Football 2019 Discussion Thread

[bestmen 2,818]

our team are boys from the school without experience ,their level is pretty bad

[heywoodu 15,135]

Former Dutch international and Glasgow Rangers icon Fernando Ricksen has died today, aged 43. He had been suffering from ALS/motor neurone disease for over six years and in the end he couldn't do more than communicate via a speech computer. In 2013 on a Dutch talk show he was there to present his book, the host noticed he was talking considerably slower than usual so asked about it, and Ricksen there announced he had been diagnosed with it.

 

[heywoodu 15,135]

South Korea, Indonesia, Yemen, Tajikistan, Iran...bunch of bullies.

 

[bestmen 2,818]

That's what happen when you pick girls in your team 

 

[bestmen 2,818]

These scores remind me   kebaddi 

 

[heywoodu 15,135]

East Timor keeping Australia (!) to only one goal, that sounds rather impressive  

 

[Olympian1010 7,973]

On 18/09/2019 at 13:07, heywoodu said:

South Korea, Indonesia, Yemen, Tajikistan, Iran...bunch of bullies.

 

If bombed out and starving Yemen is beating you 10-1 then your country shouldn’t be playing soccer. Bhutan’s best bets for sporting success are Taekwondo, Shooting, and Archery

[heywoodu 15,135]

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

If bombed out and starving Yemen is beating you 10-1 then your country shouldn’t be playing soccer. Bhutan’s best bets for sporting success are Taekwondo, Shooting, and Archery

 

So every young Bhutanese boy who specifically wants to play football should give up their dreams because Bhutan's best bets are in other sports? That sounds pretty North Korean.

[Olympian1010 7,973]

Just now, heywoodu said:

 

So every young Bhutanese boy who specifically wants to play football should give up their dreams because Bhutan's best bets are in other sports? That sounds pretty North Korean.

No, They just need to find away to get a better program off the ground. I know Bhutan isn’t rich, but it’s a highly peaceful and rather prosperous country in many aspects.

[heywoodu 15,135]

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

No, They just need to find away to get a better program off the ground. I know Bhutan isn’t rich, but it’s a highly peaceful and rather prosperous country in many aspects.

Well you quite literally said "then your country shouldn't be playing", so I thought you meant they shouldn't be playing  

 

Of course they're trying their best, no doubt. It's still a tiny nation though, it's impressive they can field a full U16 team. Yemen is in all kinds of terrible situations, yes, but they've got 30 times as many people, no wonder they can field a better team (especially in football, which is pretty much known as a sport poor people can easily* play since you really don't need much for it - a ball and whichever random things can function as goal posts).

 

*relatively of course, compared to many other sports