I'm wondering if they try to sneak in another bid city.
World Cup 2026 at Arrowhead?
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Who? Cincy only wanted to make minor adjustments to their stadium ($13m). Nashville is going to be in a stadium limbo with a new stadium completed (but the old not demolished) or near completion with both standing and no free space.
Denver maybe
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Grant Wahl is reporting that FIFA is considering 4 team groups instead of 3 team groups at the 2026 World Cup to avoid teams playing to mutually beneficial results (i.e. teams play for a certain result so both teams can advance out of the group stage) With 3-team groups everyone in the group obviously can't play their last game simultaneously. The result of this is that there could be 104 games in the World Cup instead of 80.
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It not just that. Many teams would be playing their first game against a team that has already played a game. That's not fair. Also means a lot of teams will spend a ton of money to only play two games. Also match fixing becomes a bigger issue.
If they expand, I think they'll add another host city or two though. I don't know why you guys are saying no other than "it'd be bad for KC".
If they expand, I think they'll add another host city or two though. I don't know why you guys are saying no other than "it'd be bad for KC".
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Denver and DC/Baltimorenormalthings wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:09 pmWho? Cincy only wanted to make minor adjustments to their stadium ($13m). Nashville is going to be in a stadium limbo with a new stadium completed (but the old not demolished) or near completion with both standing and no free space.
Denver maybe
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Wahl's article said nothing about adding more cities. It wouldn't even be necessary anyway. Adding 24 more games for 16 host cities means they'd just add one more match to each, and a few would add 2 more matches. It would mean each city gets 6-7 games. And if for some odd reason they did decide to add another city- it would be only be one.WoodDraw wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 1:53 pmDenver and DC/Baltimorenormalthings wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:09 pmWho? Cincy only wanted to make minor adjustments to their stadium ($13m). Nashville is going to be in a stadium limbo with a new stadium completed (but the old not demolished) or near completion with both standing and no free space.
Denver maybe
And yes it would be bad for KC because adding another city could easily decrease the amount of games we'd get. OTOH, if they expand the games and keep the same cities then that's a huge boon.
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Remember that fifa tried to change Qatar like a year ago. If you think they won't change this, I have a new pedestrian bridge to nowhere to sell you
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They tried to expand the tournament but it would have required hosting games in surrounding countries.Anthony_Hugo98 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 7:52 amWhat do you mean? They tried to change locations as in not playing in Qatar?
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Hopefully in KC's bid there were no promises/commitments made that can't be delivered in time, like rail to TSC. Could mean a move to Denver or fewer games.
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How did that go?WoodDraw wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 10:57 amThey tried to expand the tournament but it would have required hosting games in surrounding countries.Anthony_Hugo98 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 7:52 amWhat do you mean? They tried to change locations as in not playing in Qatar?
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Not particularly well. The uae tried to blackmail Qatar into sharing games while the rest of the middle east was blockading Qatar. The two countries fifa was left with were Kuwait and Oman. To say that excitement was low for this would be an understatement.im2kull wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 2:21 amHow did that go?WoodDraw wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 10:57 amThey tried to expand the tournament but it would have required hosting games in surrounding countries.Anthony_Hugo98 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 7:52 am
What do you mean? They tried to change locations as in not playing in Qatar?
After learning that everyone not employed by fifa thought it was a bad idea and the Nobel peace prize wouldn't be in their future, they withdrew the idea.
Anyway, fifa does weird shit is the moral of the story.
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The local media is really trying to push this narrative that “where’s all the money gonna come from to pay for WC?? Are we sure this is even a good idea when our ROADS aren’t good”
It’s extremely annoying how consistently stupid they are on this- investing $50mil to get almost $1 bil back is something Dave Helling will surely never bring up.
It’s extremely annoying how consistently stupid they are on this- investing $50mil to get almost $1 bil back is something Dave Helling will surely never bring up.
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Dave Helling also has no problem going scorched earth on incentives while disregarding the fact that KC Star got incentives for their now unoccupied printing press building. I’ve stopped putting any weight into his opinionsAlkaliAxel wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:38 pm The local media is really trying to push this narrative that “where’s all the money gonna come from to pay for WC?? Are we sure this is even a good idea when our ROADS aren’t good”
It’s extremely annoying how consistently stupid they are on this- investing $50mil to get almost $1 bil back is something Dave Helling will surely never bring up.
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Kansas City Power & Light District leader: How district can score with World Cup games
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... occer.html
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... occer.html
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Maybe, we can have a full district by then?AlkaliAxel wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:41 pm Kansas City Power & Light District leader: How district can score with World Cup games
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... occer.html
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We've come a long way since they opened the initial district with that Famous Daves BBQ loooolbeautyfromashes wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 12:07 amMaybe, we can have a full district by then?AlkaliAxel wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:41 pm Kansas City Power & Light District leader: How district can score with World Cup games
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... occer.html