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12 minutes ago, midtown said:

Why is the French national team so goos yet their domestic league such a joke? And why Serie A really good but the Italian national team poor?

Since when has the Italian national team been poor? 

And you are talking about 23 players per national team vs. 500 players in each of those leagues. 

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14 minutes ago, midtown said:

They missed the last world cup no? Isn't that bad?

They've been up and down since winning the WC in 2006. They've had some good performances in the Euros. They also had a brutal group in 2014 with England, Uruguay and the best Costa Rica team ever and got hosed against Uruguay.

It isn't crazy for even historically dominant European national sides to miss the WC, either. Qualifying out of UEFA is brutal. They sure as shit look plenty good right now. 

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8 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Qualifying out of UEFA is brutal. 

This is the reason. They were knocked out by being in Spain's group then losing to Sweden in the playoff. That was a disappointment but Sweden won their group and made the quarters. This wasn't some Trinidad and Tobago thing.

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1 hour ago, shnsajax said:

...How the hell de Bour got the job is still beyond me.


Dutch answer to US SOCCER.

 

 

35 minutes ago, ztejas said:

...They also had a brutal group in 2014 with England, Uruguay and the best Costa Rica team ever and got hosed against Uruguay.

It isn't crazy for even historically dominant European national sides to miss the WC, either. Qualifying out of UEFA is brutal. They sure as shit look plenty good right now. 


They were OLD AS FUCK in 2014 and had to play in sauna-like conditions. 

Old people like hot/steamy weather, but they don't move very quickly in it.

Italy has a good blend of ages this go-round and the tournament is all over the the continent and not always in the middle of the day in a rainforest.

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4 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

money

Their entire league is littered with their u23 prospects all starting and playing tons of minutes with enough talent that their Top 5 teams can compete in Europe. Its like Liga MX, but with talent taller than 5'7".

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36 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

this pbp guy is like a male beth mowins

 

20 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

I was trying to figure out what bothered me about him and, yep, you nailed it.

Holy shit, I'm thinking Beth would tell him to tone it down.

Embolo gets the swiss on the board with a header off a corner.

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