The USA was awarded the world cup June 23,2018. Yes! You read that right.
They have known for 8 years that they will be hosting it. Yet, every single story that comes up makes it look like they were awarded impromptu.
Japan almost left Mexico because of poor training grounds, Iran are yet to even get Visas for the tournament, Senegal complained over security issues that welcomed them on arrival, fans are being denied entrance right left and center and now venomous snakes hounding Switzerland.
It is a world cup and every continent deserves the right to host it. We must admit though that the US are doing a terrible job at it. The tournament has barely started and teams are already frustrated. The pitch does not even look in shape. Tickets are not being sold.
One must question the wisdom of hosting the biggest sporting event majorly in a country that do not understand the importance of it or even call the sport the right name ( still soccer there).
I hope the football on the pitch makes us all forget the pre tournament debacle.
We see.
Fun World Cup Fact:
The @guardian story, later amplified by @Reuters, that 6,500 migrant workers died building Qatar’s World Cup stadiums was bogus.
The 6,500 figure was actually the TOTAL number of people from Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka who died in Qatar from 2011-2020, regardless of occupation or cause of death.
That’s 650 deaths per year across nearly 2 million expats from those five nationalities: a yearly mortality rate of just 0.0325% from ALL causes. The yearly mortality rate for QATARIS was actually higher at 0.0571%.
The real number of deaths among workers involved in stadium construction was 40. Of those, 37 were non-work-related. Only 3 were construction accidents.
For comparison: Brazil had 8 World Cup construction deaths. Russia had 21.
So how did Qatar maintain such a low fatality rate despite building far more infrastructure?
By implementing some of the strictest worker safety measures ever seen at a World Cup, including mandatory StayQool cooling suits with patented heat-management technology that may eventually become standard for construction workers worldwide.
Instead of having any kind of humility and learning from these developments, they chose racism and straight up lying.
@Allar990@tanpukunokami Bad Muslims exist. But if they exist at their home country, they will be punished by their country. But right now, their country have been destroyed by Israel/USA.
HERE WE GO! Hemos enviado un fax al @FCBarcelona_es con nuestra oferta de traspaso: 4 entradas para el concierto de Bad Bunny de mañana, una suscripción anual al ABC y una bolsa de pipas. Esperamos ansiosos la respuesta para preparar el ‘announce’.
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