Football 2023 Discussion Thread

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[thepharoah 2,413]

 

Pablo Escobar in front of White House 

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Apparently Antonio Mateu Lahoz will retire at the end of the season

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I'm really impressed by Gulf Cup Opening Ceremony and the Atmosphere in the stadium just WOW,  it's definitely better than WC opening Ceremony,  Iraq hasn't organized this event 1979 , looks like it was worth the wait for Iraqis

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The Athletic reports Roberto Martinez has agreed to become the next national team HC

 

https://theathletic.com/4066354/2023/01/07/roberto-martinez-portugal-head-coach/

[kungshamra71 948]

Roberto Martinez was officially announced as the next national manager of Portugal.

 

Its the third time a foreigner becomes head coach of Portugal, but the other two were Brazilians, this time is a Spanish, which is not as easy to accept to Portuguese (“De Espanha, nem bom vento nem bom casamento” it’s a Portuguese saying that means “From Spain, neither comes good wind or a good marriage”, due to the historically multiple tentatives for annexing Portugal)

Some say it might be also a move for the World Cup organization (Portugal + Spain are one of the candidates).

 

Anyway, bienvenido Martinez!

 

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Noel Le Graet story with French federation has ended , French people couldn't stand him after mocking Zidane , really happy that this dumb person has gone  

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also Didier Deschamps will be in great danger to keep his position despite renewing his contract till 2026 

Edited January 11, 2023 by thepharoah

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wtf is going on with these premier league clubs , Mudryk from Shakhtar is worth 100m Euros or pounds this's fu.king crazy , this loser Nunez was brought by liverpool with 100M , Enzo Fernandez Benfica wanted 130 or 140 M for him just because of half god season with Benfica and WC with Argentina , This's money laundry or what it's nonsense all this money being paid , Chelsea with Todd Boehly the new owner paid more than 400m POUNDS to be humilated from half of PL clubs 

Edited January 14, 2023 by thepharoah

[Federer91 3,021]

When they say an "early start to your sporting career", they probably didn't mean this exactly, but today i found an interesting story. In December, in the top Bulgarian women's football division, a club made a substitute and entered a 10 year old girl.  

 

She had been training mostly with boys, a few years older than her, and had played in women's U15 and U17 matches throughout the year. And the main teams coach has said, that she wanted to award the girl for her dedication and progress with a few minutes play against the women. 

 

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