Not as bad as the Europeans who will bitch and moan to no end if they have to finish dinner an hour earlier to catch the matches in a different timezone.
I dunno. I kind of like the WC representing the extremes of the earth a little rather than representing a single geography with a single climate for a singular set of people in the world. Would love to see Ecuador host, for example, and play to the advantage of high-altitude teams.
If you're gonna be the world's sport, you need to drop all the conditionals.
I dunno. I kind of like the WC representing the extremes of the earth a little rather than representing a single geography with a single climate for a singular set of people in the world. Would love to see Ecuador host, for example, and play to the advantage of high-altitude teams.
If you're gonna be the world's sport, you need to drop all the conditionals.
I dunno. I kind of like the WC representing the extremes of the earth a little rather than representing a single geography with a single climate for a singular set of people in the world. Would love to see Ecuador host, for example, and play to the advantage of high-altitude teams.
If you're gonna be the world's sport, you need to drop all the conditionals.
Given all the machinations players are going through with trades and loans right now to get playing time just to qualify this summer? (E.g., Roma's Bradley, etc.) I don't think so.
Given all the machinations players are going through with trades and loans right now to get playing time just to qualify this summer? (E.g., Roma's Bradley, etc.) I don't think so.
If clubs refuse to let them go they won't go. For the same reason why NHL players didn't play in the most important ice hockey tournament (Olympic games) untill 1998 when NHL agreed to stop the league for it. Also why ice hockey world championships never have the best players in the world. They are too busy playing in the NHL playoffs.
Clubs are what give players their money. International tournaments are only there for personal glory. If you think players will chose the latter you are in for reality check.
Anyway I'm sure this idea of a winter tournament will never happen.
Players are going to be forced to choose. But this already happens with the Africa Cup of Nations, etc., and yet that doesn't nearly have the same prestige as the WC.
African players are only 1 or 2 per top team usually. Clubs let them go so they go. It will change when the whole squad of Real Madrid will have to go. All the leagues in Europe and all the European Cups would have to stop for 3 months probably. All the off-seasons would have to change. Basically all of the football world would have to change for this single tournament to happen in winter. There is no way it happens unless Qatar pays every single club a fortune to bribe them.