Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

That’s right: plus a semifinal-final leading up to the championship. The final four played eight matches.

 

A Zaire by any other name would still be The Congo, is what I would post if I were Willie Shakespeare.

 

I watched a handful of the Puskas and…I think the women’s aware is named after Marta. So I watched about 4 of each.

Ovalle’s goal in the Mexican women’s league is the best finish. Cagliari’s goal is the best play. The Seattle goal fits in between..not the best finish but close, and not th best play, but close.

There should be separate awards for shot or finish of the year, and then goal of the year. Rice’s free kick is impossible to compare to the Cagliari goal.

 

He should respect his elders!
Signed,Me ,an Elder.

 

I am rooting for them and Surinam.

Cuz it's Facebook I can't post a video but apparently Panama fans were blasting music outside the Suriname players hotel to keep them awake so the players came out and started dancing and enjoying themselves.

 

@feyenoordsoccerfan I assume the majority of the Suriname players play professionally in Holland were born and raised in holland. So are Dutch fans going to make them their second team?

 

1. “Oochamagooch, all creatures great and small!”
2. Yes, that’s another way of making the same distinction.

 

Dunno, but I don't think so. I actually never hear anything from Dutch rooting for a second team, except maybe for the Belgians.

 

1-1 in Budapest

 

Parrott will never have to buy a drink again. 2 against Pawchickle & hat trick vs Magyars with this tap in the last minute of injury time. Absolute insanity

Troy Parrott, take your place on the pantheon of Irish greats 🇮🇪pic.twitter.com/KATKNMZO4g

— Ireland Football ⚽️🇮🇪 (@IrelandFootball) November 16, 2025

 

exquisite technique…. Worthy of any Art museum … to use the Spanish broadcasters own words…

 

Mexico played a friendly in Mexico. The fans were unhappy at the coach’s choice at keeper, so the fans chanted “********” at him.

I think I had read that the P word is only chanted in the US, that they don’t do it in Mexico. If my memory is correct, those posts were not.

 

@Val, you see Duke women basketball lose to a team forced to only have 5 players the whole second half?

 

Curacao on verge of qualifying. Will be smallest population ever to make it. Like 150,000.

https://www.reuters.com/sports/socc...d-cup-place-absent-coach-advocaat-2025-11-17/

 

Great match from start to finish!

UEFA's job in the next couple of years is to come up with a better qualifying format for 2030. Its just so unbalanced that some teams now have to go win 2 away games simply for not having a good enough FIFA ranking and for not finishing above a Portugal, Spain or France while others randomly get to play 2 home games.

 

Well, actually no.
Afaik not one player is from Curacao itself.

 

??

 

so, for e.g., Ireland and Italy both achieved the same thing in qualifying - finished in 2nd. But, for the upcoming playoffs, Italy will get at least one home game, maybe 2. While the 2nd-place teams with lower FIFA rankings will need to win 2 away games to qualify.