Thread 151507339

Am I the only one that cares solely for the World Cup and the continental cups when it comes to worldwide football?

I seriously couldn't care less if Liverpool wins another Premier League or if Real Madrid wins it's 200th Champions League title, club football is extremely soulless to me.

The only glory that matters is the World Cup.

seriously? 48 teams now? multiple-country hosting now? why did you ever let us touch your silly little commie sport?

i care about my local club comps just don't give af about yuroslop anymore
especially after this new CL format

If thats true then why are you here exactly, national teams barely play and theres one year until the world cup starts

>>151507339 (OP)
Euros*

>>151507559
eyes off thirdie monkey

>>151507505
Even if it will most likely have more shitter games, it does give room for more people to participate, and in my honest opinion making it more prestigious.
Sure that doesn't mean I love seeing island nations with 2 people making the World Cup, but I do believe FIFA did it praying that China and India would classify with this format.

>>151507565
Barely a month before another international break, and there's usually national team threads here and there.
Besides, this is the /sp/orts board, not the football one, I can post about other sports.

>>151507339 (OP)
World Cup is the most SOVLless corporate tournament in human history. If you want a SOVL tournament you need to watch the WDC Darts world championship in December and January

It makes me seethe so much that the best tournaments in history (World Cups and the Olympics) are controlled by the most corrupt psychopaths in sport. The IOC are even worse than FIFA, and yet the Olympics are even better than the World Cup. There's no justice.

>>151507339 (OP)
>russia, qatar, usa, saudi arabia
is this the zoomer idea of soul?

shitty casual tournament

>>151507339 (OP)
You're in the World Baseball Classic, you'll get the chance to know what a real soulful tournament is next March

>france, korea/japan, germany, sovlth africa, brazil
how did we go from this to this >>151514649

>>151514901
infantino

World cup once made me watch korea x togo

WC died in 2018

>>151507339 (OP)
The World Cup has untold soul potential and is the main bastion of football prestige. So far, so good. And yes, national team football is less fucked up than modern club football. But FIFA's treatment of the World Cup has robbed it of most of its soul, and national teams mean less and less when most western teams field immigrants and most third-world teams field diaspora players who were born in the west, grew up in the west, learned playing football in the west, always played in the west, and never visited their supposed home country for more than two weeks at once
48 team World Cup sucks, 64 team World Cup will suck even more. Qatar hosting it sucked, having only triple hosts or Saudi-Arabia will suck even more
The World Cup has lost a lot of its edge, unfortunately

>>151515227
2014*

>>151514438
That's extremely unfortunate, I wish we could wipe away all these vermin but it seems impossible.
Blatter fell only for Infantino to do worse.
>>151514649
I was talking about the tournament, not the host country.
Complain to FIFA.

>>151508339
based and Gezzy pilled

There's only one soulful tournament in the world and it's not the World Cup

>>151507339 (OP)
international football is pozzed, contrived, rigged, political, corrupt and designed purely for marketing to casuals and tourists. it's fake soul, it's pure aids and it is in fact the most plastic form of all sports where people larp as flags and pretend local rivalries don't exist for a summer like we're all friends. why in the fuck of fucks would I ever wanna be associated with an ahlyfag just because we share a country? anyway, objectively speaking the peak of footballing sovl is found almost exclusively in german and english lower divisions. I mean let's face it, we're all just larping compared to them. having said that, I'm only invested my club and I watch the european leagues just for entertainment which international football offers none of

>>151517585
eat shit