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[Jose @JepsosP]

@cowlonfull I think it can be a fun/interesting discussion when the people talking are fans of both the sports being compared; otherwise, both sides sound like children.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@Thfcaditya_v4 @Bd_irB_ll The Dutch were a few minutes away from losing to Mexico in R16 and had to go to penalties to beat Costa Rica in QF. Their only impressive match was against Spain in the Group Stage.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@lisco_2000 FIFA has more member states than the UN and for a time took their political interference/neutrality rules seriously until Infantino. Regardless of one’s thoughts on the matter, suspending Russia and the effort to suspend Israel were an anomaly that broke longstanding precedent.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@Campechame42 Por eso mismo no es viable mandarlo a televisión, desafortunadamente a muy pocos les interesa.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@manolo_aa @OtroCuleMexa Más bien es la decadencia y crisis económica que enfrentan las televisoras. Ya desde 2022 Televisa hizo sus mesas desde México, no fueron a Qatar.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@alan_ortega15 @arturoangel20 Estados Unidos no lo detuvo para enfrentar cargos penales cuando llegó con El Mayo y Joaquín; solo lo deportó de vuelta a México. Posteriormente fue detenido en México y expulsado a EEUU para ahora si enfrentar cargos.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@LotionDolphin @Masq811 @LockeDeBossa Also, Emilio Azcárraga, owner of Mexico’s 20th Century television monopoly, was a soccer fan and made it his mission to spread the game (which is easy when you own the only TV network). Before that, soccer wasn’t even close to being the most popular sport.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@Masq811 @LotionDolphin @LockeDeBossa This isn’t even true though. Mexico and the US are roughly equals when it comes to soccer; there’re periods in which one is slightly better than the other, but they’re always up there competing.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@MBozzeli @martindelp En MLB el número de extranjeros nunca ha sido tan alto, de los mejores 5 jugadores de NBA ninguno es gringo y en f. Americano no se usa el pay-to-play. Es un problema en todos los deportes, solo es más notorio en el futbol por ser el deporte más global.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@HighyieldHarry It has more to do with people being conservative about things they actually like: if Euros suddenly started watching football during the postseason and started making proposals on how to change things, American football fans would clown on them just as much.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@IanM1st @Sarfo15M Soccer is a cool sport but it’s not more or less “intelligent” than any American sport lmao

[Jose @JepsosP]

@cheche61943 @platafdo Puede haber liguilla en un torneo largo.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@KevinMHardy10 @AlexiLalas European academies are not publicly financed nor operated. This is ridiculous.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@Danob111 @FanSince09 @ChrisCillizza Yeah, regardless of US vs Euro wealth or league’s revenue, the NFL and NBA artificially suppress wages through salary caps while in soccer they’re arguably artificially inflated due to State involvement in the game via sovereign wealth funds and sportswashing initiatives.

[Jose @JepsosP]

@megustaburros @Kyle_Molock22 @cbsgy12 Clubs are very rich so they can invest lots of money into youth development while MLS clubs can’t. The US equivalent is MLB teams and their DR academies that develop Latam players. Of course, MLB orgs, like Euro soccer clubs, can afford it while MLS probably doesn’t.

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@mccaffreyr3 Your democracy with rule of law, sir.

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@dilanesper There’s no direct equivalent in American sports, I guess the closest would be an umpire throwing out a player in Game 7 of a Postseason series; the governor of the player’s team giving Rob Manfred a call and then player coming back into the game a few innings later.

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@dilanesper I think non-soccer people assume that the future game suspension is an administrative post-game suspension made by suits like it happens American sports; rather than an automatic/inherent consequence to the decision made by the ref on-the-field.

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@marcusauroneous @DrewVento Hot feminists are extremely rare. The majority of hot women in the workforce are in their mid-20’s and will retire when they get married in their late-20’s/early-30’s. For hot women, a job is a short-term hobby they engage in while looking for a well-off husband in the big city.

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@dilanesper UEFA officials have no backbone, they just complain as usual but never actually do anything, as it always happened in this longstanding Infantino-UEFA feud. AFC, CAF and Concacaf are going to be happy as long as FIFA keeps the money flowing to their member associations.