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> A winter world cup The World Cup is played in winter every year if you live below the equator.
by chrisseaton 5y ago
> A winter world cup
The World Cup is played in winter every year if you live below the equator.
- afavour 5y agoThe problem isn’t the season itself, it’s the disruption to domestic league schedules.
- midasuni 5y agoBrazil’s season runs May to December
- darrenf 5y agoAnd Colombia's league basically runs all year (Jan/Feb to Dec). MLS in the USA runs March-Oct.
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- lentil_soup 5y agoThat's a very europe centric comment. As if the only leagues that matter are theirs, the rest of the world will have to adjust.
- afavour 5y agoI’m in the US, so… The point is that the World Cup has previously taken place at a consistent time of year, every time. If they made this change as part of a plan to distribute league disruption globally then we’d talk about it as such, but they made this change as part of a corrupt voting system that led to a bad decision with a load of fallout they’re still trying to work out.
- parthdesai 5y agoI mean considering the fact that all the very best players play in Europe, and that's how seasons have been scheduled for the longest time, it does make sense
- chrisseaton 5y agoBut many domestic league schedules are during northern hemisphere winter.
- alkonaut 5y ago“Winter” is the period when it’s dark and cold on the northern hemisphere. Southern Hemisphere folks will have to invent their on term. Like Swinter.