Purp
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Hopefully this starts a good trend for all of our injured young stars.
http://www.yanks-abroad.com/content.php?mode=show&id=12673
http://www.yanks-abroad.com/content.php?mode=show&id=12673
2023-2024 European Football Thread
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Purp
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Nevermind. After looking into the Weah comeback I noticed the date on the link I shared is a few weeks old. This was published a few days before he tore his hamstring again.
When I originally read it I assumed his injury wasn't as bad as initially thought. I thought, "no way he's back from a hammy tear in 3 weeks." I was right. Too good to be true.
Chongo94
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I loved his quote about it all. Completely different from that [ profanity ] Rossi. Will forever harbor disdain towards him and his comments.
Purp
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Yeah. Made me happy when he didn't last long for Italy. IIRC his only glory for the Italians was a few PKs in the Olympics. Darn that guy.
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Goals everywhere this AM!
Purp
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Wicked strike from 20 yards.
Purp
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I was a huge Reading fan when they were promoted about 15 years ago. They had Hahnemann in goal and Convey on the wing. They had a great run for a couple years. I bought a Convey Reading jersey in Germany for the 06 WC. Got his autograph on a replica ball before the bloodbath in Kaiserslautern against Italy. If not for a bad run of injuries he'd have been a massive piece for the USMNT for a lot of years and Reading may have lasted longer in the top flight.
Portland Frog
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Big game today between MU and MC. Guess I will pull for City. I mean it’s United they are playing.
CHE up 2-0 on EVE at half. Billy Gilmour is really good and ready to shine even at only 18 years old.
CHE up 2-0 on EVE at half. Billy Gilmour is really good and ready to shine even at only 18 years old.
dawg
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The two Europa League ties involving Italian sides are postponed (but yet Wolves-Olympiakos is not), Arsenal are in self-quarantine after coming into contact with Olympiakos’ owner (who tested positive for CoVID-19 and also owns Nottingham Forest), and now a Juventus defender tested positive today. Boys, this season may be cancelled. Would suck for Liverpool, if, after waiting 30 years for a league title, the season in which they top the table by 20+ points gets postponed/nixed.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-wolves-manchester-united-inter-milan-sevilla
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...daniele-rugani-tests-positive-for-coronavirus
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-wolves-manchester-united-inter-milan-sevilla
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...daniele-rugani-tests-positive-for-coronavirus
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Chongo94
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I’m assuming they’d still give Liverpool the title, no?
That’s why they’re so mad in Italy because if the league ends up being canceled, Juventus wins yet again despite Lazio offering a legitimate challenge this year.
Purp
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If that were to happen I'd think they have already earned the trophy.
dawg
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Yeah, I'd be OK with the PL awarding Liverpool the title if the season can't finish all 38 rounds, because they're 25 points clear (26 if you count goal difference) with nine matches remaining. They would have won it had the season played out and are the best league side this year (IIRC, they only need six more points to clinch). Italy, though... they couldn't award Juve the title, could they? With Lazio a point back and ahead on goal difference?
Will be interesting to see if the league seasons are able to complete, with the Euros due to start June 12.
Purp
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Italy definitely shouldn't award Juve the title. I haven't looked at the schedules each team has played, but with this much left in the season there is sure to be too much imbalance in schedule difficulty to name a champ with only 1 point difference. I'd create a championship game between the two sides in an empty stadium. Quarantine each side for 2 weeks to ensure they're all healthy and not at risk of getting anyone on their team or the other team sick, then give them 2 weeks to train before the match and play it on TV to an empty stadium. Winner takes all.
As a fan of Lazio I'd rather have that chance than no chance at all. As a Juve fan I'd rather win the title that way than have no title awarded at all.
Eight
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simply break the two federations apart as with most countries.
women get to keep all the revenue their raise and get to subsidize their league and pay the higher costs for salaries and benefits
catch is they get no portion of the men's payout from fifa , but since they win more than the men they can afford all of that and the increased bonuses right?
