The USMNT will be hampered this year.
The USMNT gets its strangest (Qatar) World Cup send-off ever
Maybe other national teams will be similarly affected.
The USMNT will be hampered this year.
Dennis Rodman's Daughter Trinity Rodman Is The Highest-Paid Player In National Women's Soccer League
They say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
Trinity Rodman, 20, the daughter of NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman, is the highest-paid player in league history. The 2021 Rookie of the Year received a contract extension with the Washington (DC) Spirit.
Her new extension includes a four-year deal for $1.1 million, currently more than what she was earning under her prior agreement — a three-year contract with a net pay of $42,000 to play in the National Women’s Soccer League.
She has an option to extend her contract with the 2024 NWSL Champion team until 2025. Trinity will earn $281,000 yearly, surpassing the $250,000 salaries of Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe, two United States women’s national team superstars....
Rodman won the Rookie of the Year, the Young Player of the Year award from US Soccer, and was the only one from her team to be invited to the US Women’s National Team training camp....
Many speculate Trinity will soon become a star for the USWNT and reach the heights of Morgan and Rapinoe....
I may catch a game or two.
World Cup 2022: Manchester United and Portugal star Bruno Fernandes calls out Qatar's treatment of workers
...... Bayern Munich and Germany midfielder Leon Goretzka called an anti-gay commercial made by a Qatar World Cup ambassador "very oppressive" earlier this month and said, "it leaves you speechless that something like this can be said by a World Cup ambassador shortly before a World Cup." Qatar has one of the strictest anti-LGBTQ laws and some fans are still afraid to attend the World Cup despite the country's assertion that "all are welcome."It's not exactly the time we want to be playing in the World Cup," Fernandes said, referencing the move from the summer to fall. "I think for everyone, players and fans, it's not the best time. Kids will be at school, people will be working and the timings will not be the best for people to watch the games.
"We know the surroundings of the World Cup, what has been in the past few weeks, past few months, about the people that have died on the construction of the stadiums," he added. "We are not happy about that at all.
Fellow German and current Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos said last year that the working conditions in Qatar were "absolutely unacceptable."..."You have to call a spade a spade when it comes to working conditions," Kroos said on his podcast in 2021. "It's about many workers from Qatar, but also migrant workers, having to work non-stop in sometimes 50 degree heat (122 Fahrenheit). At the same time, they also suffer from malnutrition, a lack of drinking water is insane, especially at these temperatures. As a result, safety at work is absolutely not guaranteed, medical care is not there and sometimes some violence is carried out on the workers."
Qatar SUCKS! Please report me to the Supreme Committee.World Cup 2022: Qatar paying fans to attend and promote matches, as well as report negative comments
Qatar reportedly paid for fans across the world to attend the 2022 World Cup this month, according to The New York Times.
Fans will reportedly be treated to what sounds like an all-expenses trip that will include free airfare, free match tickets and free lodging. However, Qatar also reportedly asked those fans to sign contracts that required them to sing chants, post positive accounts on social media and report posts critical of Qatar.
Here are two excerpts obtained by the Times regarding what Qatar expects from those who signed up for the trip to the World Cup:"We are not asking you to [be] a mouthpiece for Qatar, but it would obviously not be appropriate for you to disparage Qatar, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (or other relevant entities related to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022) or the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. We know you have your own opinions, and your own style, so based on the facts we present to you, share them in a manner that suits you.
"You agree to report any offensive, degrading or abusive comments to the SC and, if possible, to take a screenshot of those comments and then promptly delete them. All other comments whether challenging or celebratory about the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 may of course remain publicly visible at your discretion."
Then there's this interesting but decidedly mixed article, plenty of reasons to pan and praise Qatar:... Qatar controversies continue
There have been repeated controversies surrounding the World Cup in Qatar.
Migrant worker exploitation has been the biggest scandal in the lead-up to the World Cup as well. There have been misleading reports as to how many migrants have died building World Cup stadiums as well as conversations about mistreatment and pseudo-slavery....
Can't sing dumb team songs for 3 hours straight without some lubrication. That said, it was Budweiser, so no great loss.
I thought that FIFA had banned them from the World Cup, but I guess not.
Not sure what the Qataris are doing about them, if anything.
Vrede, RN approves, Vuvuzela: Health concerns:
Interesting.... "Everyone who comes to Qatar is welcome, whatever religion, race, sexual orientation, belief she or he has, everyone is welcome. This was our requirement and the Qatari state sticks to that requirement....
"Over 10 fanzones where over 100,000 can simultaneously drink alcohol. I think personally, if for three hours a day you cannot drink a beer, you will survive, especially because actually the same rules apply in France or Spain or in Portugal, or in Scotland. No beer is allowed in the stadiums....
Replays tonight at 7 & 10 pm EST, FS1.
Bueno.
"physically overmatched and thoroughly overwhelmed"? And a 2-0 score? What did Ecuador do, sit their starters after a couple of minutes?"Qatar the soccer team, physically overmatched and thoroughly overwhelmed, kicked off its own party with a 2-0 loss to Ecuador"
1st WC in more than 50 years!
Whoa, Argentina with Messi 1, Saudi Arabia 2. People have died for less.