USA here. What are our television options to stream all the games? During the Olympics, I bought Peacock for two months or so. Is there a service I can simply subscribe to for the duration of the event and have all games?
I used Tubi 4 years ago. It had a ton and was free.
What are Americans’ options this year?
I was just planning to watch it all on Peacock in Spanish, since I don’t get FOX Sports. But those are the two main options. (maybe also Youtube TV?)
FIFA’s villainy continues to be on the nose, no subtlely whatsoever.
I watched the video and nothing was mentioned about FIFA’s involvement. I get that the timing is suspicious but why would they want a whale mural removed?
It was literally the first sentence.
But here’s more information. They’re putting up a World Cup mural.
Thanks. I get it now. I obviously missed the mention. The video just shows it being painted over but the salient point is that it’s being replaced with a new FIFA mural.
In fairness though this is not new villainy. It’s always been the case that If you host the world cup or Olympics in your city it will impose ridiculous restrictions on public expression in that city.
Looks like buying the $20/month Fox Sports Net thing will get me full game access in English.
I will probably pay the $40 to see the whole thing. I’m just presuming they will host finished games so I can see them if I can’t catch them live.
My teams to cheer for are:
Looks like they all made the world cup this year, too. Uh, USA defaulted in by hosting.
Chris Richards, the only US CB that is any good, just injured himself ,ugh. Maybe not missing the WC?
The England squad was announced. A few surprises: no place for Foden, Palmer or Maguire and a shock inclusion for striker Ivan Toney who plays in the Saudi Arabian league. Bringing (according to social media wags) valuable experience of playing in half empty stadiums in a brutal autocracy 
De la Fuente has just announced the Spanish squad too: eight Barça players, none from Real Madrid:
Goalkeepers: Unai Simón, David Raya, Joan Garcia.
Defenders: Marc Cucurella, Alejandro Grimaldo, Pau Cubarsí, Americ Laporte, Marc Pubill, Eric Garcia, Marcos Llorente, Pedro Porro.
Midfielders: Pedri, Rodrigo, Fabián, Zubimendi, Gavi, Baena, Mikel Merino.
Forwards: Oyarzabal, Dani Olmo, Nico Williams, Pino, Borja Iglesias, Lamine Yamal, Ferran, Víctor Muñoz.
Same (about the buying the Fox Sports Net thing). I do wish they’d just sell the Cup as a one-off package, with an off-the-shelf for a prince of, I dunno, split the difference: $35.
Of course I’m rooting for the USA, but beyond that I’m just going to take it game by game. Usually I’ll root for the country I’ve been to if I’ve been to one and not the other. Except France. France can go fuck themselves. Failing that, I’ll root for the underdog and/or the newcomer.
For right now though, I’m so excited I’m about to burst. It’s going to be a long three weeks until Kickoff.
That’s remarkable, almost like Germany nominating no one from Bayern. Is the reason just that there are no obvious nominees at Real anymore, or that there are only so few Spanish players anyway in their squad?
Few players, and the one that could have been nominated, Carvajal, is injured. The goalie is no longer Casillas, but a Belgian. And Dean Huijsen, central defender, had a very irregular season, his first in Madrid. He is still very young.
Last (and only) time Spain won, in 2010 in South Africa, there were almost no Real players, except for Casillas, of course. And a lot of Barça players. I`m OK with that.
I’m ready to bet (figuratively, not really, I know that bets are forbidden here) that there hasn’t been a German squad in big tournaments since 1966 that hadn’t a player from Bayern.
Has anyone been watching these videos where they reveal the squad, but the video isn’t just reading a list of names? Those are pretty cool. Of the ones I’ve seen, both Norway and Spain have brought in their King to help out. King Charles III was nowhere to be seen in the England announcemnt, and if Trump is in the USA announcement I’m going to puke. Maybe King Charles can throw us a bone? That or have Pope Leo do it, I’m sure he’s a football fan considering all the time he ministered in South America.
He’s a tennis player, and many tennis players also like and some are good at football.
I looked it up: he supports AS Roma. Go figure.
Bad luck for him that Italy hasn’t qualified, again.
It’s hard to justify selling cheap seat tickets for $2000++ unless there is a quality halftime show. Of course, this is only for the final and some things are best justified through greed and corruption.
A Toronto sports columnist recently wrote the $82 million Canadian governments are spending on each game being played here ($1.1 billion in total) are the price one must pay to be part of the global community and to get the chance to promote Canada. Such sh*yte. Canada got lesser games. Governments hid costs and the ridiculous agreements that gave FIFA all the profits and no risk. After the tournament, Canada will be left with a few lukewarm memories but little infrastructure or profit. And the US will take all the limelight.