Football 2016 Discussion Thread

[dcro 10,210]

  On 12/5/2016 at 10:52 AM, kungshamra71 said:

(and also for Portuguese's Pizza Hut, who had a promotion that offered a free pizza slice for each Portugal's goal at the World Cup matches..... a lot of pizza was eaten that day, and they never repeated that promotion ever since )

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That's similar to Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. McDonalds promised to give away free Big mac, fries and cola, depending on a medal that USA won. It was a disaster for McDonalds as USSR and Eastern block decided to boycott (locations were running out of big macs literally).

[Henry_Leon 1,430]

Khasima Antlers won 2-1 over Aukland City FC at the FIFA Club World Cup, and will play against Mamelodi Sundowns for the second round.

[konig 1,507]

  On 12/6/2016 at 5:55 PM, dcro said:

 

That's similar to Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. McDonalds promised to give away free Big mac, fries and cola, depending on a medal that USA won. It was a disaster for McDonalds as USSR and Eastern block decided to boycott (locations were running out of big macs literally).

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There is a good joke in The Simpson about this.

[kungshamra71 922]

2017 is right ahead and Guine Bissau has already their official theme to support their nation at CAN (African Nation's Cup):

[Henry_Leon 1,430]

The UEFA Executive Committee (held today in Nyon) approved the full details of the access list, club coefficient and distribution for the UEFA club competitions cycle of 2018–21.

 

They also approved the bidding principle for the 2019 UEFA Nations League Final Four, with the hosts to be selected from among the four finalists, and t.he bidding concept for UEFA EURO 2024 was ratified.

 

The city of Lyon will host the Final of UEFA Europa League 2018 (was already chosen the UCL 2018 final: Kyiv)

 

Host associations were appointed for a variety of competitions, including UEFA European Under-21 Championship 2019 (Italy with San Marino)

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Under-21 European Championship in 2019.

Twelve teams will take part and the competition will determine who qualifies for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

Four Italian cities (Bologna, Cesena, Reggio Emilia and Udine) will host along with San Marino. The FIGC collaborated with the FSGC and the Sanmarinese Football Association will host an important international tournament together with Italy for the first time

 

Full details of today meeting

 

 

Edited December 9, 2016 by Henry_Leon

[Henry_Leon 1,430]

At FIFA.com  site are open the voting for the PUSKAS Award and the new FAN Award (will close on 9 January 2017)

 

Puskas Award (best goal of the year)

• Marlone (Brazil/Corinthians),
• Daniuska Rodriguez (Venezuela Under-17 women's) 
• Mohd Faiz Subri (Malaysia/Penang)

Fan award

• ADO Den Haag supporters lent their backing to Rotterdam’s Sophia Children’s Hospital, by delivering soft toys in an unconventional manner, dropping them from the upper tier of Feyenoord’s De Kuip stadium to grateful children below.
• Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund supporters come together to unite in harmony, singing the anthem “You’ll Never Walk Alone”,  in their UEFA Europa League clash.

• Iceland supporters join their players in the now-famous chant-clap combination at UEFA EURO 2016

[bestmen 2,831]

Fifa president Gianni Infantino to propose 48-team World Cup 2016 with 16 groups + no equality they will play the penalties since  the first round

here

[hckošice 15,090]

After this 105th goal at 1:20 Marek Hamšík is now 10 goals behind Maradona in the battle for the Napoli best ever top scorer

 

[LDOG 2,418]

^hopefully a bigger club will buy him for next season and he won't make it

[hckošice 15,090]

  On 12/11/2016 at 7:36 PM, LDOG said:

^hopefully a bigger club will buy him for next season and he won't make it

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I really doubt he will play anywhere else, He mentioned it many times he want spend all his career there.