Football 2024 Discussion Thread

[Federer91 2,727]

Is anyone else tired of the constant bitching and moaning from players about the "tough calendar", especially from the lordy English league + Real Madrid. How about earning some of those hugely overpriced salaries you get.

 

How about getting rid of the useless League Cup, that still for some reason exist on the British isles. How about reducing the leagues to 34 matches. There shouldn't be a top European league with more than 18 teams. I prefer having the ECC in their newer format and a Club World Cup every 4 years (for which not every team is even qualifying), than additional 4 league games, that bring nothing new (plus additional playoffs somewhere). Domestic leagues should start in September and end early May, to fit a longer break, if the players health is concerned.

[Henry_Leon 1,374]

Fifa women's WC U-20

 

North Korea   won SF 1-0  against USA and back in final after eight years.

This is the fourth final of PRK (2 won)

[Josh 10,405]

FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup

Gold-  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Silver-  Japan

Bronze-  United States

Full Results

 

Well deserved gold for them, very clearly the best team throughout the tournament 

[Josh 10,405]

 Christine Sinclair has decided to retire after the end of the NWSL season. 

[hckošice 14,787]

after some gazillion of years FC Sankt Pauli won a Bundesliga game

 

Worth a beer to me ! cheers folks

 

 

Was ein Spiel! Wir gewinnen in Freiburg mit 3:0 Unsere Torschützen sind #Saad und #Afolayan. Viel Spaß beim Feiern, Leute! 🤎🤍❤️#fcsp | Präsentiert von @Levis pic.twitter.com/505hw6Rhe1

— FC St. Pauli (@fcstpauli) September 28, 2024

[Henry_Leon 1,374]

Good start for Italian teams in Women CL: Roma 1-0 Wolfsburg and Valerenga 0-1 Juve

 

This is the last season with the old form (next year will have  aleague phase at 18 teams), and it began with a surprise: Manchester City defeated Barca 2-0, with Barca fail to score in groups for 1st time

 

Pernille Harder, on the night she made her 50th European appearance, scored a hat-trick in  Bayern Munich comeback against Arsenal 5-2

[heywoodu 14,940]

Epic own goal for Sparta in the Dutch 1st division (or 2nd, whatever you call it, the one underneath the top flight ). At 1:00 in the video.

 

Spoiler

 

 

[Monzanator 4,475]

girls' U-17 team qualified to the World Cup QF in Dominicana after not conceding a goal in the group stage.

 

0-0 vs

2-0 vs

0-0 vs

[heywoodu 14,940]

North Korea and the US played the first semifinal at the U17 World Cup last night:

 

 

Spoiler

1-0 North Korea after a quite nice goal.

 

[hckošice 14,787]

Yesterday was the anniversary of the highest ever football score

 

75 own goals scored in 1st half

 

 

Madagascar club, AS Adema hold the Guinness World Record for the Biggest Win in a professional football match.

They defeated SO l'Emyrne 149 - 0 in Antananarivo, Madagascar on October 31st, 2002. pic.twitter.com/1Yk4KmiEv4

— Africa story Live (@AfricaStoryLive) August 24, 2022