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AFL concedes season could be lost to soccer World Cup

Authored by: Jake Anson
on Tuesday, December 08 2009 @ 04:56 am ACDT

The thing I find amazing - even more so because it's not being discussed in the media - is that soccer isn't being asked to contribute anything to host the World Cup. Rival codes are being asked to suspend or cancel their seasons and the Federal and State governments are being asked to foot the very hefty infrastructure bill. The Federal government are even underwriting the bid process.

The profit from the World Cup goes to FIFA, so any financial benefit to Australia comes in the form of tourism and exposure, which is difficult to account for and nearly impossible for governments to leverage to finance infrastructure projects (ahead of time) or pay compensation to those affected by the tournament. Why don't the FFA or FIFA have to contribute anything to an event that only they stand to benefit from?

AFL concedes season could be lost to soccer World Cup

Authored by: Joel Adin Porretta
on Tuesday, December 08 2009 @ 09:47 am ACDT

That's actually very interesting. Mainly because is makes me laugh at what FFA is expecting from the AFL and maybe even NRL and not giving anything back. And on top of that the're trying (and failing to) get the State and Federal Government to kick Football out of the MCG. It's comletly laughable.

Soccer matches are already played at the G so if FFA keep going about things the way they have been, the AFL should let them know where they stand and ban soccer from the MCG altogether.

Aussie Rules Football is the number one code here in Australia. It was invented here, it was here before soccer started altogether AND it was the first code of Football to be called Football in Australia, so I highly doubt that any Aussie Rules fan that dosn't follow soccer will support the bid especially after the way the FFA is going about it.

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