Russian NT thread

Ukraine would wear the wide-leg Cossack pants and an Оселедець in the middle of their bold heads.

If they do go ahead with their threats to naturalize Papa Guye, can you imagine the kind of a cossack they could make out of him! Scary shmit!

And our goalie would be a bear.

That would sort of be awkward for Milevsky.

Why?

He'd be wearing that little hat with the spinning thing.

A Jewish Cossack?

We can have the whole team wearing beanies.

So?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Cossacks

"Of the different branches of Cossacks the only one that documents allowing Jews into their society were the Cossacks of Ukraine"

That's pretty interesting considering the usual image people have of Ukrainian Cossacks. Although according to that article it appears as if the tolerance eventually came to an end.

u-21, Russia 1 - 0 Albania. Smolov scored from the spot.

Tied Greece 1-1. Performance was nothing to write home about. Kokorin and Dzyuba with debuts.

Россия-2 — Литва 2:0

Голы: Самсонов, 10; Ещенко, 41

Россия-2: Помазан (Джанаев, 46), Гаджибеков (Таранов, 46), Сапета, Самсонов (Павленко, 46), Гранат (Буйволов, 69), Д.Комбаров (Коронов, 62), Садаев (Прудников, 46), Ещенко (Ионов, 46), Кулик (К.Комбаров, 46), Шипицин (Фомин, 69), Макеев (Бугаев, 62)

Литва: Клевинскас, Андрюшкевичюс (Славинскас, 46), Микуцкис, Янкаускас, Вайткунас, Пилибайтис (Калонас, 84), Панка (Лаймонас, 85), Лукша (Вицюс, 46), Шиленас (Шоблинскас, 72), Папшис (Мижигурскис, 88), Бенюшис (Матулявичюс, 46)

Предупреждения: Сапета, 7; Садаев, 43 - Пилибайтис, 45; Микуцкис, 51
Судья: И.Егоров (Россия)
Грозный. Стадион им. А.-Х.Кадырова

Читать полностью: http://www.gazeta.ru/sport/2011/11/a_3831214.shtml

We gotta root for Turkey today, right?

Yea, should Turkey get the tie we'll switch pots with Croatia. Although to be honest I really don't care if we get a super tough group come next summer as long as we avoid Spain.

Yay Turkey!

We got what we needed, not lets see if we can capitalize on it.

Pot 2 for Russia. Hope they get Poland or Ukraine

If Russia doesn't get Ukraine or Poland they get Netherlands or Spain....

Germany Spain Portugal France would be epic.

Also guaranteed not to happen. Mathematically 0% I bet.

France is going to get Poland and Sweden/Greece at the very least.

From the standpoint of qualifying, fans of both teams are wishing to play each other at the group stage.

I want to see it because it would be epic and it's a dream of mine to scream 'goal' really loud in a bar in front of a bunch of Ukrainians.

Are you going to Euro 2012?