OT: Association Football

[T-Boon]

Brazil's "joga bonito" philosophy is everything that I love about football, tbh - it promotes flair, skill, creativity, and passion.

I love watching Brazil play the beautiful game.

That sounds like the rugby league version which is called joga boonito.

 

[T-Boon]

Anyone but England

Probably Germany i have a great respect for them and some German mates.

Great country, great people i find the new generation my age are very similar to Aussies as well.

Anyone but England & France for me.

 

[eels_fan]

Happy for any South American or African country to get it.

Only palatable team in Europe i’d be happy to see win is Germany

 

[Suitman]

Anyone but England

That's my view as well.
I hope it never "Comes Home".

For a competition that is considered the strongest and best in the world, England has been an abject failure at the World Cup.

 

[hindy111]

Are you talking about our campaign in 2006?

You know what. I am living in the past I haven't followed since 2010. I cant believe it's been over 15yrs.And I want Italy to shine so Norton st will PARTAY. So your probably right. I went of half cocked

 

[Suitman]

You know what. I am living in the past I haven't followed since 2010. I cant believe it's been over 15yrs.And I want Italy to shine so Norton st will PARTAY. So your probably right. I went of half cocked

I'd like to see them at the WC as well. They and their fans are great for it.
The fact is, they haven't been good enough to get there, which has been shameful considering their history.
Italians would be horrified with these results, not only here, but particularly back there.
It's shameful, and finally, a whole heap of coaches and administrators have resigned from Italian football positions.

 

[Suitman]

Cape Verde actually made it. Lol @ Italy.

 

[T-Boon]

Some of those group's stink.
There is hardly even one group with more than one good football country. Maybe Netherlands & Japan is the best which is not great.

 

[Suitman]

Some of those group's stink.
There is hardly even one group with more than one good football country. Maybe Netherlands & Japan is the best which is not great.

So what is your problem?

 

[Suitman]

If it was up to hindy111, FIFA would just admit the top 48 ranked teams.
It's not how it works, and it is why the World Cup is so magical.

 

[TheParraboy]

If it was up to hindy111, FIFA would just admit the top 48 ranked teams.
It's not how it works, and it is why the World Cup is so magical.

Fact that vast majority of nations have to qualify to even get there is no small feat

Slip this up and you are like Italy

 

[T-Boon]

So what is your problem?

Just having a whinge.

 

[T-Boon]

If it was up to hindy111, FIFA would just admit the top 48 ranked teams.
It's not how it works, and it is why the World Cup is so magical.

That would be the best way to get the best teams in. One worries that there will be a lot a buses being parked in the group rounds.

They could probably call the group round the bus park round.

Do soccer fans like that strategy okay?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

For a competition that is considered the strongest and best in the world, England has been an abject failure at the World Cup.

The best English teams are the ones with the fewest English players.

 

[Suitman]

The best English teams are the ones with the fewest English players.

Lol.
That hasn't always been the case.
In any case, having better players in the comp should improve the standard of the locals.
It hasn't.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Lol.
That hasn't always been the case.
In any case, having better players in the comp should improve the standard of the locals.
It hasn't.

Or has it just taken opportunities away from them?

 

[the phantom menace]

Our group has the highest ranking cut-off for the fourth team... so in my mind that makes it pretty hard, perhaps the hardest?

Group B has the lowest ranked first two teams, who'll seem to get an easier ride through to the next rounds. Group C is the only group to have two top 10 teams, but then the biggest ranking gap, so ultimately an easier ride for their best ranked two.

World Cup Finals Groups (with current rankings in brackets):
A: Mexico (15), Korea (25), Czechia (41), South Africa (60).
B: Switzerland (19), Canada (30), Qatar (55), Bosnia and Herzegovina (65).
C: Brazil (6), Morocco (8), Scotland (43), Haiti (83).
D: USA (16), Turkiye (22), Australia (27), Paraguay (40).
E: Germany (10), Equador (23), Cote d'Ivoire (34), Curacao (82).
F: Netherlands (7), Japan (18), Sweden (38), Tunisia (44).
G: Belgium (9), Iran (21), Egypt (29), New Zealand (85).
H: Spain (2), Uruguay (17), Saudi Arabia (61), Cabo Verde (69).
I: France (1), Senegal (14), Norway (31), Iraq (57).
J: Argentina (3), Austria (24), Algeria (28), Jordan (63).
K: Portugal (5), Columbia (13), Congo DR (46), Uzbekistan (50)
L: England (4), Croatia (11), Panama (33), Ghana (74).

DNQ: Italy (12), Denmark (20), Nigeria (26), Ukraine (32), Poland (35), Russia (36), Wales (37), Serbia (39), Cameroon (45), Greece (47), Slovakia (48) - stopped tracking here, as were only 48 places in the finals.

 

[King-Gutho94]

That's my view as well.
I hope it never "Comes Home".

For a competition that is considered the strongest and best in the world, England has been an abject failure at the World Cup.

If Parra win a comp in my life i wouldnt give a shit.

I cant cop those pricks winning before us.

 

[Twizzle]

 

[Twizzle]