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How To Hack Your Way To The World Cup Final?

How To Hack Your Way To The World Cup Final?

Goal 90 vor 3 Jahren

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There have been talks about the 2022 World Cup having been rigged
to favor a particular team. But if you call what we saw out in
Qatar a rigging, then maybe you don’t remember or just don’t know
what happened 20 years ago.

So, in 2002, we were in Asia for the FIFA World Cup for the first
time ever. South Korea and Japan had the joint-responsibility of
hosting the tournament, and it was history being made for many
reasons. First, it was the first time the competition would be
held outside America and Europe. And then, it was also the first
time that 2 different nations would host a single tournament of
the World Cup.

And that in itself was a surprising eventuality as South Korea
and Japan had actually put in rival bids for the hosting rights
of that tournament. Japan had never qualified for the World Cup
before then, but it was they who put in the first bid. Then South
Korea only came along with their bid as a response to their
political and sporting rival.

Anyway, FIFA decided the best option would be to grant hosting
rights to both nations. But that decision didn’t exactly go well
with most football fans in America and Europe who accused the
football governing body of being corrupt in their host selection
process. Does that remind you of another Asian World Cup host?