Madridistas All Over Copa And Euros Collide While Colombians Dominate - The Other Teams Thread

It’s Barca, there are no rules enforced for them. They could play the match on Las Ramblas if they wanted to.

 

I'd imagine Barcelona can afford similar upkeep and field maintenance at their training ground that we had at the Di Stefano when we were playing there. The only difference was that COVID allowed us to shift our games there without cost of matchday crowds.

I'm just glad it doesn't appear the league/federation/courts have bent over to them in a way like switching around the home and away legs of this fixture. As luck has it, the reverse fixture at Mestalla is MD38, so that would've been tremendously convenient for Barcelona to finish the season with two straight home games. Like, I try not to put on a conspiratorial hat about Barcelona too much but some of the shit they get away with because of their brand is just obnoxious. Getting Olmo's registration secured due to that kind of shit - which other "lesser" teams under similar circumstances were denied in the past - was pathetic, with our tacit "we'll scratch your back" non-dissent only slightly less pathetic. At a certain point it needs to be realized that Barcelona will complain about corruption no matter what, so constantly meeting them halfway only means you're moving backwards over the course of time.

 

I feel like I read somewhere here a couple seasons ago - might've been you who shared the story - about Vallecas (I assume this is the stadium you're referring to here) having furniture that has been there since Franco was still alive. Embellishment or not (that it's believable itself is all you need to know), you watch games in Spain or Italy then watch them in Germany and the difference in stadium infrastructure is enormous. I don't think I've ever seen a Bundesliga game that looked like it was played in a horribly out-of-date stadium (which, tbf, I wasn't watching when Bayern played at the Olympiastadion or Gladbach at Bökelberg or Schalke at whatever pre-dated Veltins-Arena, and you shared recently that Duisberg's training facilities kinda mirror their current state as a club, which is way below the standards they should be at).

 

I'm actually in awe of what Spanish teams have achieved considering Spain is a much poorer country than Germany and UK. And I'm not only talking about Madrid and Barcelona. I hope other teams manage to build new stadiums like Bilbao did. But these clubs are relatively poor and located in small cities.

 

https://www.mykhel.com/football/anc...special-experience-in-bolivia-011-382939.html

Carlo showing his full range of skill with the Selecao.

Apparently he has "2 teams", and will do rotations for todays game, which will be at 12,000 feet above sea level - a stat that tends to indicate exactly how flexible Carlo can be with his ability to adapt his tactics, formations, etc., based not only on players at his disposal and not just on the other team but even adjusting to the actual evironment and altitdudes of different countries.

It seems like Carlo forever will be a man ahead of his time by being a man grounded in where he is.

 

Spain is 10% less than Italy and Great Britain when it comes to PPP for GDP in Europe.

Spain is slightly ahead of Poland, it’s definitely poorer given its size and history as a country.

 

I wanted to cycle back on this.

For the most part, I tend to agree with you on the aspect of "rooting for teams because they have Madrid players on them". I can be happy for any of the Madrid (ex-)players if their nation wins an event and it's not a country I find odious, but I won't specifically go out of my way to root for a given country over another because either one has more Madrid players/heritage* than others, or one has a player I like more. Personally speaking, I've grown to support the Germans in recent years, and that's due to my long-held interests related to the country. To the language, to the various cultures, to the cuisine, and also due to that I read a lot about German history even though in that sense a lot of the history of the country is appalling to say the least. (These are sins that have largely been rectified since then, although some people are trying to bring back a lite version of this. It wouldn't be appropriate for me to elaborate further on this here.) That Toni Kroos returned to the team for the Euros and that Rüdiger was there were, in a very strong sense, just secondary to all of that. Of course I hold great appreciation for Kroos, but I wanted Germany to win the Euros because I support Germany, Kroos lifting the trophy was secondary to all of that.

But this also ties back to the part that I mention about not finding particular countries "odious". I'm American but I refuse to support American teams. Not necessarily because I find problems with the players, but just because America has become a very rotten country (even worse than they might've been in the past, and I'm well aware that they were involved in overthrowing democratic systems in Latin American countries in the past that they didn't like, the history of the USA is absolutely not a pristine or "morally dignified" one even if our school systems will try to tell us otherwise through what they teach and, more importantly, what they don't teach) with corrosive politics and people. I can't root for a country's national teams to win, even if it's my own country, if I hate what the country represents. I was gladly rooting for the Canadians to beat the Americans in that hockey tournament back in February, and I'll gladly do so again during the Olympics.

I personally feel the idea of "I root for the country I was born in to win because 'it's the right thing to do'" to be a ridiculous notion. Among the things we have zero control over in our lives is where we are born. None of us chose our birth nationalities. The older I've gotten, only more and more have I come to refuse the idea that we are obligated to support the countries of our births. People can do as they wish, I'm not saying my mindset on this is clearly right and that everyone else is clearly wrong, just that I don't associate at all with that belief myself.

*If we cited heritage, I'll just remind everyone that Madrid historically has strong past connections with Argentina, with Alfredo di Stefano atop that list. That we essentially have "ceded" Argentina in favor of Barcelona in recent years due to Messi and until this season didn't have a native Argentine in our squad since Di Maria over a decade ago was an anomaly. I'm gonna hope Franco's signing will be the start of trying to get more Argentine players into the team again moving forward; based on their recent successes, clearly there's plenty of talent to go around down there right now.

 

Considering the current state of affairs in the US, I’m not feeling very patriotic.

I’ve disliked the USMNT for awhile now, how it’s run, youth soccer is run, and the overall arrogance the culture of the team has. The 2002 squad was likeable, after that it’s been downhill.

I enjoy when teams punch above their weight. Morocco was super fun in the last WC.

The fix was in for Messi/Argentina was so obvious, anyone who was playing them I was going to support.

 

Today he will at least equal the numbers of goals.

 

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— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona_es) September 9, 2025

It's now official. Barca will play Valencia this weekend at the 6,000 seat Estadi Johan Cruyff. No permits for the Camp Nou yet and Post Malone is having a concert in the Montjuic.

Let's see if VAR works for them this weekend

 

Not really a surprise.
but the question is if they are going to play in the Camp Nou in the UCL games or at the Montjuic

 

They won’t have VAR, not sure how quick they can set it up.

 

Valencia will open their legs wide enough for VAR intervention not to be necessary.

 

Very sad; today I retire from @CBSSports & @SiriusXMFC.Thankyou all for sharing so many magesteeerial memories,wherein the beautiful game & players,beguiled & bewildered us.Sincere thanks to everyone I worked with;you inspired me. To everyone out there,I love you & I`ll miss you.

— Ray Hudson (@RayHudson) September 9, 2025

 

Who cares where fcb will play the game vs Valencia. Niro accute case of barcelonitis is contagious.

 

Grow a spine. Ouu opponents open their legs for Barca. When they make a remontada "Ofc they spread their legs for them" yet when Real does it there's jizz all over the forum , sigh.

Victim mentality.

 

Thank God. Absolutely one of the worst commentators. A bell end muppet.

 

Iceland 1-0 France. Hungary 1-0 Portugal.

 

What the hell was Olise doing