EPT2013 - 2014 Football Thread - Page 251
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
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aseq
Netherlands4021 Posts
Croatia (10), Portugal (11), Greece (12) and Sweden (22) making best 4 numbers 2 and France (25), Ukraine (26), Hungary (30) and Iceland (54) forming the other 4 means there'd be a 25% chance! | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Enchanted
United States1609 Posts
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
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BeaTeR
Kazakhstan4130 Posts
On September 13 2013 13:51 Enchanted wrote: Portugal can still finish first by beating Russia. They already played both games against each other. There are only two rounds left so far. Portugal plays vs Luxemburg and Israel at home. Russia's games are away vs Luxemburg and Azerbaijan. | ||
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kyllinghest
Norway1607 Posts
On September 13 2013 14:09 WillyWanker wrote: If Russia ends up second, they would still be ahead of France. I feel like France cannot beat any of these teams (except maybe for Greece, but not even sure) in 2 games. But with our luck, we're still going to go to Brazil and get thrown out in Quarters and nothing's gonna change Tough luck. Most of us don´t get to experience even that. | ||
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
But our country is one of the most powerful in the World, with a good-sized population, good structures, good economy (compared to others of course), and we have terrible results in football Fun story : yesterday (or 2 days ago, I almost mix it up with these time zones) there was a documentary on football in France and other European countries. At some point there was the journalist asking some questions about player agents to the director of the FFF (French Football Federation)... She mentionned the agents that were breaking rules and named 2 agents that went to prison for that. He answered something like "Oh yeah him, I know him, he's a good guy/good agent"... How can you expect to progress when your top managers are like this... | ||
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Ferrose
United States11378 Posts
Ozil missed training (illness) but travels to Sunderland, Mertesacker also ill & does not travel, Vermaelen travels #bbcsportsday #afc #safc We waited two weeks to see Özil play for Arsenal, and now this. Plus Mertestriker injured ;__; | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Mafe
Germany5966 Posts
On September 14 2013 02:34 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: US takes on Scotland Nov 15th Not sure if this is a suitable challenge before the WC, but a good way to generate some headlines in the US for sure | ||
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Steveling
Greece10806 Posts
And easy for us. lololol | ||
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Teoyaomqui
Sweden326 Posts
On September 13 2013 15:56 WillyWanker wrote: "Rich people problem" sorry :D But our country is one of the most powerful in the World, with a good-sized population, good structures, good economy (compared to others of course), and we have terrible results in football Fun story : yesterday (or 2 days ago, I almost mix it up with these time zones) there was a documentary on football in France and other European countries. At some point there was the journalist asking some questions about player agents to the director of the FFF (French Football Federation)... She mentionned the agents that were breaking rules and named 2 agents that went to prison for that. He answered something like "Oh yeah him, I know him, he's a good guy/good agent"... How can you expect to progress when your top managers are like this... Last 8 world cups/euros you won 1 world cup, finished 2nd in one and won a European title, and that's just counting top 4 finishes. I think that's pretty damn awesome. Yeah, last couple of championships haven't been the best but all nations go through their ups and downs, nothing strange about that. Take some pride in your results, can't win 'em all. | ||
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mavignon
France369 Posts
On September 13 2013 09:47 WillyWanker wrote: No, it would be awesome, France would be out and we'd maybe start thinking differently :D Missing a world cup in Brazil, awesome? Wtf is wrong with you. | ||
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sharkie
Austria18762 Posts
On September 14 2013 06:32 Teoyaomqui wrote: Last 8 world cups/euros you won 1 world cup, finished 2nd in one and won a European title, and that's just counting top 4 finishes. I think that's pretty damn awesome. Yeah, last couple of championships haven't been the best but all nations go through their ups and downs, nothing strange about that. Take some pride in your results, can't win 'em all. I agree with you. WillyWanker sounds like France used to win every second world cup or so. | ||
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Dingodile
4139 Posts
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RvB
Netherlands6324 Posts
On September 14 2013 07:07 Dingodile wrote: Germany and Spain are the top2 since EC2008. The time 1998- 2006 was France the best eu team (except the total-failure wc2002). Exactly since 2006 France has just been horrible. And next wc that's 8 years ago... that's a long time. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Sporting KC has signed defender Federico Bessone | ||
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Akka
France291 Posts
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
On September 14 2013 06:43 sharkie wrote: I agree with you. WillyWanker sounds like France used to win every second world cup or so. That's not my meaning You took the results from the last 8 tournaments but the actual trend has been going on for the last 3 tournaments. First we are ridiculous in the 2008 groupstage with the worst coach in our history. We keep the same coach for the WC and we have players refusing to train and get kicked out the competition by Mexico, Uruguay and South Africa... We ban these players only to call them back 2 years later and be ridiculous again in the Euro. Now we're doing the WC qualif. with the same retarded players and I'm just hoping for a shock to help us change our thinking, like I actually was 'happy' when Barcelona lost 7-0 and not 1 or 2-0 against Bayern. Because that's the kind of thing that make you think about why you failed. If we qualify for Brazil, somehow pass the group stage and then be eliminated (because we will be eliminated against one of the 20 countries that are better than us currently), then nothing's gonna change. We're going to say "its fiiine we did good enough, lets try again next time maybe it will work!". Now I'm not asking them to win the WC every time! I would be happy if I just managed to like them... Currently I just cannot like the team, the players inside are not good persons and I don't identify myself when I look at that team. If we think it's a generational problem, we are fucked, the kids that are coming are even worse (behavior, not talent-wise)... It's time to build something like Prandelli has been doing with Italy. And sometimes to 'build good' you need to wipe everything and start from scratch. | ||
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