I don’t particularly enjoy watching sports - except for tuning in with friends. This time around, even that little affirmation of solidarity has had the joy stripped out of it - mostly because the USA is making the sport a uniquely horrid “spectacle”. Capitalism is taking the opportunity to normalise all the oversized tickets, environmental damage, racist policing, and God knows what else. So, what is our community’s view on watching this horrorshow play out? Is it something we should be boycotting this time? I can only see this tournament being a way for the US elite to yet again brag about their privilege, to put it mildly. And I can’t imagine that would be good for football as a sport.
Quick edit: I think the question now is not whether we are boycotting it but how we will resist this sportswashing as spectators
Was never a sports person, too much into international politics.
FIFA? Sport? What are we talking about? Football/Soccer has not relation with FIFA, sport neither. Then… I am not watching a horrid (supposed) spectacle when it is really the antithesis of sport.
I still dont understand why its held in the usa. NOBODY in the us cares about football, they call football something completely different for no reason. Like whos gonna buy tickets for it? Idk it just seems dumb. That being said i might tune in once in a while since i dont watch football myself lol and im currently more interested in nba finals. Im with chairman wemby but if ny wins ill still be happy
Funnily enough, the US calls football, soccer, because the British originally used the word soccer and forced the Americans to adopt the word. Then the British decided to change the name to football, and force their empire to use the new name, which is why the game is globally known as football. By that time though the US had already broken away and weren’t on the best terms with the empire, and they couldn’t give less of a damn. The rest is history.
Oh wow didnt know that. So the root of all evil like always is the uk
If you guys wanna watch some sports. Search up manu ginobli career highlights. Watch that all summer long on repeat thank me later. The dude was insane
I’m not too into football as a whole, but my family and I watch a few games of the World Up every time it comes around. Obviously not buying tickets, they’re absurdly expensive, but we’ll probably tune in for Iran’s games, as well as the games for a few other countries we have relatives in. I’m not into sports so I don’t care much for that aspect of the World Cup, it’s definitely more an exercise in cultural pride for me.
Also, the blatant hypocrisy of liberals who were up in arms saying to boycott Qatar last time but have nothing to say about games in the fucking US is not lost on me. I’d bet that the stadium was constructed using undocumented people since they’re such a massive part of California’s construction industry (as well as other states). I’ve only seen a few protests from local groups here on SoCal that are protesting the World Cup, specifically due to ICE, but nothing from the wider mainstream liberal outlets.
Never been a footbal fan. There’s an 24 hours of Le Mans on the weekend for me.
oh great, time to hear people yelling outside in groups at 4AM on a weekday because their team was better at kicking the ball around than other team.
Truly a universal experience. Even the teams don’t take themselves as seriously as the fans do
lol I swear. I’ve never been into football whatsoever, not even as a game to play with friends ever since I was young. And then you see all the hooligans after their team loses. Or when their team wins. Or when the match is over – but basically people destroying stuff and attacking others for no reason other than football, and it’s like, this is allowed as “boys will be boys” but protests against the police are not? In any other circumstances if you were making noise at 4AM on a weekday preventing people from sleeping you would have the cops called on you, but because it’s the sport thing it’s okay and we just need to accept it as some inevitable thing that happens. the ball just does that when it’s happy or something.
I’m aware there’s politics in football and a long history of working class struggle in it. Like with many popular things (as in ‘of the people’, not ‘famous’) there were/are nazis attempting entryism and antifascist ultras (as in football ultra-fans) violently resisting them. This is good, kick nazis.
I still don’t get the hype and would rather not have any world cup anything, what can I say lol.
It’s only slightly easier to avoid it where I’m from because my family cares only whether if our home country is participating so I won’t be hearing too much about the World Cup beyond my dad’s occasional curiosity.
But yeah, don’t care to watch it live or anything. Can’t really say I’m boycotting it when I haven’t been interested in it in the first place.
Nah, I have no interest in football.
No, this is Mussolini 1934 World Cup. Fans are priced out of attending and watching the games. The host cities all suck, horrid public transport, stadiums not walkable, and people are jacking the prices of public transport to the stadium (e.g., the bus from Penn Station to Metlife cost $125). You need to take domestic/international flights around NA (and pay associated car rentals) to follow your team and watch the game you actually want to watch. They cheated Palestine with dodgy penalty out of Qualification. The temperature might literally be too hot.
I plan to touch grass and go multi-day backpacking hiking trip this summer.
The world cup is the only sporting event I genuinely like watching, so I will, but absolutely will not pay for it or anything like that. Personally, I will be ready with pirated streams :)
Pirate stream - you can still enjoy it while they can’t monetize your viewership.
https://fmhy.net/video#live-sports use adblocker and it might be a good idea to try a few to find one that works well in your area and has good quality streams. I personally mostly use foxtrend.vipEven if I was going to, a lot of the games are at fuck you o’clock due to the time zones. Also, they’re getting too big. Too many teams.
Too many teams? Wdym? Is the bracket like 32 teams or something? Is that how it works even?
I’m not personally but I’ve never been able to get invested in sports.
WHAT THE FUCK IS SPORTS
Fun stuff unless played in a colosseum
Get that gladiator hater out of here!
I am not watching it. Can’t bring myself to. I never held FIFA in any high regard. But the recent events like the FIFA peace prize and blocking of the Somali referee from entering the US have made me regret that I ever liked this sport. I am used to seeing sport organiasations being spineless and corrupt but this is a whole another level.
