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Why the hell do the 2 pools lead by the top 2 ranked teams have the same semifinal bracket for the winners? Is CAVB stupid?

First time watching any of these players... This girl Sakkari is JACKED, she has the body of a MMA female fighter.

They are missing Kosovo now but damnnn you're right, completely overlooked them so they beat Bulgaria by one (missing and ). I can't even do this simple game correctly. Surprisingly, Estonia have also played half of Conmebol already

Balakov was the coach, he resigned after the 0-6 + incidents vs England. I remember that somehow

You played them in last euro qualification... they beat you 2-3 in Sofia.

Correct! they have even played Venezuela despite they have never qualified for the world cup. Naturally, all national teams tend to organize friendlies with familiar nations (well, at least it used to be like that before money took over). They have also played almost all hispanic central american NTs.

While you still think about the answer for that I'll give you another one (the last one, I promise): Who is the only UEFA team that has played all 10 Conmebol members at least once? This one should be fairly easy since you can find a reason for the answer without even googling the records of all the teams.

In case this helps: I only count current FIFA/UEFA member associations. What's the reason?

No. Haha but nope. Spain is missing some others as well. Nope.

They should be banned from international sport for a multitude of other reasons but not this.

Let's have little UEFA trivia... Still no european national team has played all other UEFA members at least once, but the team that is the closest to achieve this is still missing just 2 opponents (total UEFA members: 55, obviously they can't play themselves so it's 54 possible opponents). What team is it? (clue: this nation has at least 1 active member in this forum)

You're also toasted with the nations league quotas since it's not looking likely that Austria will be top 2 in their group. 2026 it is then.

[hide] Preliminary Round September 12th - September 20th, 2021 24 Nations, 6 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nation from each Group + the 4 best 3rd-placed Nations will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 12th 2021, h. 18:00 Kazakhstan 5 2 Costa Rica September 12th 2021, h. 20:00 Lithuania 1 3 Venezuela September 15th 2021, h. 18:00 Costa Rica 3 3 Venezuela September 15th 2021, h. 20:00 Lithuania 0 5 Kazakhstan September 18th 2021, h. 20:00 Costa Rica 4 3 Lithuania September 18th 2021, h. 20:00 Venezuela 1 2 Kazakhstan Group B Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 12th 2021, h. 16:00 RFU 3 1 Egypt September 12th 2021, h. 18:00 Uzbekistan 3 2 Guatemala September 15th 2021, h. 18:00 Egypt 4 1 Guatemala September 15th 2021, h. 20:00 Uzbekistan 0 3 RFU September 18th 2021, h. 18:00 Egypt 1 1 Uzbekistan September 18th 2021, h. 18:00 Guatemala 0 5 RFU Group C Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 13th 2021, h. 18:00 Morocco 7 3 Solomon Islands September 13th 2021, h. 20:00 Thailand 1 6 Portugal September 16th 2021, h. 18:00 Solomon Islands 1 12 Portugal September 16th 2021, h. 20:00 Thailand 2 4 Morocco September 19th 2021, h. 20:00 Solomon Islands 2 5 Thailand September 19th 2021, h. 20:00 Portugal 3 0 Morocco Group D Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 13th 2021, h. 18:00 Vietnam 0 7 Brazil September 13th 2021, h. 20:00 Panama 1 6 Czech Republic September 16th 2021, h. 18:00 Brazil 3 1 Czech Republic September 16th 2021, h. 20:00 Panama 2 4 Vietnam September 19th 2021, h. 18:00 Brazil 11 0 Panama September 19th 2021, h. 18:00 Czech Republic 4 1 Vietnam Group E Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 14th 2021, h. 18:00 Paraguay 0 2 Spain September 14th 2021, h. 20:00 Angola 2 3 Japan September 17th 2021, h. 18:00 Spain 2 1 Japan September 17th 2021, h. 20:00 Angola 0 2 Paraguay September 20th 2021, h. 18:00 Spain 6 1 Angola September 20th 2021, h. 18:00 Japan 1 0 Paraguay Group F Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 14th 2021, h. 18:00 Serbia 1 2 Iran September 14th 2021, h. 20:00 Argentina 5 2 United States September 17th 2021, h. 18:00 Iran 3 0 United States September 17th 2021, h. 20:00 Argentina 2 1 Serbia September 20th 2021, h. 20:00 Iran 2 2 Argentina September 20th 2021, h. 20:00 United States 1 4 Serbia Top 3 Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Nation Portugal Argentina Spain [/hide]

They only left out Mikhailov from olympic team. I think they just lack motivation or fitness for this competition + Turkey is not so bad, they have been crushing everyone in the golden european league last few years. I don't think they are much less than teams like Netherlands or Bulgaria nowadays.

The return match in Spain could not matter for Sweden anymore... if they beat Georgia (away), Kosovo and Greece (x2) they will qualify.

Not to mention Bolivia

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France also in QF. 2024 is here

Sweden is like Poland in football, they are a squad of very average talent carried by a top 5 attacking player in the world (Isabelle Haak, 26 pt today).

Not a total shock. This was a provincial team representing Argentina. Here's what happened: both our men's and women's team travelled together on bus to Chile (yes, all inside a single tiny bus in covid time, stupid). When entering Chile one player of the men's team got a positive in a quick covid test and as a result, all players of both teams and their entire coaching staff were sent back to Argentina and quarantined. Therefore no one could play this championship because of a single positive! we had to make two new teams from scratch and send them without any training 2 days before the tournaments. The men apparently were decent enough to beat USA so far and look like they will qualify. The women, evidently, weren't good enough (yet they held their own pretty decently in both games given the circumstances). It is really sad because especially our women's team was absurdly talented this time, we were sending one olympic medalist girl from Tokyo and several others from the last YOG but their dreams were completely crushed before they could even play a single game due to incompetence from our federation

Yeah, I was just about to post that after looking in wikipedia. It seems only the top 4 teams of the recent division I are guaranteed to play division I again in 2023. All the rest (from the 5th place of div I all the way down to teams in div IV) will play each other in some ridiculous series of tournaments in 2022 in order to be distributed to the various divisions for 2023. So absurd... we'll see some 20-0 scores.

Eurohockey division II results. a)Top 2 got promoted to Div I for 2023. b) top 5 advanced to the final european qualifier for a world cup place, which will grant 1 more WC place for women and 2 for men. They will contest for that with the bottom 3 teams of division I. c) Bottom 2 are relegated to div III 2023. Men 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Women 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Great progress made by who will have both their teams in top division just before the olympics.

Bet contest Have you at least checked so far how many participants made a valid entry (correct points distribution)?

Women's javelin desperately needs a new star and this girl could be it. The most unremarkable field event over the last few years.

Olympics are intrinsically about nationality since ancient times. It's always been about nations competing so they don't do real war. Without nationalities the concept of olympics loses it's purpose. Maybe it'll be for the better, but it won't be the olympics anymore and we should therefore close this website.