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I understand your concern about creating parallel and siloed security structures, but our deeper problem is the scale of our civic indiscipline relative to our capacity to police it.
We simply do not have enough security personnel to police every act of indiscipline in a society where basic civic responsibility is routinely ignored.
It should require no security personnel to tell anyone that destroying infrastructure built for their own use and that of their community is self-sabotage.
When civic discipline collapses, enforcement must fill the gap and no country can deploy enough personnel to police what common sense and civic responsibility should ordinarily prevent.
I understand your concern about creating parallel and siloed security structures, but our deeper problem is the scale of our civic indiscipline relative to our capacity to police it.
We simply do not have enough security personnel to police every act of indiscipline in a society where basic civic responsibility is routinely ignored.
It should require no security personnel to tell anyone that destroying infrastructure built for their own use and that of their community is self-sabotage.
When civic discipline collapses, enforcement must fill the gap and no country can deploy enough personnel to police what common sense and civic responsibility should ordinarily prevent.
@OshobukolaExcel@nifemioguntoye Pastor don't you think the same rule/thing is applied to you as well? "You could have just scrolled without dropping any comments" I come in peace tho
Your dad is not wrong. I even have written on it once.
Morocco shows up as MAR on scoreboards because FIFA's country codes do not always come from the English name.
A lot of them come from French, which is the working language FIFA has used since it was founded in Paris in 1904. Morocco in French is Le Maroc. First three letters: MAR.
And Morocco is not alone. This happens more than people realise.
Germany is GER, which tracks in English. But then you get to Ivory Coast, which shows up as CIV, from Cรดte d'Ivoire. Algeria is ALG from Algรฉrie. Haiti is HAI from Haรฏti. Switzerland is SUI from Suisse. Spain is ESP from Espaรฑa. Iran appears as IRN.
The pattern runs across the entire scoreboards.Some countries are also coded based on whatever their language is.
FIFA built its codes in an era when French dominated international administration, and colonial history shaped which language a country's name was recorded in first.
That legacy is still sitting quietly on every scoreboard at this World Cup.
I hope you have learned something today.
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