World Cup (2018) - Group A (Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uruguay)

I've heard of throwing games because of the opponent...tbh sometimes that makes sense.

Never heard of a team throwing a game for better weather.

Seems like a bit of a stretch

Babun wrote:

Nishankly wrote:WTF is going on here.

Australia and Saudi Arabia are part of the AFC FIFA Qualifiers, So they represent Asia in the World Cup.

I explained it and still y'all spiraling.
New Zealand is still in OFC (Oceania Football Confederation had Australia till 2006).

Can't believe bandwagoners here don't even know their World Cup basics 3rd week into the tournament, explaining Geography, Race and politics to GLAsia.
Exactly why we need bigger teams to get f*cked this WC.

It was directed at Arte Morte and the made up name "middle east" which doesn't make any sense. East of what? Middle of which East? Hilarious, those Americans, but makes sense though, they live on another continent.
Middle East= West Asia, Australia belongs to Oceania, only reason they are allowed to participate among Asians is because the competition looks more than sad down there

If I'm not wrong, the term Middle-East (as well as Far East) was coined by the British in early 19th century.

Babun wrote:

Nishankly wrote:WTF is going on here.

Australia and Saudi Arabia are part of the AFC FIFA Qualifiers, So they represent Asia in the World Cup.

I explained it and still y'all spiraling.
New Zealand is still in OFC (Oceania Football Confederation had Australia till 2006).

Can't believe bandwagoners here don't even know their World Cup basics 3rd week into the tournament, explaining Geography, Race and politics to GLAsia.
Exactly why we need bigger teams to get f*cked this WC.

It was directed at Arte Morte and the made up name "middle east" which doesn't make any sense. East of what? Middle of which East? Hilarious, those Americans, but makes sense though, they live on another continent.
Middle East= West Asia, Australia belongs to Oceania, only reason they are allowed to participate among Asians is because the competition looks more than sad down there

babun pls read a wiki article once in a while

Originally the ME was the Near East and East Asia was the Farther East. Over time by 1900 Near East came to include the Balkans due to their association with the Ottoman Empire, so a new word was needed to address just the East of the Bible (Levant region) to a British public, so it became Middle East. When you ask "middle of what" it's the middle between the Balkans and East Asia.

Has nothing to do with the US. The word keeps evolving and now its come to also comprise north Africa.