Originally Posted by ianlawn:
“Local time games kicked off 1pm, 4pm and 6pm/7pm with 1 10pm game. Korea/Japan was 3:30pm-8:30pm. Ideal times and the ones europe does is 2pm, 5pm, 8pm.
Im not quite sure but i think all venues are +3 except 1 is +4 and 1 is +6.
It should be 11am/2pm/5pm, I think the best it could be for europe would be 12pm/3pm/6pm
I dont think they cater to europe enough to have 10pm games”
Yes, but the likes of German, British, Italian and Spanish TV are paying an absolute fortune to FIFA to show the games. Let's say Germany and Spain meet in the knockout rounds....it would make no sense to stage that match at 8pm local time just because it suits Russian TV viewers : in fact the Russian audience would only have an academic interest in the match.
Maybe they could arrange for Russia to play all it's matches at 8pm local time, nobody would have a problem with that.