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Can Yunus Musah rediscover himself? He was super promising back in 2022 and it all went downhill.
I would argue he still belonged on this team this year.
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but gives you more group stage games
But at what point does the quality of those games greatly suffer for the sake of having more games?
For instance with the 32 team format, you had 4 pots with 8 teams in each pot with pot 1 being the strongest and 4 the weakest. 1 team from each pot in each group. With 64 teams you will seemingly have 4 pots with 16 teams each. So your old pots 1 and 2 will now be pot 1, and your old pots 3 and 4 will be pot 2. When you look at it that way, it's not that enticing to me
re: FIFA to examine 64-team World Cup expansion before 2030 tournament
Posted by etm512 on 7/21/26 at 9:17 am to Who_Dat_Tiger
Just like the CFP I maintain that more isn't always better. We will see. The thing that sucks is it takes a ton of drama out of qualifying which I enjoy watching and tracking over the years.
On a selfish USMNT level it basically guarantees us a spot but at the cost of probably not playing the top teams in our region in qualifying anymore. We already lost the Hex which was a nice challenge leading into the WC. We will see what this new format holds
On a selfish USMNT level it basically guarantees us a spot but at the cost of probably not playing the top teams in our region in qualifying anymore. We already lost the Hex which was a nice challenge leading into the WC. We will see what this new format holds
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Not posting source material and making some other dude do your work should be grounds for immediate thread deletion.
My bad I was hammered last night and created this thread. Mistook the soy boy comments on their post for them I guess haha
I will say though they annoyed the shite out of me after Balo was reinstated. They seemingly did nothing but post every person who opposed its opinion.
And I had no idea Davo left. He is way better than Rog
Men In Blazers
Posted by etm512 on 7/10/26 at 9:55 pm
Memba when they used to just post about soccer?
I memba.
Good lord their TDS during the World Cup has been front and center. Go see their latest IG post about Harry Kane playing golf with Trump. Presented like he murdered a litter of puppies. It’s crazy how rent free this man is in so many people’s heads
I memba.
Good lord their TDS during the World Cup has been front and center. Go see their latest IG post about Harry Kane playing golf with Trump. Presented like he murdered a litter of puppies. It’s crazy how rent free this man is in so many people’s heads
re: Why are China and India not better at soccer?
Posted by etm512 on 7/9/26 at 10:36 am to Stinger_1066
China focuses on very niche Olympic sports. Not knowing a ton about the country but India just doesn't seem to have the financial backing for any sport outside of cricket. Nor do they seem very athletic as a people. Sports science , nutrition, training, etc I'm sure are extremely well behind the times
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Big NYRB fan?
Ha no I couldn't give two shits about any MLS team as far as fandom. The most I do is pay attention to the teams that are playing the babies and track their progress. That's what I want MLS to do - be a proving ground and springboard for our guys.
And I can't believe I left Gozo off my initial list.
re: Names to watch for 2030 WC
Posted by etm512 on 7/7/26 at 9:05 am to PhillyTiger90
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Diego Kochen
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Noahkai Banks
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Cavan Sullivan
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Cole Campbell
Adri Mehmeti, Mathis Albert, Matthew Dos Santos, Julian Hall
re: This will be unpopular but
Posted by etm512 on 7/6/26 at 9:25 am to The Special One
Funny that the controversy is over FIFA following rules they have in place for suspending red cards as they see fit and not the fact that the red card was a result of them not following the rules they have in place for issuance of red cards under VAR
England certainly survived the full CONCACAF treatment
re: World Cup Daily Thread - Sunday, July 5
Posted by etm512 on 7/5/26 at 9:30 pm to JoeyBiscuits
So I thought the whole Flo issue was they used VAR to give a red to a play the ref deemed not a foul in real time and they just did that again here?
re: This England-Mexico game in the Stadio Azteca is going to be an all timer
Posted by etm512 on 7/5/26 at 9:26 pm to southpawcock
So I thought the whole Flo issue was they used VAR to give a red to a play the ref deemed not a foul in real time and they just did that again here?
re: I don’t watch a ton of soccer but for the life of me
Posted by etm512 on 7/2/26 at 10:23 pm to nicholastiger
I love how there is offsides or positional rules in almost every damn sport but this is the only one people ever bitch about
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Pepi is excellent for the high press. He has moments of brilliance. I don’t think his strength is in front of the goal in a system like this, however. He is physical, but not fast. Classic hold up player,
Going to disagree big time here. His hold up play this tournament has been horrific. He is being bullied physically out there and I have zero confidence starting him against Belgium
re: What are the chances the red card suspension is overturned?
Posted by etm512 on 7/2/26 at 8:33 am to Floyd Dawg
The part of this is that they interpreted this as a tackle or challenge from Flo. If you look at the last second of the play in a bubble it looks that way and that's all that VAR kept showing on a loop. What they didn't take into consideration was the contact from the defender that threw him off balance leading to his foot coming down on his ankle
No mechanism I'm taking as no official process. We can certainly unofficially raise hell though and see what happens. We should have a team doing nothing but this for the next 72 hours
re: What are the chances the red card suspension is overturned?
Posted by etm512 on 7/2/26 at 7:42 am to lsugorilla
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total accident
irrelevant
Actually by the letter of the law it is completely relevant. The defender came through him to win the ball knocking him off balance. It was in the same motion of him regaining his balance that he landed on the ankle.
Furthermore, the VAR replays to the official only showed the clips after the initial coming together happened which is absurd. By itself the "challenge" is a red. In the total context of the play it is not
You put Haji out there. Nobody is like for like for Flo we know that. Pepi is way too weak for this tournament and the way they are calling it. He has been getting absolutely bodied every time he is out there.
Yeah it was appalling how defensive the Dutch played that match
McKenzie needs to never see the field again for the national team. I never rated him and holy shite that was bad
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