he didn't say that because saying it openly could create problems. but there is no reason he can't say he changed his mind in 2 years time or...
because there's no point in wasting his time with these pointless qualifiers. the added free weeks he'll have will be very beneficial to him as...
he'll probably be back for the euros and the 2018 world cup.
i didn't mention 2004. in 2007. kaka and ronaldinho didn't play, and ronaldinho was already in decline. missing two players doesn't make it a...
this is completly false. brazil played with their best team in both the 2007 and the 2011 copa. copa america has found it's place after moving...
youth championships are not an accurate reflection on the quality of european players of that age. many of them already have roles on pro teams...
those types of groups would be extremely impractical. and the difference in the quality of experience you'd get from them compared to the...
results in youth football are very close to irrelevant. european clubs develop players to play for the first team of their club, not to win...
and what would you say if intercontinental qualifying resulted in more european (and south american) teams, which is entirely possible, even...
i just wanted to point out that players on brazilian teams usually don't play more games than players at top european clubs, as you should add...
the most ''artsistic'' players are often not the most usefull. none of those countries that have strong economies have the same football...
it should be noted that brazilian teams usually don't have many players on national teams, if any, while top european teams often lose most of...
any idea why these games are played today and not on friday?
players are allowed to switch because there are many fifa members that want to have the chance to invite players from the diaspora who were at...
it's not even a matter of it being an u-23 squad. clubs don't even have to release players for national teams which play in other...
friendlies don't count because most fifa members don't want them to count. they don't want european nations to be able to cap -tie immigrant...
this has nothing to do with the england friendly. they probably won't even be in the squad for that match. the england game isn't even played on...
they have them because players want them, and players don't want them to be extremely high. without such contracts they wouldn't have reus and...
come on, yugoslavia was not a minnow, they showed that in the rest of the tournament. germany played two superb games in that wc, yugoslavia and...
he'll have to go to war with uefa and european clubs over this. i don't think he can win that war. clubs aren't just going to accept their...
the clubs aren't going to release players for this.
they've announced that they'll scrap the friendly dates in august and february from 2015 and move to 4 double dates in even and 5 double dates in...
not sure what you mean by fifa always playing with fifa dates. they really don't. and a competition like this which isn't the official...
this isn't going to be a continental championship so the clubs won't be obliged to release players. so it's basically going to be some sort of...
he has a better touch, better feel for the game and is much more nimble than gomez. and yes, he can play on the wings much better than olić, not...