LDOG

Denmark will win for sure, the others are all very close in my view. I've a feeling Sweden wins (revenge for 2022). Kosovo can definitely hurt Turkey but their defense is maybe too frail. I'd bet on Turkey. Bosnia is nothing special (watched a good part of their game) but Italy being unreliable is an understatement and they have a big problem in creating goal opportunities. Chance of an upset if Italy starts the same XI.

They're tough. And they're not even using good players like Rahmani (injured) and Zegrova (in bench).

Kosovo has a few very interesting players and are in a streak of good results, they can win even if they aren't favorites. Turkey lacks a good striker. Today they had all the possession but not much edge.

1-0 FT

You can just ask for that without any justification?. So jealous (same profession).

I was fearing they'd bend to IOC's stupid format eventually... it's a small sport without much leverage. I hope handball and water polo resist.

(Men) withdrew from the qualifiers in Egypt due to the warning issued by the Department of State to US nationals in the middle east. They had lost their first two games and were already eliminated anyway.

Never played myself but watched videos of competitive players. Guys watching some traffic lights and saying 'yeah, this is inner Mongolia" and so on.

Those european athletes I was thinking about, presumably, would've african ancestry. I believe the usual suspects of "shopping" aren't in Africa anyway.

No doubt we'll see some western european dude win a medal for Africa at some point. Probably sooner than we think.

This press conference is wild. Dude is completely unhinged, talking about this as if it were purely a business enterprise and even completely disregarded Machado and the opposition making it clear that US will run the country (and especifically the oil industry) and not them he even says Maduro's VP is fully colaborating with them already.

Trump just now seems to be implying they've control of the country. We'll see... I read some people saying that the videos of Cabello and the others could have been pre-recorded and that they're actually in hiding.

Hope I'm wrong but this stinks of a secret deal between Trump and Venezuelan gov., as crazy as that may sound. They let them capture Maduro but every other relevant political figure is still alive and free? Come on... Unlikely to see a regime change if Cabello and all the others are still there.

I was surprised as well. I guess they're trying to make up for the single men's quota for concacaf? They couldn't give them more without substracting from one of the other confeds, which would probably make the tournament (even) less attractive.

I didn't find something from FIFA but read it on many spanish sources today. Among them, the national FA website. https://www.afa.com.ar/en/posts/plazas-juegos-olimpicos-2028-doce-para-el-torneo-masculino-y-dieciseis-en-el-femenino