Football Discussion | Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Road to LA 2028

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Edited August 4, 2025 by Sindo

[Makedonas 2,239]

The very talented 17 yo Konstantinos Karetsas announced he will play for his parents' country  instead of his birth country 

 

The Belgians do not seem happy but as a Greek, we have been in that position many times with dual citizens so it is nice for it to work in our favour sometimes too 

 

I mean in basketball we could have Vezenkov but instead he chooses to play for his parents' country , despite never living there, when with Greece he would qualify for major tournaments and be one of our starting players, and for Bulgaria they rarely qualify for anything...

[Thagard 86]

Italian football had its share of shocking surprises this season, some that maybe you would not see years ago.

 

So after Internazionale beating Lazio 6-0 away earlier in the season, yesterday it was Atalanta Bergamo's time to put 4 unanswered goals in Torino over Juventus.

 

Taking the post to a more close theme towards LA 2028, given the birthdate of the scorers last night, I'd say Retegui and Lookman would have chance to make one of the over 23 players in the squad, of course if their teams qualify.

[Federer91 3,069]

2 hours ago, Thagard said:

Italian football had its share of shocking surprises this season, some that maybe you would not see years ago.

 

So after Internazionale beating Lazio 6-0 away earlier in the season, yesterday it was Atalanta Bergamo's time to put 4 unanswered goals in Torino over Juventus.

 

Taking the post to a more close theme towards LA 2028, given the birthdate of the scorers last night, I'd say Retegui and Lookman would have chance to make one of the over 23 players in the squad, of course if their teams qualify.

I had high expectations for Motta, but Juventus have been playing awfully almost the entire season.. The CL elimination was disastrous and they are barely hanging to top 4 in the Serie A. And with their schedule it's very possible they miss the CL next season and even dropping out of the Europa League. If i was in the Juve board i'd start panicking. And they also have the World Cup in the summer.

 

Italia has been having a disastrous year in Europe in general. After being the top nation the past 2 years and almost getting 9 teams, now they are losing the extra CL spot and it's not sure if they'd even have a team in the 1/2 in Europe. 

[Monzanator 4,806]

Stop the press! Newcastle have won something!

 

Last time they won anything Anthony Eden was prime minister? @Grassmarket

[Grassmarket 4,091]

58 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Stop the press! Newcastle have won something!

 

Last time they won anything Anthony Eden was prime minister? @Grassmarket

Steam still ruled the railways, there was one TV channel & Elvis was still working as a delivery boy.

[Thagard 86]

Vivianne Miedema scores a brace to give Manchester City an unlikely advantage over Chelsea into the Champions League quarter finals second leg.

The difference was made after the break with none of the Chelsea stars as Lucy Bronze, Lauren James or Mayra Ramirez able to counter on the board.

[Siddhartha Talukdar 246]

On 3/17/2025 at 12:25 AM, Monzanator said:

Stop the press! Newcastle have won something!

 

Last time they won anything Anthony Eden was prime minister? @Grassmarket

Correction, Newcastle won the second tier league in 2017

[Henry_Leon 1,613]

Women's UEFA Champions League semifinals:

 

Barcelona vs Chelsea 
Arsenal vs  Olympique Lyonnais

 

Three previous winners O.Lyon (8); Barcelona (3 - holder), Arsenal (1 -2006/07) and Chelsea (best result runner-up)

 

In the last nine years OL & Barca won the WCL

[intoronto 6,584]

The women's soccer World Cup will be held in the (and apparently other CONCACAF countries) and in 2035 the Home nations  will host. 

 

Apparently Infantino wants to expand the field to 48 teams