Men's Football FIFA World Cup 2022

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 12/1/2022 at 1:29 PM, dodge said:

Mexico doesn’t need any help to qualify for the World Cup. What is this nonsense?

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Just the frustrated ramblings of someone whose country didn't qualify (after playing against Djibouti and Niger).

[dcro 10,210]

After some googling, I find out that Kazakhstan actually never lost match in the qualifying for the 2002 WC (4-2-0), and yet they didn't make the final round because of the weird rules.

 

It's understandable why they got angry at AFC, but to change to a confederation where you have zero opportunities and no prospects seems like a bit of overreaction.

 

P.s. Why doesn't Algeria just change to CONCACAF then? 

Edited December 1, 2022 by dcro

[ChandlerMne 1,097]

Some Polish journalist asked Serbian coach "how he feels that his team has many Russian fans, from a country that killed so many people". 

Just incredible. 

Edited December 1, 2022 by ChandlerMne

[hckošice 15,121]

  On 12/1/2022 at 2:20 PM, dcro said:

It's understandable why they got angry at AFC, but to change to a confederation where you have zero opportunities and no prospects seems like a bit of overreaction.

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have you followed their European Nations League journey lately by any chance ?

[hckošice 15,121]

Finally the Czech TV decided to cover the other match than our TV Both previous days both Slovak and Czech TV had as the main game the same match, finally now while our RTVS will cover the BEL-CRO game the Czech ČT Sport have CAN-MAR match as their broadcasted one

[thepharoah 2,405]

  On 12/1/2022 at 1:15 PM, heywoodu said:

To be fair, a national holiday after a win in the group stage would be either bullshit or just a sign of pure laziness and not wanting to work  

 

National holidays for sports successes in general, I'd say  

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i don't like much Holidays either 

[dodge 1,028]

  On 12/1/2022 at 2:20 PM, dcro said:

After some googling, I find out that Kazakhstan actually never lost match in the qualifying for the 2002 WC (4-2-0), and yet they didn't make the final round because of the weird rules.

 

It's understandable why they got angry at AFC, but to change to a confederation where you have zero opportunities and no prospects seems like a bit of overreaction.

 

P.s. Why doesn't Algeria just change to CONCACAF then? 

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Kazakhstan moved for financial reasons. Their clubs are now in UEFA Competitions. Their nation is involved in collective TV rights for nations league, European championship and World Cup 

 

They know they likely won’t qualify either way, so it’s purely a financial decision 

[Dunadan 1,103]

Eh, with 8+1 Asian spots on offer from next time, I wouldn't have counted them out.

[thepharoah 2,405]

Very strong start from Croatia 

[hckošice 15,121]

Nice goal assist from Borjan here