[OlympicsFan 791]

vor 5 Stunden schrieb kungshamra71:

Ok, I'm portuguese, but this is really funny!!! Hahaha!! (This is not a laugh, it's an evil laugh!! )

 

 

P.S- I would love to win the Euro with only draws!! (though I think even if we beat Wales we'll be crushed by the Germans )

We wont reach the final, we will miss Hummels, Khedira, Schweinsteiger, Gomez + Gündogan/Reus/Lahm in the semifinal, France will beat us, but i think you will have a Chance against France. I will cheer for you, because of Renato Sanches.

I am glad that we finally won against Italy and that we have such a good record at Major tournaments:

2002: Final

2006: Semfinal

2008: Final

2010: Semifinal

2012: Semifinal

2014: Winner

2016: Semifinal

In 2018 we will hopefully defend our title with Neuer, Boateng, Hummels, Kimmich, Gündogan, Kroos, Weigl, Dahoud, Müller, Götze, Draxler, Reus, Sane and so on.

[OlympicsFan 791]

vor 2 Minuten schrieb bestmen:

 

frANce the "an" is in the third position

Germany VS Iceland  the "an" is in the 5th position  for each one + 7 letters 

And if Italy wouldve won today?

I-taly/I-celand or It-a-ly/Fr-a-nce?

[OlympicsFan 791]

I have to say sorry to Löw, although his idea to Change our complete System was obviously shit and he shouldve subbed Sane in during extra time. I think Boateng was actually the one who was paid by italian Mafia, there is no other Explanation why he suddenly lost his mind and caused one of the most stupid penalties ever. In the end we deserved the victory, we completely controlled Italy in the second half and wouldve won in regular time without Boateng. Sadly Hummels will miss the next match thanks to 2 ridiculous yellow Cards against Slovakia and Italy today. Khedira and Gomez also might miss the next match due to injuries.

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vor 2 Minuten schrieb bestmen:

the prophecy says that iceland is the winner tomorrow , you see why:

Germany VS Iceland

What about FrANce?

[OlympicsFan 791]

Haha, Löw is the biggest joke in the history of Football. Again he completely changed our Team for the match against Italy, he is obviously paid by italian Mafia, i hope he gets fired tomorrow and will never again get a new Job.

[OlympicsFan 791]

We will see. I think that brazilian clubs wouldnt stand a chance against top european clubs and tactically the brazilian league is much worse than the top european leagues, all half decent brazilian players are transferred to european clubs at a young age. Neymar is their only world class player and we will see if he is able to stand the pressure this time. Germany doesnt really seem to care about this competition, so i would like to see Portugal (if Renato Sanches will be nominated) or Brazil (they deserve it after the nightmare they had in 2014 and because they are the hosts) to take away the gold medal.

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vor 4 Minuten schrieb bestmen:

Germany is waiting them in semi

We first have to make it out of the group, which will be difficult enough. South Korea and Mexico both could very well beat us. I think with our best possible team we wouldve been the favorite for gold, but without players like Sane, Kimmich, Weigl, Rüdiger or Tah i dont see any chance that we will play for gold.

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vor 1 Stunde schrieb LDOG:

Brazil Men's Team

 

Goalkeepers: Uilson (Atlético Mineiro/BRA), Fernando Prass* (Palmeiras/BRA)

 

Defenders: Rodrigo Caio (Sao Paulo/BRA), Luan (Vasco da Gama/BRA), Marquinhos (PSG/FRA), Douglas Santos (Atlético Mineiro/BRA), William (Internacional/BRA), Zeca (Santos/BRA)

 

Midfielders: Rafinha (Barcelona/ESP), Rodrigo Dourado (Internacional/BRA), Fred (Shakhtar Donetsk/UKR), Thiago Maia (Santos/BRA), Felipe Anderson (Lazio/ITA)

 

Forwards: Neymar* (Barcelona/ESP), Douglas Costa* (Bayern Múnich/GER), Gabriel Jesús (Palmeiras/BRA), Gabriel (Santos/BRA), Luan (Gremio/BRA)

 

*Overage players

Really? Except for Marquinhos, Neymar, Douglas Costa and maybe Gabriel Jesus this team is pretty average. Fred, Anderson and Rafinha are also decent players, but nothing really special. Their defenders/midfielders/goalkeepers are pretty underwhelming in my opinion. I think Neymar will have to win the gold medal on his own. Costa was really bad for Bayern in the last couple of months and Jesus didnt show anything at top level so far. I think this team is clearly worse than the one they had in 2012. Portugal/Germany/Argentina could have a much better team on paper, but they probably wont compete with their best team. Lets wait for the other teams first before we hand the gold to Brazil. Germany will miss Sane, Kimmich, Weigl, Tah, Rüdiger and we probably wont nominate players like Gündogan or Reus, so we probably wont fight for the gold, but Argentina and Portugal could send really great teams to Rio.

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No, thanks to the stupid referee who didnt see that the croatian goalkeeper left the line way to early and was almost standing right in front of Ramos when he shot. Its crazy that the penalty wasnt repeated. At least croatian fans were able to control themselves this time, sadly UEFA didnt exclude the croatian team after the match against the Czech Republic.

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Thanks to the stupid referee in the match Spain vs. Croatia we will probably have a very boring final, with only one out of Spain/France/Italy/Germany/England in it. I wanted the most difficult possible draw for our team, which is now impossible and i dont even want to imagine a final against teams like Croatia or Belgium. UEFA will hopefully end this bullshit with 24 teams. We play 2 years of qualification just to eliminate about a dozen teams and then we have about 2 weeks of group stage just to eliminate 8 teams. Our first 4 games are (probably) against Ukraine, Poland, Northern Ireland and Slovakia, what the f**k is that!

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vor 23 Stunden schrieb Federer91:

I think before the next match, it is time to say that old football joke:

 

They've asked the Emperor of Austria what he thinks about the Austria - Hungary match.

And Franz Joseph says: "Who are we playing against?"

 

Joke aside, i didn't know that this is the second longest national football rivalry in history. They have played 137 matches, only less than Argentina - Uruguay matches. 

Good joke!

Its very sad that Austria-Hungary doesnt exist anymore, i think they would be a (football) superpower now. Austria was probably the best nation around 1930 and Hungary was almost unbeatable around WW2. Austria-Hungary produced many great minds, i think the world would be a much better place now if Austria-Hungary would still exist in the state of about 1900. Probably no other country ever produced so many great minds compared to the size of population.

[OlympicsFan 791]

vor 29 Minuten schrieb Gianlu33:

Euro2016 Goalscores after 13 Matches

 

1.  Luca Modríc - 1

1.  Eric Dier - 1

1.  Oliver Giroud - 1

1.  Dimitri Payet - 1

1.  Shkodran Mustafi - 1

1.  Bastian Schewinsteiger - 1

1.  Àdam Szalai - 1

1.  Zótlan Stieber - 1

1.  Birkir Bjarnason - 1

1.  Wes Hoolahan - 1

1.  Emanuele Giaccherini - 1

1.  Graziano Pellé - 1

1.  Arkadiusz Milik - 1

1.  Nani - 1

1.  Bodgan Stancu - 1

1.  Vasili Berezutaki - 1

1.  Denis Glushakov - 1

1.  Ondrej Duda - 1

1.  Marek Hamsik - 1

1.  Vladimir Weiss - 1

1.  Gérard Piqué - 1

1.  Fabian Schär - 1

1.  Gareth Bale - 1

1.  Hal Robson-Kanu - 1

I think its not Schewinsteiger and Berezutaki.

[OlympicsFan 791]

On the one hand the tournament so far is pretty boring (few goals), on the other hand almost all matches are close and teams like Hungary, Wales or Iceland are doing a great job so far. Italy and Spain impressed me most so far, Belgium has been very disappointing, Croatia also was very impressive. I think the title should be between Spain, Italy and France, there is no chance that we will beat Italy in the quarterfinal, so we have to hope that we wont win our group to avoid Italy. Italy had the oldest starting XI in the history of european championships in their match against Belgium, Germany on the other hand is the youngest and most valuable team of the tournament.

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Very sad news from Germany. No Reus!, Bellarabi, Rudy and Brandt at the european championships. Our team will be:

Neuer, Ter Stegen, Leno

Hummels, Höwedes, Boateng, Rüdiger, Mustafi, Hector, Can

Schweinsteiger, Kroos, Khedira, Özil, Kimmich, Weigl, Draxler, Podolski, Müller, Sane, Schürrle, Götze

Gomez

 

This is also very bad for our chances in Rio. Weigl, Kimmich, Rüdiger, Can, Draxler and Sane wouldve been very important for us.

[OlympicsFan 791]

Very sad news from Germany. No Reus!, Bellarabi, Rudy and Brandt at the european championships. Our team will be:

Neuer, Ter Stegen, Leno

Hummels, Höwedes, Boateng, Rüdiger, Mustafi, Hector, Can

Schweinsteiger, Kroos, Khedira, Özil, Kimmich, Weigl, Draxler, Podolski, Müller, Sane, Schürrle, Götze

Gomez

 

This is also very bad for our chances in Rio. Weigl, Kimmich, Rüdiger, Can, Draxler and Sane wouldve been very important for us.

[OlympicsFan 791]

3 minutes ago, LDOG said:

 

Sorry If I seemed aggresive.

Yes, Messi is an unrealistic pick. There is no way a club like Barcelona will release their star player for TWO summer tournaments. Much less if one of them isn't in the FIFA calendar. (anyway in his case doesn't matter because the coach already confirmed he won't play the olympics).

It was just the "give me right now ..." part that "sounded" pretty aggressive to me. I think i know enough about you to say that you are not an aggressive person in general.

I didnt know that Messi wont play for Argentina, very sad news. It would be cool if Neymar/Ibra/Ronaldo would play in Rio, do you know anything about their "plans" for Rio?

 

Just come back in about an hour, then you can read my list, but i wont only write 18 names. I will write more names and if 18 of them will play in Rio for us, then it will be completely fine for me.

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1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

The main issue is Germany, like all European teams will likely not play with its best team. It is doubtful that any player selected to Euro 2016 will compete at the Olympics.

 

You know with Euro 2016 and Copa America Century Edition we could see a team from Asia or Africa win gold at the Olympics. Return of Nigeria?

True. Its a big advantage for teams from all other continents. There are multiple problems:

1) No german player will play at both big tournaments. Some players probably wont play in Rio, although they didnt play a single minute at the european championships, just because their clubs wont allow it.

2) Some clubs wont allow their players to play in Rio, because they dont have to allow their players to play in Rio.

3) Its already clear that no german club will allow more than 2 of its players to play in Rio. Schalke for example could send at least 4 players to Rio (Sane, Meyer, Goretzka and Geis), but at best 2 of them will really play in Rio.

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34 minutes ago, LDOG said:

 

Give me right now your list of what you consider your 18 best U23 players, so you don't make your usual excuses later about "we were missing x, y or z" if you lose. Include if you wish the 3 overage players, but realistic picks (not something like "Muller, Gundogan and Boateng", which isn't realistic).

1) I never make up those excuses, its just my honest opinion. I dont even remember the last time we competed at a big tournament with our best team.

At the mens world cup we missed Gündogan and Reus, at the womens world cup we missed players like Keßler or Kulig. At the u20 world championships last year we missed players like Kimmich or Selke. I think the last time we competed with (almost) our best team was at the mens u17 european championships last year, where we only missed Dadashov and Krol.

2) I never said that we will win if we compete with our best team, we also need a decent preparation (and a better coach, but i have given hope that it will happen).

3) I have no problem to give you the list, but please dont be so aggressive in the future.

4) Why are Müller, Boateng and Götze no realistic picks? Is someone like Messi also an unrealistic pick?

5) I already said that we hopefully will only use U23 players, everything else would be unfair for those players who qualified.

 

Goal: Horn, Karius 

Defense: Mustafi, Can, Ginter, Tah, Rüdiger, Süle, Weiser, Gerhardt, Toljan, Stark, Klostermann

Midfield: Weigl, Draxler, Kimmich, Goretzka, Meyer, Brandt, Öztunali, Sane, Geis, Arnold, Dahoud, Stendera

Attack: Selke, Werner

 

Some of the following players could miss the european championships, so we might nominate 3 of them for Rio, although i wouldnt really like it:

L. Bender, Volland, Schürrle, Bellarabi, Leno, Ter Stegen, Trapp, Schweinsteiger, Castro, Kramer, Kruse, Herrmann, Stindl, S. Bender, Fährmann

 

My team would be:

Horn, Karius

Mustafi, Can, Tah, Rüdiger, Weiser, Gerhardt

Weigl, Kimmich, Goretzka, Draxler, Brandt, Sane, Dahoud, Meyer

Werner, Selke

Edited April 9, 2016 by OlympicsFan

[OlympicsFan 791]

6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

 

 

Even if Germany plays with their best team and a good preparation, other nations like Brazil can play with their best team and a good preparation as well and have a very decent chance as well  

We have clearly the best team, if we play with our best team. Brazil and Argentina dont even come close concerning individual quality and we dont even need to use a single player who is not U23.

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7 hours ago, EselTheDonkey said:

 

Our women won't be in a group with China. Since Australia is in our group, China won't be, because Australia is playing for the Asian federation. So it's either Canada or New Zealand from that pot.

Good, so we only have a 50% chance of getting a very difficult group.

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Our womens team will have to play against Australia, our mens team will have to play against Fidji or South Africa. The pots are determined by the olympic results in the last 20 years, so our mens team is in pot 4 because 1988 was the last time that we participated at the olympic games.

There is a 2/3 probability that our womens team will have a very difficult group. Australia + China/Canada would be a very tough group. On the mens side our group doesnt really matter, we will win the gold medal anyway if we play with our best team and have a decent preparation.

[OlympicsFan 791]

Italy looked extremely weak ...

I know that they missed some of their best players, but the same was true for us. It will be really interesting to see which of our talents will play in France/Rio, i think we should send our best talents to Rio, then we would be the favorite for the gold medal. In my opinion France, Spain and Germany should fight for the title, Belgium or England might surprise. France has probably the most talented team in the world right now.

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1 hour ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

USA played really bad, defensive, didnt deserve to qualify and probably shouldn't, i dont want our teams to embarrass us. rather have one less team and hope for medal in ever team sport we are in

In general i agree with you, there shouldnt be any "tourists" at olympic games, but ...

... lets be honest: You wouldve been really happy if your team wouldve qualified?!

I think the same about our teams in mens water polo or mens rugby, but they really wouldve been chanceless in Rio, your mens football team probably wouldnt have advanced to the next round, but i think they at least wouldve been a worthy opponent for the other teams.

I think your problem is that you play with too many players who grew up in Europe, you should try to "create" your own talents and your second problem is that your league is too weak, your homegrown players cant play at the highest level. 

[OlympicsFan 791]

On 24.3.2016 at 9:36 PM, heywoodu said:

I'm not a football expert, but looking at the way we're playing against France at the moment, I don't think this team is going to give us the European title this summer  

Are you talking about France or your own team? Sorry, i probably didnt understand the irony ...

Edit: I think your u17 national team will beat us, this age group is the worst in many years for us. Only Dadachov seems to be a really big talent.

Edited March 28, 2016 by OlympicsFan

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3 minutes ago, crovitlaci said:

It's actually Madrid who ALWAYS gets the weakest possible opponent to play with, Barca and Bayern (who wouldn't be there if referees didn't rob Juve) aren't suspicious.

 

Here is something about it:

 

Since Florentino came back at the head of real madrid, in 14 champions league draws of 1/8 and quarters, Barça, Bayern, Chelsea, PSG, Juve, Arsenal, Milan, City and Inter met up to 24 times between them. Never against Real Madrid who, in these same 14 draws, faced Apoel Nicosia, Galatasaray, CSKA, Schalke 04 twice, twice Lyon, twice Spurs, Roma, BvB in ruins, a United in ruins (because real madrid finished 2nd of its group), Wolfsburg and Atleti.

Real avoided Bayern 7 times, Inter 3 times, Milan 4 times, Arsenal 4 times, Barça 5 times, Chelsea 5 times, Juve 5 times, PSG 7 times, City 4 times.

Without the referees mistake it still wouldve been only 2:0 for Juve, so noone can tell if Cuadrado wouldve scored if Juve already wouldve been up 2:0 ...

Of course we can also talk about the first match, where for example Mandzukic shouldve seen a red card.

In 2014 for example Real had to play against Bayern in the semifinal and i think Atletico or Chelsea might have been even easier opponents for them. In addition to that Real often gets very difficult groups.