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You mean a covered area?
What's your definition of roof?
You mean a covered area?
What's your definition of roof?
The notion that the US couldn't take a World Cup at short notice because of stadia issues is ridiculous. If you followed that criteria, then we couldn't either and perhaps no country in the world could, not if they all had to be completely covered massive stadiums with grass. The issue on the roof seems foggy.
The US has plenty of huge indoor stadiums that could have grass laid in short time.. Minnesota, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, New Orleans, Arizona, Houston, Indianapolis off the top of my head. Seattle is an outdoor stadium so if its been used very recently under some new criteria then well there you go. To add to that, you have enormous outdoor stadiums in NY, Boston, Baltimore, Washington DC, Tampa, San Francisco, Kansas, LA, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Diego and many more. Not to mention, a whole country full of absolutely monstrous college football team stadiums. Some of them 100k big. A lot of all these fields are grass or hybrid already
If FIFA were to ever make some emergency plans and move location, then I'd be pretty positive that they would have to relax their criteria re roofs or there would be no possibilities at all. Its not like we haven't held many footballing tournaments in days gone by without stadiums being completely covered.
I remember at the time of the Qatar bid roofs were an issue and important because of the absurd heat in the country. The US is hot in places but you could be clever about where you avoid.
The notion that the US couldn't take a World Cup at short notice because of stadia issues is ridiculous. If you followed that criteria, then we couldn't either and perhaps no country in the world could, not if they all had to be completely covered massive stadiums with grass. The issue on the roof seems foggy.
The US has plenty of huge indoor stadiums that could have grass laid in short time.. Minnesota, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, New Orleans, Arizona, Houston, Indianapolis off the top of my head. Seattle is an outdoor stadium so if its been used very recently under some new criteria then well there you go. To add to that, you have enormous outdoor stadiums in NY, Boston, Baltimore, Washington DC, Tampa, San Francisco, Kansas, LA, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Diego and many more. Not to mention, a whole country full of absolutely monstrous college football team stadiums. Some of them 100k big. A lot of all these fields are grass or hybrid already
If FIFA were to ever make some emergency plans and move location, then I'd be pretty positive that they would have to relax their criteria re roofs or there would be no possibilities at all. Its not like we haven't held many footballing tournaments in days gone by without stadiums being completely covered.
I remember at the time of the Qatar bid roofs were an issue and important because of the absurd heat in the country. The US is hot in places but you could be clever about where you avoid.
I dont understand how people are getting confused, I'm a former engineer who for someone unknown reason loves architecture and knows a lot about itThe notion that the US couldn't take a World Cup at short notice because of stadia issues is ridiculous. If you followed that criteria, then we couldn't either and perhaps no country in the world could, not if they all had to be completely covered massive stadiums with grass. The issue on the roof seems foggy.
The US has plenty of huge indoor stadiums that could have grass laid in short time.. Minnesota, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, New Orleans, Arizona, Houston, Indianapolis off the top of my head. Seattle is an outdoor stadium so if its been used very recently under some new criteria then well there you go. To add to that, you have enormous outdoor stadiums in NY, Boston, Baltimore, Washington DC, Tampa, San Francisco, Kansas, LA, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Diego and many more. Not to mention, a whole country full of absolutely monstrous college football team stadiums. Some of them 100k big. A lot of all these fields are grass or hybrid already
If FIFA were to ever make some emergency plans and move location, then I'd be pretty positive that they would have to relax their criteria re roofs or there would be no possibilities at all. Its not like we haven't held many footballing tournaments in days gone by without stadiums being completely covered.
I remember at the time of the Qatar bid roofs were an issue and important because of the absurd heat in the country. The US is hot in places but you could be clever about where you avoid.
It's bizarre isn't it, it's like 'wow, look at the level of corruption that led to this country that should never have been able to host a World Cup hosting the World Cup... Just as well FIFA's no longer corrupt'And yet somehow it's all not supposed to be a smoking gun big enough to strip Qatar of the WC.
Skimming through the first part. Cant get any more blatant than naming the payee of a trip of a football official to Qatar as "bid 2022." Nice one, Qatar. Aussie and England had some very shady dealings also related to their bids. You wanna take 2018 away from Russia, it should go to Belgium and Holland who were clean according to this report.
Report on Russia and then the US from Garcia's deputy(Garcia recused himself from these investigations) are next on my agenda.
How, exactly, can you clear Russia when they made very little documents available to you and your only basing stuff on the word of the accused discounting the allegations?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41522970
There is "an increasing political risk that Qatar may not host the World Cup in 2022", according to a confidential report examining the risks surrounding the project.