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Sure, that's good, but at least make the abbreviation less...you know, the same as others World Aquatics Federation would be better.

Schouten, shorttrack team, De Groot and Otter. As for the men, I'm doubting between Verstappen and Lavreysen. Verstappen's performances without a doubt have way more impact, but Lavreysen is better for the medal counter, so hard to make a choice there.

I don't know, WA is a good federation, but personally I prefer WA over WA, although WA is not a bad one neither.

What was the problem with that? The referee in NED - ARG was honestly awful, but at least he was not really favouring any specific side. He just seemed to lose control after giving a first yellow and then gave everyone and their mother yellows for whatever

There was not a lot of directness in this specific case though Coach was asked if he has a plan for player X, and he simply makes an observation about player X. Not 'he is not good', or 'he is bad', just an observation about someone's playing style. It's nothing more than what goalkeeper Noppert said after the match against USA, when being asked about playing Messi next: "He's great, but for me he's still just a player who's shots I have to stop." There is hardly a world imaginable where that is provocative Oh well, I guess tiptoeing around everything annoys people here, while getting to the point annoys people in other places, it is what it is and a bit of fuel to the fire of a rivalry (even if only one side sees it as fuel) is never bad in any sport. The end of this match would not have been so tense and full of passion if it was NED against, say, Sweden

Ah, I see. So in reality it's not provoking, but mostly people choose to see it that way? I guess it's also part of wanting something to 'fight' against, it's often easier (and more fun) to be playing an 'enemy', even if needing to twist meanings a bit to make the other team the enemy

Is it also part of the football culture to twist the words of coaches? Like with Van Gaal, who said nothing special or weird at all ("We trained a lot on penalties, so I'm confident if it gets to that" and "Messi isn't usually very present in defending, so yes, of course we have a plan, like we do for every opponent"), and this nothing special or weird or provocative or aggressive was apparently somehow turned into 'a big provocation'?

Huh, I thought that was a third brother, until now I realize the person we in the Netherlands all know as 'Nordin Amrabat' is this Noureddine Amrabat

[hide] Knockout Stage December 3rd - December 18th, 2022 4 Nations, The Winners of each Semfinal will qualify for the Final. The Losers of each Semifinal will play the Third-Place Match. Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 13th 2022, h. 22:00 Argentina 0 1 Croatia December 14th 2022, h. 22:00 France 1 2 Morocco [/hide]

Dear lord, THAT is how you don't take a penalty.

Yeah, this should be a penalty. What a dumb charge.

Ah, you have the luxury of waiting until the next morning until reports of vandalism and projectiles being thrown at police and others

Dear lord, THAT is how you take a penalty

That's just the illegal heavy stuff, the more normal stuff is only legally sold in the last 3 days of the year

Nah, police has already had to come with an 'emergency order' in certain, let's call it 'famous' parts of (for now) The Hague and you can get arrested pretty easily now Luckily my little town doesn't really have the problem with riots in moments like this

Huge Spanish record for young Nil Llop, going from 34.97 to 34.52 and winning the B division in doing so Seriously, the kid's starting to count for real.

Less hyped than I would have been early in the season, his 1500m yesterday was, let's say, less than impressive

Casablanca is in Milan, so I guess Marrakech and Tanger are the provinces we have here? As long as it stays with 'happy fireworks' and cheering and such, all fine

The players kind of but especially the people and authorities around (before) the match made it into a match that was basically done before the start. It's a miracle Argentina somehow didn't manage to make it an easy 5-0.

No way this is even remotely close to being a bigger surprise

Since he is a Corinthians legend, I'm apparently not allowed to say too much bad stuff about him

Not sure if you mean Van Gaal, he was standing with the players for quite a while on the field

Fake captain Ronaldo being the first one to walk away says enough about him. What an incredible loser.

From a sports perspective, this is absolutely insanely fantastic, this team is awesome

Let's gooooooo, fight fight fight