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20 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

the best team with deep solutions in this WC even better than Brazil itself , at least England has a lot of world class right and left backs unlike Brazil that will go with Alex Sandro and Danilo who're producing funny performance in Juventus 

Brazilians could say England's center backs produce "funny performance" as well.

Just now, hckošice said:

our comentator calling it already over, I dunno, somehow I smell a remontada from Iran in the 2nd

No way, this is finished. 

Iran doesn't have technical resources to do relentless attacking.  

Queiroz gameplan is always resisting 60 minutes and then attempt some counters to win. This time it failed. 

1 minute ago, thepharoah said:

 

I read somewhere on fakebook per Argentinian channel 

 

Some days ago he trained separately but it was because of fatigue. He's training normally now. Old news.

4 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

Messi didn't complete training today 

?  

Not true.

Perfect prediction start wohooo 

28 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

It's a persinified Arabic headdress as the mascot. It does look like a ghost but at least it's something recognizeable. I can't recall any of the World Cup mascots since the tri-color figure at Italia 1990

The bird from 98 was pretty iconic, at least when I was a kid. But maybe it's just my nostalgia.

28 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

 

do u know if Ochoa will start for Mexico or not , as i tend to put him in fantasy WC

Yes

France is 100% losing to Denmark, yikes.  hopefully they will lose to Tunisia or Australia too and clear our path 

Portugal qualified. 

No world cup for USA.

All the south asians will be a big boost for us to "beat" the numerous saudis and mexicans on the grades. 

Oof what a choke from our guy.  I was expecting high given his scores in previous rounds. 

I suppose this sport is one of those where many participants don't give their 100% before the final? 

Btw you pussies whining about the climate now you know what it feels like to watch a winter WC     

Let's not forget that Argentina 78 and South Africa 2010 were held mid winter just to suit northern audiences. 

1 hour ago, Federer91 said:

The problem is not the time or the place, it's the f'n calendar being crammed to 200%. It's unbelievable how all the leagues are still going one week before the start of the WC.

 

There is just no break for the fans to get excited... And everything was enhanced in the last months so they can get as many matches in and not "disrupt" the leagues. They should have ended them last week at least to have a 2 week break before the start, but no.. There are just to many matches and the special ones are getting less and less.

This is entirely on Europe. Most other leagues around the world already wrapped up before this weekend.   

The calendar is crammed because UEFA forced their NTs to play all those stupid nations league games in June. Otherwise all european leagues could have started at least a week earlier. 

8 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

 really hope that this guy can a way or another in Argentine Squad,  remember this name very well Garnacho 

Zero chance but I predict he will debut in march for the first 2026 qualifier games.

53 minutes ago, Roamingrover86 said:

Have Serbia announced their squad yet?

Any other NT left to annouce  

No.  

Almost half the teams.

1 hour ago, thepharoah said:

 

is Araujo ready ? 

This is fake, they release the list later today.  

One quota for  in 10m rifle men & women.

55 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

The "Mecca" of Rink Hockey

 

Tuesday 3pm, people have to work you know.

24 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Yeah, Dani Alves got a "life-time achievement" call-up just in case Brazil actually wins it?

 

Poland will announce the squad on Thursday. Our idiot coach said he will call up four goalkeepers Even if we go Greece '94 and swap them after every group loss, there won't be game four to use all of them

To be fair the 4th polish GK is still a good player while a field player in his place would be an ekstraklasa nobody  

The champion will be one of Argentina, Brazil or Portugal.   

France has the talent to win it again of course but I'm very skeptical about betting anything on defending champions in this competition, so I don't think they will win.  

I don't see any other team winning. 

It's not much of a problem if GB remains as one team every season. 

2 hours ago, mrv86 said:

I’m curious: what would your position is if people started using “Saint Dominic/Santo Domingo” instead of “Dominican Republic/República Dominicana”.

 

Moreover, would it be too weird to use “Río de la Plata/River Plate” instead of “Argentina”?

Argentina is an adjective that has "evolved" into a noun, there's no problem there. The english used to call it "the argentine" in the XIX century, personally wouldn't care if they kept doing that, it's their language after all.     

About RD, if they were simply called "dominicana" it would be easier. But there is already Dominica, so perhaps it would cause more trouble than good for everyone in that case.  

Well, I do support the Czechia change since almost every country in the world is officially called "the republic of x" or "the y republic" so it didn't make much sense for everyone to address the czech especifically like that.   

However all Turkiye, Qazakstan, Cymru stuff is ridiculous, just accept your english name for international events lol, don't try that hard to be a snowflake. 

33 minutes ago, konig said:

In person is "muy piola", i have a barbecue with him and Diego Giacomini in 2019.

Lol aren't them at odds now? Just like with Maslatón.  

These "liberals" split up every two seconds  just like the marxists.