United States Better Choice, not Qatar

I'm left distraught and confused too, Alexi

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So let's face it, we got screwed out of hosting an international sporting event despite clearly being the better choice. Okay yes, that statement is riddled with opinion, but there are facts that back up my statements. So now it's time for me to ramble angrily but yet factually on why the good ol' US of A was the clear and better choice for the World Cup.

1994, Soccer's greatest and biggest display comes to the United States. A country that had little interest in the game. The team was mediocre at best. Fifa gives them the 94 world cup, but with a million strings attached. They had to qualify for the world cup in 1990, and they also needed to qualify for the Olympics, just to keep their bid. I bet Qatar, a country that's never qualified, won't have strings attached to this honor.

But I digress, the point I want to make about the 1994 World Cup is that it set records, records that still stand, for ticket sales and revenue brought in. The World Cup here was a huge success back when soccer was a dead sport that very few even pretended to care about. Now our tam is on the up n up, interest in the game has never been higher, just imagine how successful the World Cup would be here given 12 years for the game to grow even further. Our culture is diverse, more hispanics are coming into the country which reflects the growth in the interest of the game. It only makes sense to have the World Cup here.

This decision is one riddled with corruption. But is it all about money? Well it can't be, because the US would have generated the most revenue of all the bidding nations, check it y'all.
"The decision might reflect the United States’ diminished standing in the world because an internal study conducted by FIFA showed the U.S. would produce the wealthiest and most successful tournament of all the campaigners"

Granted, we don't have that oil money Qatar has, and probably didn't bride Fifa as much as Qatar did. I said it, live with it. Putin knows it's true, and so much of the world also knows that Fifa is corrupt and a shady organization ran by scumbags and sleezeballs.

"Basically, oil and natural gas won today. This was not about merit, this was about money," former U.S. national team star Eric Wynalda said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. Qatar "is a country that is really going to struggle to host this event. A successful World Cup would mean the attendance would be twice the population." Here's that article too

Look, bottom line is the US was the right choice, not Qatar. We'd bring in the money, put the meat in the seats, and we'd put on one hell of a World Cup. And it's a shame they didn't give us the bid because they don't like our country, because 26 is pretty much set as China and 30 will likely be in Europe. This is devastating for the United States.

But what makes me mad is that the committee itself recognized that the tiny country, that has never qualified for a world cup, that gets up to 130 degrees in the summer, and that needs to build all the facilities in a small area to host the games, was a huge risk.
"Qatar’s bid was one of the most audacious proposals submitted and steadily moved from being a dark horse to pre-vote favorite despite being classified as 'high risk' by FIFA’s own inspectors."

It's upsetting to me that they knew the United States would make perfect sense, and yet they went with a risky choice, just because they don't like us as a country, and because we can't grease their palms with oil money.

And later tonight, part three of my anger blog, "Why I hate Fifa"