Quote from: Silberman on April 14, 2023, 06:48:15 PM

Quote from: KTChampions on April 13, 2023, 08:31:46 PM

When you have endless money, then you want something intangible like fame, world recognition, etc. Otherwise, why are these sheikhs competing in crazy projects (including buying up European football clubs)? It was something from the same area. It's not economics, it's closer to politics where rational considerations don't work.

It is not only politics, or at least it is just a part of all of this, countries which are rich on oil and which depend on it to sustain their economies know very well that one day such bonanza is going to run out, so they need another source of income for their countries and they cannot wait until that day comes as it would be late at that point, so they are trying to build their countries as touristic attractions and for that they need to spread the awareness of their countries, and Qatar found on the world cup a way to do this, after all there have been studies made which demonstrate many people cannot even find their own country on a map, then how we can expect those same people to know where Qatar is unless they did something extraordinary like hosting the world cup?

If their strategy is such, then it is doubtful - I don’t know how they can lure tourists, for example, from countries with Western European culture. Too big differences. For example, I won't go there even for free.

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Quote from: KTChampions on April 14, 2023, 03:57:26 PM

Indonesia supports Palestine and they don't even have diplomatic relations with Israel. They didn't want Israel to come to this competition (idiots lol) and of course in the end they were denied the championship. It would be very strange if FIFA banned Israel because of the inadequate requirements of another country. The most moronic situation - what were they thinking in Indonesia when they wanted to host this competition? They thought that they themselves would distribute permits to participate in it?

Its not reason why Indonesian removed from FIFA World Cup U20 host due not inadequate infrastructure and security conditions after the Kanjurahan tragedy which resulted in the deaths of 130 fans. Beside has issues about politician reject Israel national due respect for Palestine and Indonesian has got consequence loss participants in FIFA World Cup U20. Should not mixing between football and political but seems different viewed what happen with Russian national team after suspending from UEFA and FIFA competition, not only with their national team but also all their club got suspend until right now.

Ofc it is. Or do you think that if that tragedy hadn't happened, Indonesia would have been allowed to choose participants who can come and who can't? It was a natural and inevitable ban.
As for Russia, I don’t see any problems - all suspensions are absolutely correct and logical. The aggressor country cannot participate in any competitions because participation in competitions is, among other things, economic cooperation, and they try to isolate the aggressor country by any possible means.