Thagard

Great Venezuela
 
Hoping for a long waited first WC qualification.

Future generations are not particularly promising either ...
 
U20 Championship 2022 : 5th/8 with a loss to Belgium 18-6, wins against Czechia 33-10 and Poland 34-9.
U18 Championship 2022 : 8th/8 with losses to Spain 102-0 (no typo here), Germany 27-17 and Czechia 10-8.
And their exposition to pro rugby will be way less than what used to be for Romanian players back in the days, like, just a decade back.
 
Foreign(French)-based Romanian players in RWC squads :
  1st tier  2nd tier  3rd tier 4th tier 5th tier Total 2011 4 2 3 0 1 10/31 2015 5 6 0 0 0 11/31 2023 0 4 3 2 1 10/33  

May 30th 1995: South Africa - Romania 21-8 (Pool A)
 
Even though a loss, this is the closest result of Romania with the rugby union giants.
 
I could only hope sometime in the future we could get there again.
This generation is compromised....

May 30th 1995: South Africa - Romania 21-8 (Pool A)
 
Even though a loss, this is the closest result of Romania with the rugby union giants.
 
I could only hope sometime in the future we could get there again.
This generation is compromised....

First leg tonight in , second leg on Tuesday in  Toronto!

Women's Basketball FIBA European Championship 2025  
Various Cities (CZE/GER/GRE/ITA) - 19 June 2025 - 29 June 2025  
 
Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

A lot of goals last night with some interesting achievements: Lazio's GK, Provedel scoring in 90+5 minute for 1-1 against Atletico, Barca had no mercy for Antwerp, 5-0 in the end (looks like Joao Felix feels confortable in this team), Newcastle back to UCL with a draw in San Siro (and what a chance they missed in very last minute) and congrats for Zvezda Crvena for playing so good football on Emirates against City, despite they lost, the Serbian team played so well in England

Oh man, I knew they will remove the video because of their copyrights policy .. So here anothe link for that new Slovak national record goal
 
https://zebra.cdnja.co/v/mj/MJA7q.mp4?token=2bkFgpA_VRM6DBogO7TunA&expires=1694470742

So Luxembourg lost 6-0 and 9-0 against Portugal , but still managed to gain 10 points and go above Iceland and Bosnia !

Germany are the World Champions for 1st time ever 

You, time traveler, you... 

You, time traveler, you... 

You, time traveler, you... 

You, time traveler, you... 

You, time traveler, you... 

It is what it is🤣 Probably we’ll be eliminated in R16 too, but it is nice that we have both teams men and women in top 12-16 in Europe maybe we can participate again at worlds or even Olympics in near future (2028) who knows

Egypt defeats Jordan 85-69 and South Sudan defeats Philippines which means they will be the teams to contest for African Olympic quota on Saturday , South Sudan face Angola and Egypt faces New Zealand

Historic achievement
 
For the first time EVER EVER Slovakia will have 2 (TWO) representatives in European Cups Group Phase ! Both in this one,
 
Slovan Bratislava (Slovak League Champion) which was during this summer regularly kicked out from Champions League Qualifiers by Maccabi Haifa and yesterday from Europa League Play-Off by Limassol and will play the Conference League group phase for the 3rd consecutive year
 
and Spartak Trnava (Slovak Cup Winner) who made it through the almost entire Conference League Qualifiers (Started in 2nd Qualifier Round)
 
 
Clubs in European Competition Group Phases since the independence in 1993
 
Champions League Group:  (3 times)
 
1.FC Košice in 1997/98  (0 Points)
Artmedia Petržalka in 2005/06  (6 Points and a Win in Porto , 3rd Place)
MŠK Žilina in 2010/11  (0 Points)
 
UEFA/ Europa League Group:  (5 times)
 
MŠK Žilina in 2008/09  (4 Points and a win at Aston Villa)
Slovan Bratislava in 2011/12  (1 Point)
Slovan Bratislava in 2014/15  (0 Points)
Spartak Trnava in 2018/19  (6 Points, 3rd Place)
Slovan Bratislava in 2019/20  (6 Points, 3rd Place)
 
Conference League Group:  (2 times)
 
Slovan Bratislava in 2021/22  (8 Points, 3rd Place)
Slovan Bratislava in 2022/23  (11 Points, 1st Place - First time a SVK club progressed from the Group Stage, with a bye in the 1st Round advanced directly to Round of 16, but eventually lost there to FC Basel)
...
in 2023/24 Slovan Bratislava and Spartak Trnava first time 2 clubs the same season in European Competition Group Phase
 

Egypt defeats Mexico 100-72 to get the 1st victory in WC since 29 years 

And Egypt is back in business to fight for the African Olympic spot.

i'm so happy of this victory anyway , i couldn't have dreamt of just defeating Mexico some very few years ago , how about defeating it in 28 points with a full squad of local players with just 1 player playing in Korea Assem Marei , 2 players from NCAA one of them Adam Mousa is below average and even there's Egyptian players here better than him , Patrick Gardner could seem a neutralized athlete to u , but he's half Egyptian and half American and he's not that top quality player , he is just better than some players playing in Egyptian league , without a neutralized player like all teams that's definitely a very big result for Egyptian basketball 

And Egypt is back in business to fight for the African Olympic spot.

big big win for Japan. they will most probably take the Asian quota and they fully deserved it. their group is much tougher than other Asian teams (maybe except Lebanon) yet they managed to beat an European team. 
 
nothing is impossible but can't see this Japan not winning 2 more games in the losers group.

Group A is now a mess going into the final game.
 
needs to avoid losing by more than 10 points against to qualify unless defeats then it doesn't matter.
 
just needs a victory against to advance. They can also advance with a loss if beats and Italy doesn't lose by more than 13 points
 
needs to win by 10 points against to be guaranteed to reach the next round, though just a win would be enough should defeat . A loss eliminates them.
 
needs to defeat by at least 13 points and must defeat
 
 
While they aren't in favourable positions, should or advance they will be the favourites to grab the Olympic quotas.