Colombia or Brazil to host

up to now, Colombia and Brazil are the only candidates to host the WC in 1914. Brazil would be the only South American candidate with the support of the other SA federations, but Colombia decided to try.

unfortunatelly the only article I found was in Portuguese...

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/esporte/ult92u110950.shtml

Who will protect us in Columbia... the government or FARC.... or other militias....?

Yeah i wouldn't go to Columbia anyway. Hopefully it's Brazil

http://www.is-colombia-safe.com/

Snowbispo wrote:http://www.is-colombia-safe.com/

Don't worry about it, Wales will not be there

Snowbispo wrote:http://www.is-colombia-safe.com/

Well then I vote for Columbia.... It will be the end of English Hooliganism....

but also the end of Wayne Rooney....

Yup. We'll be too busy playing good football but losing, while England bore the masses playing Chelsea-football, minus the talent.


You're the Everton of the international scene, we're the Fulham.

It won't be in either Brazil or Colombia, probably end up in America or Canada unless one of them replace South Africa in 2010.

Snowbispo wrote:Yup. We'll be too busy playing good football but losing, while England bore the masses playing Chelsea-football, minus the talent.


You're the Everton of the international scene, we're the Fulham.

I won't be going to South Africa nor Colombia during the WCs.
The worldcup would be too much like blood atracting sharks for the easy kills.

It's true sadly Todo... A few months ago we got battered 5-1 by Slovenia, but we atleast managed to pass the ball along the floor.

Meanwhile England lumped the ball repeatedly from defence to attack - by passing an average midfield - only to get a 0-0 draw against Macedonia.

Neither are impressive, but atleast Wales are pretty

DD wrote:I won't be going to South Africa nor Colombia during the WCs.
The worldcup would be too much like blood atracting sharks for the easy kills.

Indeed.
Yep you keep getting beat 5-1 at home obispo, one day i hope england can reach such heights

Snowbispo wrote:Yup. We'll be too busy playing good football but losing, while England bore the masses playing Chelsea-football, minus the talent.


You're the Everton of the international scene, we're the Fulham.

Did you not watch Fulham last night?

Shit long ball stuff, but scraped a lucky win.

I've actually been to Colombia, and its nowhere near as bad (think Bagdad) or as safe as they'd like you to think.
There are opportunists and there are plenty of good people. As long as you don't flaunt your "foreign-ess" (because for most people = money); respect people (good luck with that in a WC ); and stay out of obvious louche and seedy places/situations you'll do alright and enjoy the country.

Brazil also can't host a WC.

todo wrote:up to now, Colombia and Brazil are the only candidates to host the WC in 1914. Brazil would be the only South American candidate with the support of the other SA federations, but Colombia decided to try.

unfortunatelly the only article I found was in Portuguese...

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/esporte/ult92u110950.shtml

I just read that Colombia wants to host WC 2014. One has to wonder how a country such as Colombia with 65%-70% of its population living in poverty can or would want to host a WC?

Colombia has more than enough problems to worry about before planning to host a WC. More power to Colombia if they can pull it off, but I think Brasil has WC 2014. Every South American country backs Brasil.

I don't think Brazil has the infrastructure to pull it off. And escalating crime scares the shit out of me. With civil war almost in the streets of Rio de Janeiro

Just seeing any Brazilian movie made in the past decade makes me piss my pants.

Your best bet would be Mexico

Its not an unknown fact that Mexico has put up the best WCs in history.

MexicanEnglishChristmas wrote:I don't think Brazil has the infrastructure to pull it off. And escalating crime scares the shit out of me. With civil war almost in the streets of Rio de Janeiro

Just seeing any Brazilian movie made in the past decade makes me piss my pants.

Your best bet would be Mexico

Its not an unknown fact that Mexico has put up the best WCs in history.

And there is no crime in Mexico, corrupt police etc.... ????

RicardolphTheRedNosedJol wrote:

MexicanEnglishChristmas wrote:I don't think Brazil has the infrastructure to pull it off. And escalating crime scares the shit out of me. With civil war almost in the streets of Rio de Janeiro

Just seeing any Brazilian movie made in the past decade makes me piss my pants.

Your best bet would be Mexico

Its not an unknown fact that Mexico has put up the best WCs in history.

And there is no crime in Mexico, corrupt police etc.... ????

Actually no, apart from drug people that shoot themselves there's nothing to worry about.

Just for example I live in the ghetto. And my family being part American make good money not great but we are in the middle class. We have more money than everyone else in the neighborhood I have a high end computer, PS2, Gamecube and I go to the best High School in Latin America one of the best in the world. Now let me tell you no one has ever robbed us

I can go get some tacos at 1 am in the morning not being worried one bit and you are talking about one of the worst neighborhoods in the city.

Imagine the same scenario in the US

I'd be dead in a minute!

Imagine the same scenario in Rio de Janeiro! I'd be kidnapped and my kidneys sold to the organs black market.

Food for thought

I'm brazilian. Please stop being agressive and don't talk about Brazil as if you know anything about it.

Sheva i though Higuain would never sign for RM

I didn't say that he would never sign for Madrid. I still don't think that AS and Marca aren't reliable sources. Maybe you also thought that Kaka' would become a Madrid player.

Seeing as you know quite a bit whats his best posiiton

Honestly I've watched Higuain playing once. I can't comment about him.

don't talk shite. I live in central São Paulo, which is much bigger than Rio. I have spent endless nights walking through the most obscure streets of downtown São Paulo. I never was robbed.

some people watch a film or 2 and think they know all.

MexicanEnglishChristmas wrote:

RicardolphTheRedNosedJol wrote:

MexicanEnglishChristmas wrote:I don't think Brazil has the infrastructure to pull it off. And escalating crime scares the shit out of me. With civil war almost in the streets of Rio de Janeiro

Just seeing any Brazilian movie made in the past decade makes me piss my pants.

Your best bet would be Mexico

Its not an unknown fact that Mexico has put up the best WCs in history.

And there is no crime in Mexico, corrupt police etc.... ????

Actually no, apart from drug people that shoot themselves there's nothing to worry about.

Just for example I live in the ghetto. And my family being part American make good money not great but we are in the middle class. We have more money than everyone else in the neighborhood I have a high end computer, PS2, Gamecube and I go to the best High School in Latin America one of the best in the world. Now let me tell you no one has ever robbed us

I can go get some tacos at 1 am in the morning not being worried one bit and you are talking about one of the worst neighborhoods in the city.

Imagine the same scenario in the US

I'd be dead in a minute!

Imagine the same scenario in Rio de Janeiro! I'd be kidnapped and my kidneys sold to the organs black market.

Food for thought

todo wrote:don't talk shite. I live in central São Paulo, which is much bigger than Rio. I have spent endless nights walking through the most obscure streets of downtown São Paulo. I never was robbed.

some people watch a film or 2 and think they know all.

MexicanEnglishChristmas wrote:

RicardolphTheRedNosedJol wrote:

MexicanEnglishChristmas wrote:I don't think Brazil has the infrastructure to pull it off. And escalating crime scares the shit out of me. With civil war almost in the streets of Rio de Janeiro

Just seeing any Brazilian movie made in the past decade makes me piss my pants.

Your best bet would be Mexico

Its not an unknown fact that Mexico has put up the best WCs in history.

And there is no crime in Mexico, corrupt police etc.... ????

Actually no, apart from drug people that shoot themselves there's nothing to worry about.

Just for example I live in the ghetto. And my family being part American make good money not great but we are in the middle class. We have more money than everyone else in the neighborhood I have a high end computer, PS2, Gamecube and I go to the best High School in Latin America one of the best in the world. Now let me tell you no one has ever robbed us

I can go get some tacos at 1 am in the morning not being worried one bit and you are talking about one of the worst neighborhoods in the city.

Imagine the same scenario in the US

I'd be dead in a minute!

Imagine the same scenario in Rio de Janeiro! I'd be kidnapped and my kidneys sold to the organs black market.

Food for thought

I know Sao Paolo is bigger but doesn't have nearly as much crime right?

Just say if a well to do family was living in one of those favelas they wouldn't last a second. Right?

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Brazil is a great country just has some rough spots like any other country in the world including Mexico.

That's what I said if I had the same situation living in the US I'd probably be dead by now.

That's the one saving grace from Mexico except the inept politicians and crazy radicals.

Sorry if I offended you guys =/

for people who live there it's quite safe. for outsiders, in fact, it's very dangerous. but no one needs to enter there.

I'm sure there are places in Mexico City where you would not be able to enter without taking a great risk.

MexicanEnglishChristmas wrote:Just say if a well to do family was living in one of those favelas they wouldn't last a second. Right?

Yeah Mexico city was really bad we used to live there. But they have made strides in the past years and now its actually nice to live there. The thing with Monterrey is that there's virtually no crime.

Where do you live in Sao Paolo?

I live in central São Paulo.

I always had a feeling Mexico City might be similar to São Paulo in many ways.

MexicanEnglishChristmas wrote:Yeah Mexico city was really bad we used to live there. But they have made strides in the past years and now its actually nice to live there. The thing with Monterrey is that there's virtually no crime.

Where do you live in Sao Paolo?