Re: Re: oh yeah I hear Bishop Brennan is also a keen player, and that he often scores. He'd be up front, with Father Jack Hackett being the midfield 'enforcer', Father Ted Crilly as a slippery, tricky winger and Father Dougal Maguire as the corner flag guard .
If your skill level is between Donovan and Agoos, maybe you should look for a Bhutanese grandmother...
Re: Tonga! Tonga! Tonga! I lived in NZ in the late 60’s and went to Tonga to play a club game there. Their team played in bare feet..! But their feet where like rhino hide. They were still playing “10 men chase the ball” sort of like a rugby ruck. But a great bunch of “big” guys.
Re: oh yeah Maybe someone could add the obvious joke about why Jesus wouldn't be a goalkeeper at this point. Not quite the same thing but I once managed Ireland in CM3 and was really pleased when "we" beat England.
speaking of Champ man is anyone else pissed off that it isnt coming out till february. The season will be nearly finished by then.
I'll be honest, I've seriously considered trying to find a job in the US Virgin Islands and turning out for their national team. I'm a former college player and it's only a country of 40,000 people.
Hmmm, the choices if the USA rejected me!. My dad's from Indonesia, my mom's from the Netherlands, my wife is from Wales, and I have a work permit/permanent residency status with Great Britain. If I lived there 10 more months, I'd be a British citizen and play for England! I'd choose Montserrat because I have no self esteem.
I'll do it. Put Jesus as keeper so we can hear the announcers call: "A shot, and Jesus saves!" Where to put the Pope, then? My moderate and liberal Catholic friends would put him at right wing. My conservative Catholic friends would have him as central defender (as in, defender of the faith). I'll stop the bad jokes now. US Virgin Islands only has 40,000? Find me a job down there, too. What other countries are out there with small populations?
My friends and I have kicked the thought around of having a go at American Samoa or Guam. I'm not sure Guam has a team, but I know American Samoa does. While they aren't states, they technically are a part of the US, so it wouldn't really be playing for someone else.
Let's open a Carribbean style restaurant with some good old Iowa beef (best in the world) and turn out of the national team
I'd only play for a country I like... But that's pretty much all of them. Guyana? Belize? Tonga? Hell yeah, I'll even pay my way (hopefully the Tonganese can give me a good rate on a beachside bungalow). How cool would it be to truthfully say you were an internationally capped player?
Guam does have a team. A friend of mine, who married a girl from Guam, was capped by them back in the early 80's.
Re: Re: Re: oh yeah You forgot that Father Dick Burns would be a sub. And of course Mrs. Doyle would have the tea ready at half time. Ah, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on.
Though I've received numerous offers from small nations (couldn't actually find them on any maps- hmm), I'm saving myself for the US. Oh, I'm a 34-year-old keeper. What do you think my chances are?
The point of playing in international levels are to play for something in your heritage. So if you get snuffed from your home country go to one in your heritage.
I would consider playing for a team where some of my Ancestors are from. That means I'd have a choise of at least Scotland and France! I know who I'd choose.
Re: Re: If your National Team rejected you... Jesus can't play goalie because crosses make him nervous? Somebody has to do the dirty work around here.
Re: Re: Re: Re: oh yeah The problem is there might be a Keane/McCarthy-esque hostility between Ted and Burns . I think that Italian guy would be a good striker, and Father Fitzpatrick would be good on the right wing, although all his German war memorabilia may get in the way in the dressing room. Father Larry Duff may be useful, if only he wasn't always getting himself injured.
I would definetely go and play for my country's rival... or even better, I would get a place doing something else in my country's team and be a spy or food poison the whole team minutes before and important game. Not that I like revenge