Dear FIFA,
No more granting World Cup hosts based on political correctness. While noble in your efforts, hosting the World Cup isn't going to cure Africa of its ills any more than the US hosting the World Cup is going to make soccer its most important sport.
Not sure if you guys were aware that no Non-African nation was even allowed to be in the final 4 bids.
Here was the final 4:
Egypt
Morocco
South Africa
Libya (yes, that Libya)
Some debacles so far:
-10,000 ticket holders of the Algeria/Slovenia game couldn't make it to the game because of such poor transportation
-10's of thousands of fans were stranded in the middle of the night after the US/England match because of similar poor tranportation infrastructure.
-Vuvulelas= completely takes away from the atmosphere of an international soccer match
-One of the fields is artifical turf for goodness sakes
Sincerely,
A soccer fan
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I think awarding the World Cup to an African country made sense in terms of making it truly a World Cup. But FIFA failed in its job of monitoring the development effort of the host's promised investment in infrastructure and should have removed the cup when it was clear the country would not fulfill its obligations. There are many countries that can easily host the cup with a year's notice and it is pretty certain that you can tell if the infrastructure is there within a year as well.
ReplyDeleteFIFA was not afraid to do this in the past when they pulled it from Colombia but now apparently they lack the wherewithall to do their job and instead just blame the host.