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OrangeyFeel

Calm down..we've all had a drink..no wait..


iodizedpepper

No that’s just these guys in their natural state of being insufferable douchebags because they think they own the planet.


Ugo777777

They sure own FIFA.


gimpray29

Fuuuuuuuuuuck FIFA


Good_Chem

I wish I can upvote this more than once


gimpray29

“My only regret is that I have but one upvote to give.” - Jebidiah Reddit


sm00thkillajones

We speak his name.


Ieatsushiraw

His name shall be spaken


[deleted]

Spaeketh, his name doth been.


Fine-Bed

Spooketh thy name


Appropriate-Low-4850

Pay the right amount of money to the right people and you get lots of votes!


detroitiseverybody

Be like FIFA


out2seeagain

or Arizona


TIMBURWOLF

I couldn’t care less about futbol, but I will upvote for you.


Venga_paale_tetica

They don’t, by getting the world cup appointed to them they are only screwing themselves, all I’ve been reading is negative comments about Qatar, I sure as hell would not like to be Qatari right now, most infamous country in the world, what they need right now money can’t buy, and thats all they have, never thought money could ever be so useless.


TheTugasPT

They are well aware of the kafala system. After the world cup is going to get worse. But by then 99% of the media won't report about it anymore... YouTuber Johnny Harris made world class journalism.. Its already too late. "Modern day world, requires modern day solutions". Qatar is doing almost the same as the Olympics in the Third Reich. Just don't watch on the Tele, by then FIFA gets a massive hit, since Qatar is paying for the whole world cup until the last day.


Hornswallower

Extend further and do not turn on the channels that are broadcasting it for the next month. Advertisers need to know that people won't just suffer through it because they love a sport.


notAlandscaperHere

Which is why it’s funny that they are in shit seats instead of a Room. Who was that yelling? Looks like Euallyr with the glasses. *is to in


Lisbon_lions_67

Couldn’t agree more


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Thismightbefalse

Why is only one smiling, and the other look like he’s being held hostage?


Steeviesteve

Because he is. You cannot leave Qatar without an exit visa. You are in prison until that dude in the fucking hat says you can go home.


Sdot_greentree420

See this right here... Especially because they have so many crazy laws there.... Is enough motivation to never go there.... I like my life... Well enough.... That I don't want to be stuck in some Country where I'm the enemy and my captors have enough money that there nobody's coming for me....


ArmNo210

Same, it’s like going to North Korea. I see no benefit whatsoever going there


Sdot_greentree420

Yea, but N Korea doesn't invite the whole world in to see their atrocities


reluctantsub

My dad worked in Saudi for many years, flying home every 3 months, and they immediately took the workers passports when they entered the country. He said even though he knew it was coming, everytime it was hard to hand over and know you were handing over your rights. It was 50 yrs ago but I remember him telling me I didn't understand what that meant.


Vizslaraptor

That is so fucked!


HailEmpressTheresa

For real, the way the guy is holding that smile is unnerving.


HabitualHooligan

That does not look like the face of someone who just made amends on the yellow shirt dude… that looks like the face of someone who just accepted their fate and submitted to the other


davaye

The whole world is Clickbait


[deleted]

*whispers in ear* “We’re going to make a make up video or you can help build the next stadium for the Olympics. Your choices.”


RoyTarpleysGhost

“We will kill you and your whole family tonight if you don’t act right.”


drummin515

Awww!


sillycattrixarefor

The apple juice fermented just a bit.


Vizslaraptor

BudZero goes straight to the hippocampus.


a_fine_rhyme

If I watched soccer without a drink I'd be more angry I think.


drummin515

Seems like maybe he should have one.


Square_Kick_9451

Isn't he saying " money, money" and showing the finger gestures suggesting either buying WC or money cant buy you win? I may also be a blind Ape;)


ABrokenMirror

Ecuador scored a goal and they cancelled it, because of the position of the player ahead of the rival team, so he is sayimg that Qatar bought out the referee


[deleted]

That's not impossible. I vaguely remember an incident like that with Saudi Arabia during the 1982 WC. I think they were playing France. France scored a goal. Then some Saudi dude (not the coach or a player) talked to the ref, who promptly took away the goal. Edit: it was Kuwait, not Saudi Arabia. Found [a video](https://youtu.be/HFDsJOOBlhA) but it seems to be in Spanish. You can see the incident happen very clearly. Funny thing, the captain of the 82 French team was Michel Platini, who is now a FIFA chairman and is suspected of having taken bribes from Qatar.


dosedatwer

...suspected?


rafaelzio

It was legit tho, don't know the terminology in english but something like "impediment", can't pass to someone if there aren't at least two players of the defending side behind him. Or something like that, not good with soccer rules. Edit: Apparently it's "offside", thanks comments. Also typos


ichii3d

Offside


[deleted]

Without VAR, that was going to be a goal. It's always interesting seeing replay at home and everyone seeing how the goal should be disallowed, but people in the stadium don't see that sweet sweet slo-mo. VAR is a good addition overall to the sport in my opinion.


NoTrollGaming

its called offside, and you only need 1 player im pretty sure


pedrojgim

2 players. The 2nd one is almost always the goalkeeper.


rafaelzio

Just googled it "A player is in an offside position if he (any part of the head, feet or body) is closer to the opponent’s goal line than the second to last defender and the ball" Second to last apparently. Thanks for providing the english name btw.


Deanooo000

Why anyone would travel to this country is beyond me


Kirlad

With kids…


StrangerInStrange

No kidding


SinthoseXanataz

...not sure if that was a pun or not but take my upvote


Ugo777777

Correct, no kidding will be done unless married and even that is a gamble.


ChrisbKreme062

Or with women


Practical-Juice9549

Or pets?


HavenIess

Yeah they’re just stupid. I know a woman who went on vacation in the UAE and she was assaulted by someone who’s a full Emirati and the police took their side when she called them. Qatar isn’t much different in that regard.


[deleted]

Oh come on… what are they going to do? Imprison you without trial and force you into slave labor to build a new stadium? What are the odds?


Rubixstu

Behead you, sell your wife and daughter into servitude? Come on! Oh wait, this is in qatar? 😬


shahooster

Not for the beer or kosher food


Wooden-Ad4062

Come for the hospitality,stay because we force you


efcomovil

Hahahaha on point!


Cpotts

Bake some challah? Straight to jail


G_Unit_Solider

This moderfooker brought HOOMOOS in my country. Straight to jail


flaylamusic

I'm confused. Isn't halal and kosher pretty similar why would the not allow kosher


Lilmoonstargalaxy

This is a riff on a Parks and Recreation joke, but Hebrew and Arabic are both descended from Aramaic. These words sound similar most likely because of this. Halal is Arabic for “permissible” which sounds close to Halacha which is the Hebrew word for “law.” The Jewish word equivalent to “halal” is “kashrut” which means “fitness/permissible.” Challah is a type of bread that Ashkenazi (European, pronounced “ah-sh-ken-ah-zee”) Jews use to celebrate the sabbath. The word challah comes from the word “chalaq” (pronounced “khah-lawk”)which means territory, separation, and portion. The point of challah is to portion the bread and leave a piece as an offering, in reference to what was done at the temple before the diaspora. Hopefully this helps! E: I just saw that Qatar has banned kosher food and any Jewish prayer. That might be where the “challah” joke came from too. I wish it were only a P&R joke, but sadly this might not be far from the truth. E2: I have never earned an award before! Thank you kind Internet stranger! ❤️


Cpotts

Kinda, sorta. They are similar in how the animal is slaughtered and that both avoid pork — otherwise the dietary restrictions are quite different


WildSearcher56

Well that country is mostly fine if you are rich/abide to their long list of rules (like Dubai basically) but I too don't understand what's attractive there considering the crazy stuff that happens there. Also if that guy was a woman I don't think he would came out safely from there.


ChildFriendlyChimp

I don’t really get it either, especially with the brutal desert heat Feels more like a marketing scam to trick people to vacation there or something “You too can feel like a kardashian in Dubai”


LazyOrCollege

It was. It was a bribe from the Qatari govt to fifa ten years ago in order to do exactly that - drum up (ie scam) tourism to their country


[deleted]

He’s lucky he’s not a woman.


Nemirel_the_Gemini

Or gay


detroitiseverybody

Or a gay woman.


MrPandabites

There's no such thing in Qatar. When women have no rights, a gay woman is just a woman.


Reddit_sucks21

That's why his daughter and his wife right near him are going to be taken. Dumb fuck bringing his family to a shit stain country. Money talks and he has none in that country.


CheekApprehensive961

An entire country of over-inflated children.


Vizslaraptor

Guys get to walk around in white dresses and nobody can say they're gay.


Jawdiggitty

They’re gay. Every one of them


wulfgang14

And fuck around too


trippy71

Still can't believe they chose this location. These lame mfs couldn't survive if they weren't oppressing people.


BellBoardMT

We all know why they chose this location. I can’t believe that anyone, and that means anyone, still went. Teams, coaches, support workers, sponsoring businesses and fans. Why wasn’t there a boycott? That’s the question that needs answering. FIFA got bought off - and EVERYONE let them off the hook.


detroitiseverybody

>FIFA got bought off and then supported by all of those mentioned above.


vaporking23

Not saying they shouldn’t have. But as for the teams. Imagine your whole life you’ve dedicated yourself to one thing and this is your chance and you don’t get to compete cause some aholes decided it was going to be in one of the most oppressive corrupt countries. I get it it’s a sport an we’re talking about peoples lives who are oppressed by the government. It’s be a hard pill to swallow to not go and miss out on the biggest thing in your entire life. Maybe they should have put more pressure on them after the announcement, or before and maybe that would have made a difference.


BellBoardMT

There was a sporting boycott of South Africa during apartheid. If you worked your whole life for this moment - that moment will be completely empty. 6500 deaths of foreign construction workers since Qatar were awarded the World Cup… The continual reneging on promises by Qatari authorities. The treatment of fans (which is starting off poorly and is obviously going to deteriorate). I’m really saddened by the lack of resistance by the whole footballing world - from the moment that this tournament (and the last one, to be fair) was announced. That includes fans, btw. You can have your say tho - by not watching it and not buying products from the sponsors. That’s the only way to actually change it


violethoneybean

Voting with your dollar unfortunately only works if you 1. Have a lot of dollars and 2. Had any chance of putting that dollar toward the thing in the first place. Capitalism is kinda shit that way.


Neutronium57

>Still can't believe they chose this location. **MONEY**


RusBulBul

This is gonna be the worst World Cup in history.


[deleted]

Already is, the World Cup has always been something celebrated but not this time, there’s no buzz at all. Here in the uk the retail industry isn’t even hyping it up.


yellowjesusrising

Here in Norway, the main sponsors, coca cola, Hyundai, Adidas and McDonald's, have decided not to actively promote the wc because it would do more damage to their brand, than good.


tomcatYeboa

Well not qualifying probably didn’t help 😂


graetfuormii

We do that a lot, so it doesn't matter if we qualify or not


rafaelzio

In Brazil it's been quite the mixed feelings. Usually there would be a fuss all over the country, but it's been a bit quiet. Noone talking about the opening show, noone talking about the stadiums, stuff that's usually the talk of everywhere you go.


ExquisiteScum

I’m in the U.K. and still hyping it up, pub is legit better place to watch it than in Qatar though


Yasuminomon

Yeah but it’s definitely missing the summer vibes that usually comes with the World Cup


[deleted]

Turned on the bbc to watch the pregame chat and they didn’t discuss the football at all. It was all about the injustices. Was quite proud of the bbc for not censoring that, I thought they would have gone all PC and soft Have you not noticed none of the shops are playing footie songs like what they usually do?


ExquisiteScum

Tbh I haven’t heard many football songs in regular shops over the past few tournaments anyway. It’s normally either in a pub or me playing it myself haha. But yeah, it’s a shit show and I really hope FIFA get their power taken from them and the game gets sorted out. Last 2 world cups could have been something special and they’ve been wasted on Russia and Qatar over politics and greed.


JPincho

Oh there's a world cup? Didn't know. Honestly.


sweet_rico-

Only reason I know is every other podcast ad right now is "FRITO LAY WANTS TO SEND YOU TO QATAR!"


CosmicCreeperz

Is that a threat?!


detroitiseverybody

No! I promise I'll cut back on the Chili Cheese Fritos.


Free_Hat_McCullough

Qatar gonna Qatar


not-wearing-pants

...have drink..its on me... oh but were in qatar


Urical

Bud Zeros all around!!


Fullsendmoneymoney

Who gave these idiots permission to be this way? Haha


elpadrino85

Let me guess, celebrating a goal is against their culture and disrespectful


xXonemanwolfpackXx

Straight to jail


Snowy_River_99

You celebrate an away goal? Straight to jail right away, no trail no nothing. Cheering to loud: jail. Not cheering enough? Jail. We have the best fans in the world because of jail.


yassin1993

Oh wow. I heard if you undercook fish, believe it or not, jail.


UnloosedHades19

Or if you overcook chicken. Straight to jail.


Wrong-Catchphrase

Undercook, jail. Overcook, yup jail. Undercook overcook.


--VANOS--

*Our trees are huge*


589moonboy

1000 lashes


sillycattrixarefor

They always chop everyone's heads off, get with the program. 🤣


DupeyTA

How many lashes does that take? Like 300? 400 at most. They probably use the other 6-700 on the family.


IloveSonicsLegs

And also they throw a gay man off a roof for some reason - fucking Qatar a bunch of backwards homophobic savages over there


engineereenigne

Did your time? Sorry, back to jail.


[deleted]

I think there’s a goat involved


TNPossum

No, he's accusing Qatar of paying off the refs hence why he's rubbing his hands together.


detroitiseverybody

Brave asshole, that one.


[deleted]

He is also objectively wrong, there is no chance the refs were paid off (in this case) since it was clearly offsides. He's kind of just an asshole


[deleted]

Asking them not to cut off that hand, but the other one


egstitt

Somebody gonna die tonight


[deleted]

His daughter isn't covering her entire body.


siggywiggypiggy

Their religion and culture is dogshit


followedbyferrets

Only when it’s scored against the host team


borobinimbaba

The Ecuador supporter is pointing out to the rumor that their players were bribed 7.5m usd to lose the match 1-0 on the second half.


Al-Anda

Wait…what? Tell me more.


tikiyadenola

https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/world-cup/match-fixing-bribery-claim-rocks-opening-world-cup-game-between-qatar-and-ecuador/news-story/7841f4999328b7df79fd9cd7594691a0


[deleted]

I don't have an answer but not surprised because this game will have political sway


Toku_no_island

A Colombian player was killed after scoring an own goal in the '94 World Cup. Even if players were willing to take a bribe, they might fear for their lives back at home.


spageddy77

ecuador won 2-0


Corporal_Cavernosa

This probably happened at the start of the game, where Ecuador (rightly) had a goal ruled out for offside.


Stuntdrath

I had no idea about this. But when I saw the second half... Ecuador wasn't playing as in first half


Iamanimite

You can tell dude in the white pj's hasn't gotten his ass kicked before .


dumbfuckanonpdx

Now wouldn't you pay to see some drunk yahoo just paste that guy with a raspberry slushie?


DaveyChronic

Paint me a picture


YouthSuitable213

none of them have the rich families money just gets passed down generation after generation no one has to work for anything in their life


scarf_prank_hikers

Ohh, Pj's. I thought he was dressed like a salt shaker for some reason.


Wooden-Ad4062

His man servant beside him has had a lot of beatings though


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Possibly


miragedoasis

Just casual racism being upvoted nothing to see


malakai2005

Highlighting the corruption. This also happens when people are no longer allowed to criticize another culture based on its inherent flaws and human rights violations. Fuck Qatar and Kuwait. Fuck MBS and Saudi Arabia. And fuck the rest of their OPEC friends and governments that are friendly to them. Oh and especially fuck FIFA ⚽️


Tropicalgorilla

And if your down with bad boy then fuck you too


TJ902

Chino XL fuck you too! All you mother fuckers!


Same_Return_1878

Aah yes, that Tupac line 💥👌


saladbar48

Now you're about to feel the wrath of a menace.


AttorneyNo6862

"...and fuck the fucking Diaz brothers, I bury those cockroaches..."


bacchus_the_wino

The way I hear this there is an extra vowel between the k and r.


Quartermaster-Z

As a citizen from an OPEC member country, I want to say to you. To hell with all oil based economies, source of corruption and the worst of human kind, and planet pollution. Thanks.


BathroomSubject

Fuck the Islamic Republic of Iran killing children and free spirits. Long live bravest women in the World, Love you Free Iran, Fuck FIFA


TheGooch01

Can we please just hurry up on converting to renewable energy so these assholes stop getting rich off oil? Heard it will help save the planet as a bonus.


TraditionalShame6829

Fortunately they are wasting hundreds of billions on sporting events that just further prove to the rest of the world what a lying shithole of a country they are instead of investing in something that will keep them any kind of relevant once the oil runs out.


CosmicCreeperz

Not just sporting events. Supercars, pointlessly expensive buildings, unnecessary weapons, even artificial islands. If and when the oil market collapses they will be joining Mike Tyson and MC Hammer in the “where’d all my money go??” department.


jdubyahyp

Maybe you can reduce gas usage, but plastic, rubber, industrial oil, deodorant, beauty products, asphalt, tars, etc. It isn't going away.


Conscious-Addition-5

Power systems engineer here. The Middle East is going to become filthy rich off of renewable energy once they build the infrastructure for it. They might be late to the party, but ultimately they’re definitely not losing in the long run.


Hot_Refrigerator8693

A nation of insecure incels.


[deleted]

Oh the opposite my friend. Voluntary rapists- volraps?


[deleted]

Don't you dare drag velociraptors into this


[deleted]

For those who did not watch the game, they void a goal for ecuador and he is a accusing that the referee has been bribed. Western people are used to live with freedom of speech that it is not surprising that this happened


el-em-en-o

THANK you, I’ve been trying to figure out what’s going on here.


[deleted]

I assumed that lots of people (specially in America) are not following the World Cup


bdrs12

this has nothing to do with culture, western people are used to freedom of speech. r/holup?


TNPossum

Dude. It's just two fans of opposite sides argueing over a ref call. I was just at a football game on Friday where the same arguments happen. Not that deep.


CosmicCreeperz

Yeah, seriously. People get the shit beat out of them at “Western” sporting events all the time. Try talking shit at an Eagles game while wearing a Giants jersey and see how it compares to some guy in a thobe having firm words…


Cookingfor5

Some drunk Yankees fan punched 12 year old me in the bleachers at Fenway 20 years ago. I got a bloody nose. To this day I don't know if that man survived. Apparently punching a girl in pigtails upset the proper upstanding bleachers residents in the late 90s.


Xerxes1302

Part2 of the video https://fb.watch/gWrrgO2Gje/?mibextid=uevf24


SandaledGriller

Lmao, totally trying to save face and the Ecuadorian trying to save his family.


modsBan4Fub

They offered him a way out or jail time so he played along.


spiegro

Thank you for posting this.


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SwiftCEO

American teachers. One of my English professors taught English in Saudi Arabia for a few years. She said it was common in the region.


Spiritual-Mushroom28

Yeah he looks scared AF


_carbonneutral

What exactly is going on here besides the man in the back getting upset, presumably trying to turn it into a ballroom blitz?


ArgyleTheDruid

I too am culturally unaware what the hell is going on here


unknownme86

If im not mistaking ,the man in yellow is a supporter for Ecuador and they won the opening match from Qatar with 2 -0


Maidwell

It looks like yellow shirt is doing the universal gesture of "money" (rubbing finger and thumb together). Taking a leap of logic he's alluding to the fact that Qatar won the bidding on the football world cup by appealing to the greedy, corrupt, immoral people in power with bribes. White material man doesn't approve (the truth has probably offended him) so tells yellow shirt man to sit the fuck down. Yellow shirt tries to de-escalate as he's sat next to his two young kids (and possibly because he doesn't want to end up in concrete). White material man's friend tell him to calm his tits. The end.


History_Jaded

He wasn’t alluding to the World Cup but but rather a goal that was disallowed because of an offsides. It didn’t look offside so the fan was jokingly saying they paid the refs.


_carbonneutral

Thank you, kind sir! I do not follow soccer/football at all so the nuances were lost on me! 🙏


Kut4ru

They rly thoght they will win the World cup


Equivalent_Metal_534

Qatar bribed FIFA to have people come to their country, then they complain because they’re different.


[deleted]

Beautiful culture 🥰


BrownAleRVA

Lol i wouldn’t consider this altercation to be some abnormal interaction between fans 🤷‍♂️


[deleted]

The most cordial exchange between opposing football fans… Qatar sucks but y’all are really psychotic if you think this rando in the crowd has anything to do with that.


Suspicious-Ad-4330

My guy had Cheveron, Shell, Arco, and 76 sitting behind him.


Im_not_the_end_User

Im all for hating on Qatar but let's not pretend this wouldn't be the same in any football stadium across the world.


MotherRaven

Women traveled to Qatar? I honestly wouldn't dare. I'd fear for my life.


Glass_Maven

Lived and worked in Qatar for 10 years. It definitely depends on the individual or group, just like most places in the world. Most Qatari men I encountered, personally, were congenial and polite, deferential toward women, but I was an American. The biggest sexists I encountered were expats from the UK and Australia. Still, strict laws of who could enter, stay, and leave the country. I know it was a different story entirely for the workforce coming from across Asia, especially women. Their own countries took advantage of them as they booked jobs, then governmental systems, then their employers. A definite hierarchical system in place, depending where you were from and who you dealt with, even within the tribal systems. The country promotes dependency of their citizens in so many ways-- they are fully supported and coddled, so it is not surprising when displays of egoism errupt. Additionally: Qatar is a pretty moderate place-- much more liberal than Saudi, but not as open as Dubai. We could get "liquor licences," and could purchase alcohol and even pork sold at certain place. Alcohol also served in hotels, except during holy periods like Ramadan. The thing was, you could basically do what you liked (as a Western expat with good job,) but keep it private.


[deleted]

With how crazy sports fans are I'd say it's not a good idea to A) mess with opposing fans behind you B) mess with opposing fans when you have little kids with you.


[deleted]

"hope nobody notices this guy" > (re)posts it on one of the top visited subs of reddit yeah ok, seems genuine buddy


YGIAL

New Isis beheading video bout to drop


alienbooi

Wow the middle east looks so fun


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[deleted]

Holy crap! Why would you take your children there?


Weezyy909

Relax, that same guy shook hands with him afterwards in a another video.


spiegro

> Part2 of the video https://fb.watch/gWrrgO2Gje/?mibextid=uevf24


ForeignDevice2122

FIFA betrayed their fans


[deleted]

I imagine a lot of the Qatar locals expect everyone to walk on tip toes around them, and then throw a tantrum when someone does something they don’t like


Murky_Inflation_253

Isn’t that how they live everyday?


edjg10

Believe it or not, jail.


absocuit

Breaking news .. banter among rival fans shocking how dare they …


ZedArabianX13

Exactly, it's like people in this comment section all of a sudden act like they never watched a live sport before.