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Almost a year after "the big failure" (out of WC 2018), the Italian Football Federation FIGC :ITA  have a new president:  Gabriele Gravina, the former president of Lega Pro (3rd tier), has received 97.2 % of votes (was the only nominee). He will be in charge until 2020.

 

Now the Italian football can restart, the new governance will have to try to implement the reforms, that have been awaited for many years, and try to bring back our football at the top of the world.

A lot of work to do, and not a lot of time for do it. :pope:

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6 ore fa, Henry_Leon ha scritto:

Almost a year after "the big failure" (out of WC 2018), the Italian Football Federation FIGC :ITA  have a new president:  Gabriele Gravina, the former president of Lega Pro (3rd tier), has received 97.2 % of votes (was the only nominee). He will be in charge until 2020.

 

Now the Italian football can restart, the new governance will have to try to implement the reforms, that have been awaited for many years, and try to bring back our football at the top of the world.

A lot of work to do, and not a lot of time for do it. :pope:

We are in good hands :lol: I think that Gravina is a good president for a transaction period, 1-2 years maximum.

He is better than the Malago's puppets but if our rebirth depends on him I'm really worried

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Indonesian audio operator decided to play North Korean Anthem during South Korean team AFC U-19 match. The correct anthem is played afterwards. However, even AFC caught off guard and uploaded the North portion in their Youtube before they deleted it...

 

This is what happens if they don't hire an anthem expert like me :lol:

 

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On 10/14/2018 at 23:11, hckosice said:

Ján Kozák is no longer National Team coach of :SVK He resigned today. Logical outcome after the tragically miserable performances the team was performing last couple of games, the final nail in the coffin was yesterday absolutely shameful and disgusting effort in the Nations League derby against :CZE .

 

He became the NT coach in July 2013 after the team failed to qualify for Brazil WC 2014, He immediately succeeded, qualifying Slovakia for the first time ever to an EURO in France 2016 and reached the Round of 16 there, then barely missed the play-offs for Russia 2018 WC, we was the only 2nd ranked country that did not qualified for the play-Offs and since then the atmosphere within the team was quickly dropping, During his charge, we played 54 matches, we won 29, 10 draws and lost 15, with score 80:48. He moved our team to the 14th place of FIFA ranking in August 2015 (Our historic record) during that period we won 9 consecutive matches (12 of 13 games).

 

but in the last months/weeks it was clearly visible there something wrong actually around our NT.

 

and

 

Yesterdays shame just finished the thing. Kozák announced today his resignation. The name of the new coach will be known later.

 

So, officially today was introduced our new coach, for the first time in history we will have a "foreigner" in charge of our Football National Team. The Czech Pavel Hapal signed today a deal until the end of the EURO 2020 qualifiers, the goal is ofc the qualification, which should be doable since 24 teams will qualify. In case of success his contract will be prolonged for the World Cup qualification etc..

 

His Monthly Salary will be 15.000 EUR (a amount that a average Slovak must work at least 2 years to earn :crazy:) + special bonus 200.000 EUR in case of qualification for the EURO 2020

 

One of his first moves is to call back the "enfant terrible" of our football the "Mr. eternal problems" Miroslav Stoch (you know the guy who won the  FIFA Puskas award with the highest ever amount of votes), so that´s gonna be interesting..

 

source in SVK https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/363149/video-pavel-hapal-je-oficialne-novym-trenerom-slovenska-kolko-bude-zarabat-a-povola-stocha/

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The AFC Champions League final will be between Kashima Antrlers from Japan and Persepolis Tehran from Iran. and after 8 years there will be an Iranian team in the final. considering the low budget of Iranian clubs this is getting harder and harder for them to compete with other Asian Clubs.

 

Persepolis is the most popular club in Iran and Asia but this is the first time they are making it into the final. they had much stronger teams before but this is funny they made it this time with a very depleted squad. their Croat coach made something like a miracle. for some stupid reasons FIFA banned them from signing any new players for 2 transfer windows and after the World Cup they also lost some of their NT players. and because of some other injuries they barely have 11 players to start the match !

 

They had two great comebacks in packed Azadi Stadium in 1/8 final and quarterfinal and last night they beat the Qatari club Al-Sadd 2-1 on aggregate to make it to the final by a miraculous save from Persepolis GK against Xavi's header in last minutes.

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10 hours ago, MHSN said:

They had two great comebacks in packed Azadi Stadium in 1/8 final and quarterfinal and last night they beat the Qatari club Al-Sadd 2-1 on aggregate to make it to the final by a miraculous save from Persepolis GK against Xavi's header in last minutes.

 

 

:bowdown:

 

 

 

 

 

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