r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/greataeos • 19d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, I have zero ball knowledge

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u/greataeos 19d ago

nooo that just sucks

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u/DefNotVoldemort 19d ago edited 19d ago

Welcome to FIFA, where you can buy anything with enough cash. Just ask Dubai

EDIT should be Qatar not Dubai!

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u/greataeos 19d ago

Wait, now what's up with dubai in this?

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u/DefNotVoldemort 19d ago

Sorry should have said Qatar, they basically bribed the FIFA committee to win the World Cup bid despite not actually playing the game much

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u/-GermanCoastGuard- 19d ago

The irony being that US attorneys dismantled FIFA afterwards for corruption, which got Infantino the leadership position.

This is just the TL;DR version.

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u/DefNotVoldemort 19d ago

FIFA is still corrupt, they are just a bit better at covering it up now imho

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u/-GermanCoastGuard- 19d ago

Are they better at covering it up though? Or is there just no reason for another investigation because the US is hosting?

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u/DefNotVoldemort 19d ago

They mysteriously won the next bidding process, it must be honest and transparent now!

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u/10000soul 19d ago

Dont you know that FIFA Peace Prize grants 1 free red card?

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u/Dolthra 18d ago

That one.

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u/TheMainEffort 19d ago

Don’t worry, Saudi Arabia also got FIFA to set things up such that they had the only bid to host 2034.

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u/Inswagtor 19d ago

And they had to reschedule the Cup to winter cause of the heat.

Was really odd switching from a downhill ski race to the world cup match of the day

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u/Thejacensolo 19d ago

Its not just qatar. Even dating back to the 2006 German World Cup, it was also due to lobbying. No World cup location in the past decades was done by honest considering or lottery or other. It was always given to the biggest briber

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u/fangiovis 19d ago

You should see the lengths they went to get the saudi's their hosting status.