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I would love too see Benneteau winning his first title here. That would be wonderful story. To add, he plays really beautiful tennis

Fairy tale of Julian Benneteau continues , as he surprisingly defeated Cilic today in Paris QF , to reach SF in his last tournament , Julian has never won an ATP title in singles , so it'll be fantastic if he can ends his career with a major tournament ! 

Very well said 

no African representative at both men and women world club championships , neither men's nations league , nor grand champions cup , what else will Africa be prevented from participating , WC ? Is FIVB for strong and rich nations or for all nations and continents !  

OMG , i thought it's all over after i saw u leading 2-1 after 1st half ! 

Well, the problem with these continental championships (except European div I) is that there isn't video referral, so there'll always be dodgy decisions in goals and/or PCs since hockey is very difficult sport for referees with the tiny ball and the speed of play. 
 
I'm sad Egypt couldn't qualify, it's always good to see new faces in big tournaments and also because South Africa will just be a punching bag at the WC with this current level.

FIFA's Issues , ofc. golden boot mean's Top scorer and Golden shoe mean's MVP in other words 

On the other hand, the exact same player should have been sent off like 3 minutes earlier for an insane tackle which only got him yellow, so..karma's a bitch  

Hayward was headed into surgery and will be out for reminder of the season.

we have only 1 participant this time , the sport is vanishing in Egypt  , actually many sports are struggling after floating currency that the government did last year , it really affected sport badly  

Choong and Muir are only ones I'm sure of - their participation is confirmed on PentathlonGB webiste.
Maybe (just suppose) Prasiantsova, who doesn't participate in U24 Europeans, though Belarus sends strong team.
Maybe, they are training normally
As well as Italians
Maybe Schleu, I'm not sure but I think she wrote something about it few weeks ago on Facebook. Schöneborn married not so long ago, but last year Khuraskina came to CISM World Championships right after her honeymoon and won it. They also don't send anyone to U24 Europeans to Drzonków, though this age category is also for Marvin Dogue, Christian Zillekens and Alexandra Bettinelli.
Maybe Özyüksel, there was some competition lately in Turkey, seems like National Championships (unfortunately I didn't check it in details), so they may be training now normally.
 
No go:
Nowacka, who is on holiday in Balkans. We have this U24 Europeans in Drzonków, so other seniors might come to support their younger colleagues. And all our national team coaches will be there, so probably only Maliszewska might come with her club coach to Doha (but I doubt it, as her boyfriend, Stasiak, will start in her home city and there was no document of selection signed by sports director as it is usually done for the UIPM competition, which is all competitions instead of the only commercial one - Kremlin Cup, and CISM competitions).
Kovács is on holiday in Rome, Földházi seems not to train now as well, she took part in some "BBQ World Cup". Bence Demeter had hip surgery. In fact I doubt any of Hungarians will be in Doha - both "association captains" (they call their main coaches this way in Hungarian) are to come to Drzonków. Though somebody might go either without a coach or with a club coach.
Hefny has some pain and doesn't run - posted on Instagram photo from horse riding training.
Kuf was on some trip in mountains, even if it was part of training, not the kind it should be done few days before competition in the desert.
They had holiday lastly, I think - some of their women's pentathletes posted photos in bikini by the sea in last days/weeks, so I suppose they wouldn't start in a competition without training.

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Indonisian goalkeeper Choirul Huda ( 38 years ) died yesterday , after this crash with his team mate , RIP 

,  qualified to wch 2018 ,  ,  will fight for bronze

This should be a summary of Argentina's Campaign at this WC qualifications 

Good Bye Legend , it's very sad that Robben didn't win a major title for the Netherlands before he retires , I'm happy that this guy at least won every thing with Bayern munchen 

could we have a group of Russia - Iceland - Egypt - Panama  this would be a dream one for us 

in 2006 they've done a great WC , losing only to WC champions in R16 with a suspicious PK in the vary last minute , current Australia could lose to any team and Honduras would be very dangerous at home , they could destroy Australia there , unlike Australia at home became a very weak team , tying with Syria 1-1 , defeating Thailand at 86th minute , a very lucky win over KSA , they don't deserve to go for WC this time IMO   

This should be a summary of Argentina's Campaign at this WC qualifications 

could we have a group of Russia - Iceland - Egypt - Panama  this would be a dream one for us 

USA is out now 

What Peru has just did is a miracle IMO,  they were down before just 6 games at last 3 places , but believed in their selves and make some wins in a row , I thinks they were always my favorite team in SA for a reason

Messi 3-1 Ecuador 

We qualified to WC what a match , I went crazy after this late goal and all Egyptians went like this I think , I wouldn't have watched any upcoming match for our national team if we've tied today  Mohamed Salah  any words can't describe how thankful are we for this guy for qualification , hopefully he can be among best players in the world in the near future

All right , best wishes to Dutch team today