Ahead of the 2014 World Cup, the biggest disruptions in Brazil were the street demonstrations by more than a million people who raged against bus fare hikes, corruption, inequality, forced relocations, wasteful spending on stadiums and inadequate investments in public health and education.
Behind the red-top plot of a partner sliding across the England defence like Jabulani, the official World Cup ball, is severe disruption to England's preparations.
The views of members and local residents will need to be taken into consideration, as a Davis Cup tie would cause disruption.
The English Premier League, Spain's La Liga and the German Bundesliga think a May World Cup will cause the least disruption as Fifa attempts to find an alternative date to June and July.
But with the campaign proper yet to start, the situation could change rapidly if inflation creeps higher, the economy slows or the World Cup is marred by protests and disruption.
Yet, with the memory of almost a million visitors to the 2006 World Cup still fresh, Berlin took this latest disruption more or less in stride, closing off entire avenues and diverting traffic around the park.
The ECA, which represents 214 of the continent's biggest teams, believes this approach, which could also affect domestic cup competitions in France and Spain, offers the least disruption.
They said they were being "being treated like rubbish" and even threatened to cause further disruptions during the football World Cup finals, due to start on 12 June.
The whisper is that the ever-generous Qataris may compensate European football leagues for the disruption to their timetables if the cup were switched to the winter.
Clubs were demanding compensation because of the disruption caused by the 2015 World Cup in England.
He writes that the "belief that the lion's share of Cup expenditures are for foreign consumption, while the disruption and pain will be shouldered by Brazil's masses, is widespread".
