Why The 2030 World Cup Is Already A Complete Mess

well I'm sad to say that it's finally happened after exactly 100 Years of selecting Flawless Welker posts and never even the faintest whiff of corruption I'm afraid that FIFA have fallen by the wayside I know I know it is hard to believe hey it was a good Innings nothing lasts forever they gave it their best shot but after 100 long years the organization that gave us propaganda victories for fascist Italy and a far military junter in Argentina and chose to host the last two World Cups in the authoritarian dictatorships of Russia and Qatar well they

finally got it wrong the 2030 World Cup as you have probably heard by now isn't just going to be hosted in one country oh no that would be very old-fashioned bloody hell keep up Granddad only a Gulf State with fewer citizens than Iceland and no existing stadiums could possibly host host a World Cup on their own these days no no no the 2030 World Cup is going to be hosted in six yes six countries spread out across three different continents the World Cup has never been hosted in more than one continent before but FIFA figured

to hell with trying out too first let's just jump straight to three you should count your blessings Elon Musk didn't get involved and offer to hosted across three different planets now at 2038 by which stage the Earth May no longer be habitable the 2030 World Cup six hosts are Spain Portugal Morocco Uruguay Argentina and Paraguay which as you can see here our neighboring countries spread out over barely 8,000 miles that's not even a quarter of the planet's entire circumference and almost its exact diameter so personally I don't see see what all of the fuss is

about sure it might be over a 12-hour flight between them with only a few days turnover between games and South America might be experiencing its winter whilst Morocco Spain and Portugal are likely to see temperatures touching or indeed above 50° C or 122° F but that is a small price to pay for ensuring that Saudi Arabia gets to host the World Cup after that one on its own of course un opposed into 2034 no I'm sorry Giani I can't do this with a straight face you can have your $800,000 back go and spend it at

that clinic in Istanbul that erdogan was telling you all about it would be fair to say 7 years before it's even started that the 2030 World Cup is already a fce and the 2034 World Cup a corrup sham even by FIFA's lofty standards and that's what today's video is all about so sit back relax and join me on a journey to zor Via mares Madrid Lisbon buenos arus Monte Vio ason cion oh and Riad of course to find out why the 2030 World Cup has gone to six different countries why it is a nightmare for

fans players and the climate and why FIFA doesn't care long ago seized to care and continues to poison the world of football and Beyond plus a fun fact about alpacas hey it's not all bad there was once upon a time seven bids to host the 2030 World Cup they included a bid by Morocco who have bid to host the World Cup more times than any other Nation without having a single successful bid Israel who confirmed their interest in co-hosting the tournament with the United Arab Emirates and bakra a combined Bulan bid made up of Serbia

Greece Romania and Bulgaria and another joint bid from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland the UK and Ireland decided to host Euro 2028 unopposed instead abandoning their 2030 World Cup bid in the process the Israeli and Balkan bids just seemed to somewhat fizzle out and despite having the support of CF the confederation of African football FIFA made it pretty clear to Morocco that they didn't stand much of a chance of hosting the World Cup on their own it looked like being six times still unlucky for the Moroccans who also tried and failed to

host the 1994 1998 2006 2010 and 2026 World Cups even England's record isn't quite that bad having at least one one of their five bids to host the finals from the outset the two strongest bids came from the two confederations they used to take an in turn hosting the World Cup namely UEFA and comab ball uefa's bid after the UK and Ireland dropped out came in the form of an Iberian bid as Spain and Portugal jointed forces joined in October 20122 by Ukraine as well a months into Russia's fullscale Invasion at the time the idea

of Ukraine hosting even just a handful of group games as was the suggestion always seemed farfetched even if the war has hopefully ended by 20130 the scale of rebuilding required throughout much of Ukraine is barely imaginable and co-hosting the biggest sporting event on the planet with two countries in the complete opposite end of Europe would likely be an impractical and unnecessary distraction combo Ball's bid which was at one stage the favorite was a Sentimental one the 2030 World Cup will Mark the 100-year anniversary of the inaugural FIFA World Cup in Uruguay Uruguay were selected as

the first World Cup hosts all the way back in 1930 well firstly just because they offered to do it it wasn't quite so sought after at the time but also because Uruguay had won Gold in the football event at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics which were administered by FIFA and were the precursors to the World Cup and it marked the 100-year anniversary of Uruguay declaring its first constitution after gaining independence from Spain naturally in the age of a 48 team World Cup urug could no longer hope to host the finals on their own when

Uruguay hosted the first ever World Cup in 1930 there were just 13 teams partly because most European nations refused to travel and decline the invitation and Egypt sayam and Japan all withdrew there were just three World Cup stadiums in total the 990,000 capacity of stadio centenario the 20,000 capacity a stadio Grand Park Central and the 10,000 capacity a stad I pitos all based in Monte Vio since then the number of teams at the World Cup and the stadium requirements to host the tournament have gradually ballooned at the 2026 World Cup the number of teams competing

will rise from 32 in Qatar to 48 in Canada Mexico and the United States accompanied by a pretty significant format change katar renaged on their initial promise to build 12 stadiums for the 2022 World Cup and no that's not like them and instead built eight but 14 will be the minimum moving forward in light of the 16 additional teams FIFA requires that all 14 World Cup host venues must have a minimum capacity of 40,000 at least three stadiums including the two semi-final venues must have a capacity of at least 60,000 and the venue for the

final is required to have a minimum capacity of 80,000 FIFA also mandates a series of safety media and Hospitality requirements for all host venues and they are not insignificant requirements in fact there isn't a single stadium in all of South America outside of Brazil who hosted the World Cup in 2014 that currently meets FIFA's minimum standards to host even a World Cup group stage match Uruguay actually has a slightly larger population than Qatar but much less natural resources a significant smaller economy and zero appetite to spend hundreds of billions of dollars hosting a football tournament

so all the way back in March 2017 they partnered up with their larger neighbors Argentina for a romantic stab at hosting the 20130 World Cup in October 2017 Paraguay joined forces with them and in February 2019 Chile got in on the ACT looking to host the first ever four Nation World Cup four years old on from the first ever three Nation tournaments in North America as I said though between all four of them there wasn't a single Stadium already up to FIFA standards and only a handful are capable of being upgraded and renovated to meet

those requirements without incurring enormous costs none of the four nations were particularly keen on investing the kind of sums that Brazil did on the continent in 2014 which caused such domestic uproar and resulted in a few embarrassing white elephants let alone Russia in 2018 or Qatar in 2022 that made the European bid the favorite since Spain and Portugal already have nine or 10 stadiums that either meet or would require very minimal upgrades to meet FIFA standards with some of those upgrades already scheduled but either way FIFA had a couple of problems in their eyes at

least if they gave 2030 to Europe they would be showing a disregard for the romance and sentimentality of the centinary of their showpiece event and whichever of the confederations they picked the other one would expect to host in 2034 if the South American bid won it would mean that by 2034 Europe where most of the world's best players still play their football where most World Cup winning Nations hail from and where FIFA still gets its most lucrative broadcast deals from wouldn't have hosted a World Cup in 16 years and even that was Russia 75% of

which is actually in Asia if Europe missed out in 2030 and 2034 it would be 32 years since a solely European nation or nations had hosted the tournament by 2038 for South America meanwhile home of three World Cup winning Nations including the reigning world champions and some of the most football mad Nations on Earth missing out in 2030 would mean at least a 20year wait to host the World Cup now some of you might be thinking well all right why not host the 2030 World Cup in South America for the centinary and just relax some

of the hospitality requirements and host the 2034 World Cup in Europe meaning neither of what are still World football's two strongest blocks would have to wait more than 16 years to host the World Cup that would be a very sensible suggestion so well done you you are smarter than FIFA but unfortunately it doesn't take into account the fact that Muhammad bin Salman and Saudi Arabia have been whining and dining Giani Infantino and FIFA delegates cozying up to the cancerous organization and pumping money into African football associations in a bit to Curry favor for a number

of years it doesn't matter that Saudi Arabia in theory is currently much less well equate to host a World Cup particularly in the summer which they they are insisting upon than the likes of Spain Mexico and Morocco they are what is known in the business world as a preferred bidder that gave FIFA a dilemma with only one extremely complex solution if three confederations UEFA CF and com ball all hosted games at the 2030 World Cup then none of them could bid to host in 20134 and nor could conquer CF having hosted in 2026 given that

the ofc is just New Zealand and 10 Pacific Islands that would give the AFC which purely coincidently of course just so happens to be the Confederation that Saudi Arabia belongs to a clear run at hosting in 2034 Saudi Arabia initially considered a bid to host in 2030 alongside either Italy or Morocco before striking a tric confederation deal with Egypt and Greece now if you're wondering why Saudi Arabia didn't pair up with a neighboring country within the same continent as is the norm well that is because neighboring Qatar hosted in 2022 meaning Saudi Arabia shouldn't really

have even been in the running to host in 20130 at all Saudi Arabia hoped that by tagging Egypt and Morocco onto their bid no one would notice that inconvenient fact or that FIFA would just change their rules to allow it so in March 2023 Spain and Portugal dumped Ukraine somewhat unceremoniously and recruited Morocco instead who dropped their independent bid in the process Morocco might be on a different continent as Spain and Portugal but less than nine miles separates Europe and Africa down the straight of jalta and Spain actually has two land borders with Morocco in

the enclaves of queta and Malia owing to the country's Colonial past Spain and Morocco have had their territorial disputes in the past and there was that border incident in 2021 after the Moroccan monarchy and Spanish government somewhat fell out but that's all in the past now in what FIFA president Giani Infantino describes as quote a great message of Peace tolerance and inclusion end quote The Joint three-way bid made Spain Portugal and Morocco's strong favorites to host the 2030 World Cup but few anticipated FIFA's ingenious plan to shoehorn three games in South America it as well

the FIFA Council on October 4th unanimously agreed that the Spain Portugal and Morocco bid should be the sole candidates to host the 2030 World Cup and that a celebration should take place in South America where the tournament will begin with Uruguay Argentina and Paraguay each hosting just one group game on the face of it it is an ingenious solution to FIFA's Saudi shaped problem in reality it is a total fast which only makes sense in the land of FIFA brain for a start Uruguay Argentina Paraguay and Chile all bid to host the 2030 World Cup

yet Chile have been left out of the token prize of hosting a single group game then you recall that the romance and sentiment of Uruguay bid is because they alone hosted in 1930 and the reason they enlisted extra Nations is only because they aren't able to host the tournaments on their own anymore they could host one game though therefore it doesn't really make any sense for Argentina and Paraguay who didn't host any games in 1930 to just host one group game each as well the short turnover between group games will also mean a very long

flight for Uruguay Argentina Paraguay and the three teams drawn to play their opening fixtures against them over a vast distance with a 3 or 4our time difference into two completely different climates though still pretty stupid it would make far more sense than the current arrangement for either the estadio centenario to host just the opening game ideally against another Nation from the Americas as the only game in South America before both teams then head over to their bases in Spain Portugal or Morocco or for all four losing South American biders Uruguay Argentina Paraguay and Chile to

host an entire group so four teams are all concentrated in one country or city before those who progress fly over for The Knockout stage but then none of this is about making sense it is about making sure that Saudi Arabia host the 2034 World Cup with the least friction possible it's also no surprise that environmental groups and climate scientists have already criticized the 2030 World Cup's ludicrous Logistics one of the first and most prominent commitments on FIFA's website is a climate strategy but it is as meaningless as Giani infantino's commitments to migrant workers and LGBT

people FIFA claimed that the 2022 World Cup would be the greenest yet which is a claim that they make before literally every tournament now despite catar erecting eight enormous stadiums which were rendered almost entirely useless as soon as the monthlong tournament ended thousands of planes flying in every day since so many fans couldn't or didn't stay in Qatar grass seeds being flown in from North America and the pictures themselves requiring between 10,000 to 50,000 L of water every single day not just at the World Cup but in perpetuity until some are dismantled or reconstituted at

further carbon cost fifas claimed that katar would be the first carbon neutral World Cup was found to be so bogus that it was actually ruled to have been a Lie by Swiss Regulators recently not that FIFA can the 2030 World Cup will be a climate catastrophe and the 2034 World Cup even worse following criticism surrounding the environmental impact of the World Cup in Qatar FIFA updated its host requirements from 2026 onwards Not only would host Nations be required to have 14 stadiums which meet FIFA standards seven of them would already have to have been built

to limit the construction of carbon intensive white elephants as things stand however Saudi Arabia only has one Stadium which comes close to meeting FIFA's World Cup standards I know right awkward so what was World football's governing body to do well um they they changed the rules of course in a document released last week FIFA quietly relaxed their Stadium requirements now only requiring host to our four existing stadiums which meet FIFA standards rather than seven what a stroke of Good Fortune for Saudi Arabia and Giani infantino's close friend Muhammad bin Salman I bet the Crown Prince

could scarcely believe his luck even after removing the possibility of a European North American South American or African World Cup in 2034 in a bid to ensure a second World Cup hosted by neighboring golf States within the space of just 12 years there are other countries reportedly interested in bidding Australia and New Zealand who hosted the most recent Women's World Cup are still yet to host the men's World Cup having lost their joint bid 2 guitar in 20122 the association of Southeast Asian Nations have long been rumored to be interested as has a joint vid

by Kazakhstan and usbekistan meanwhile China still hasn't ruled out the possibility and has expressed an interest in hosting at some stage in the future in truth they might as well not bother the deadline for bids to host the 2034 World Cup is October 31st 2023 and that is no accident Saudi Arabia has already laid the groundwork for their bid and they have all of the right people in their back pocket that is Illustrated not only by the Absurd lent that FIFA has gone to in 2030 to provide them with a safe passage to hosting or

the quiet rule change designed solely to favor their bed but also by how choreographed the whole thing has been practically at the same second that Spain Portugal Morocco Uruguay Argentina and Paraguay were announced as the 2030 wup hosts Saudi Arabia announced their official bid to host on their own in 2034 literally on the same day the following day the bakini AFC president shik Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa backs Saudi Arabia's bid soon followed by the football associations of several conquer CF CF and AFC Nations before the bid had even been announced Saudi Arabia's raft of

recently recruited Superstars like Karen benzar Riyad mahrez and Jordan Henderson already had carefully crafted social media posts scheduled supporting the bid in real time we got to see that what Saudi Arabia had bought and what they were paying so much money for wasn't just footballers but spokespeople ambassadors and marketing tools of the Saudi state what we are seeing from FIFA meanwhile is not the Cloak and Dagger Corruption of the blatter era when russer and Qatar bought hosting rights in 2010 but an even more Sinister operation hiding in plain sight FIFA have made no attempt to

disguise what they are doing to anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention the ludicrous plans for the 2030 World Cup are evidently just fee for ensuring that Saudi Arabia gets the 2034 World Cup B by any means necessary FIFA is making no secret of that fact when Giani Infantino replaced set blatter and it was portrayed as being a cleanup of FIFA following the organization's corruption Scandal my view was that he would be just as bad well I have been proven Wrong by almost any metric I think that Infantino is significantly worse it is quite

remarkable that by far the world's most popular sport has been run by such a cancerous cartel of greed and evil for such a long time and with so little genuine opposition one of the consequences of the 2030 World Cup compromise is that all six host Nations will qualify automatically for the finals it is just worth noting that only once before in 2002 has the World Cup been co-hosted and therefore more than one country automatically qualified there will be three in 2026 but doubling that to six in 2030 is still totally without precedent there are only

10 combo ball nations in total yet three will qualify automatically because they are hosting a single group game unlike a lot of people I don't actually have an issue with multicountry World Cups when done right especially in light of the recent expansions of 48 teams and a massive 104 matches in theory it ought to allow smaller countries who wouldn't otherwise be able to host the World Cup to co-host with their neighbors otherwise we would basically be saying that only 15 or 16 countries out of almost 200 could ever host the World Cup Sweden for example

could no longer host the World Cup alone as they did in 1958 but they might be able to as part of a broader Scandinavian or Nordic block likewise Austria Switzerland Hungary and the Czech Republic couldn't host alone but maybe could as a cohort Chile could enlist the help of neighboring Bolivia or Peru a West African Coalition of Togo Ghana and the Ivory Coast or an East Asian block made up of any of the likes of Thailand Cambodia Vietnam Malaysia and Singapore would all have a realistic shot at hosting the World Cup and I think that

is a good thing the issue that we've seen however is that not only is that not how things have worked out so far it's actually the precise opposite of what has happened katar is basically a micro State smaller in area than the Faulkland Islands and half the size of bise with fewer citizens than Iceland or the Maldives and even when you take migrant workers into account Qatar still has a smaller population 2.68 million people than Jamaica and Albania the idea of Jamaica or Albania hosting a World Cup on their own Probably sounds as absurd asqar

hosting a World Cup on their own did back in 2010 and yet that actually happened Canada Mexico and the United States by contrast are all massive countries and certainly the latter two with almost half a billion inhabitants between them and a raft of enormous stadiums are more than capable of hosting a World Cup on their own yet they are co-hosts in 2026 it would be like having Iceland host the World Cup on their own and then 4 years later the next World Cup be split between China Russia and India maybe Portugal and Morocco would struggle

to host a World Cup on their own given the expanded format at least without undertaking significant infrastructure projects but Spain could still quite comfortably be Soul host now just as they were in 1982 Spain is a big country both in terms of size and population it has fantastic transport links and tourist accommodation and among the best and widest array of football stadiums that you will find anywhere in the world even with zero investment Renovations and new stadiums several of which are already planned by clubs regardless of hosting the World Cup Spain already has 10 stadiums

above FIFA's 40,000 capacity minimum threshold four above 60,000 for the semis and two of the biggest and most iconic football stadiums on the planet both undergoing massive renovation projects which could comfortably host the final Spain co-hosting with Portugal for geographical reasons and because portug couldn't host alone but does have two or three outstanding stadiums makes perfect sense but the reality is that Spain and Portugal aren't co-hosting with Morocco Uruguay Argentina and Paraguay because those two couldn't host the World Cup without their help but because they are being used to throw out a crumb and token

gesture to four countries and two continents solely to allow Sai Arabia TOS the 2034 World Cup unopposed Saudi Arabia themselves me well a country with inferior stadiums as things stand to at least five of the 2030 World Cup six co-hosts will host the World Cup on their own the message from FIFA it would seem is that several massive countries with outstanding infrastructure even if spread out over vast distances will be required to host the World Cup from now on unless of course you are an authoritarian Gulf State in which case by all means you can

still host on your own the chances are if I were to Hazard a guess now before any official comments have been made we will see two host cities and stadiums in Portugal in 2030 most likely three or possibly four in Morocco one each hosting just one game in Monte Vero bueras and luk as has already been confirmed and then probably nine or 10 stadiums in Spain one suspects that it will not be dissimilar to the situation of the 2026 World Cup where 11 out of the 16 host cities and stadiums are based in the United

States including the venue for the final and at least one if not both semifinals though it's almost 7 years away debate around who should host the 2030 World Cup final has already begun the Santiago bernabo and camp now are both due to undergo major Renovations by then and will meet FIFA's minimum 880,000 capacity requirement quite comfortably meanwhile Morocco have already drawn up plans to build a brand new 93,000 seater stadium in Casablanca which they hope will also be in concention the camp now will be the largest expected by then to have a capacity of 105,000

but the burner Bayo Remains the favorite the Spanish Football Federation is still in crisis in light of the rubiales Scandal but FIFA president Giani Infantino has a good relationship with Real Madrid president Florentino Perez and the bernabo is likely to boast the largest Hospitality offering it is telling that they are likely to be FIFA's two biggest considerations that carry the burner Bao over the line FIFA meanwhile in contributing albeit on a minor scale in the grand scheme of things to Rapid climate breakdown by devising incredibly carbon intensive tournament formats is creating its own problems the

2022 World Cup despite katar promising to be able to safely host it in the summer a eventually had to be moved to the winter due to concerns around player and fan welfare the hottest temperature ever recorded in Qatar which was 50.4 de C or 122.75 was actually matched by Morocco in 2023 Spain and Portugal meanwhile now see temperatures close to 50° centigrade in the summer and as the planet continues to heat and extreme heat becomes more and more common we are only likely to see higher and higher temperatures more and more often it is not

just possible but highly probable that Spain Portugal and Morocco will see temperatures as high in 2030 as Qatar in 2022 but there doesn't seem to have been any consideration given to extreme heat or whether a summer tournament is likely to be safe or feasible and that is before we even get into the issue of Saudi Arabia in 2034 Saudi Arabia as Qatar did is currently insisting on hosting a summer tournament and switching to Winter might not be as easy this time around Saudi Arabia is hosting the Asian Games in November and December 2034 which will

use several of the same venues and couldn't possibly be held at the same time as the World Cup interestingly Saudi Arabia was awarded 2034 Asian Games hosting RS after missing out to katar in 2013 by 27 votes to 10 Saudi Arabia had wanted to host a showpiece sporting event in 2030 initially the World Cup but also the Asian Games to coincide with the country's Saudi Vision 2030 government program it is unlikely that ambition has subsided and I imagine there is a chance given the Absurd Prospect of Saudi Arabia hosting a summer World Cup that NBS

will try to swap hosting rights for the Asian Games with Qatar thus freeing up the winter of 2034 for the World Cup but we shall see Morocco also has a hectic schedule now set to host the 2025 African Cup of Nations the 2029 Arab cup and FIFA Club World Cup and now co-hosting the 2030 World Cup of course at some point FIFA and the global football Community is going to have to come to terms with the fact that summer tournaments May no longer be possible in large parts of Europe Western Asia North Africa and the

Americas due to extreme heat it might be the case that half of all World Cups will have to be played in Winter from now on aside from numerous other hurdles that climate breakdown is likely to cause football another interesting aspect of the 2030 World Cup is the continued closer ties that we see developing between UEFA and kable traditionally these two Titans were Rivals as the biggest and best confederations who effectively had a monopoly on Global Talent and success within both the club and The Intern game as FIFA follows the money though favors dictatorships and develops

ever closer ties with emerging markets in football terms these old enemies are increasingly becoming friends UEFA and combo ball are united not only in their opposition to several of Giani infantino's hairbrained ideas like a global Nations league and bial World Cups but they have also started to develop their own projects UFA and comob ball actually signed a memorandum of understanding in 2020 which they extended 18 months later to run until 2028 in 2022 they relaunched a men's and women's showpiece event between the European and South American Champions rebranded as the fenale simmer and now of

course they are co-hosting a FIFA World Cup ultimately the 2030 World Cup is a stupid a needlessly impractical compromise made stupid and needlessly complex by FIFA so that they can give Saudi Arabia the following World Cup FIFA once again is bad for supporters horrendous for the planet and is rolling out the red carpet for despots the 2030 World Cup is a mess and it already promises to be the biggest Fiasco until the one after that anyway fun fact did you know that alpacas can literally die of loneliness no no you're right that wasn't fun at

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