our internationals

[guignol]

No L1 matches this week (doh !) but lots of olympiens will be hard at work.

coupet, réveillère, govou, wiltord et malouda will be playing two crucial matches for les bleus: saturday 3/9 in lens against the faroe islands and wednesday in dublin against ireland. For coupet it’s his 13th cap, RVR’s 2nd, malouda’s 4th. For govou it’s n° 16 with 3 goals, and for our own nino wiltord, it’s 71 caps and 23 scores.

carew will be in slovenia saturday, and plays scotland in oslo wednesday. Both these teams are 4 points behind italy, the winner will have a good chance to get a 2nd place berth.

juninho will be with the selecao sunday for a decisive match against chile. If they win they’ll be qualified for WC2006 with two matches left (sigh)… then it’s a friendly in spain tuesday or wednesday to celebrate the centenary of FC Seville.

lamine diatta will be in zambia saturday. The heroes of 2002 will have it tough. Even if they win their last two matches against zambia and djila diarra’s mali, they’ll need help to qualify.

[SportBoy333]

No Tiago playing for Portugal ? Is Portugal not playing this weekend ?

[Looper121]

********, the entire team is gonna come back wiped out for Monaco...

[ElasticNorseman]

...carew will be in slovenia saturday, and plays scotland in oslo wednesday. Both these teams are 4 points behind italy, the winner will have a good chance to get a 2nd place berth....

Huge game today for Norway and Carew.

[guignol]

So how did our boys do for god and country?

france beat the faeroe islands 3-0. coupet and malouda played the whole match, and rather well. Not much work for greg, but one very nice stop on a very dangerous shot when france was up 1-0. flo very active, his pass to cissé set up the first goal and he had two close chances himself. wiltord came in for henry in the second half, and offered cissé a caviar cross for his second goal. ; Réveillère wathced from the bench and Govou from the stands. rendez-vous wednesday in ireland!

Norway won a big match in slovenia 3-2, with a first minute goal from carew. with italy held to a 1-1 nil in scotland, things are looking up for them.

senegal and lamine diatta beat zambia 1-0 but with togo beating liberia 3-0, things look tough.

Brazil qualified with two matches in hand with a 5-0 trouncing of chile and an adriano hat-trick. Juninho came on in the 2nd half, and touched 24 balls in 24 minutes. one shot on goal, but a free kick in a very sweet position was played quickly from under his nose by kaka, one wonders why.

[guignol]

********, the entire team is gonna come back wiped out for Monaco...not the entire team. OL didn't beef up the squad just to have pretty pictures of players on the bench and the stands!

[Quaresma_10]

No Tiago playing for Portugal ? Is Portugal not playing this weekend ?


Tiago is not part of the Portugal team yet.

[guignol]

Tiago is not part of the Portugal team yet.he'll have to show more than he did saturday to get capped. what one saw of him was very nice, there just wasn't enough of it.

[guignol]

Norway
in group 5, Norway and John Carew are at 12 points, 5 behind the leader Italy. They host Moldavia October 8th and travel to Belarus on October 12th.

France
Les Bleus go to Bern this Saturday to play Switzerland, then host Cyprus in the Stade de France on October 12th. Gones Grégory Coupet, Anthony Réveillère, Florent Malouda, Sidney Govou et Sylvain Wiltord are in the group.

In U-21, Jérémy Clément and Jérémy Berthod pour meet the same teams the dates are October 7th and October 11th.

Then there’s the U-19 squad, who will play two friendlies against Norway, today October 5 and Friday the 7th. The two keepers are Joël Bats’ protégés Johan Hartock et Rémy Riou. Defender Sandy Paillot, midfielder Romain Beynié and strikers Hatem Ben Arfa and Karim Benzema have been capped.

Portugal
In group 3, Tiago and Portugal are in front with 24 points. They play Liechtenstein on the 8th and Lithuania on the 12th, both at home.

Brazil
The Seleçao goes to Bolivia October 9th and host Venezuela on the 12 octobre 2005. Juninho and his teammates, already qualified, are second in their group with 30 points, 1 point behind Argentina.

Senegal
Senegal and Lamine Diatta will host Mali, without Diarra, suspended. Second, 2 points behind Togo, Senegal will be trying to take first place in their combined ANC-WC qualifying group.

[guignol]

a little update: for those who played for france it's not necessary as we all followed those matches pretty closely :D but for the others:

Tiago and Portugal qualified for WC2006 by beating little Liechtenstein 2-0. Tiago played the last 15 minutes. He started the Lithuania match, a 3-0 win and a yellow card.

Carew's teammates beat Moldavia and Belarus both on 1-0 scores without him: he was suspended for the first and in bed with the flu for the second. They'll have a play-off to win to get to the big show.

Senegal with Lamine Diatta beat Mali without Diarra (suspended) 3-0. Since Togo beat the Congo 3-2 they don't go to Germany, but they qualified for the African Nations' Cup. For Mali on the other hand, it's all over but the crying.

last but not least, in matches "pour du beurre", Brazil tied Bolivia 1-1, with the score coming from a Juninho® free-kick in the 24th minute. In the seleçao's 3-0 victory over Venezuela, he came in for Zé Roberto in the 67th minute.

[Breakwood]

I'm surprised Fred wasn't included in Brasil's squad. The team has allready qualified, so you would think they would try and put in some youngster with out prior caps.

[FredGavioes]

no spots for fred in this selecao, i mean if he shows a great effort, and ricardo olveira plays ************, we might see this, but its unlikely... i want fred at wc2006 but i dont think it will happen, unless someone gets injuried (god forbid)

[guignol]

Euro 2006 U19 qualifiers

in Limoges for the first qualifying round next year's European Cup, France started the defense of their title on the right foot by beating Wales 3-1 in front of 7000 spectators in Limoges.

After a first minute strike for the Welsh from McDonald, Philippe Bergeroo's protégés got on track with 3 goals, all from Lyon players; two from defender Sandy Paillot and one from Hatem Ben Arfa. The tournament continues in Limoges, France will face San Marino wednesday and Austria friday.

note: Other OL players selected were Rémy Riou, Romain Beynie and Karim Benzema

[fishbiproduct]

no spots for fred in this selecao, i mean if he shows a great effort, and ricardo olveira plays ************, we might see this, but its unlikely... i want fred at wc2006 but i dont think it will happen, unless someone gets injuried (god forbid)

Well, there was this bit in yesterday's L'Equipe:


"Fred pour remplacer Ronaldo ?

L'attaquant lyonnais Fred pourrait accompagner son coéquipier Juninho en Arabie Saoudite et au Koweït en novembre. L'avant-centre brésilien serait en effet en bonne position pour être appelé en équipe nationale pour les deux prochains matches de la Seleçao les 12 et 15 novembre prochain. Le sélectionneur Carlos Parreira cherche un remplaçant à Ronaldo. L'attaquant du Real Madrid est actuellement indisponible en raison d'une blessure à la cheville"

http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/20051024_154020_01.html


Now, this is all conditional but Fred "may" be called
up by Parreira to replace Ronaldo (injured). Brazil
is due to play in Saudi-Arabia and Kuwait in November
(12th &15th), that would be the occasion.

[FredGavioes]

Well, there was this bit in yesterday's L'Equipe:


"Fred pour remplacer Ronaldo ?

L'attaquant lyonnais Fred pourrait accompagner son coéquipier Juninho en Arabie Saoudite et au Koweït en novembre. L'avant-centre brésilien serait en effet en bonne position pour être appelé en équipe nationale pour les deux prochains matches de la Seleçao les 12 et 15 novembre prochain. Le sélectionneur Carlos Parreira cherche un remplaçant à Ronaldo. L'attaquant du Real Madrid est actuellement indisponible en raison d'une blessure à la cheville"

http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/20051024_154020_01.html


this could be a chance right there... i hope parreira calls him

Now, this is all conditional but Fred "may" be called
up by Parreira to replace Ronaldo (injured). Brazil
is due to play in Saudi-Arabia and Kuwait in November
(12th &15th), that would be the occasion.


this could be a chance right there... i hope parreira calls him, but hes a benchwarmer...

[guignol]

hey fred, since you're a corinthians supporter, what do you think of nilmar's chances? he and the team are hot.

[guignol]

and it's official! Parreira has picked Fred along with Juninho for the seleçao'spersian gulf trip, 2 friendlies against the UAE and kuwait on nov. 12th and 15th.

[FredGavioes]

hey fred, since you're a corinthians supporter, what do you think of nilmar's chances? he and the team are hot.

on his first game.. he scored a goal.. the kid is amazing. im hoping lyon would sell him to us, hes doing good every game, what a player.

But parreira made up his mind a;ready, look, robinho , adriano, ronaldo and ricardo oliveira, are going to the wc, unless somethin happen to them. and if it happens, Fred will go, but nilmar, i dont think so, its been some time since he was called to the selecao.

[Breakwood]

Brasil trounced the United Arab Emirates 8-0 on Saturday. Fred scored 2 along with Juninho who also had 2.

[guignol]

as for those playing for france, malouda looked good bot against costa rica and germany, govou did some great work against CR but missed scoring :eek: , coupet didn't play against CR but did a super job against germany with two super saves, reveillère looked good against both CR germany, 165 more minutes under the belt and seeing both him and sagnol on the field together opens up strange questions about his future in blue. wiltord didn't play in germany, and was mostly transparent in martinique. last, not least, but worst, abidal broke another bone in his foot in martinique and will be out 5 months :(

john carew with norway lost at home to the czech republic 0-1; return match 16 november.

tiago played for portugal and beat croatia 2-0.