

[MasterBlaster76]

I heard Qatar are going to have solar powered air-conditioners in all their
stadiums + They are building an underground indoor stadium which can't be that bad.

They're building a ... what? An underground indoor stadium?? Now, I've heard it all.

MasterBlaster76 added 1 Minutes and 21 Seconds later...

It's exactly what football in Australia needed. Our old domestic competition was ditched earlier in the decade to make way for the new "A-league". In 05 we qualified for the World Cup which turbo charged our league and support for the game in general.

At the moment our league is in a little down, crowds are becoming poor, and some clubs are losing financially. If we were given 2022 it would of been massive, unprecedented actually. It would of elevated football to a major competing code of football in Australia whilst providing world class football dedicated facilities which the A-league needs. We were very confident as fifa preach about pushing the game into markets where football has yet thrived. USA has been done, so that only leaves Australia and Oceana right?

Honestly this may kill domestic football in Australia. And to only get ONE vote, finishing last behind Japan and Korea (both held it in 2002 and one on the verge of war) is just mind bogglling.



Also on the England of view, to spend over 430 million pounds simply to get 2 votes (1 of your own) you would at least expect to gain some feeback where you went wrong (probably because your not rolling around in corupt oil companies). I watched all the bids and would of voted for England in an instance.

It's a shame, England do so much for World football. They invest so much money and time into smaller developing countries who now are even able to beat England, yet get no recognision from FIFA. England should withdraw all their money from international football projects and invest it in your national team and win both the 2018 an 2022 world cups to stick it up them!

If only our leadership was less spineless, that's probably exactly what would happen.

 

[Dare]

Props to Russia for getting the 2018 world cup. I think they will do a great job in organizing that world cup. They have already started construction on stadiums and this will come good for the Russian economy.
The way they host the next winter olympics will indicate if they are capable of hosting the world cup.

As for Qatar its another good pick. I think they will also do a good job and some of their videos and things they want to create are just amazing.