Well, looks like Russia will be hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2018 and Qatar in 2022. On one hand I can see why FIFA chose these two countries, mainly in the sense to try and expand the reach of soccer (football, futbol, etc..- I'm an American, I call it soccer) to new areas, which is a good thing. However, if FIFA wanted to clean up financially, they would have picked the US or another "western" nation in the running. I'm not too disappointed, as I'm not exactly the biggest soccer fan out there (I was more disappointed over the Olympics snub visa vi Chicago), but I'm sure many others are.
Any thoughts?
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