Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - It's Amad World

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phcitywarrior said:
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.
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With Vic anything is possible :blessed:

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 :birdman: 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 :snoop: enough is enough :martin:
 
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phcitywarrior said:
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.



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.



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.
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Its the mentality similar to that of Mexico and Turkey ballers :hubie:

They generally come thru the good to great European Academies but never kick on from the potential they show in their youth and early pro careers.

Take Feghouli Brahimi and Mahrez from the 2014 squad. The first 2 had a strong football education and got good moves early into their careers. Clubs playing in the CL. While Mahrez the total opposite small academy playing in tier 2 football in both France and England and ended up surpassing both of their careers combine.
 
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Still dont get the point of Perez getting Kylian when he already has a jewel on the left. With Benz, that would be 3 dudes hogging the center/left, not sure how this will work. And if they get Haaland on top of that :picard:
 
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