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2017/2018 European Football Thread

Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by Yung-T, Jul 19, 2017.

  1. Yung-T

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    4:3 oh boy, few more minutes to go.
     
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    hahahahahaha 4:4
     
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    Unbelievable :D I seriously thought at halftime how cool it would be if Schalke came back but never thought it was possible that Dortmund blows this.
     
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    Reiterates the issues with Bosz, can't adapt at all and always sticks to the same gameplan. When you're up 4:0 at halftime, there's no reason to stick to the attacking strategy, the 1:4 and 2:4 should've been the last wake-up call to park the bus.
     
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    Former Bundesliga legend Zé Roberto announced his retirement and will say goodbye to the Palmeiras home crowd today.
    The match vs Botafogo should be a good one, great talents on both sides and at a time where Europeans and US brehs can watch.

    My favourite prospect breh (Roger Guedes) has been injured for a while and now also had internal struggles with club officials, so you will not see him playing and this will likely be his last season for Palmeiras.
    Cruzeiro and Mineiro are the hottest targets for a transfer atm, if he hadn't been injured he'd likely left for Europe.

    Btw: Zé Roberto saying he wants to go live in Germany after retirement and misses the country, good stuff. :)
     
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    Would easily pick him in an All Brazilian Soccer Draft.
     
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    Lmao, Argentinian national coach Sampaoli did in an interview and said Germany aren't favourites because he doesn't "like" their style and because they have no superstars.

    What a clown, no wonder they desperately struggled to qualify with such a simpleton.
     
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    Not that I want to rekindle this, but some fans have declared to possibly hang a National socialistic Flag during the next game against a German team. (Swastika)

    I think both sides have to cool the f down first.
     
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    Agree that both sides have to calm down, but it's kind of funny. NS regime was more than 70 years ago and we profoundly apologized for decades, whereas the Tibet issue still persists. These "fans" should probably take some history lessons and learn to critically think.
     
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    Yeah but those things last long. Real Madrid fans fairly recently did the same thing

    FYI I think some clubs are going the Ajax way, I think that's going to help.

    It's different if it's territorial dispute (amongst others) or genocide, target group inside one's country and waging all out war in others.

    It's on a whole other level. The Tibet issue does not persist, it still exists because Lamaists have tied close relationships with Western celebs, and other people and brought that to awareness otherwise it won't even be reported.

    It's actually the only reason why there is a movement because Western folks who believe in Buddhism think they are doing something noble. It's really just an angle.

    I dun think an apology would suffice to be honest with you, there are too many groups just like in Syria or Middle East, say sorry to one group and the other group will try to go its separatist way.

    There were many talks with Dalaima, most of them which wasn't reported in the Western media, he just did not accept what was offered which is his right of course.

    It's just not a 'thing' that there were no peaceful talks. Blood has been shed on both sides, people just don't know how many Chinese has been killed.

    Would those talks fared better under a Democratic country? Could very well be but we won't know. It's not my place to blame one side because I am a Moderate. I dun take Sides!
     
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    Corrected. A tad Beckham.
     
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    Sanches getting absolutely hammered by Swansea fans, still don't get why you'd loan a prospect to a club that was known to fight for relegation all season and plays terrible football.

    Think Clement will be sacked soon, but seeing how Sanches continues to get playing time I believe there's something in the loan contract that forces Swansea to play Sanches.

    Still a wasted season, think he'll leave Bayern if the new coach doesn't 100% want him.
     
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    Villas-Boas wanting to step down as Shanghai coach to become a driver in Rallye Dakar, can't make this ish up.
     
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    He is known as the Modern Leverkusener, always end up 2nd in championship pursuit and in the Cup, International Cup.

    He will take a break of 1 or 2 years and be back with another team.

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    Tactically most of the Portuguese coaches are fine, it's the human interaction with players, interaction with referees, the league officials, the Emotional Intelligence that counts.

    Not everyone is good at that.

    Everywhere one goes.

    Paulo Sousa recently followed Fabio Cannavaro as Tianjin's coach. Hope the Ex Dortmunder does well.

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    http://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/2017/10/30/59f7a9f646163f421d8b4569.html

    24 teams all 4 years......overlapping with the UEFA Nations Cup.
     
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    Stupid if you ask me, the Euro teams will either send b-units or crush the other continents. But I guess it's a great opportunity for teams outside of Europe and their fans, as they right now never get to compete with the European elite.

    Kinda changed my tone after the first sentence and realized it is an okay idea, especially as most teams would anyways play pre-season games in the summer and now can do this instead.
     
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    More games. Even more games, more, more, more... these greedy b****es at FIFA still can't enough. Players are already over their limits.
     
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