Alex Sherman

CNBC media & sports reporter. Author of CNBC Sport newsletter/host of CNBC Sport Podcast ( Tips to [email protected]

[Alex Sherman @sherman4949]

@liquidmedia2013 @Aquinas82nd Good lord, please.

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@JeffDLowe This was the best one ever. Josh Hamilton was awesome, but this was the best.

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Americans love soccer!*

*Once every four years

[Richard Deitsch @richarddeitsch]

The viewership is in — and it is robust.

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@clutch_87 @moman0330 …and if true, it’s just a bonkers rule. It simply needs to be more flexible — to what you said.

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These yellow card rules seem like maybe they should have changed by now? How is this still the rule?

[Alex Sherman @sherman4949]

@clutch_87 @moman0330 That’s not what the broadcast said - or several articles I’ve read. Because the VAR challenge is for mistaken identity, specifically, only the card can be swapped - not rescinded.

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@sportsrapport Agreed! I made this point as well. Expanding the World Cup will give FIFA more inventory if it wanted to add a second or even third partner.

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@Quaker2001 I don’t know. The Olympics is actually now technically split among two different media companies — Versant and NBCU. It doesn’t seem like a problem that couldn’t be solved to me. And it’s far, far less inventory than the an Olympics.

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This will help juice the media rights too.

I wonder if FIFA would consider splitting the rights to multiple US media companies with the additional games …. Yet another way to juice the rights.

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Gianni Infantino has said FIFA will examine expanding the World Cup by a further 16 nations to a 64-team tournament ahead of its next edition in 2030.

The 2030 tournament will be spread across six nations and three continents: Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay are scheduled to host one match apiece at the start of the competition, with the remaining games split between Morocco, Portugal and Spain.

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[Alex Sherman @sherman4949]

@clutch_87 @moman0330 You’re conflating two things.
1) when a yellow is given, the yellow simply can’t be picked up. It can only be traded. That rule is bonkers.
2) He should have been given a yellow card. The dive = yellow card rule is fine. Rule no. 1 is not.

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@MooseyOfficial If you think this happens as much in the NFL as it does in soccer, I don’t think we need to talk about this anymore.

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A severe problem with soccer is the:

1) Goal
2) celebrate
3) wait to see if goal allowed

Dance done on half the goals in the sport. It’s a huge turn off for casual fans.

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Well, I jinxed them

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Really impressive effort by Switzerland hanging in a man down. Argentina hasn’t even had a ton of great opportunities.

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@MooseyOfficial But you don’t. That’s what I’m saying. Many games in a season don’t have any situation where a team celebrates a touchdown and then it gets reversed on replay. Maybe it happens a few times to a team per season?

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@tomturbo50 Right but as a percentage of scores it happens way, way less in the nfl than soccer because there are so many more touchdowns than goals.

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@MooseyOfficial It’s not as bad with the NFL because there are so many touchdowns. When you’re only getting two goals a game and so many are overturned or almost overturned, it’s a major issue.

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@tomturbo50 No it isn’t. A flag comes out instantly.

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@moman0330 Doesn’t matter, it’s a horrible rule. Doesn’t matter if the call was right or not — not being able to simply nix the yellow but only being able to give a yellow to the other team if the first yellow is wrong is asinine. A horrific rule. Shocked that hasn’t been changed.

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@JuanG_Arango Uh, yeah? That’s the whole point of the tweet. I’m speaking for fans that don’t watch much soccer.