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Board Gambling discussion
Re: 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar - UEFA Qualifiers
by
joker_josue
on 07/05/2022, 00:06:09 UTC
Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo are strong personalities in not just football but sports in general, they are some sort of superstars in the game little wonder why their participation in the competition would influence the sales of tickets. I think the world cup on its own attracts people irrespective of the players involved. There was a time people would worry about how the prestige of the UEFA Champion's League will be affected prestige without Messi and Ronaldo rivalry but in recent years it has faze out. The truth is the world cup itself supersedes any individual player.

I think that the non-presence of these athletes affects the media more than anything else. This is because the event itself is not affected, and fans will continue to get involved in the party. At the World Cup, you are expected to see the best teams and the best players. If some of them fail it's always a small shock, but it doesn't affect the competition.

Another curiosity, for example in this case Messi vs Ronaldo, they never took comfort in official matches for the national teams. The last meeting of the two countries was in 2014, and it was a friendly one.