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On 9/10/2025 at 10:55 AM, Napoleon said:

Brazil got “CONCACAF-ed” in La Paz last night. 
 

Brazil chief: 'We played against referees and police' vs. Bolivia

Well, the game was scheduled in El Alto over La Paz for a reason.  But that’s the whole beauty of Conmebol, you have to play everyone and home field advantage exists.  When Ecuador hosts Brazil, they play in Quito.  When they host Bolivia, they play in Guayaquil.  Colombia will host in Barranquilla when it suits them and Bogota, when it doesn’t.  The pitches aren’t perfect.  There are green colored rocks and the occasional puddle.  
 

This is World Cup qualifying and you were out shot 23-10.  The penalty was soft at best, but this was just complete lack of “ganas”.
 

The BFF really has turned into the biggest bitches imaginable over the last 40 years.  They are getting worse than the English.

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25 minutes ago, Kringelbert Fishtybuns said:

Well, the game was scheduled in El Alto over La Paz for a reason.  But that’s the whole beauty of Conmebol, you have to play everyone and home field advantage exists.  When Ecuador hosts Brazil, they play in Quito.  When they host Bolivia, they play in Guayaquil.  Colombia will host in Barranquilla when it suits them and Bogota, when it doesn’t.  The pitches aren’t perfect.  There are green colored rocks and the occasional puddle.  
 

This is World Cup qualifying and you were out shot 23-10.  The penalty was soft at best, but this was just complete lack of “ganas”.
 

The BFF really has turned into the biggest bitches imaginable over the last 40 years.  They are getting worse than the English.

Full disclosure…

I thought that “El Alto” was the nickname for La Paz.

😳

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15 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

Full disclosure…

I thought that “El Alto” was the nickname for La Paz.

😳

The cities are right next to each other and the La Paz airport is in El Alto.  La Paz is just in the canyon below El Alto.
 

El Alto used to be smaller and less metropolitan/affluent.  It’s blown up over the past 30 years and is bigger than La Paz.
 

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On 9/10/2025 at 3:17 PM, HenryJames said:

Registered for the Visa pre-sale lottery. If I win, I'm taking @Derka and @JNip.

 

God I hate that FIFA controls one of the greatest sporting events in the world. Fuck these guys.

 

 

Also I just entered the lottery too.

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“As you probably know, we’re going into Memphis and we’re going into some other cities. Very soon we’re going into Chicago. It will be safe for the World Cup. If I think it isn’t safe, we’ll move into a different city, absolutely. It’s actually a very fair question. If I think it’s not safe, we’re going to move it out of that city.”

“So if any city we think is going to be even a little bit dangerous for the World Cup, or for the [2028] Olympics, you know where they have Olympic overthrow. But for the World Cup in particular, because they’re playing in so many cities, we won’t allow it. We’ll move it around a little bit. But I hope that’s not going to happen.”

Trump interspersed his comments with updates on the crime situation in Chicago and Washington, D.C.

His remarks followed a question from a reporter about “immigration, crime and the World Cup” and about cities pushing back from his immigration and deportation policies and crime initiatives and whether World Cup games could move from cities like San Francisco and Seattle if they didn’t cooperate with his crime policy.

“Well, that’s an interesting [question],” said Trump, “I guess. But we’re going to make sure they’re safe. They’re run by radical left lunatics who don’t know what they’re doing.”

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Posted (edited)
21 minutes ago, Bottlecap said:

So did anyone get a visa presale time slot? Did this even happen? I don’t know anyone who got a code. Fuck FIFA and fuck Trump too.

Haven't gotten anything yet. Just asked my coworker and he also said he hasn't heard.

My suspicion is that ticket brokers found a way around the "one entry per household" thing and flooded out average people. There's a lot of money to be made here.

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So apparently a few people got emails Monday saying they could buy today (Wednesday). A few more people got emails today saying they can buy Friday. They're going to keep giving a few people at a time 48 hours' notice until all 1 million tickets for this phase are sold. No rejections emails until the phase ends in late October. Prices are predictably steep.

Random group game at Met Life on 6/17:

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U.S. group opener at SoFi:

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Random Round of 16 game in Philly on 7/4:

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Final:

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Varies by stadium, but generally speaking, Category 1 is the lower bowl + best of the 2nd level. You don't have any say in where your seat is within a category. Cat 2 is like crappy 2nd level and primo 3rd level. Cat 3 is crappy 3rd level. Cat 4 is hilariously small in the two stadium diagrams The Athletic has, might as well forget it.

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I’m fairly certain that I won’t go to a game.

Last World Cup I flew to Buenos Aires to watch the final with friends and stayed for a week.

I flew down on frequent flyer miles, I took public transportation while in BA, attended a few gatherings/asados in homes, was treated to lunch by a couple of brothers I’m buddies with when I arrived, stayed in the extra bedroom of one of the brothers’ flat, ate at another former business partner’s/friend’s restaurant, and ultimately had plenty of pesos remaining to spend in Duty Free after changing only US$200 at the street rate on my first day.

I’m not wasting US$500 to $1,500 just to attend one game.

I’ve been to World Cup qualifiers in Argentina, I know what a big game atmosphere is like.

FIFA sucks.

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