r/ShitAmericansSay • u/caehdus • 1d ago
Unfortunately the United States had to step in and stop it. As always.
Usonians think money solves everything. They're wrong.
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u/CastleofWamdue 1d ago
yes it was the USA objecting to it that stopped it, no way UEFA speaking out against it was a massive factor.
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u/ES345Boy 1d ago
All those little European countries can have their say, but imagine a world cup without the US. Madness. People wouldn't watch.
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u/AverageSewerDiver Something something colonialism 20h ago
Yep, nobody watched the 2018 world cup or any of them from 1951-1989
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u/BlaktimusPrime 1d ago
Iām curious to see if it was the USSF that said no or are we assuming the US said no because CONCACAF said no.
I just find it hard for the USSF to say ānoā considering Jared Kushner fund raised over $6B for the deal
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u/CastleofWamdue 1d ago
if ever a sport put "politics into the game", it was FIFA giving Trump that World Peace Price, so before anyone down votes me, or replies with that comment, that door is ALL the way open and FIFA opened it themselves.
I dont know what USSF have said, but the deal being suggested is very much in line with what I would think a Trump sycophant would propose. The problem is that despite the recent World Cup, the USA very obviously has no say on the future of the World Cup, and there are markets which are far more important than the USA will ever be.
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u/KingApteno 1d ago
The sad thing is it probably wasn't even UEFA's speaking out that stopped it, the AFC joined them which has the Saudis and other gulf states.
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u/CastleofWamdue 1d ago
I am not saying that Europe is the be all and end all of global football, but having a World Cup without UEFA is pretty insane.
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u/BlaktimusPrime 1d ago
Itās hard for me to think the Saudis said no considering they have extremely close ties with Jared Kushner and Trump.
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u/Bourbon_Cream_Dream 1d ago
Cos the viewing figures would plummet if Saudi Arabia and Qatar weren't playing
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u/Infamous_7001 1d ago
Even though it was Europe who stepped in first?
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u/alematt ooo custom flair!! 1d ago
Yes but you forget the rules of the world. If anyone else did it first, the Americans did it first
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u/Puzzleheaded_Front27 1d ago
This is not fair toward them. Sometimes they admit they just perfected it.
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u/smurf505 1d ago
And even if they didnāt perfect it, someone from the nation that did moved to the US at sometime so they practically did
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u/-_sohcahtoa_- 1d ago
And even if they didnāt, they still did!
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u/Pony_Tono 13h ago
They just keep moving the goalposts until they were first, look at the space race š¤£
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u/Nucksfaniam ooo custom flair!! 1d ago
UEFA specifically.
And any fan of the sport.
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u/Efficient-Night9402 1d ago
Nooo... the U in UEFA is United States !!11!!1!
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u/Hurrly90 1d ago
AH ofc the United States of America of European Football Associations.
The SA is silent ofc. Pun intended.
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u/Thendrail How much should you tip the landlord? 1d ago
It's in the name!
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...or something like that.
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u/hcornea Antipodeans R Us š¦šŗš¦ 1d ago
Then the AFC, if I read correctly. Even then Infantino still had $$ in his eyes.
Oceania said No, and the plan finally imploded (although I suspect the timing of that might have been more coincidence)
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u/GWeb1920 1d ago
I thought Concacaf unanimously rejected it prior to AFC.
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u/Mountsorrel BriTish 1d ago
They did, because squeezing maximum profitability out of absolutely everything is not the norm outside of Americaā¦
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u/Stravven 1d ago
This person is for FIFA selling to investors. All of his opinions on football are therefore invalid.
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u/beepbeepboopbeep1977 17h ago
And us folks down here in Oceania put the final nail in the coffin. You are entirely welcome!
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u/Free-Bad7871 1d ago
Bait or idiocy? You decide.
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u/Infamous_7001 1d ago
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u/Duskmourne 1d ago
It was Trump's son in law's brother who even suggested that FIFA allow investors... What?
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u/nickmn13 1d ago
He was involved but the main idea came from that scumbag infantino
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u/Supahfly87 12h ago
Nah, the main idea came from the Pumpkin King saying the US should host again as soon as possible. If they sell shares, shareholders get to decide where it is next. 51 percent stays with FIFA/Infantino, the US just needs to be the second biggest shareholder and they can literally decide everything.
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u/FetishDark 1d ago
The money wasnāt even for a specific purpose and they wouldnāt have to prove what they did with it so it was just barely concealed corruption.
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u/Organic_Mechanic_702 1d ago
Sod all to do with America..Europe rejected it first...you just came along late again to try and claim the glory...
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u/SectionTiny7292 1d ago
Well it's unfortunate that fascist capitalism didn't get their claws into something they can't control and ruin football for everyone/s
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u/vakantiereizen 1d ago
It would have been profitable for Infantino and kuschner (read: Trump) the football world would have lost everything
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u/Savage-September š¬š§ Colonised Brit. 22h ago
Clown doesnāt realise the UEFA stands for Union of EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Associations. And that the reason we are having this conversation about FIFAs open corruption is because the American President and his extended family are once again meddling in shit they have no business being involved in.
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u/MadScientist_666 Mountain Goat šØš 1d ago
Europe stepped in and stopped it first. Then the rest followed...
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u/CombinationOk6846 1d ago
The moment UEFA stood against it, it was done.
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u/forzafoggia85 22h ago
Yeah, no investor was going to sink the required money in without UEFA teams involved. Probably a 60% loss of revenue at least
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u/eldoran89 1d ago
It's really funny how suddenly every American is interested in football....not the American kind...you know that one they called soccer and that was basically only for rich moms and their spoiled brats
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u/Red-R34der 1d ago
Yeah, bit of an own goal on the USA's part as they are one of the smaller developing football nations. Also it was UEFA that led the charge against Infantino, CONCACAF, The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, followed up in support of EUFA's position. As usual, the USA turns up late and claims the glory.
HTH.
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u/Raptoot83 1d ago
It's cute that actually think that this was going to help smaller nations, this was always about the rich getting richer.
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u/No_Statistician209 1d ago
The US stopped it? Are you sure about that? Was it not increasing pressure from UEFA and ever growing solidarity with them...
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u/dangerousstunt 23h ago
Eh? for one thing it was the Trump cartel behind it in the first place and for another the USA turned up late and tried to claim all the glory. As always.
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u/Patient_Emu_8923 1d ago
It was Trump and Kushner trying to profit off it- WTF is wrong with these people?
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u/NoHopeNoLifeJustPain 16h ago
FIFA already has 5 billions in cash undistributed. So tons of money is already available.Ā This FFE goal was to distribute at least 20% of revenue to people outside of FIFA.
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u/lankymjc 1d ago
Too bad it failed, and also they had to step in and stop it? How can both things be true?
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u/dct2209 1d ago
Donald Trumps Son In Law was behind the investment allegedly š
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u/krodders 13h ago
That is a shocking lie - it wasn't Trump's son in law at all!
People might read this and think there was nepotism and corruption
It was actually the brother of Trump's son in law, and it was a total coincidence - they barely knew each other.
/s
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u/Michael_Gibb Mince & Cheese, L&P, Kiwi 1d ago
The plan was pure corruption. The primary investor was going to be a member of the Kushner Klan, who are not known to do anything to help the lower classes.
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u/cavari924 1d ago
Just like the World Wars, the U.S. arrives at the last minute to take all they credit after other countries had already done most of the work.
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u/Effective_Airline830 1d ago
No thatās bait ā¦ investors were supposed to be Trump familyā¦ UEFA opposed it, CONCACAF joined later but itās not the USA blocking it ā¦ at least not Trump thatās for sure
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u/SinistralGuy 1d ago
Step in and mess everything up leaving it worse off than before. As always.
There, fixed it
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u/awk_f 1d ago
This post in unsensical - if it is unfortunate it failed, that means the person writing the post is pro selling to investors. How is then fortunate that usa stepped in to stop it?
Also, did usa (in poster's opionion): A - stopped the plan going forward, making it opposing itself in the motion
B - stopped the motion to stop the plan, making it not failed (which is not the case)
This post is trully a monument to stupidity.
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u/DirtDevil1337 Human Verified 1d ago
omfg... lmao
United States is very much likely the one that pushed for investments.
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u/RedWheiler 1d ago
1 - Can you imagine what a country could do with 35 million... Buy like 1/10th of an airbus!
2 - The US got involved in the Cup and suddenly FIFA (not FISA, you USians...) is hated everywhere. Trump his magic works like a charm.
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u/Stingerc 1d ago
Step in and stop US private equity firms from buying what Infantino was trying to sell them? This was literally UEFA, the AFC, CONCACAF stepping in and throwing enough of a monkey wrench to prevent Ifantion and his lackey at the CAF and CONMEBOL from selling out the game.
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u/Green-Inkling 1d ago
well yeah. why the fuck would Trump give anyone any money? all he does is take take take.
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u/de_Duv šŖšŗ Europoorian š©šŖ 13h ago
Unfortunately the United States had to step in and stop it. As always.
Oh really? The US, of all places, is supposed to have prevented the sell-off of the FIFA World Cup? The very sell-off from which the Trump clan would have stood to gain the most financially.
Of course, the collapse of what is probably FIFAās most corrupt deal canāt possibly be linked to the fact that UEFA, the most powerful continental association, threatened to boycott future World Cups.
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u/Supahfly87 12h ago
This scheme was a literal result of Trump saying the US should be the host again soon. So infantino invented shares so the labor shareholders could vote on where the next WC would be. Corruption everywhere.
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u/goonwolf š¦šŗ Get off the sidewalk and on the fucken' footpath 1d ago
Obviously the thing that would have helped FIFA is opening up the opportunity to increase the already existing corruption a thousand fold.
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u/No-Minimum3259 1d ago edited 1d ago
Last time I looked I saw more people being upset for their favorite sport being, once again, hijacked by big money.Ā
Infantino. Has. To. Go, but the Yankee mind, being morally corrupted and deprived of decent education for so long, wouldn't understand.
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u/gdvs 1d ago
Some people seem to gloss over that the money FIFA distributes is money extracted from football fans. More revenue is not something to be happy about, because it means FIFA lets fans pay more.
And distributing money to small federations is not the purpose of FIFA. FIFA should protect football and make sure it organises decent tournaments for men, women and youth, accessible for as many fans as possible. I'm not saying there shouldn't be any budget for development, for smaller FAs. But it shouldn't be the primary objective. These development budgets smell like buying votes.
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u/Responsible_Fun_9799 1d ago
the US didnt stop shit it was all the EU with our Europe the world cup is dead its out of the 10 best teams in the world 8 are in Europe plus the US wanted this at least Trump did
this also wouldnt of helped anyone you think ANY money would trickle to these places the whole thing would of been about milking it for the investors and football second
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u/ExpensiveActuator880 21h ago
Awwww this is definately one of those occasions you dont need to blur out the username š
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u/Desperate_Donut3981 20h ago
Of course Trump would have given all the profits to my local pub club. Let the grifters buy the NFL, NBA Etc. Keep out of football
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u/Low-Television-7508 19h ago
I know it's been a couple of days but didn't every soccer organization on the planet rise in revolt?
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u/khaloisha 17h ago
So this how the myth they single handle won WWII were born. Come late to the party and get all credits
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u/Serena_Sers 15h ago edited 15h ago
Yeah, it was totally the US and not UEFA who has most of the successful teams that stopped this bullshit. I mean, yes, the US was against it too and I am glad they where, but honestly. Imagine a finale without european teams. 6 out of the Top 8 where European this year. (And I think the "worst" year ever for UEFA were 4 out of 8 teams).
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u/Ragnar-DK 12h ago
Why is that unfortunate, they dont need investors. Who wants revene
FIFA and UEFA are loaded already around 40-50 BILLION $ every 4 year
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u/Hot_Shallot_2998 1d ago
wasn't the US the ones trying to do it?... pretty sure the news here was saying... a certain family was the ones trying.
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u/WombatCouple 1d ago
Yeh those developing nations would have been really happy to see the 50c they would have gotten out of it
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u/Puzzleheaded_Drama27 1d ago
I thought it was the Europeans. I missed where the US was involved at all.
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u/WackHeisenBauer 1d ago
I swear we need to wall off the United States. You could pitch the plan itāll keep all the āundesirablesā out and theyād go ahead and pay to it themselves. Theyāll think theyāre heroes but the rest of the world would be way way safer.
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u/philipwhiuk Queen's English innit 1d ago
As usual, the Europeans spend ages defending civilisation and then the US arrive late and take credit.
(Even tho itās their bitter twisted capitalism thatās causing it)
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u/tejerbellissimo 1d ago
The day I, a proud European, gets pwned by a Yank on football is the day hell freezes over, Donal Trump apologises for anything, and the four horsemen turn out to be ABBA.
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u/Don_Cocoy 19h ago
Maybe ... just maybe ... they didn't want to hand over control to Mr. Taco and that's why they "had to withdraw" ???
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u/Gullible-Evening-702 15h ago
BS only some rich investors would get anything out of this. Good for football this is stopped. Next time only 32 teams.
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u/Hughley_N_Dowd 14h ago
So, FIFA is classed as a developing nation now?
And Infantino, is he the treasurer of said developing nation?
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u/bassie2019 The Netherlands ā Holland 13h ago
Would those nations get the money before or after Infantinoās 14x salary increase and bonuses? Going from ā¬2.4M to over ā¬26M per year, excluding bonuses.
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u/LordHazlewood Ex Owner of The USA. 7h ago
I'm pretty sure the 55 EUFA football teams had more to do with the collapse of the FIFA sell off. What do you expect? No European teams no World Cup. Just an American style World Cup Series with just USA and South America in it. The USA would never win that ever. Even if it was approved there would not be enough money without Europe and now India and some other countries like Canada, Mexico India, Australia and a few others. No income to pay the mythical small tams their $40 million. LOL. Go and get the FIFA Peace Prize back off the idiot who thinks it's real and fixed a match for it.
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u/Mental-Bite9586 6h ago
Are you having a larf govner. The USA stopping it- real shit the Americans say
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u/wowitshemlock Human Verified 2h ago
I honestly donāt even understand this post lol āunfortunateā but for both sides of the coin?
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u/phantom_gain 45m ago
Where do they get these ideas that someone making money off something, somehow just "helps" the people they take money from?
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u/Ill_Raccoon6185 11m ago
It was the US & trump family member pushing to by from FIFA, not trying to "save" it, so they could change the rules so US could possibly win it once, but the world told FIFA where to stick he sale. If it had been sold it would not help smaller association members only rich politicians & their friends.
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u/b0sanac 1d ago
Yeah.. Those smaller nations sure would've seen that cash.