Thagard

Medal for  Chen Ying-Chu 

Aparatichki tavarishchi no 1 hopes to prolongue his life and fall asleep again at the next footballing event ceremony he is hosting.
This joke is bad because the whole idea is absurd so then any joke is out of the question.

Netherlands look like they badly need to improve goal difference and their coach just signaled that in the 58th minute.

You mean all those trillions of £££££s we are spending to appease the weather Gods does not work?  Should we be throwing people into volcanoes instead?  

Here's what the inter-continental play-offs look like among eligible nations, Top 2 will get a bye to the final:
 
 - 31st
 - 45th
 - 57th
 - 60th
 - 64th
 - 67th
 - 68th
 - 76th
 - 82nd
 - 88th
 - 126th
 - 150th
 
Bolivia and New Caledonia cannot finish in the top 2. DR Congo will be watching the Asian qualifier and hoping UAE wins so they can clinch top 2 as it is impossible for both Panama and Costa Rica to advance together to the inter-continental round. An Iraq win means they will finish top 2.
 
CONCACAF as you can see is still a big mess with 7/12 nations not only eligible to finish second, but also outright qualify to the World Cup. It's quite possible for someone to finish with 11 points and still fail to make the play-off. Considering the amount of draws we've seen this round, a draw for anyone except Curacao (who will qualify to the World Cup outright) means they will have to watch the other results and hope things go their way.

Home athletes have the chance of practicing and improving now on home soil.

Poland scored for 3-1 but Malta get a penalty before on VAR (correct decision) so the goal is cancelled and Malta converts PK for 2-2! 

Almost went unnoticed but at the 17th minute Slovak fans started clapping and yelling Czechoslovakia ! 
 
17th november is also the velvet revolution anniverssary so yeah plenty of history made day
 
another one coming today with maybe the biggest loss in history  Still half hour to beat the record

Home athletes have the chance of practicing and improving now on home soil.

Such childish...
Definitely no leftists there, as some might say.

In ither hand fun fact. 
 
It was 17th november 1993 when Czechoslovakia played its last ever game, in Bruxelles in a last WC qualifier which ended 0-0, and saw Belgium advancing to a world cup which was in ... guess where USA
 
17th November 2025 Slovakia is playing its last WC qualfying game for the WC in USA, Canada and Mexico again 
 
Czechia as well.
 
Thats for the history window. Now you know and can go educate. Thanks for your attention 

1-1. Malta scores for the first time ever vs Poland! 

If he secretly meant it as a joke I like it, but...yeah  

Dumb comment from Polish TV commentator: "Most fans in the stands are wearing white & red colors!" 
 

 

Nigeria coach says Congo used black magic against them https://indeksonline.net/en/Nigeria-coach-says-they-were-cursed-by-black-magic-after-elimination-by-Congo/
 
 

Reijnders to the rescue. 

Time for Netherlands to not do something stupid against Lithuania  
 
If it does, and Lithuania wins by say 1 goal difference, older viewers will relive a trauma considering they experienced the highly-likely bribed Spain - Malta 12-1 in 1984 and, you know, Poland is playing......Malta  
 
It might be less tempting for Malta to give up their honor for some houses in Poland than it was back in the 80's for a bunch of Spanish luxury villas, and Maltese players of today may get paid better than Maltese players of the 80's, but still better avoid even the chance of such a repeat  

Romanian football needs some kind of reset. For more than a decade we are ranked 40th-50th.
If you read the news, you know how our ultras grouped in "Uniti sub tricolor" did on their trip to the match. It is inadmissible to show that message in Belgrade about that war crime "hero" and infuriate the Bosnians in such a degree that they would shout "Gypsies". Imagine how our players felt in the pitch. I blame this for our loss. Than other things too (the ref, the coach, the players). Romanian ultras must be disciplined somehow or they will continue to create problems and put obstacles in the way of our players.

Romanian football needs some kind of reset. For more than a decade we are ranked 40th-50th.
If you read the news, you know how our ultras grouped in "Uniti sub tricolor" did on their trip to the match. It is inadmissible to show that message in Belgrade about that war crime "hero" and infuriate the Bosnians in such a degree that they would shout "Gypsies". Imagine how our players felt in the pitch. I blame this for our loss. Than other things too (the ref, the coach, the players). Romanian ultras must be disciplined somehow or they will continue to create problems and put obstacles in the way of our players.

The fact that DR Congo eliminated Cameroon and Nigeria is one of the biggest surprises in the history of WC preliminaries.

I want       in!!! 

shockingly leads  1-0 at half-time 

I don't think many people expected DR Congo to beat Cameroon. I would say Nigeria has an easier job in the play-off against them.

Suriname 4 - 0 El Salvador 

Quite possible that no Central American teams qualify to the World Cup, definitely did not expect that.