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A corruption event held every 4 years where the team that bribes the corruption organization the most get the most favorable placement in the first pairing, and all other strong teams are paired together until they knock each other out.
You also need to pay fealty to the footy corruption organization like charging abhorrent prices for public transit to go see the games, charging insane prices for anything football related, and even crack down on businesses that sell footbal-related specials or sales without also greasing the palms of the footy corruption organization.
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It seems I kicked the FIFA hornets nest. It's funny seeing the amount of FIFA defenders rallying against me joking that they rig games for bribes...
So you're one of the enlightened geniuses that believe that Argentina's World Cup was not legitimate, huh? You do realize that all of the teams have to be on board for that to happen, right? Even if they were, it would still be incredibly hard to coordinate (if not impossible). They won, and deserved it. Deal with it.
I don't even know what you're talking about
They are corrupt, but that has nothing to do with organizing the world cup so one specific team will win it.
It's a conspiracy theory I've heard a couple times that they pair up all the strong teams and the winners typically get a favorable start. I literally couldn't care less about the world Cup except to meme on it and FIFA though so what do I know. Maybe the corruption company that acts like the soccer Mafia is slightly less corrupt somehow.
I didn't get the theory. The world cup groups are defined in a televised draw. Are you saying that the draw is fixed?
The draw is fixed. There have been multiple instances of this, most notably France 98, where, as Platini declared years after, they deliberately put France in group C and Brazil in group A, so they wouldn’t meet until the finals.
Yeah the organization that gave trump a FIFA peace prize to bribe him after he was snubbed by the Nobel Prize debacle would play fair... I don't care whether they really do it or not (they probably do though) I just think memeing on them is funny
There's literally no correlation between those two things.
We're talking about qualifying for the games, not hosting them.
I guess they didn't pay enough in bribes to the children's game mafia then
Also we're in the fucking memes community. FIFA is a gigantic meme. FIFA and corruption are like chocolate and peanut butter...
You don't "pay bribes" to qualify, you win matches against other countries in your region. Plenty of corruption to find at FIFA but this accusation just doesn't make sense.
dude it's a meme joking about how corrupt FIFA is and a conspiracy theory that they pair up strong teams to eliminate them for whoever paid the most, chill out.
⚽ Tell me where I hurt you by pointing to it on this soccer ball
Edit: do you also think professional wrestling is real? Because the leap in logic from "yeah the obviously corrupt organization that has a documented history of abuse and bribery wouldn't accept large bribes to fix the games they run in secret" is on the same level as believing the punisher really threw mankind off hell in a cell 16 feet through an announcers table.
Lmfao!
You: I'm not mad, you're mad!
You’re talking about a children’s game, mind you.
The majority of adult hobbies are also done by children. If you are too insecure to enjoy something because someone younger does it, that's your problem. Some of most fun you can have is sharing a bit of wonder with the next generation.
Said nothing about adults not being able to enjoy children’s’ games. Taking it as seriously and getting as upset as these three replies is fucking hilarious to me. Get some perspective and enjoy the game lmao
Agreed. See below (a pictorial guide to this thread)
There are children playing in the World Cup?
I didn’t realize the game they play at the World Cup is fundamentally different than the game of futbol. Thank you for enlightening me. It’s WAY different than the children’s game, my bad. /s
No we are talking about a game. Adults still play soccer even not professionally all over the place. I feel sorry for you people who don't think adults can have fun. Must be a dull dreary life.
Those sure are a lot of implications about my one sentence reply. Please get more upset.