Football 2018 Discussion Thread

[bestmen 2,818]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Two players with a hattrick, including 4 goals for an Algerian player  @bestmen

https://www.flashscore.com/match/bo97aYIq/#match-summary

he plays in Qatar preparing himself for the world cup 2022 in Qatar

[bestmen 2,818]

our footballers paly well outside the country and bad inside

as Berraf said they are doped there and clean here

[crovitlaci 177]

This is probably the weirdest goal I've ever seen 

 

 

[Wumo 3,002]

 The UEFA Executive Committee has approved the creation of a third UEFA club competition for the 2021–2024 competition cycle at its meeting today in Dublin.

 

• The new competition (which has the working title of UEL2) will mirror the existing UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, and feature 32 teams in a group stage.

• The format will see eight groups of four teams, followed by the round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.

• An additional knock-out round will be played before the round of 16 between teams ranked second in their groups and the third-ranked teams of the UEFA Europa League groups.

• The new competition will feature 141 matches over 15 match weeks, exactly like the UEFA Europa League.

• The winner of the new competition will be entitled to participate in the UEFA Europa League in the following season.

• The new competition matches will be played on Thursdays. As such, the UEFA Champions League continues to be played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, the UEFA Europa League and the new competition will be played on Thursday with one additional kick-off time slot for a limited number of matches in principle at 16.30 (CET) to be further defined.

• All club competition finals will be played in the same week: Wednesday (new competition), Thursday (UEFA Europa League) and Saturday (UEFA Champions League).

 

Acces list for the new club competition and other UEFA club competition for 2021-2024-

https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/General/02/58/61/42/2586142_DOWNLOAD.pdf

 

Also, as part of the 2021-2024 competition cycle, the UEFA Europa League will now be similarly streamlined with the same format, including an additional knock-out round played before the round of 16 between teams ranked second in their groups and the third-ranked teams of the UEFA Champions League groups.

[thepharoah 2,405]

one of the strangest things , CAF Confedrations cup final took place yesterday and the new edition of the tournament started a week ago  anyway  Raja Casablanca won the cup after defeating  Vita Club in the final 4-3 on aggregate ( 3-0 , 1-3 ) which's exactly the same result CAF champions league final ended 

[Wumo 3,002]

 

 

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[Federer91 2,797]

22 hours ago, wumo26 said:

 The UEFA Executive Committee has approved the creation of a third UEFA club competition for the 2021–2024 competition cycle at its meeting today in Dublin.

 

 

So, UEFA is finally being honest, about only caring for the top 10 countries or so. Everyone from 15 down can go have their own tournament at 5 in the afternoon on a thursday and stop messing with the big boys.

[Wumo 3,002]

Luka Modric wins the Ballon d'Or 2018 

After ten years of Ronaldo or Messi winning "the golden ball", Modric becomes the first to break their domination. Luka Modric becomes the first Croatian player to win the award. He also becomes the second oldest winner of the Ballon d'or at the age of 33, (Stanley Matthews won it at the age of 41 in 1956), and he beats Fabio Cannavaro with 4 days. 

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/realmadrid/luka-modric-wins-the-ballon-d-or-real-madrid-star-ends-decade-of-lionel-messi-and-cristiano-ronaldo-a4007121.html

 

[heywoodu 15,145]

Last night Atlanta won the MLS final against Portland. It was live on Eurosport as MLS usually is, with a commentator who's been doing it for 20-25+ years....but last night he was either ignoring the match on purpose or he was just drunk. I watched it this morning and I have never in my life heard a commentator talk so much nonsense and so little about the match  

 

I heard him recite a poem about death, stories about Garibaldi, nickel mines in Canada, dirty clothes in the dressing room in his own time as a player, 90 minutes of anecdotes about his life in the football world and the 1-0 was only briefly mentioned..."this is the guy that has the annoying habit to score when I'm talking" and then he went on with his story about referees. The 2-0 was 100% ignored, he did not mention a single word about it.

 

He is now fired, although it's not sure whether he was already fired and he did this out of revenge, or he got fired because of this.

Edited December 9, 2018 by heywoodu