2022 FIFA كأس العالم (WORLD CUP 2022)

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Tangential to this

FIFA has set the dates for the 2023 Women's World Cup as July 20 - Aug 20

Australia/New Zealand are the hosts

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[Death From Above]

This is the goal that has almost certainly sealed Canada advancing to the dreaded CONCACAF hexagon.

Yep.

[ChesterCopperpot]

Octagon now. 

And we'll just not mention that goalie was born in Montreal and he was only playing because the regular keeper and captain was denied a visa to travel to the US. 

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Yup - Canada, El Salvador and Panama at the last 3 to join the Octagon

First matchups are beginning of Sept - 3 matches in 7 days for all the teams

Top 3 qualify directly for WC

4th place goes to the inter-confederation playoff

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FIFA has fined Mexico and they (Mexico) will be required to play their first two WCQ matches in empty stadiums due to their fans homophobic chants. Oh and that is just for the stuff that FIFA has investigated so far. They are still investigating more matches (things like Iceland and the US Gold Cup match)

So at this rate - Mexico will play every home guy (except against the US naturally) with no fans

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The US/Canada game on Sept 5 will be held in Nashville

Also Canada related

Montreal has withdrew as one of the cities to host 2026 WC Matches. Toronto and Edmonton remain.

There is talk that FIFA will try to get Vancouver to re-enter the process as they would really like 3 Canadian cities as hosts

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Reminder that CONCACAF Final Round Qualifying begins tonight

Let's see how quickly the US fucks this up

[SirFozzie]

I'm not saying that Scotland are shorthanded for their game today, but I think the latest Scotland related "great opportunity" is not the opportunity to be named a Scottish Lord or Lady, but to receive a call up to the Scottish MNT.

[DangerMark]

I don't know about Football, but in Rugby League, Scotland seems to be allowed to call on anyone on the planet named Lachlan.

[SirFozzie]

And Ronaldo with two late goals breaks Ireland's heart.

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Montenegro scored in the - checks notes - 7th minute of stoppage time to steal a point from Turkey

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5 hours ago, RIPPA said:

Reminder that CONCACAF Final Round Qualifying begins tonight

Correction - tomorrow

I legit forgot what day of the week it was

[odessasteps]

4 hours ago, SirFozzie said:

And Ronaldo with two late goals breaks Ireland's heart.

I think everyone on Second Captains today predicted he’d get 2 goals. 

[Guest Jimbo_Tsuruta]

Bad luck o' the Irish. Glad John Egan got a goal, hopefully he doesn't come back to United with any knocks or tweaks. 

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I know it is a quirk of the schedule but Ireland still having no points in Group A after 3 matches while Luxembourg has 6 is... not good

Well, honestly, that was obvious when Luxembourg beat Ireland in Dublin

[cubbymark]

18 hours ago, RIPPA said:

Reminder that CONCACAF Final Round Qualifying begins tonight

Let's see how quickly the US fucks this up

No Pulisic vs El Salvador. 

[SirFozzie]

Embarrassing from Hungary on and off the field against, 4-0 loss to england, and THOSE chants as well as thrown projectiles.

UEFA has already banned them from three home games, but this was under FIFA jurisdiction, and something similar needs to be done.

[odessasteps]

Glad to see Southgate mention in his presser that not all their fans are to blame and they have the problems at home. 

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Sweden beat Spain 2-1 to move to the top of Group B table

Unsurprisingly both squads are already far ahead of everyone else in the Group so it really just is a matter of which team qualifies automatically

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Update

 

Edited September 5, 2021 by odessasteps

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Full thread of the shit show 

complete with Argentina locking themselves in their locker room