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On 7/24/2023 at 6:04 PM, hckošice said:

Apparently the :KSA club of Al-Hilal offered PSG 300 Million EUR to buy Mbappe ... for the next and only 1 season, before him moving the season after to Real Madrid.

 

Man, that must be fun feel, to shit and piss money daily whenever you wish just like that :rolleyes:

 

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Imagine how insanely shitty the reputation of your country is, when you offer someone 700 million EUR to play for a year (yes, they would pay PSG 300 million and Mbappé 700 million) in your shitty competition which nobody watches, and still this person refuses...not just 'refuses', but refuses to even talk to you about it :d 

 

22 euro per second, for a full year. Go to sleep, sleep a regular night and you're rougly 600k euro richer. But still the prospect of playing in such an awful country like Saudi Arabia makes you refuse it :d 

 

Of course he knows he wouldn't be required to play just football, just like Cristiano Ronaldo nowadays is headlining the propaganda machine, but unlike Cristiano Ronaldo, surprisingly Mbappé didn't sell his soul :p 

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Today world cup qualifying draw  Round 1 & 2 for AFC was carried out, with matches starting from this OCT FIFA window.

Round 1 is a knockout format while Round 2 is a Round-robin based, with top 2 from each group qualifying for Round 3 . 
 

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not a bad group for Iran, we sometimes struggle in the first round (almost got eliminated last time) I think all of AFC big teams have no problem in the first round

 

and I hope the current coach (who is a mafia boss) is sacked before this, it's just hard for me to cheer for any team he coaches. 

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I see that :TUR finally found a way to host the UEFA Euros. By doing a joint bid with a top nation.

 

EURO 2032 in :ITA & :TUR

 

Doubt that anyone will contest that. All the other top European nations had or are getting other big events, EURO 2016 + SOG 2024 for France, EURO 2024 for Germany, EURO 2028 for England, World Cup 2030 for Spain. 

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Nice to see the Romans and Byzantines joining forces once again :p

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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and it finally happened. Last night.

 

After looong and embarassing 8 years, Košice (the second biggest city of the country) finally returned to the top tier championship, and what a return it was.

 

Yesterday in the 1st round we hosted as the newly promoted team the reigning champion,  the arch-rival Slovan Bratislava.

 

 

More than 5 000 spectators and great atmosphere. despite the final result 0-0 it was a great evening :) Now hopefully we will be able to avoid relegation, after when we returned from 8 years hiatus lol

 

 

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Back to earth for FC Košice in :SVK league :p After unexpected 0-0 draw against Slovan Bratislava in the opening round, came the first trip away and first debacle ...

 

Clear and easy defeat in Dunajská Streda against local DAC 5-2

 

 

everything fine, obviously, completely deserved win for the host, horrendous defence from our boys, but, yeah that is what you will have to face in the top tier, so better work more to not redrop immediatelly to 2. league next season..

 

Anyway, small mention to local fans, (you know, DAC Dunajská Streda, that pro-Hungarian/anti-Slovak fans) again could not refrain themselves once more from idiotic attempts of provocation ... cross out the name of the city Košice and write instead the Hungarian name used under HUN/AUT-HUN empire Kassa .. idiots :p

 

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