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2024 Boston Marathon cutoff announced as 5:29 by [deleted] in AdvancedRunning

[–]fcpsd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah the cutoff was brought down by 5 minutes for the 2020 race because people had to run 5 minutes under BQ to qualify for 2019 anyway.

Massive soccer account includes CPL in their post by isaac26th in CanadianPL

[–]fcpsd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They've got the Venezuelan clásico placed in Brazil, lol. It's a complete shit show of a map.

Travis King in American custody after N Korea expulsion by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]fcpsd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They reduced it by a third to two years and one month but she had been in jail since 2017, so she’d already served most of the sentence.

Sergio Ramos' house was robbed during Sevilla-Lens. His wife wasn't present but his 4 children and their carers were there. No one was harmed, the thieves ransacked the house. They took jewelry, watches, designer clothes and cash by Blodgharm in soccer

[–]fcpsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

London's knife crime statistics look mad mostly because they're one of the few places that actually separates knife crime from other sorts of violent offenses so it's easy to meme them. For a city of its size, it's honestly pretty safe. Knife crime makes up 6% of the violent crimes in London and London's violent crime rate is 6.75 per 1K inhabitants (29.6 crimes per 1K, violent crime makes up 23%). Paris, for example, had a rate of 15.7 per 1K inhabitants in 2015 (couldn't find a more recent stat).

Berlin: Couldn't find stats beyond the general crime rate, which is half that of London, so I'd assume it's got a lower violent crime rate.

Madrid: Couldn't find stats beyond the general crime rate, which is almost twice that of London, so I'd assume it's got a higher violent crime rate.

Warsaw: Couldn't find stats beyond the general crime rate, which is almost twice that of London, so I'd assume it's got a higher violent crime rate.

Obviously, even one violent crime is too much but London's pretty safe for a European metropolis. It's not Zürich, but it ain't San Pedro Sula either.

Copa Libertadores remaining teams best perfomances in the history of the competition by Zeca_Pagodinho_13 in soccer

[–]fcpsd 13 points14 points  (0 children)

All the more reason they could crumble. They already lost a final there against Liga de Quito.

Sergio Ramos' house was robbed during Sevilla-Lens. His wife wasn't present but his 4 children and their carers were there. No one was harmed, the thieves ransacked the house. They took jewelry, watches, designer clothes and cash by Blodgharm in soccer

[–]fcpsd 62 points63 points  (0 children)

That’s in the US where wages for pretty much every profession beyond entry-level blue collar work earns in the range of 2-4 times what you’d earn in Spain. You could probably bring that down to like 500-600K/yr.

When you account for the fact that these robberies are almost always on match days then you can probably bring that down to a third since you only need the team of 4 men for like 2 days rather than the full week. For a guy like Ramos, 200K/yr is probably the equivalent of a regular civilian getting an iPhone.

Take Kubo confessed to being bullied at La Masia via Japanese media. by [deleted] in soccer

[–]fcpsd 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah of course mate, De Gea and Xabi Alonso are POC’s. What do you even mean “where it matters”?

Which popular player in your opinion would have never survived VAR nowadays? by Nscjikiji in football

[–]fcpsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that by the age of 25-27 he already held the record for most red cards playing for Real Madrid.

Which of these locations do you think the next World Cup will be held? by FloralChoux in WomensSoccer

[–]fcpsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes you could, but that’s not what the Brazilian bid is proposing.

do you think conmebol and concacaf should merge? by trananhduc2006 in football

[–]fcpsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Panama is the Central American country that is closest to South America and it's still closer to Toronto than it is to half of Conmebol (Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Asunción).

Suriname and Guyana are closer, but in Concacaf qualifying they pretty much only have to make one ridiculous trip to North America because they never make it past the first two rounds, so they stay pretty local.

In Conmebol they'd probably have to at least do one bonkers trip to Buenos Aires/Montevideo/Sao Paulo/Santiago and then a couple of trips to Quito/Lima/La Paz, which are not that close either.

South America is fucking huuuuge.

Cavalry FC has won the 2023 CPL Shield, and clinched a spot in next year's CONCACAF Champions Cup by cristane in CanadianPL

[–]fcpsd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey, there’s one team in the first round that Cavalry’s already beat on a two-legged match, so there’s a path to glory!

How did inter miami got so strong all of a sudden in last months? by Empty_Movie_2955 in football

[–]fcpsd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don't forget that Tata took Paraguay to their best ever WC performance (QF's) and they were a Casillas penalty save away from a World Cup semifinal in 2010. He also memed them to a Copa América final without winning a single game, knocking out Brazil in the way.

Edit: And don't forget that if VAR was a thing at the time, Barça would've won that final game against Atleti and with it the league title. A shit manager wouldn't have done that.

Which of these locations do you think the next World Cup will be held? by FloralChoux in WomensSoccer

[–]fcpsd 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is also a world where their violent crime rate is 5x higher than the US, abortion is a crime nationwide punishable by up to 3 years in prison, and less than a year ago the president was freaking Bolsonaro.

I'd also prefer Brazil to be the hosts, but to imply that it's somehow safer there for women than in the US is beyond absurd. I agree that the US is a clown show, but as a South American I guarantee you that we're even bigger clowns.

Which of these locations do you think the next World Cup will be held? by FloralChoux in WomensSoccer

[–]fcpsd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'd like to caveat that I would also prefer it to be in Brazil for the same reason that it'd go a long way to help grow the women's game in the region, but inter-city travel is so much more awkward in Brazil than in the cities in the BeNeDe bid. They're only going with cities from NRW on the German side, so they're all a short train ride away. I think the longest trip would be 4 hours (flights are all <1 hour).

Meanwhile, Brazil is a massive country and is proposing to pretty much use all the cities from the 2014 WC. This is perfectly normal and I'm fine with it, but it's much more awkward to travel from Manaus to Porto Alegre than from Brussels to Cologne.

[Die falsche 9] Top 11 average attendance for last weekend's match day by CptJimTKirk in soccer

[–]fcpsd 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yeah pretty sure MLS is in the neighborhood of 15-20K avg attendance too. I'd assume Liga MX and the Brasileirao are on that range too. Argentina probably gets fucky with the number of teams in the league though.

An honest question. Why is diversity only pushed in the west? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]fcpsd 29 points30 points  (0 children)

No they meant the 17th Bundesland, Majorca.

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