TheHulk616:
this is a movie thread not a corrupt and rigged football tournament

abduleez1:
Qatar 2022....
The best tournament ever. 100/10

oyaskii:
No cap Chief. Totally blown away my how good this tourney was and fitting that one of the GOAT finally crowned his illustrious career by winning the trophy. I am rooting for a winter world cup going forward...too too lit.

jackie8:
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IbrahimMav:


Wasn't the best WC, not even close.
But that finale was the best I have ever seen.
Had everything.

France were literally missing half of their best players even before the tourney kicked off
Wonder what could have been if France had Benzema, Pogba, N'Golo Kante and Nkunku...
To make it this far despite the injuries is a testament to their winning mentality.

Congrats to Argentina and Messi.
In the end, they wanted it more.
They snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, from the jaws of victory.
The GOAT debate has finally been put to rest.

IbrahimMav:


Hope you're not serious.
This WC was a logistic nightmare that no one will be willing to repeat.

Thank the stars it was at least a successful one, but long term, players fitness will take a beating.

toluxe0075:


Story for the gods. You cheapened your congratulations to Argentina and Messi by also trying to assume things could have been different if certain French players were at the final.

France is without their main players yet they destroyed every team that came their way to get to the final. They also nearly crashed the party for Argentina.

You guys were not talking of these missing French players until Argentina won the tournament. How are you sure those French players won’t flop if they came to play in the tournament. How are you sure France would have gotten out of the group stage with them.

So what World Cup is best World Cup in your book if the 2022 World Cup with a lot of drama and upsets is not close to being the best for you.

toluxe0075:


So what World Cup is best World Cup in your book if the 2022 World Cup with a lot of drama and upsets is not close to being the best for you.

oyaskii:
Logistics nightmare? In what context? Because i think playing competitive football so close to the World Cup improved the quality of the tourney.
I think the reason players'fitness might be tanking isn't necessarily due to a "winter wc". It stems from a number of factors that allude to a rotten "cash grab" system that football is been run.

IbrahimMav:


Fixing a WC in december vastly affects the football Calender negatively in the sense that schedules are adjusted to accommodate the mundial.
We have a situation where breaks between seasons are shorter, pre seasons are shorter, more matches played per week.
All these will invariably give rise to player fatique.
Player fatique will usher in injuries and mental exhaustion.
Players will start dropping off like flies, like many did pre Qatar 2022.
It doesn't end there.
More injuries will follow post WC.

It just isn't optimal to host a WC in December.
Top leagues use the December period to take a break and recharge for the second half of the season.
A winter Mundial completely makes a hash of this and put players physical and mental health in jeopardy.

FIFA will not be repeating a December WC in a long time.

oyaskii:
Mate all these you mentioned have been going on and it came to a boiling point post covid lockdown period. The competitions are a tad to much and most top teams shouldn't even bother with them because it means more fixtures with little or no room for breaks. Take England for example They have PL, FA Cup and the Carabao cup to play weekly, and for the top teams, UCL and EL, and the recently added conference leagues. Giving the chance, some top teams will opt out of the FA cup and Carabao cup. Only Germany has had a proper "Winter Break" in retrospect, without the WC, The EPL would have still had insane number of games this December, with games on boxing day and New year day even!.

One of the main reasons Floretino Perez was pushing for a "Super league" where the top teams played against themselves in a single tourney once a week, and you see how quickly these top teams agreed to it, before the outrage by fans, and the plans were put on hold.

At bolded, FIFA lead by the last 3 president namely Blatter, Platini and Infatino has shown that they will twerk for anything as long as they will have a massive payday. I have never seen a more controversial pre world cup build, with human rights abuse, LGBT and Alcohol banning, there's was even an actual FBI investigation into how Qatar won the Bid and FIFA was unfazed, so should a rich arab nation wins a WC bid and it requires a Winter WC, Best believe FIFA will allow it without thinking twice, infact the FIFA president was the one personally defending this WC in Qatar, and in the words of Mr Gianni Infatino, i quote " This has been the greatest world cup ever", so yeah, the system is that rotten.

IbrahimMav:

There is more to a World Cup than what happened in the pitch.
It transcends all that.
It's a culture, a festival, a fiesta.
Not taking anything away from Qatar but often times, the matches felt artificial.
Stadiums lack atmosphere,
Only the african and south american crowd are relatively boisterous.
Lots of empty seats,
Fans zones are sparsely populated.
More 0-0 matches than the last 2 WC put together.

Qatar's lack of football culture and the strict rules imposed by their government seriously impacted the general feel.
It felt like a WC but lacks a certain je ne sais quoi.
Some of the matches felt like something being played in a library.

It wasn't until the round of 16 that Qatar and FIFA addressed this and threw the stadiums open.
After which, we started getting full stadiums and atmosphere, but even at that, it still felt artificial.

Off the top of my head, France 1998 and Germany 2006 rank as 2 of my best WC in living memory.
Brazil 2014 wasn't shabby either.

QATAR 2022 is a success story and has arguably the best WC grande finale ever, but tagging it the best WC tourney is a tall order.
It's just an opinion borne out of recency bias.

toluxe0075:

pu7pl3:
Lol, laslas I know say na "my opinion; your opinion" wey this arguement go end.
No be Nairaland again?

jackie8:
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samistry:
......Except Darth Vader wasn't in the force awakens. You surreptitiously just market your shopping site

Barrywhyte1:


He was at the end.

When he tore through the rebel alliance.

Darth Vader in all his glory

sammyys:
Begin Again 8/10
Brilliant! Great performance all round. Highly recommended.

SOZINN:
Is this some DUMB BÍTCH JUICE I'm supposed to ignore because - double standards?
Boy goes - you don't expect me to hit a girl
And girl goes - I can't stop hahahah

Yeah - hahahahah
So funny.