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High altitude ban on international football matches?
Last weekend FIFA announced that no international matches will be played at an altitude of 2,500m or more. There has never been a death associated with sports and high altitudes, but still parts of countries like Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Eduador, Mexico and Chile will be forced to play in different venues. La Paz, capital of Bolivia, is over 3,600m.
If I were to agree with this, then a country from the caribbean cannot be expected to go and play against Switzerland in the European country, because in the caribbean it never snows nor there is winter. The same can be said for the Swiss coming to, let's say Jamaica, how can they be expected to play in such a hot enviorment, when they are used to a much colder one? And how about Iceland? Egypt? What do you think, is it fair?
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- Sergio__Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
This is just a whole bunch of political BS. This new rule applies directly to the Andean countries and it's has obviously been supported by the other South American countries for their own advantage.
This rule was approved even though a real medical wasn't made. All the South American teams have played in Bolivia capital's stadium and nobody has ever died there.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
FIFA decided it because the countries that have high altitude have no political power. If it was Brazil or Italy, high altitude would never be banned. FIFA wants to forbid countries to play in their main cities, it's like forbidding England to play in London or France to play in Paris. La Paz is the capital of Bolivia, Quito (2.800m) is the capital of Ecuador, Bogotá (2.600m) is the capital of Colombia. If an Olympic Games were held in Mexico City that is at 2.300m of altitude, why can't a football match be played in La Paz?
Not to mention the football clubs that will be obliged to play outside their city in the South American club competitions.
- ToshLv 51 decade ago
I can understand Switzerland to some extent. But I really don't see how Iceland or Egypt have a big advantage? Players can stand heat a lot more than high altitude.
- Anonymous4 years ago
Oh - right here we circulate returned...the large stated...."Italians have been getting away with it for years". I stay in Italy - artwork in uk and am British (a protracted time era commuter) and that i'm a soccer fan. The blue and yellows = Parma. The Italians do no longer wreck out with it. the secure practices is a techniques tighter than in uk. followers are bussed from the stations - roads are closed....while Rome includes city....different communities do no longer reason lots worry. Its no longer the Italians - its the Roma followers and the Roma FC that want censure. soccer in Italy is interior the main significant a family contributors affair. Like in each u . s . a . there are continuously the troublemakers, yet those are followers - and hooligans - no longer bloody fundamentalist terrorists.
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- 1 decade ago
yes i think its fair because they have to travel to different countries to play them.If not no one would play countries from different places to get to the world cup
