Not in VIP room, no beer for you! It was their easiest game, not easy.
Edit : apparently Qatar is the first host nation to lose the opener :awe:
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Not in VIP room, no beer for you! It was their easiest game, not easy.
i'll be shocked (but impressed) if they actually do that, word is if they try that the refs will penalize the players stop the game and force them to change itLooks like a bunch of European nations will be wearing one love armbands tomorrow. Let's see how the regressive pigs that are the qataris handle it. Of course the French captain is like well we have to respect their culture. Fuck you buddy
| So several of the European teams were planning to have their captains wear a rainbow armband for the games, but FIFA announced just before the tournament that everyone should wear a standard one with the UN logo on it. England have been told off the record that if Kane wears the rainbow one he will be booked and made to change it. |
i'll be shocked (but impressed) if they actually do that, word is if they try that the refs will penalize the players stop the game and force them to change it
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So several of the European teams were planning to have their captains wear a rainbow armband for the games, but FIFA announced just before the tournament that everyone should wear a standard one with the UN logo on it.
England have been told off the record that if Kane wears the rainbow one he will be booked and made to change it.
from what i've read they are by and large regime supporters on the team (Iran)England also plans to take the knee at kickoff, I would think Iran might as well considering what's happening in their own country.
Looks like Ro Ro is the only import (born in Portugal)I haven't been paying much attention to this, but what nationality of players did Qatar kidnap to make their soccer team for this event?
Yeah, I just didn't expect Fyre Fest or whatever it was called to happen again, and certainly not at this scale at the largest event in the world.
Quick peruse of wikipedia shows that there areLooks like Ro Ro is the only import (born in Portugal)
Money wins again.World Cup teams abandon OneLove armband
Countries including England and Wales will not wear the OneLove anti-discrimination armband in their World Cup openers amid a row with FIFA.www.espn.com
and poof, when faced with consequences they wilt
Quick peruse of wikipedia shows that there are
4 sudanese
1 algerian
1 iraqi
1 french
1 egyptian
1 ghanian
Lots of other countries have foreign born players as well though (maybe not 10/26 players though)
i just looked up the Canadian team and they have 7 not born in Canada, so it's not uncommonI just did a quick look and did not check each player. Ro Ro was the only one that jumped out as obvious import. My bad.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/john-herdman-canada-immigrant-playersi just looked up the Canadian team and they have 7 not born in Canada, so it's not uncommon
I just did a quick look and did not check each player. Ro Ro was the only one that jumped out as obvious import. My bad.
That's what totalitarians do. Like the Mussolini Word Cup.In the back of my mind is how they recruited a pile of Bulgarians back ~2012 or whenever to immigrate and be granted instant citizenship to suddenly become Olympic weightlifters for Qatar
Weightlifter Fares Elbakh wins Qatar’s first Olympic gold
Elbakh set two new Games records in Tokyo as he won Qatar’s sixth Olympic medal and second in weightlifting.www.aljazeera.com
(I'm lazy and didn't spend much time searching; but it's also possible that Qatar keeps busy scrubbing these minor details from the public record, because they are weak, totalitarian bitches).
From what I recall, they weren't simply naturalized, but they were "recognized" as natural born Qatari citizens even though they competed with their Bulgarian names.