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Who is soccermole?

Dane

Also I'm impressed how bad my picks were

I figured the objective after fact was for us to do the worst possible picks.

though I was trying a little hard to be realistic yet still got the lowest points. So does that mean I'm winning?

Hey frigg off pyrrhic I'm doing great

I can't view the league cuz I can't remember my email, but I assume I'm doing good

Only Polo and Dain have higher points than you.

Hell yeah

I love that you spelled both of their names wrong too

my victory is inevitable

Random firework videos for kribbles

no live pika reaction smh

oh wow burning metal dispersed into the atmosphere

Did you see that liberals are trying to claim Freddy wasn't real, that it was a plant run by Musk/Trump and used AI to fake that he was having a good time in America

trying to verify if people "have actually seen him", and whether those people themselves are real or AI

it's hillarious

the liberals tried to cancel him because he called out antiwhite racism at some point in the past so he left twitter

it's just funny to see Candace Owens level schitzo posting from the left

apparently one of the US starters got a flagrant red card (which is a next game suspension) and there is no method of appeal in FIFA

something said this is the farthest the US has gotten since 2002, but that's not really true since they have gotten to the top 16 the last 3 worlds cups they qualified for

its the first time since 2002 they have won in eliminations though

Same for Canada, 2nd time advancing period, and first time since 1986

the US got third at the first world cup, so its not only their second time doing well

oh and apparently Mexico too

wow we all suck at soccer

that is way more surprising

all three NA teams advanced through elims after qualifying by default

I think all three have decent odds to potentially win their next ones too

its harder for the US because of the BS red card, but I don't know how important that player is

I assume we have plenty of players

I guess its not like france and argentina that are carried by their top players

Mexico got to the top 8 in 1970 and 1986

both years they hosted

so I guess they have to get 6th again since they are hosting again

ok so, for knockout stage wins USA 2026 - 1 win (so far) 2002 - 1 win Canada 2026 - 1 win (so far) Mexico 2026 - 1 win (so far) 1986 - 1 win

The size keeps changing, so it's hard to compare

but this is just, "have these nations won a game when it was an elimination game"

and not just, did they beat some shitter in the group stages

this is 1970

yeah i see

I am somewhat impressed the US seems to make it out of the group stage a fair bit

(even if we normally just lose)

other than this at least

Canadaians avert your eyes

the host boost is real I guess

and having double the elims size maybe

someone figured out that the USA has soft agreed to host the world cup every 3 cycles now

It'll go USA --> Europe/S.America/Africa -->Asia/Middle East --> repeat

technically they could do an Australia/NZ one instead of USA one cycle if they wanted

and FIFA could just re-write their rules again

but how it is now, it looks like we get the World cup every 12 years

That'd be awesome having the world cup in Australia

Crickey, what a good goal

there was only one option for the 2030 host vote

yeah so, the way the rules work now, is neither continent that hosted the last 2 games can bid

S.America & Africa realistically can't host a full tourney, but Europe is fine letting them have some home games

we need to accelerate the greening of antarctica so games can be hosted there

and the Middle East being "Asia" fucks over actual Asia

where would you even host games in east asia?

korea, japan, vietnam?

China wants to host one

or yeah, SEA-jointly

because they expanded to 48 teams, it sorta freezes out most small countries, and all broke countries

So US 2038 - Europe 2042 - Japan-Korea-Indonesia 2046

let fiji host it themselves

qatar and south africa were the only awful host teams

the qatar cup sounds like it was a mess, though i don't remember anything about it

Thousands of (literal) slaves and Filipino workers died building their stadiums, but I think it was fine otherwise

there is or was investigation into corruption getting them the winning bid in the first place

I have not cared about soccer at all, until like 2 weeks ago when I started watching tourists order burgers in funny accents

I think I last watched the brazil cup