Football 2016 Discussion Thread

[nenad 361]

Just now, hckosice said:

 

Škrteľ, absolutely out of shape, hope he´ll start to search his selfconfidence, because France 2016 is comming and he is our second most important player and team leader..

 

Yes, his season is really bad in Liverpool.

[OlympicsFan 783]

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.

[Henry_Leon 1,235]

UEFA U19 Men's

reach the finals of U19 Championship

Other nation qualified: England, Austria, Netherlands, Croatia, Portugal, France and (the host) Germany.

 

Draw: 12 April

Final phase: 11-24 July

The tournament will also qualifying for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup (5 best team )

[Henry_Leon 1,235]

Women's Champions League

We will have two derby in semifinals (as expected)

  Lyon vs Paris Saint-Germain

  Wolfsburg vs FFC Frankfurt

 

and a final vs   in Italy ............ (no is not a joke!!!!!)

 

[hckošice 13,267]

Greece given 10 days to reverse Cup cancellation or face FIFA suspension

 

FIFA handed Greece's government a 10-day deadline on Tuesday to reverse its decision to cancel the Greek Cup or face an international suspension from football's world governing body.

FIFA sent a two-page letter to Deputy Minister for Sport Stavros Kontonis and the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) demanding that Kontonis change his ruling.

The global body also ordered further talks to make changes to sports legislation planned for May which contradicts FIFA's statutes on self-governance of member associations.

"The FIFA Emergency Committee decided to set a deadline of 15 April 2016 for the decision to (cancel) the 2015/2016 Greek Cup to be reversed, failing which the EPO would face an automatic suspension of its membership," said the letter published on the EPO website.

The ultimatum follows a breakdown in talks held between Kontonis, the EPO and a FIFA delegation in Athens on March 30 to try and resolve the issue.

Kontonis controversially cancelled the cup after the first leg of the semi-final between PAOK Salonika and Olympiakos Piraeus on March 2 was abandoned due to a violent pitch invasion, with fans hurling flares and missiles before being dispersed by riot police.

Kontonis declared his decision was a "legal move" and has insisted that no pronouncement will be made until the EPO's appeal against the move is heard by the Supreme Court on April 19.

FIFA said that any decision by Greece's Supreme Court will not be taken into account, saying it is "irrelevant as it could be withdrawn, and because regardless of the eventual decision, the issues linked to the implementation and the potential interference of the law would remain."

If Greece are suspended by FIFA, their hopes of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup could be in jeopardy as they could be barred from taking part in the qualifiers which kick off in September.

The 2004 European champions failed to qualify for this year's continental competition in France.

 

 

Quite incredible that everything started by our Robert Mak

 

[nenad 361]

FIFA is right this time, easiest thing to do is to cancel competitions rather than focus on dealing with the problem.

[Henry_Leon 1,235]

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ended QT leg1  with a big surpise WOLFSBURG 2-0 at REAL

[Henry_Leon 1,235]

AFC Asian Cup 2019 Qualifiers Playoff:

 

Play-off 1 (home-away on June 2nd and 7th)

1. Chinese Taipei vs Cambodia 
2. Maldives vs Yemen 
3. Tajikistan   vs Bangladesh 
4. Malaysia vs  Timor-Leste
5. Laos vs  India

The winner of each pairing will advance to the AFC 2019 Qualifiers Final Round while the remaining five losing teams will join Bhutan in Qualifiers Play-off  2.

 

Play-off 2 (home-away on September 6th and October 11th)

• L2 vs L5
• L3 vs Bhutan
• L4 vs L1

 

http://www.the-afc.com/asian-cup-2019/uae-2019-qualifiers-play-off-draw-concluded

 

[heywoodu 13,561]

On 4/6/2016 at 1:15 AM, Henry_Leon said:

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ended QT leg1  with a big surpise WOLFSBURG 2-0 at REAL

It would be awesome if Real gets kicked out, especially to destroy all chances of having another "El Clásico" and getting people all pumped up for the 12548th edition of the same match  

[heywoodu 13,561]

Am I the only one who has had absolutely enough of this f*cking dumb commercial on Eurosport after almost 4 years? 

 

 

I'm especially annoyed by the guy who is watching tv but apparently doesn't understand that a goal has been scored. I mean, hello...that has nothing to do with languages and even if it does, after 4 freaking years, it's enough.