Pre World Cup Friendlies (R) (and other World Cup preparatory matches for Brazil 2014)

Turkey is not going to play Mexico.

 

I guess everybody must be too damn afraid of us.
No one wants to really face our team.

And the only 3 teams who do want to face us, are waiting for the WC to begin, as they have already been programmed to play at group phase, against our team.

 

Possible friendlies for Spain :

May 30 vs Bolivia in Seville, Spain
June 7 vs El Salvador in Washington

http://www.marca.com/2014/02/19/futbol/seleccion/1392797754.html

 

June 4 Italy - Luxembourg

http://www.figc.it/it/3065/21787/Calendario.shtml

 

"Here’s a closer look at the schedule and teams in the “Road to Brazil” friendlies:"

May 29 – Turkey vs. Honduras – RFK Stadium, Washington D.C.

May 30 – Bosnia and Herzegovina vs. Ivory Coast – TBA

June 1 – Honduras vs. Israel – BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston

June 3 – Greece vs. Nigeria – PPL Park, Chester, Pa.

June 4 – Ivory Coast vs. El Salvador – Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas

June 6 – Greece vs. Bolivia – Red Bull Arena, Harrison, N.J.

June 7 – Spain vs. El Salvador – FedEx Field, Landover, Md.

http://www.soccerbyives.net/2014/02/schedule-announced-friendly.html

 

now I don't feel so bad about the opponents we got. Could've been worse.

 

This game has now been confirmed for the 26th May in Sydney.

 

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2014/03/oranje_to_debut_new_football_k.php

New shirt for the Netherlands and will be used for the first time next Wednesday against France. Looks retro, hopefully brings the same football as a while ago.

 

May 28 Scotland - Nigeria in London
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26407790

May 31 Algeria - Armenia in Switzerland
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26407788


Russia is romoured to play Morocco on June 7

 

Iran - Kuwait 3:2 (2' Yaghoub Ali Karimi, 61' Payam Sadeghian, 90' Karim Ansari Fard - 18' Waleed Ali Jumaha, 89' Fahad Al Rashidi)

 

Games galore today:
Japan - New Zealand 4:2 (4' Shinji Okazaki, 7' PG Shinji Kagawa, 11' Morishige, 17' Shinji Okazaki - 39', 80' Chris Wood)

Looks like Japan scored 4 goals in 17 minutes and then went into cruise mode allowing New Zealand to get two goals back.

 

Russia - Armenia 2:0 (21' Aleksandr Kokorin, 43' Kirill Kombarov)

Iran - Guinea 1:2 (55' Reza Ghoochannejhad - 34' Kevin Constant, 37' Ibrahima Traore)

 

Greece - South Korea 0:2 (18' Chu Young Park, 55' Son Heung Min)

Montenegro - Ghana 1:0 (1' PG Dejan Damjanovic)

South Africa - Brazil 0:5 (10' Oscar, 41', 46', 90' Neymar, 79' Fernandinho)

Algeria - Slovenia 2:0 (45' El Arbi Hillel Soudani, 56' Saphir Taider)

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Egypt 0:2 (52' Mohammed Nagy - Gedo, 64' Mohammed Salah)

24 World Cup finalists to go...

 

USA v Nigeria in Jacksonsville
June 1st they play a friendly in New Jersey

 

Cote d'Ivoire have Bony, Doumbia and Drogba... but decide to play Giovanni Sio up front

On a side note: Not a good day for most World Cup teams vs non-World Cup teams so far...

 

For anyone watching, Germany v Chile is a really nice match so far. Chile started better but first time Germany broke through they scored through Gotze.

 

Agree, quite an entertaining match, full end-to-end stuff with high tempo , superb entertainment. Germany are experimenting quite a bit with their defensive lineup

 

Australia up 3-0 against Ecuador ~35 minutes in. Wow

 

Belgium having a great game vs Cote d'Ivoire (two stonewall penalties not called for Cote d;Ivoire aside).

 

And three surprise results:

Colombia - Tunisia 1:1 (20' PG James Rodrigues - 35' Wahdi Khazri)

Ukraine - USA 2:0 (12' Andrey Yarmolenko, 68' Marko Devic)

Romana - Argentina 0:0 (despite the ref adding countless extra minutes...)

 

Portuguese players with a real short fuse... Look easy to infuriate.

If this was the World Cup they should have had like 5 yellows already.

EDIT: WTF? A clear foul from behind vs an African player = no penalty in Europe? It just happened in the Portugal - Cameroon game. The same happened vs Gervinho in the Belgium game. This European refs in African games... paa... Its like the 1990s all over again. Is March 5th some sort of time machine?

 

Terribel preformance against France. But I'm somewhat happy that the football gods punish Van Gaal for even summoning up Schaars and not other talented youngster.

 

Germany - Chile 1:0 (16' Mario Goetze)

Belgium - Cote d'Ivoire 2:2 (18' Marouane Fellaini, 51' Radja Nainggolan - 74' Didier Drogba, 90' Max Gradel)

England - Denmark 1:0 (82' Daniel Sturridge)

Austria - Uruguay 1:1 (14' Marc Janko - 66' Alvaro Perreira)

Switzerland - Croatia 2:2 (33', 40' Josip Drmic - 38', 54' Ivica Olic)
(Only Croatians scoring in this one )

France - Holland 2:0 (32' Karim Benzema, 41' Blaise Matuidi)

Australia - Ecuador 3:4 (8', 32' Tim Cahill, 15' PG Mile Jedinak - 57' Fidel Martinez, 61' Segundo Castillo, 77' Ener Valencia, 90' Edison Mendez)

 

8 World Cup teams to go:

Portugal - Cameroon
Spain - Italy
Mexico - Nigeria
Costa Rica - Paraguay
Honduras - Venezuela (will this game be played?)

 

Portugal - Cameroon 5:1 (21', 83' Cristiano Ronaldo, 66' Raul Meireles, 67' Fabio Coentrao, 77' Edinho - 41' Vincent Aboubakar)

Spain - Italy 1:0 (63' Pedro Rodriguez)