World Cup in exchange for construction rights

Let's write another sports article for 12punto.

Otherwise, constant politics and political discourse are becoming tiresome.

We hit a wall at the World Cup. While even countries whose names we've never heard of are making a name for themselves, Turkey wrote a very poor story.

Poor Ghana, despite being denied a penalty, did not lose to the Queen's team.

They played head-to-head and gave the English a hard time.

Though it wasn't easy to distinguish the English team from the Ghanaian team.

The colors were all dark.

There is almost nothing positive to say on behalf of Turkey.

They are chasing a story about a watch, hoping perhaps the Paraguay match will be replayed.

Even if it were replayed, is there any guarantee we wouldn't concede five goals?

Well, that's all the story you can write with a contractor's mentality.

If you build a national team using the same strategy as your construction projects—in exchange for construction rights—you'll end up with zero at the World Cup.

As you know, uneducated contractors carry out construction projects using promises and by utilizing the capital and labor of their subcontractors.

They try to set up plays in their flashy, expensive suits, wearing market-bought, buy-one-get-one-free underwear and pointy, shiny, knock-off Italian shoes made in a basement workshop.

Since they don't have a penny in their pockets, they complete their projects by distributing the work to subcontractors in exchange for apartments.

A barter model, if you catch my drift.

Five apartments to the landowner, three to the concrete supplier, four to the ironworker, two to the formwork carpenter, one to the elevator installer, a second-hand 'Doğan-looking-like-Şahin' car to the tiler, leftover frozen paint from the warehouse to the painter, two plots of hazelnut groves from the village to the plumber, three rows of tea gardens to the screed worker—and just like that, the project is finished.

It is clear that this barter strategy for construction rights was expected to work at the World Cup as well, given that villas were promised to the players.

In other words, the World Cup was bartered for villas.

One villa for the first round, two villas for the quarterfinals, an SUV for the semifinals, and permits for four villas for the final.