UEFA European Football Forum

I just checked in the uefa website. France won the 2005 U19-Euro vs. England (that took place in Northern Ireland) France beat Ukraine in the 2000 U19-Euro final, 6 years ago ! Italy are the current holder of Euro U21 trophy (they won 5 out of the 7 last editions !) and Turkey the U17 European champ...

Shev, I have no doubt about the quality of Ukrainian football and as said in my oroginal post, I believe as a Frenchman that this is one of the worst possible draw for us. I furthermore add that I have always been a lover of Ukrainian football since I discovered the big Dynamo Kiev of the 70s. I was...

As a Frenchman, I see Group B as a very difficult group. At least, if we go through this one, nobody will be able to argue that it was an easy group. Italy : a super-power in football obviously and they certainly would love to beat us after what happened in Rotterdam 6 years ago. Last (official) gam...

Seedorf won the CL with 3 different clubs, right ? (Ajax, Real, Milan). As far as I know, he presumably is the only one in history to have achieved that. Holland is known for having not only very good players, but very strong characters within the team. It is (very) simplistic, but it looks like the...

Olympique Lyonnais:

4 French titles (2002-03-04-05)
3 French Cups (1964-67-73)
1 French League Cup (2001)

France: 13.3m France - Cyprus (WC06) - best audience on French TV this year 11.6m Ireland - France (WC06) 10.2m Switzerland - France (WC06) 9.8m Israel - France (WC06) 9.7m France - Ivory Coast (friendly) 8.7m France - Faroe Islands (WC06) 8.6m France - Costa Rica (friendly) 8.5m Lyon - Real Madrid ...

That was a beautiful competition with a beautiful final, totally dominated by Liverpool. It is a shame that european media didn't give any attention to it.

Liverpool really impressed me. They look like far much better than last year.

For me, the biggest surprise of the year is Liverpool coming back from 0-3 to 3-3 vs. Milan. To do that vs. an Italian team and in final is something incredible. The other big surprise of the year is Manchester United out of the European cups. They went through Champions League group stage 9 years ...

For me, the biggest surprise of the year is Liverpool coming back from 0-3 to 3-3 vs. Milan. To do that vs. an Italian team and in final is something incredible. The other big surprise of the year is Manchester United out of the European cups. They went through Champions League group stage 9 years i...

I guess the whole of europe ( including Uefa) will be willing Barca to win and i understand that, but you can't always have what you want ! We, Lyon, experience in France the same kind of dislike as your team Chelsea is experiencing in the UK, possibly elsewhere. Media always minimize your achievem...

(Wow, did I really picked that much French teams, am I Malko, or did they just have sucha easy draw??) :wink: There are still 5 French teams in the UEFA Cup but you shouldn't worry too much. It looks like possible that some of them go to the quarters but it is also very likely that they simply fail...

The only satisfaction is that at least 3 big names will be out. The one who will be able to get through might have a good opportunity to do well afterwards. Well I don't see many small names in the next round - Rangers/Villareal maybe, but Barca(?), Madrid, Bayern, Inter, Juve, Liverpool are not sm...

Well, that could have been worse but that could have been much better for Lyon. A lot of fans are happy to get the opportunity to have the revenge they're waiting for, but the truth is that PSV recovered very well after having lost some key players last summer. It will be difficult for both teams. T...

I believe that for Argentina the 5 seats for the Libertadores are given to the top 5 teams based on the combined table of Apertura 2004 and Clausura 2005. So Boca, champion of the Apertura 2005, has all chances to be qualified for the next Libertadores, but they will miss this one as they were reall...

For me, it's a pretty open competition, maybe not all the teams can win the whole thing but most teams can beat any other on their day. Exactly what you want from a world cup. Absolutely agree. That's the reason why Brazil has not won it yet, although they certainly are the best team by far. After ...