News: Other Teams - WC 2022 / International Edition (R)

Congratulations to Boateng, Kimmich and Kroos!

 

Kroos for president

 

Kimmich, and like nobody here cares?

Kroos, king of packing

 

So talked to a friend today who works at a luxury hotel in Zurich and met Ronaldo after an award show.
Apparently his plane couldn't take off so he and a couple of FIFA officials had to stay another night.
The FIFA officials demanded the kitches to open at 1am at night. The cook refused. The officials threw a hissy fit.

The only one who stayed clam and polite was Ronaldo. He said he would be ok with something like a sandwich from the kitchen, something they could throw together real fast. He got his sandwiches, gave a huge tip and took selfies with every employee still working. According to may friend he was the kindest high-profile celebrity they ever had at the hotel.
Certainly have to eat some crow, I can't hate him anymore. He might be in love with himself and a diving idiot from time to time who doesn't celebrate with this teammates but we all have our faults and that doesn't make a bad person per se.

 

It's ok for him to be awful sometimes and great sometimes. No one is a good person 100% of the time. I just think people (and the media) don't allow for flaws when it comes to role models.

 

For me it was seeing him do everything he could to play that final. I hated the guy but I now respect him. I even applauded him as he got subbed out.

 

so the defensive team has the same amount of shots has most attacking team of the euros, the only difference is that Portugal's shots did not go in and France's did
congrats to Portugal

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/seas
Total attempts

• 42
  43
  36​
  
  121
• 49
  39
  33​
  
  121
• 46
  37
  25​
  
  108
• 38
  35
  25​
  
  98
• 36
  20
  27​
  
  83

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Well not quite Iceland ... Still think Spain Belgium are better then Portugal and Iceland !!!

 

LOL, England got the last 38 minutes playing against 10 Slovakia and it took them until the 90+5 minutes to score, to win 1-0.

also Poland only drew 2-2 with Kazakhstan.

 

LOL, Euro champs Portugal lose 2-0 to the Swiss.
worst Euro winners ever show how bad they are, just like the Euros.

also France 0-0 vs Belarus.

 

Think this way...what a golden opportunity Germany lost in the Euro...but if luck would have crowned us champ

 

This entire football year has been a joke

 

LOL, Albania are leading Group G which also contains Italy and Spain, with 6 points.

 

LOL at Italy, barely beating Macedonia, this recent Italy have been pretty poor bunch too.

 

This generation is lacking in that WC talent. They overachieved at the euros.

I think Germany really should've won that one... the injuries really killed them. Not to mention ridiculous handballs in back to back games

 

Euro 16 was Germany's to lose, we were the best team of the tournament. Against Italy as you said we should have won the game without penalty shootout. It's a shame we couldn't cap beating Italy for the first time in a tournament by also winning the tournament. France should never have won and LOL at potential Portugal final.

in other news France beats German rivals Netherlands, who are now 3rd of their group. I sense a 2nd consecutive fail to qualify.

 

It was just weird football all over... between real winning then Portugal

 

Argentina without Messi have only gotten 1 point out a possible 6pts against Peru and Paraguay.
Their next qualifiers are against Brazil and Columbia too.

 

I would love it if they missed the WC.

 

even better news on the Argentina WC qualifiers front.
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y...er-2847422.html?intcmp=fifacom_hp_module_news

which now puts them in 6th position (which is outside of 5th playoff position) with 8 games remaining. With the next 2 being against Brazil and Colombia, if they don't get better Argentina could risk failing to qualify.

 

But then who would be beat in the KO rounds?

That matchup has always been an automatic bye for us

 

hahahah, another loss to Argentina, they lost 3-0 to Brazil.