The United States' big dreams of hosting the 2022 World Cup were shattered by one of the planet's smallest nations. In a historic vote Thursday in Zurich, FIFA awarded the hosting rights to Qatar, a Middle Eastern country smaller than Connecticut that wowed the sport's international governing body with innovative stadium plans, massive financial resources and the promise of promoting harmony in a region that has never staged the World Cup.
We didn’t get the games because we don’t call soccer football. Can you imagine the confusion with all those foreigners coming here and talking about football when they’re really talking about soccer? Worse yet, all the lite beer brain damaged American football fans would show up at a soccer game expecting concussions and spinal injuries.
We didn’t get the games because we don’t call soccer football. Can you imagine the confusion with all those foreigners coming here and talking about football when they’re really talking about soccer? Worse yet, all the lite beer brain damaged American football fans would show up at a soccer game expecting concussions and spinal injuries.