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Pity that Croatia has to go down also but Lovren talked too much shit after the last match.

The penalty corner of our team is a tragedy. Even Trinidad and Tobago has better routines than these girls. It's the complete opposite of our men's team, they do few attacks in most matches but score almost every corner they get. These girls have 500 circle entries per match and with luck one ends in a goal.

Canada won. They will be in world cup unless they lose to Hong Kong by a lot of points, which simply won't happen. We will have to wait to 2023 to see a debutant team.

The repechage for the last place in world cup is on. Canada and Germany are playing right now what is esentially a final for the last available place (they defeated Kenya and Hong Kong easily some days ago). YouTube livestream:

[hide] Preliminary Round November 28th - December 9th, 2018 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st Nation from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals, the 2nd and the 3rd Nations from each Group will qualify for Quarterfinals Play-Offs Group A Date & Time (GMT +5:30) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 November 29th 2018, h. 17:00 Argentina 1 Spain November 29th 2018, h. 19:00 New Zealand 1 France December 3rd 2018, h. 17:00 Spain 1 France December 3rd 2018, h. 19:00 New Zealand 1 Argentina December 6th 2018, h. 17:00 Spain 2 New Zealand December 6th 2018, h. 19:00 Argentina 2 France Group B Date & Time (GMT +5:30) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 November 30th 2018, h. 17:00 Australia 3 Ireland November 30th 2018, h. 19:00 England 5 China December 4th 2018, h. 17:00 England 1 Australia December 4th 2018, h. 19:00 Ireland 2 China December 7th 2018, h. 17:00 Australia 7 China December 7th 2018, h. 19:00 Ireland 1 England Group C Date & Time (GMT +5:30) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 November 28th 2018, h. 17:00 Belgium 4 Canada November 28th 2018, h. 19:00 India 4 South Africa December 2nd 2018, h. 17:00 Canada 1 South Africa December 2nd 2018, h. 19:00 India 1 Belgium December 8th 2018, h. 17:00 Belgium 6 South Africa December 8th 2018, h. 19:00 Canada 3 India Group D Date & Time (GMT +5:30) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 1st 2018, h. 17:00 Netherlands 5 Malaysia December 1st 2018, h. 19:00 Germany 3 Pakistan December 5th 2018, h. 17:00 Germany 1 Netherlands December 5th 2018, h. 19:00 Malaysia 0 Pakistan December 9th 2018, h. 17:00 Malaysia 3 Germany December 9th 2018, h. 19:00 Netherlands 3 Pakistan [/hide]

With this set up it's easy for me to predict the teams that will go to Tokyo. Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Serbia, Russia, Italy, Netherlands, USA, Dominican Republic, China, Cameroon... and Korea or Thailand.

Netherlands just missed the last world cup not last two. Maybe you mean the euro 16.

The system per se is pretty fair, European fans will likely still complain but this group distribution that is bad for them is due to (in great part) pure luck. Or maybe FIVB planned to make 6 groups because they knew beforehand the ranking distribution would be like this?...

So, it's confirmed.. one of Italy, Poland, Serbia and France won't go to the games.

Our federation says on Twitter that we will play Canada, Finland and China in qualification tournament. Any official words from somewhere else?

Will FIVB ever get out of their recurrent Poland-Italy-Japan hosting circle? WCh for Russia is a start at least.

lol "bidding" it should be the highest ranked team that gets the right to host. Now it's evident why the change in format, FIVB's trying to grind some extra money from federations.

That's fine but they should also go harder against arab countries regarding Israel.

The copa libertadores final first leg will be played today at 16:00 gmt -3.

Is there any middle class people in the top contenders of this sport? If there are any, are they still supported by a millionaire?

Those were just my expectations before the contest but reality was otherwise. We received far more votes from others.

Oops. I missed that.

Meh, that isn't an issue. We vote Slovakia a lot last few contests and their language is completely alien to me. It's just that hckosice picks catchy songs (from my point of view).

18th place, a bit disappointing :/ More disappointing is that we only got 1 point between Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Brazil. Was not expecting that if I'm honest.

Gazzotti too. And that's why they aren't good, Federico never ever would shoot less than a 22.

Lol Melisa Gil had probably her worst performance in YEARS with 106 but still made the final Also Federico survived a bad start of 22 and will also be in the final.

He voted for all the top songs, booooring

I'm surprised how few votes Slovakia has. Didn't expect that.

Nope, still doesn't ring a bell I don't even remember the band name being mentioned much here, maybe they are just not known in south america, no clue.

No clue who this artist are. But maybe it's because I'm 30 yo.