Soccer Thread

HaziLPTonz

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i thought that made perfect sense, england arent on a slump simply because they havnt shown any good enough form to suggest theyve played any better than they did against israel, basically that was england on form, thats as good as its gonna get,slump woulda been they played worse than usual. when you've been out of form and struggling for as long as england have, slump just doesnt stretch far enough to cover what england are in. slump is seen as something of a short term thing,england arent in a slump,theyve been playing like this since.....WELL before the world cup of 06

england have a chance to redeem themselves tmoro against very lowly andorra, should be a cracker of a match, and hopefully scotland will snuff the lights outta italy the day after

argentina and uruguay are heading downunder in the next few months, is anyone going to any of the matches? i

ronaldinho scored his first goals since confed cup 05, nice freekick and a spotkick(?), c.ronaldo scored a double for portugal. alot of euro teams are kickin into gear, and alot are stumbling. italy,england,spain are in real danger atm

come june we re gonna possibly see alot of transfers, hold on to your hats, you're gonna see enough "reported" zeros to make your head spin

 

Person

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Hmm... I have one question.

As a soccer fan, I fail to see why so little Mexicans play for major European leagues.

Rafael Marquez(Barca), Ricardo Osorio (Stuttgart), Pavel Pardo (Stuttgart), Carlos Salcido (PSV)

Carlos Vela (Salamanca [on loan from Arsenal]), Giovanni Dos Santos (Barca B), Aaron Galindo (Grasshoppers) + other sub 17 champions scattered.

>.< Our core of European players is the defense...

hopefully some new players get transfered =/

 

Friðbjörn

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tough question...

Mexico's got a good national team, but I don't think it has the same reputation as like S-American countries for producing good players

maybe the mexican league is good enough for them not to want to join european clubs...I dunno, you tell me

 

Person

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Well... they pay a lot. That's a good incentive.

But most of them (****... all of them) want to go play in Europe.

I think that the whole S-american **** is a bunch of bullshit.

We have proven it in the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana (which Mexican teams are invited to). One team just won the Sudamericana.

For the libertadores, we've reached between the quarterfinals to the finals themselves.

Chivas (Mexican team) is number 41 (went from 29 to 41 =/) in the world. They are above numerous southamerican teams (including Boca Juniors).

Chivas beat Boca 4 - 0 in the Libertadores in the quarterfinals... that's proof enough that they're to their level.

 

Person

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lol I'll link you to a video of the goals...

the resolution is pretty crappy but you can still sorta see the 4 goals.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PJv3gDsqktU?feature=oembed
aside from this, Chivas played vs. Sao Paulo in the group stage of the libertadores last year. Both of the games were won by Chivas 2 - 1.

They would then lose against Sao Paulo in the semi-finals since most of the starters were called up by the mexico coach. *shrugs*

 

Friðbjörn

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GAHHH youtube sucks lol

gotta love latino soccer commentators though haha

nice goals from what I could see

and chivas seems to be a really good team

 

Person

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yeh... they're the current champions of the Mexican League.

3rd in the league table.

2nd in their group.

Well... in Mexico, they play in groups. Each group has 6 teams. 18 teams in total.

The first and second place of each group go on to "la liguilla (the playoffs)."

The best 2 best 3rd places then go on as well.

Through the playoffs, we get our champion =O

About the latino commentators... they give more passion to the goal celebration.

If you're interested, I could get you some more vids on Chivas :D

hmm... what else...

Oh! They're currently the only team in the world who plays with a squad full of mexicans.

They have never fielded players from outside the country (which is a cool concept most teams should be following).

 

Friðbjörn

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good team indeed

thanks lol now I know all about the mexican league :p

ahh...doesn't the mexican league get a lot of players from s-america?

 

HaziLPTonz

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i think there lies ur problem then, alot of players playing in the mexican league are south american =/

although its great to see that local players are off in europe....i would rather my national heroes staying to develop our own league, like the A-league, we re slowly making it into something much bigger than the old NSL a few years ago with the marquee player system and us venturing into asia, so although it does **** you good players arent in europe, it is good that theyre still at home helping develop the local leagues so that for the future, one day our leagues maybe as good as europe ad internationals will want to come to mexico...australia etc to play rather than for a holiday

i got my date wrong on the computer....when is the euro qualifiers? cause my tv guide doesnt have em in, i know SBS are showing it live, but i cant seem to find the date theyre playing(england andorra,scotland italy)

someone help me out?

can i just say, futsol is ******* awesome, the games are so technically brilliant and fast paced. alot of magic happens on those courts, hopefully one day futsol can be as big as soccer is now, players like ronaldinho and such developed their talens in futsol before playing soccer

 

Friðbjörn

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nice vids

and yeah the matches are tomorrow in europe but I don't know with the timezones what time/day that might be in australia...might be the same day just late, or the next day

 

HaziLPTonz

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all i know is that apparenlty SBS,our broadcaster is showing the england-andorra game then the italy-scotland game, stupid tv guide...>_>
 

Person

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International Friendlies

USA 0 - 0 Guatemala

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Mexico 4 - 2 Ecuador

Goals:

1-0 Juan Francisco Palencia (1') MEX


1-1
Carlos Tenorio (43') ECU


1-2
Geovanni Espinoza(56') ECU

2-2 Rafael Márquez (73' free kick) MEX

3-2 Omar Bravo (84') (assist by Adolfo Bautista) MEX


4-2
Adolfo Bautista (87') (assist by Omar Bravo) MEX

 

Friðbjörn

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if it home country report time then,

Spain - Iceland 1-0

in the most wet match I have ever watched I think...and I thought it didn't rain like that on Mallorca lol

*1-0 Iniesta '80

we were so close to the draw...>.>

anyway well done by Mexico to ****** the win

 

GraDoN

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not that anybody cares (i dont lol) but SA played Tsjad and Bolivia

SA 3 - 0 Tsjad

SA 0 - 1 Bolivia

 
I support FC Porto, the great team of my hometown, the best in Portugal :p and one of the best in the world.
TOTALLY AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Little bitof Portuguese:

Futebol Clube do Porto é o melhor do mundo!!!!!!!!!!!

(F. C. Porto is the best of the world!!!!!!!!!!)

:D :D :D :D

 
EUROCUP 2008 QUALIFYING ROUND 


Group A


Poland 5 - 0 Azerbaijan



Kazakhstan 2 - 1 Serbia



Portugal 4 - 0 Belgium

 


Group B



Scotland 2 - 1 Georgia



Faroe Islands 0 - 2 Ukraine



Lithuania 0 - 1 France


 


Group C



Moldova 1 - 1 Malta



Norway 1 - 2 Bosnia-Herzegovina



Greece 1 - 4 Turkey


 


Group D



Republic of Ireland 1 - 0 Wales



Cyprus 1 - 3 Slovakia



Czech Republic 1 - 2 Germany


 


Group E



Croatia 2 - 1 F.Y.R. Macedonia



Israel 0 - 0 England



Estonia 0 - 2 Russia


 


Group F



Liechtenstein 1 - 4 Northern Ireland



Spain 2 - 1 Denmark



WE ******' KICK ASSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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