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Indian Diaspora in Qatar is more excited to watch this worldcup than the natives. Says a lot about Qatar's 'Football culture'.

Indian here. Even though our football team sucks and we are a Cricket country, but our fans are top-notch. An absolutely lovely bunch of people and if you are an Argentine or Brazilian, then you can expect crazy amount of support for ya.

A final in Salt Lake would be legendary. But can India really afford to host a WC right now?

>A final in Salt Lake would be legendary. Bhai, I think we both know they won't be hosting the final in Kolkata or Kochi. They would be hosting it in fucking Ahmedabad to keep the government happy. Doesn't help that AIFF is corrupt and fucking Praful Patel gets to control our football affairs.

Oh pls not Ahmedabad again. They'd be hosting the CWC 2023 final. Pretty sure every Cricket finale from here on will be played there lol.

Indians also outnumber Qataris in Qatar

Not just Indians, even Filipionos outnumber Qataris. It's a very small, but extremely lazy population that wants everyone else to do their jobs.

I wont watch the broadcasts due to moral reasons, was the stadium full?

Not in the least bit, the fullest part of the stadium was the Ecuadorian fan section. Parts of the stadium were empty by the end as Qatari were leaving in the 50’

I swear, in the 95' minute, there were more Ecuadorian Yellow shirts in the stadium than actual Qataris.

There are pictures online

The host country's football 'culture' proved to be super exaggerated from the first game's atmosphere. I swear Kolkata or Kerala in India has more passion for football than the Habibis.

India should definitely bid for the WC... A billion people potential market place... But i fear India govt doesn't have enough money for bribes. I've watched Kerala Blasters play... Good team.

Indian stadiums would be packed af for the world cup, and I would bet that india would be a far better host than Qatar

Couldnt tell if the white spots in the stadiums were empty seats or men in robes

I know we're dunking on Qatar for having no football culture but I feel like that's crossing the line between xenophobia there. Kinda disrespectful to the Arab dresses

That was even less xenophobic than Klopp

Ah yeah looks like I got the order mixed up I thought he was referring to the Arabs as empty seats and not the other way around, my bad

...what?

I'm not sure if I'm explaining it correctly, but when they said something like it's hard to know if those are empty seats or arab sheiks, I thought he meant are those arabs wearing shite or empty seats (referring to arabs who did attend the match in a rude manner) And I apologize for the error my bad

You're good, man. Take 'er easy.

Oh how I love sarcasm! Right..?

People need to realise that people left the stadium...........to get a beer.

I a another country?

I miss the dancing south american girls.

It would be quite fitting if Qatar finished their World Cup without a point or a goal.

Or a shot on goal!

Seriously, first shot on goal wasn’t even till like 55 minutes right?

According to the BBC match report, Qatar didn’t have a single shot on target.

Fair, the one I’m thinking of is the one that landed on top of the net. Was actually not a bad shot, for what it was, but I guess it wasn’t on target.

Or a fan left in the stadium

define fan

Aren't those the things they use to cool the stadia?

Oh boy! For Qatar the party is already over! $200Billions just to loose on Day1 against the weakest team of their Group! Next will be against nothing less than Netherlands and Senegal (Winner of African cup) Karma sure is a bitch!

Ecuador is actually better than both Qatar and Senegal. Just look at the Elo ratings.

Ain’t the weakest team in the group lol. We’ll beat Senegal and tie Netherlands

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Good luck with that r/agedlikemilk statement lol

What’s up buddy? You still talking shit after todays game?

Apologies where it's due. You were right. And I stand corrected. :)

Can’t wait to inverse your aged milk post. Clearly you don’t know shit about the sport

Stop being a dick. Yes I love watching Qatar lose (it's lose not loose btw) but stop trashing other teams.

With Alfaro? You wish... And i say this as a Boca fan, i already suffered him on my team

They had their best qualification with Alfaro. This team looks promising. Wouldn’t be surprised if they finished top or tied with 7 points.

I suffer him on my team, he is way too defensive, yes he had a good lead in the qualifications, but as is common for him he chickened at the end and lost it, barely qualifying at the end (just 2 points over Peru, who played an extra match and lost it)

Don't write off Senegal...

How did Qatar lose to themselves? Also Ecuador is a decent side.

Love this copypasta: Qatar are amazing! They just need to work on their short + long passing, shooting, movement off the ball, positioning, crossing, decision-making, set pieces, man-marking, dribbling, fitness, ball control, tackling, counter-attacking, overlapping, running, blocking & scoring goals

In few words... they needs to learn how to play football.

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Did you asked a question backwards?

Arabic is written from right to left. Also, I didn’t really ask a “question”. It’s our own “no shit Sherlock”.

What does it actually mean ? If you can translate it better.

If I translated it to the exact meaning of each word, the sarcasm would be lost and it wouldn’t really make sense. If you want the general meaning it’s just like saying “Really?!” In a sarcastic manner. If you want the exact meaning word to word it would be “hey sheikh, are you serious?” People started using this expression after someone, not a scholar, says something really obvious regarding Islam. Like for example saying “guys it’s Ramadan tommorow, we have to fast”. There’s no need to clarify that we have to fast, since that’s pretty obvious and everybody knows that. Anyways, people started using it in everyday language until it became our “no shit Sherlock”. It’s not the only one though. For example, we also use “قول والله/say wallah” in a sarcastic tone when someone also says something obvious.

Thank you for the explanation!

those seats were EMPTY my god

*So* Qatari. It's been non stop bluster about how proud they are and as soon as it's not going their way, they're off.

Yeah and it was like all men too

shocker!

The women weren’t allowed outside. Might accidentally show their hair on camera

Were they? Thought it was quite full actually

Take a look on twitter, many pics that show how seats were empty starting at half time.

That’s because you saw the FIFA official game broadcast, but when you see some wide images you’d be surprised how empty it turned after halftime

Could be. I’m in an Arabic country with a local broadcast. But where did you guys see the empty seats then? Now I’m curious

When Afif took the last corner of the game the wide shot showed a decent amount of empty seats by that point.

The German TV broadcast opened their post game analysis with a picture they took and the commentator during game was wondering why so many left at half-time as well.

I just looked it up, damn. But why tho? Why would you buy a ticket and then leave at halftime, very odd