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It’s not correct to say “Japan, South Korea AND China”. ... You should be saying Japan, South Korea AND IRAN. :wink: That statement is absolutely correct, as I said all three just started with an own professional football league not earlier than mid-1990s. The last top-scorer in chinese super leagu...

So now 'the same', only including competition games (official FIFA linked matches like qualifiers, WC, or same within federations, no exhibition cups... except duels in confederation cup): - France vs Argetina 0 W, 0 D, 2 L - Uruguay vs Portugal 0 W, 0 D, 0 L (only met twice before, never on competi...

Let's do a serious, but 'just for fun' ALL-TIME comparison between Round of 16 match-ups: - France vs Argetina 2 W, 3 D, 6 L - Uruguay vs Portugal 0 W, 1 D, 1 L (interesting they hardly met each other so far) - Spain vs Russia 4 W, 2 D, 0 L (no USSR data included here, first meeting 1998) - Croatia...

nogomet wrote: I remember trying to (unsuccessfully) replicate this Suker's move in front of my garage as a 10-year old boy for days after I witnessed it. I was so taken by it.
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Reading this, probably everybody just imagined you hitting yourself like the belgian player did vs England .

Let's do a serious, but 'just for fun' ALL-TIME comparison between Round of 16 match-ups: - France vs Argetina 2 W, 3 D, 6 L - Uruguay vs Portugal 0 W, 1 D, 1 L (interesting they hardly met each other so far) - Spain vs Russia 4 W, 2 D, 0 L (no USSR data included here, first meeting 1998) - Croatia ...

I think that by "Joe Sixpack" Dragonite meant just some regular guy, maybe from the US, who doesn't follow football everyday closely like us, and just tunes in for the big matches. He didn't mean to belittle anyone from this forum. ... I liked the last Euro a lot (except maybe the final w...

... Joe Sixpack only wants to watch Argentina, Brazil, five or six Europeans, and that’s more than enough for him. Countries that he can’t even find on a map, they’re unnecessary, they “lower the level of quality”. I couldn’t care less about Joe Sixpack’s preferences. ... An argument doesn't sound ...

With James Rodriguez injured, England are heavy favorites over Colombia. He's the key player there, I'd say Colombia are 30% weaker without him. Turns out losing to Belgium was a good "turn of events" for England. That's exactly the mentality that will send England home : if they think Co...

... But please, anyone is welcomed to explain me why would have been so harmful having another 16 competing already in this edition. You can also put 96 teams in it - but at a certain point the public interest decreases massively, and all you would end with is like a group stage nobody watches (exc...

You “prefer to keep 32” because your favourite team qualified for the last 4 tournaments. Would you still “prefer to keep 32” if Europe only had 8 spots and the teams getting these spots were the 8 quarter finalists from the previous Euro edition? I can probably be happy I don't need these mental b...

I am not happy to see british media talking like this about Colombia now, way too much 'hand clapping' for rather obviously going for 2nd spot to avoid 'bigger names'. To predict their strength compared to strongest, the games against Tunisia and Panama weren't enough. And yet, both don't go for a c...

Overall in the GS I had 14/32 correct positions prediction... Less than average I would say... :( :wink: :smile1: I was rather lucky with predictions - except for this group. But it's more because I put UEFA teams ahead most of the time as "rebellion" against FIFA for increasing the tourn...

This would also eliminate the need for UEfa to have play-off and they could use the winter session for this (or summer one in case of Qatar). At the end of the day we are talking about only 3 matches to play, or 6 if we prefer a round-robin format. This would make the qualification more fair and ba...

Lol. Dolid display, we saw that against Belgium. I will be delighted, I assure you. Ah, because Belgium isn't one of the best teams in Europe or what? But of course it's only other people behaving arrogant, not you... never. As you're rather behaving like a thug than a cool-minded person just in mo...

I would very much prefer having some extended play-offs among different federations, something like 12 groups of 4 to qualify 12 teams out of 48 based on their merits in comparison with other federations. Didn't really get what you mean in detail. Would you start with 48 teams, doing play-offs to e...