@ColinUdoh That last goal was even worse as if we'll need to beat Guinea-Bissau by at least 4 goals to beat them in a head to head situation. A thoroughly damaging performance.
@GreatmenArs players are legally entitled to a month off. Gabriel and Martinelli went out round of 16 (early July). Nobody who played in the final 4 is due back till after the CS unless they decide they want to come back early.
@chadast_ninkada@TolulopeAyeni@pfemiolaleye might help grassroots, but the thing about private equity is that it is greedy and ruthless and will destroy everything you love in the quest for the bottom line. so you have to balance that. i don't want those people anywhere close to making decisions.
@iKillCuriosity@stanleyazuakola which is naive. a singular product, held in a single wealthy country, run as a cartel, chaired by billionaires. how does he see the 211 countries of FIFA replicating that.
@GunnersVillage@osasuo@FIFAcom did you think we would have remained at 5 teams with a bigger tournament? Asia- 8/9, Concacaf- 6/8, OFC- 1
It was our turn to host with the new rotation laws.
so 4 african clubs benefitted turning their leagues and the CL even more lopsided and you think this is good?
@chadast_ninkada@TolulopeAyeni@pfemiolaleye you can enjoy that while the powers that be decide that some tiktok freestylers will bring more financial value to the tournament than a surprise package like Cabo Verde.
@TolulopeAyeni@pfemiolaleye this was the playbook that made us pick blatter in 1998. 'they'll take our spots'. they may not have wanted more CAF spots, but they accepted the sporting nature of it. profit-driven entities are even less likely to care about a region that only gives about 3% in tv rights.
@greathassan@ARISEtv who should qualify...maybe next time Norway struggle to qualify as they have for most of this century and they do magomago to get them in so that Haaland can play as that'll be better numbers. or they decide that Africa generates much less revenue so why give us so many spots.
@KnowerOfBans@Ad_1net@OfficialSitso is this a hallucination, i'm not getting any record of this partnership. i see attempts to invest in the media rights companies of some european leagues, but not UEFA itself. any links?