Soccer Thread

[Person]

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]

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]

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

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

 

I think that the whole S-american crap 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.

[Friðbjörn]

wow...this is stuff you never hear about in europe...Chivas beating Boca etc

[Person]

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.

 

 

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]

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]

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

 

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]

good team indeed

 

thanks lol now I know all about the mexican league

 

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

[Person]

yup... they get A WHOLE BUNCH

 

their "best" goals from this past season

 

will get more as soon as I can find them lol

[Person]

Chivas vs Atlante (this season) 3 - 1

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00oBMXcxLCg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZZzDDkCGbs

[HaziLPTonz]

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 shit 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 fucking 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

[Person]

28/03/07 Grp B Italy 20:50 Scotland

28/03/07 Grp E Andorra 21:00 England

 

*shrugs*

for other games and scores, go here:

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/fixturesresults/index.html

[Friðbjörn]

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]

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

[Person]

International Friendlies

 

USA 0 - 0 Guatemala

 

--------------------------------

 

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]

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 snatch the win

[GraDoN]

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

SA 3 - 0 Tsjad

SA 0 - 1 Bolivia

[littleblackstone]

I support FC Porto, the great team of my hometown, the best in Portugal 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

[littleblackstone]

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 FUCKIN' KICK ASSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HaziLPTonz]

that was a few days ago, they drew 1-1 with serbia today

 

italy beat scotland 2-0,decent game,lacked a lil intensity,but italy were well deserved winners,close group now with scotland,france and ukraine all tied and italy only agame behind now

 

england cruised past andorra, who i reckon put up one of the most disgraceful displays of football iv ever seen, no flair,got dominated,resorted to dirty tactics,diving left right and centre, i mean if u watch wayne rooney, all u could see was ppl running across and grabbing him or giving him a mouthful,they seemed more intent on getting rooney booked than they were playing football

 

champions league returns very soon, im psyched,first leg is gonna be brilliant and tense affairs

[Friðbjörn]

lol what did you expect...this is after all andorra...they're a nation of 70.000 people...

[Person]

heh!

Mexico isn't my home country... I just follow their league

(and their country squad).

Anywho, Spain seemed sorta jittery... they obviously got lucky xD

[Friðbjörn]

ahh lol sorry for the assumption

 

yeah they were anxious to win the match, spain

[Person]

lol its ok fribbs

im "le estupide americain" >.>

 

uhh...

GO MEXICO!

[HaziLPTonz]

dont like the american league at all

 

dont like the american team at all

 

they have a few decent players...theyre so overly hyped and their ranking doesnt make any sense at all....fifa are shameful for their stupid rankings system..TT

 

least its not as bad as the ICC...fken take clips off youtube of the WC

 

anyways,champs league restars this league,w00t! no more exams, im free to skip school and stay home to watch