Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - RIP Diogo Jota

[Kunty McPhuck]

Interesting, learnt something new today. Rep

Oh you didn't know about Carthage? What they teaching you at school. Learnt about Carthage and Romans in year 7 and that was a long time ago

 

[Jean toomer]

I talking the talent and results is being recognized. Like Daniel Teklehaimanot wearing the king of the mountains jersey in Le Tour and Biniam Girmay winning silver in the World u23 this year.

My point is the talent is there because there was a longstanding cycling history in Eritrea relative to anywhere else Africa. No doubt those dudes should get their flowers because the financial support is limited for a lot of cyclists in Africa.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Yo what the

 

[Roberto Firmino]

So Tunisia are trying to get the whole match replayed.

I figured this must be the angle, deserved Mali win they should have just came out but they knew they weren’t getting shyt



CAF gonna tell em fukk around and find out and hit them with a 3-0 forfeit.





Now we got some national anthem fukkry

 

[Premeditated]

can't even get the national anthem music right

this is embarrassing.

 

[Roberto Firmino]

Ain’t nothing like AFCON

 

[TobiOT]

 

[thatrapsfan]

Very nice Barrow finish Gambia impressing me

 

[TobiOT]

 

[Roberto Firmino]

Very nice Barrow finish Gambia impressing me

They’ve been lively from the start

 

[phcitywarrior]

Algeria and Morocco do have an arm's race going on. So they might be in a lab cooking up ballers to just to compete/outdo one another

Morocco and Algeria really should be further ahead of the pack with the number of French, Dutch, Belgian and Spanish NT rejects they have available. Idk, the N. Africans just get bodied when it comes time for AFCON.

Morocco and Algeria have the resources compared to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, I'd expect them to do better.

Smaller population and smaller diaspora than the Moroccans or Algerians. Majority of both of the latter squads are born in France (or Netherlands/Belgium for Moroccans) while Tunisia usually has more guys guys born in country and from their domestic league. The domestic league part helped their cohesion in past, similar to Egyptians, and Espérance especially usually good in CL. But never enough against more talented comp.

Yea ES Tunis and Etoile du Sahel hold it down for Tunisia but they still underperform, tbh, outside Egypt, the North African nations underperform badly.

Caf suspend Zambian referee Janny Sikazwe over corruption allegations | Goal.com

Let's keep it a buck, if you really look at that scenario, that mistake looks to be one of time-keeping. Match corruption/fixing in that Mali-Tunisia game seems thin to me. This error seems like the ref just dropped the ball something serious.

 

[phcitywarrior]

I really think this is the year that African teams need to make a splash in the WC. Like 3 nations in the QF and at least 1 in the SF. AFCON is in Jan, WC is in December, the teams should have more cohesion.

I've really only been watching football since a kid in the early 2000s but from what I can see, this is definitely a golden era of African talent when we look at the clubs some of these guys are playing in and the roles they have on the squad.

Nigeria, Cameroon and Algeria have enough to make a deep run in the WC.

 

[Roberto Firmino]

Let's keep it a buck, if you really look at that scenario, that mistake looks to be one of time-keeping. Match corruption/fixing in that Mali-Tunisia game seems thin to me. This error seems like the ref just dropped the ball something serious.

Agreed, the red was a little but I think overall it was just incompetence rather than anything sinister, still he probably shouldn’t be anywhere near the tourney given his history

 

[phcitywarrior]

Agreed, the red was a little but I think overall it was just incompetence rather than anything sinister, still he probably shouldn’t be anywhere near the tourney given his history

Yea the red he was foolish on even when VAR told him to take a 2nd look. But outside of that and the time keeping, his performance was no better/worse than some of the stuff we've seen in EPL, La Liga or Bundesliga.

 

[Roberto Firmino]

I really think this is the year that African teams need to make a splash in the WC. Like 3 nations in the QF and at least 1 in the SF. AFCON is in Jan, WC is in December, the teams should have more cohesion.

I've really only been watching football since a kid in the early 2000s but from what I can see, this is definitely a golden era of African talent when we look at the clubs some of these guys are playing in and the roles they have on the squad.

Nigeria, Cameroon and Algeria have enough to make a deep run in the WC.

With Vic anything is possible

Would like to get some of the guys that haven’t declared yet into the squad but even as we are anything less than QF will not do we need that knockout win monkey off our back before it goes to 48 and the achievement is lessened. If we end up in a group with Argentina again though enough is enough