The All Purpose Other Teams Thread - Pt. III (R)

“One day, I hope we can play football together in the sky” - Pele’s message after Diego Maradona died in 2020.

Enjoy your game, legends 🙏 pic.twitter.com/t0l88bpILD

— GOAL (@goal) December 29, 2022

 

Rest in piece, Pele. Such a huge part of the sport as far as capturing people's attention and making them love the beautiful game.

 

I know there is a huge rivalry and at times we made fun of the goals he scored and perhaps at times he was too much a mouthpiece for FIFA but nonetheless he was one of the greatest to play this game. Right up there in the top five perhaps with Messi's predecessor Garrincha.

If you watch him as a young player he was doing all the things some marvel at now sixty years ago.

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A little piece of the rich tapestry of football history has disappeared. RIP.

 

Well, Diego is far from a saint either and he himself would be the first to admit that. Before Messi era, Pele & Diego are two biggest icons of this sport , which is the most popular sport on the planet.

RIP to the champ!

 

RIP legends.​

 

RIP Pelé. The pioneer and the king!
pic.twitter.com/J3ft4vKmXe

— Ebad (@simplyebad) December 29, 2022

Thanks for everything. 🤍🕊️ #Pele pic.twitter.com/EItF8tGNWN

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) December 29, 2022

 

Just waiting for Piers Moron to Tweet that the Saudi league is the beat in the world

 

PSG is hot garbage without Leo and Ney. Medina has been a brick wall all day for Lens. Crazy how deep we suddenly are defensively and in the midfield.

 

Hope to see Medina over Pezzella in March

 

Pezzella will be there. We just have to remember the March friendlies will likely be to honor this team. But, hopefully we will be able to have a 35 man roster.


Speaking of Medina.

#Ligue1🇨🇵 | #Lens 3-1 #PSG

🎙️ Medina, ex #Talleres, tras la victoria frente al líder: "Les faltó el mejor jugador del mundo: #Messi, sin dudas, y #Neymar".

🎙️ Sobre la obtención de la #CopaMundialFIFA: "Como hincha argentino estoy muy contento. Lo viví y sufrí en familia, acá". pic.twitter.com/EF6PU749U4

— Martín Campillay (@MartinMC018) January 1, 2023

 

Danielle Reyna told U.S. Soccer about past Gregg Berhalter domestic violence incident - sources

https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-...-berhalter-domestic-violence-incident-sources


@Burr

Talk about drama.

 

Yeah complete an utter shit show. Embarrassing for the whole family. I really hope this doesn't derail his career. It's not unusual for a young talent to have a fight with a coach but this is a level way uncalled for.

 

I’ve gotta say… I do not think his teammates would want him back. He already comes off as a brat but now he’s got his mommy and daddy trying to get him playing time in this manner? Some would call that entitled.

 

🚨 The Copa America 2024 format which is in works, reports @Ncadena98 🌎 🔍

- Will be held: USA 🇺🇸

- Participants: all South American nations + CONCACAF (🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇷🇭🇳🇵🇦)

- Format: 4 groups of 4 teams, the first 2 classifies.

- Playoff: quarters, semis, third place, final. pic.twitter.com/FOpeLixnCK

— All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 (@AlbicelesteTalk) January 5, 2023

 

I just hope they do not seed the US and Mexico. They have to remember that they are guests to this tournament. They seeded both last time around, which was nonsense. I can understand the U.S. since they will be the hosts but definitely not Mexico.

Argentina
Brasil
Uruguay
U.S.

But I don't know how I feel about this tournament being held in the U.S. again. I understand there is a lot of money involved but I do not like the fact that this tournament could help the U.S. and Mexico. We should not be doing them any favors. As I have mentioned this before, anytime the tournament was held in South America, and we invited the U.S., they sent a second team. They wanted to focus on the Gold Cup. Now all of a sudden they see this tournament worthy of their participation?

On a personal level, it is fine because they will have games here in the U.S. and it will be great to attend. But something tells that they will place Argentina in Miami or New York, where here in Southern California, we will be treated to Mexico v Honduras!

 

Agreed. It would be a bummer for Ecuador not to get a seed as the 4th best Conmebol side, but also think the U.S. will be seeded in favor of them. Colombians won’t be too happy with a US based Copa as I know they were hopeful they’d get the tournament once Ecuador declined.

For selfish reasons, I hope you’re right about Argentina playing on the east coast like in the September friendlies.

 

A lot of USA fans also want the challenge of playing on the road. We're tired of hosting nearly every tournament we play in. At least this time it sort of makes sense though since the next WC will be at home anyway.

 

I don't like the idea of doing something with Concacaf, especially with USSF, they gave me the feeling of "le das la mano y te agarran el codo"

 

The seleccion has come to the West Coast a few times. I remember in 2018, which I believe was Scaloni’s first match, where we played Guatemala. It was basically our second team, and we played in the dump that is known as the Los Angeles Coliseum. My family and I went to that match.



They had played each other, again in
08, again in the Coliseum, and again in a blow out victory for us with our second team. Another game I attended.



But I do remember going to the match in San Diego, where we had our full team and thumped Mexico, which was basically a home game for them.




Ahh, the memories…

 

Marcelo Gallardo announced on Jan 19th he will manage a team made up of players from Saudi clubs Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr in a friendly against PSG 🤔pic.twitter.com/nepgjwCTJR

— GOLAZO (@golazoargentino) January 5, 2023

Ummm ok

 

It'll be a one off. Marcelo will be eyeing up a very big job. Maybe even at Barca or one of the big clubs in England. He can pick and choose as his stock is incredibly high. He'll get a nice fat fee for this while he keeps pondering.

We have lost Gianluca Vialli as well. Great striker but above all a very nice person to boot.
Gianluca Vialli: football has lost some of the twinkle in its eye | Football | The Guardian

The two former Sampdoria strikers and great friends that led that club to their only scudetto also led Italy to their European Championship win embracing here after the final at Wembley just over eighteen months ago.

This will be forever in my head.

Vialli and his very good friend Mancini, in tears, after Italy won the Euros.

Today is a very sad day.

😢pic.twitter.com/knfNfbuM7G

— Sacha Pisani (@Sachk0) January 6, 2023

 

Eh ? There some video of the celebrations in Tampa. Were you there ? Hope CC is around too.

 

Sorry it's a bit complicated I love both countries lol. I didn't go but I was surprised to see so many people celebrating on the news! It never felt like there were many Argentinos here growing up.