Why is it comically larger than everyone else? Like I get corruption and embezzlement as others mentioned but it’s ludicrously more.
The image is purposefully portraying the amount spent as ludicrous. There was a thread on r/soccer about this yesterday, and that figure includes a shit load (like a couple hundred billion) of infrastructure improvements, hotels, airports ect that were going to be built regardless of the world cup. None of these expenses are included in the figures of the other hosts. Not out here trying to defend Qatar but I think this chart is disingenuous
Ah that makes a lot of sense, thank you for clarifying 😊 it’s one of those where there’s enough to criticise Qatar over regarding their worker safety etc without needing to dishonestly portray the figures.
it’s the drawbacks of hosting a world cup in a country that has zero infrastructure already in place. Countries like England, Spain, Italy and Germany wouldn’t have to nearly as much work besides some minor refurbishments and some more accomodation
You can modernize villages with that amount of money but they choose to spend it on some big ass metal donut with overpriced food and blinding lights. What a sad movie we live in.
This is Qatar… they really only have 1 city where 80% of people live, and the rest of the land is empty, save for the occasional little town. Not disagreeing with you that this is a huge waste of money but there isn’t much left to modernize.
“Well yeah but like, did you see the one team sports the ball better than the other team?”
They prob did build a lot of infrastructure with that other than just stadiums tbf.
Wonder what the bill would be like if they weren’t using slave labour
I want to say first that I understand that some of us may like sportsball here but…
Man I fucking hate sportsball. Not the playing it. The fucking watching it. I hate the mentality around “my team good your team bad.” The obsession. The money. All of it. On a small/local level I kind of get it but it never just stays there. It grows and grows and soon you have people half naked covered in paint burning down buildings cause their team didn’t sports the ball as good as the other team.
Admins someone hates sportsball! 😱
Edit: I get you though, I wouldn’t say I’m a regular enjoyer, I do enjoy the atmosphere and comradery on a local level but even that is soured by cringe toxicity, racism, sexism, violence and stupidity. The fans really ruin the idea of it for me.
My partner and I prefer to watch the women’s footy as its usually less dramatic, less toxic, less cheating, less corruption and the players seem to genuinely love their sport vs acting like overpaid man children. It’s definitely a different and better experience imo watching women’s footy over men’s.
Mens footy fans will tell you why it’s inferior blah blah blah but these people always seem to be reactionary misogynists so we don’t give their points any real weight.
The whole business aspect of it is really cancerous. Players being demonized the moment they want to get paid their value, Being a good fan means swearing blindly loyalty your entire life to a team that only wants to make profit off you, and sometimes those teams are literally run by incompetents for decades and you have to deal with the team losing. Like starting to like a team that is well run, that invests in infrastructure, players and staff and thus wins a lot is being a fake fan lol.
that’s an absurd amount of money
Even the first one, at half a billion, is half a billion too much (in a country famous for no public healthcare and shit social services, no less).
Also, thousands of deaths that can’t be expressed in money.
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if you host you qualify automatically. but they have never qualified before.
i stopped watching football after almost a decade of following because of shit like this. game is gross.
Same. Once a world socialist republic is established and FIFA ceases to exist I might get back into it though.
Socialist sports Association when
I wonder how much of that was embezzled. Logic say “the difference from average”
Including average previous embezzlement.
Hasn’t major sporting events been implicated in money laundering since forever?
Yup. There are regular corruption scandals everywhere, which is the more outrageous since everything is basically private and almost nothing even counts as corruption.
FUBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
You could cure cancer for that amount of money instead of watching circus gladiators in arena shooting goals and people screaming their lungs out and yelling at each other when their team loses💀
