EURO 2012 Qualifying Tournament

[Rebajlo]

England 2 Switzerland 2

ENGLAND:

Started: 6 Whites, 5 blacks
Finished: 7 Whites, 4 blacks

SWITZERLAND:

Started: 5 Whites, 1 black, 3 Albanians, 1 Turk, 1 Kurd
Finished: 4 Whites, 2 blacks, 4 Albanians, 1 Turk

Some may find this hard to believe, but Switzerland are an even greater disgrace than England. Eight of the eighteen players comprising the "Swiss" match-day squad were not even born in Switzerland (Johan Djourou, Valon Behrami, Xherdan Shaquiri and Granit Xhaka were in the starting lineup, while Blerim Dzemali, Gelson Fernandes, Admir Mehmedi and Innocent Emeghara were on the bench). At the end of the match, there were only five Swiss-born players on the field (one of whom is a Turk) - a truly astounding statistic.

Switzerland and Belgium, with respective populations of approximately 7.9 and 11 million, have had their national teams' compositions transformed in the space of less than a decade and a half.

As I keep repeating, the national teams of Switzerland, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Austria, the Netherlands and Germany shall all become significantly "darker" by the end of this decade, as the masses of non-White brats currently between the ages of ten and fifteen areinevitably filtered through into club football.You may notice that I used the term "darker" instead of "blacker" - this is because the majority of non-White growth in the aforementioned countries is Arabic, Turkish, Albanian and Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim). These Muslim groups breed like maggots and there shall be plenty of Mohammeds and Mehmets on team sheets throughout Scandinavia and central Europe. With the necessary adjustments (i.e. replace a couple of Albanians with Arabs) the current Swiss team is the ghost of Scandinavian Ramadan future. Of course, blacks shall be way over-represented as usual, but I believe that the next generational wave of European-born non-White football players in the north of the continent shall have a much higher North African, Middle Eastern and Albanian component.

Here's Norway. They lost 1-0 to Portugal, but I figured I'd take a look at them since I've been looking at the other Northern Euro Nations. Judging by Norway's U-21 team, I think Norway is going to get worse. Still, if they manage to get through, they aren't too bad of a team to cheer for.

Norway
Started: 10 whites, 1 black
Finished: 9 whites, 1 black, 1 Turk

Nice stuff, Jack

. I'd just like to point out that Norway's Mohamed Abdellaoui is an Arab, not a Turk

(not that it matters much, as they are equally loathesome...).

Incidentally, Portugal started and finished that match against Norway with 9 Whites and 2 blacks.

It's good that You brought up Norway's U-21 team, which lost 0-2 away to England U-21 on Sunday. I was going to use that side as an example of what's slowly happening in Scandinavia. Here are the breakdowns:

ENGLAND U-21:

Started: 3 Whites, 8 blacks

Finished: 6 Whites, 5 blacks

NORWAY U-21:

Started: 7 Whites, 1 black, 2 Albanians, 1 Sikh

Finished: 8 Whites, 2 blacks, 1 Sikh

Less than half of the players on the field at the beginning of the match were White...

Looking at the weekend's results, it is quite shocking to see how many national teams featured at least one non-White (Turkey, Israel, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Bosniaexcluded

):

England, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, France, Sweden, Finland (2 Albanians - one starter, one sub), Croatia (Brazilian mongrel Eduardo), Macedonia (2 Albanians - one starter, one sub; although one must remember that Macedonia is about 25% Albanian), Denmark, Portugal, Norway and...Bulgaria ("naturalised" black Brazilian Marquinhos - see below).

A "Bulgarian", eh?

Meanwhile, the Netherlands were busy playing a friendly against Brazil (0-0). The 21-man Dutch match-day squad consisted of 11 Whites, 7 blacks, 2 Berbers and 1 small-part Indonesian. That's almost 50% non-White...Edited by: Rebajlo

 

[Borussia]

Very sobering stuff Rebajlo.
I was almost starting to feel strangely optimistic because the last 2 WC winners (Spain and Italy) were composed of 100% national sides with no nonwhite mercenaries and non-native immigrants.

In addition, the world wide joke that is Senegal-North (France) stirred some semblance of resistance with obvious internal FFF factions wanting to actually get more White Frenchmen on the national team.
Of course the anti-White EU and media put a quick stop to this initiative.

Even the recent Dutch sides (historically the first Euro country to field many nonwhites and immigrants, as the Dutch love to embrace their multi-culti loving stupidity, they've been big time mixed since the late 80s), have started reaching some odd decent balance and retro understanding the Dutch team should be ...mostly Dutch?!
I know the last WC they had their 1/3 nonwhite team, but in perspective this is actually healthy true White for them.

I maintain that a big part of this is how the global media is latching on to the US invented Caste bug. They see the basketball and American football teams and think these 'super athletes' are all great and we need a few on the team too.
For the Arabic, North African and Bosnian who come up through the ranks, a small number will have skills and that is just a statistical numbers game as many grow up playing and focus on sport to achieve and not school/work skills.

Look, I don't like it anymore then you do, but the policies of government officials re immigrants and multi-culti embracing madness was the fundamental problem in the first place, so it is expected that some immigrant groups will produce capable players...yes, may will be over hyped and receive numerous chances to shine. Yet a few will become (for better or for worse) regular national team players (Ozil, Belahrouz).

What I maintain is the worst thing and should be totally outlawed and mocked if need be, is the mercenary hiring of Brazilian scumbags and Africans out of the bush.
Poland even hired a Nigerian (or was it Ghana?) mountain gorilla a few years back to play.
The media deemed him a 'fan favorite' (how's that for omni-propaganda mind games?).

National sides who hire players and give them passports just to play should receive tons of negative feedback from supporters.

Norway's under-21 looks to be a new national disgrace. Perhaps they are afflicted with the French idiocy sickness.
Idiots

 

[Borussia]

Check that, England's under-21 team is by far a complete mockery.

I mean truly, that is a f'n joke.
8 out of 11 players are black? Wow, I'd say England was only about 10 years behind France is accepting complete nonwhite Dominance.

The English must really be proud of winning world war 2 though. Oh and the empire...nice stuff that the conquered are now returning the favor.

It would be so un-British to actually have people mad at you and call you evil, hurtful names..such as Racist! 'How dare you Racist prevent me from coming to your country, living for next to nothing, promoting my culture's great additions, taking a job, getting free medical and schooling, having my kids here, and making sure I am accepted through official immigrant and minority rights organization!!'

"ok, I'm so sorry...please come and stay here and bring your friends and cousins too. I'm not racist, I swear, I want my country to be more multi-cultural! This after all makes us stronger. Please forgive me. I bow my head in racist shame" -
basic European mind set (and American).

 

[Europe]

I watched some of the u21 England v Norway. Martin Tyler said that it was nice to see the Indian in Norway's squad and maybe this will help more Asians get in the ranks. I am sure he was talking about England where there are almost no Asians in the leagues. This is what we have to hope for in England. It is so ridiculous.

I agree with Borussia on all the Africans and Brazilians. I am so sick of them on the club teams and more and more on the national teams.

The Bosnians and other former Yugoslavians seem to be everywhere. They screwed up their country and then they get to go live in Sweden or Switzerland.

 

[Jack Lambert]

Well, Germany played against Azerbaijan today in a Qualifier, 3-1.

Germany
Started: 10 whites*, 1 black
Finished 10 whites, 1 black

*I count Ozil as a white Turk.

Azerbaijan
I'm sure nobody really cares about these guys...

Aogo ended up playing in the midfield, only due to the many injuries Germany had there for this match. From what I've heard, Aogo looks absolutly terrible, so he probably won't play in a real important match. Germany is currently sitting in a great position on top of Group A.


Oh, and here's Germany's U-21 team from a match May 31st against Portugal, during which they got killed, 4-2.

Germany U-21
Started: 9 whites, 2 blacks
Finished: 9 whites, 1 black, 1 Turk(?)
Both of the black forwards were replaced at halftime (surprise, surprise) but the German coach had to compensate, so he took off Pierre-Michel Losogga who is a white guy,(his stepfather is former German goalkeeper Oliver Reck,) for a black "German." The Turk came on in the 88th minute, so he didn't really get much time. With all of Germany's young talented forwards, like Andre Schurrle and Mario Gomez, and Lasogga himself, these black forwards will never see time for the senior team.Edited by: Jack Lambert

 

[Rebajlo]

I maintain that a big part of this is how the global media is latching on to the US invented Caste bug. They see the basketball and American football teams and think these 'super athletes' are all great and we need a few on the team too.
For the Arabic, North African and Bosnian who come up through the ranks, a small number will have skills and that is just a statistical numbers game as many grow up playing and focus on sport to achieve and not school/work skills.

Look, I don't like it anymore then you do, but the policies of government officials re immigrants and multi-culti embracing madness was the fundamental problem in the first place, so it is expected that some immigrant groups will produce capable players...yes, may will be over hyped and receive numerous chances to shine. Yet a few will become (for better or for worse) regular national team players (Ozil, Belahrouz).

What I maintain is the worst thing and should be totally outlawed and mocked if need be, is the mercenary hiring of Brazilian scumbags and Africans out of the bush.
Poland even hired a Nigerian (or was it Ghana?) mountain gorilla a few years back to play.
The media deemed him a 'fan favorite' (how's that for omni-propaganda mind games?).

Borussia - You are spot oninassertingthat the U.S. "black superathlete" model has spawned similar thinking in the rest of the world.

Some non-White players hold their positions in national and club sides on merit but for me that is beside the point, as the end result is identical to that of artificial promotion - namely, the highly visible dilution of national identity and the damage inflicted upon the self-esteem of White children and youth.

As I've said before, the only way to change things is via ruthless political force, naturally backed by racially-aware fans demanding that their players turn out for their clubs. Even without the political angle, White fans possess the power to effect change - the most potent of powers resides in their wallets and credit cards. If they didn't purchase tickets, merchandise and cable TV subscriptions, the clubs would be forced to alter things very quickly in order to simply survive...

Poland naturalised the Nigerian Emmanuel Olisadebe in July 2000. Here is thefilthy black monstrosity in a Polonia Warszawa shirt:

Poland also naturalised the Brazilian mongrel Roger Guerreiro in April 2008 (ironically enough, he played for Legia Warszawa):

Quite naturally, I wished to see Poland lose with these grubs in the side - one out of eleven is one too many. Such dross shouldn't even be allowed anywhere near the Polish borders, let alone the national football side.

I watched some of the u21 England v Norway. Martin Tyler said that it was nice to see the Indian in Norway's squad and maybe this will help more Asians get in the ranks. I am sure he was talking about England where there are almost no Asians in the leagues. This is what we have to hope for in England. It is so ridiculous.

Europe - Like every other sports commentator, Martin Tyler is an unprincipled mercenary who blithely mouths the language scripted by his paymasters, thus ensuring that he has a well-remunerated job for life. His public-schoolboy-gaping-at-cocks-in-the-showers voice and quasi-homoerotic style of gushing, adjective-laden praise for blacks is exactly what shapes social opinion and feeds the inferiority complexes of White youth, with oafs like Sol Campbell and Emile Heskey deified by terms such as "powerful", "muscular", "athletic", "the new breed of..." and "the bigger, fitter, stronger modern player." He also uses the device of comparing "big" black footballers to "prizefighters".

One often gets the impression that Tyler has one hand on the microphone while the other is feverishly employed beneath the table. I daren't imagine the Viagra-free tumescence he copped at the sight of a Sikh on the field, doubtlessly unloading post-haste into his official England issue Three Lions y-fronts, his thimble-full of rapture marred only by disappointment that the greasy curry-scoffer wasn't wearing an England shirt...

 

[Deadlift]

WOW! AMAZING post.

 

[Spartan]

There are fully white teams which dominate the sport, such as World champions of 2006 Italy, of course Euro 2008 and world champions of 2010 Spain and Euro 2004 champions Greece, teams with an all 23 white roster. Also teams like Germany or Sweden or Denmark etc who have 20-21 white players in the roster and 2-3 blacks or Turks, is not a problem to me, not a major problem at least.<div>Barcelona, as well, most of the UEFA Champions League champion teams in history, have been white dominated teams with at least 15-16 whites in their 23 roster. Most golden ball winners have been white too, in Fifa top 125 players of all time, 99 of them were white too. Mediterraneans and Europeans rule in their sports.</div><div>Also Russia, Ukraine and most eastern andnorthernEuropean countries are fully white too. Considering the sickmulticulturalism, especially in American sports, that Team USA in sports as basketball, boxing, track and field and American football look like Nigeria or Ghana, Europe, Canada and Australia still do great. Excluding French football and basketball, everything else is nearly 99% white dominated in Europe as a whole. Even sports as boxing, basketball and track that in USA, even most white people consider it normal to be black dominated, in Europe are white dominated by a long shot. To me the real problem is these 3-4 major sports in America, which make blacks look good in the world stage, especially the NBA, NFL and boxing, if blacks didn't have those 3, none would ever hear about them. Heck, even the top American players in sports as golf and women's tennis have been blacks, that's a shame man.<div>
</div><div>I understand the caste system in leagues as the NFL and NBA, but none stops white Americans to dominate high jump, triple jump, decathlon and boxing, but they still don't. In European and worldwide level, whites from Europe, South America and Australia, beat blacks all the time in those sports and of course in basketball as well, like the world games of 1998, 2002, 2006 and the Olympics of 1988 and 2004.</div><div>
</div><div>Nobody stops white American from training in boxing and get inside a ring and smash blacks or Latinos like eastern Euros or white Brits do, now in boxing and track i can't accept there is caste system in the US, maybe it's white Americans who got soft and lazy maybe in those sports?</div><div>
</div><div>Soccer is white dominated in any way you look at it, i am sick of the imports of these untalented Africans too, but soccer was, is and will always be white dominated!</div><div>
</div><div>Screw France, they are not even a top team anymore!</div><div>
</div><div>Sorry for myEnglish,i am Swedish.</div></div>

 

[Rebajlo]

Also teams like Germany or Sweden or Denmark etc who have 20-21 white players in the roster and 2-3 blacks or Turks, is not a problem to me, not a major problem at least...


...Soccer is white dominated in any way you look at it, i am sick of the imports of these untalented Africans too, but soccer was, is and will always be white dominated!


Screw France, they are not even a top team anymore!


Sorry for myEnglish,i am Swedish.

Spartan - Your English is fine, mate.

The German, Swedish and Danish national teams do not feature many blacks and Turks at the moment, but this is exactly what people were saying about France in the late seventies.

The French squad for the 1978 World Cup finals contained "only" two blacks (Marius Tresor and Gerard Janvion). Four years later, the 1982 French finals squad had four black players (Tresor, Janvion, Jean Tigana and Alain Couriol), while in 1986 Tigana was the sole black. But the "tone" of the French team had been set - they were never again an "all White" side and by the time of their next appearance at the World Cup finals in 1998, there were six blacks, one Berber, one New Caledonian, and the ridiculously mixed Youri Djorkaeff in the twenty-two man squad.

Once the rot sets in, immigration-fuelled demographic factors and the inevitable direct or indirect accusations of "racism" levelled at any club or national team manager who picks an all-Whiteside generally means that the national team in question shall follow theFrench path to oblivion.This is what has happened to England, the Netherlands and, to a lesser extent, Belgium. One or two non-Whites are only the beginning.

In the case of England, Viv Anderson was the sole black in the 1982 World Cup finals squad. In 1986 there were two blacks (Anderson and John Barnes), while the 1990 finals squad contained three blacks (Barnes, Des Walker and Paul Parker). By 1998, the number of blacks had risen to four (Paul Ince, Sol Campbell, Les Ferdinand and Rio Ferdinand) and the 2002 squad had a whopping nine blacks (David James, Sol Campbell, Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Cole, Wes Brown, Trevor Sinclair, Kieron Dyer, Emile Heskey and Darius Vassell). The 2006 squad's black content "dropped" to seven (David James, Sol Campbell, Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Cole, Jermaine Jenas, Aaron Lennon and Theo Walcott), while last year's squad featured eight blacks (David James, Ashley Cole, Glen Johnson, Ledley King, Aaron Lennon, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Emile Heskey and Jermaine Defoe).

The examples ofFrance, England, the Netherlands and Belgium are, of course, significantly related to the issue of those nations' non-White populations - but, as we all know, the non-White populations of every European country are on the rise so that shall consequently be a factor throughout the continent. Things can change very quickly, as evidenced by the Swiss and Austrian team-sheets from the last few rounds of the European Championship qualifiers...

 

[Rebajlo]

Just a little reminder that the qualifiers resume tonight...

 

[Europe]

England beat Bulgaria 3-0 that incuded 2 goals by Rooney and 1 by Cahill who started in place Ferdinand. Hopefully, Cahill has taken the job away from Ferdinand. The 7 whites who started didn't include Lampard who was on the bench. Gerrard was also injured and wasn't part of the team. 13 of the 18 players were white. Smalling , a black player, played right back which is a position that Glenn Johnson has been playing. Hopefully, Phil Jones, who is now at Manchester United, can eventually take that position. Smalling is also on United, but doesn't regularly play right back.

 

[frederic38]

and montenegro lost, so england should qualify
that's a lot of white players!


france won 2-1, but OMG, what a bad match!
albania was horrible, they had no talent, even worse than bosnia
and france managed to almost being equalised after leading 2-0 after 20 min
the only goal for albany came thanks to our physically gifted black defense :dodgy:
http://rutube.ru/tracks/4780537.html?v=38121fcdfe79e5664742a9686dc1015f

they were 2 whites in the starters, lloris and reveillere, a goal keeper and a right back
marvin martin came in at 80 min, but i just realised that he might be part black, of guadeloupean origin

 

[Matra2]

Anti-racism messages are to be read out before the England Wales match. Apparently last Friday Bulgarians booed England's black players while English fans booed the Bulgarian anthem. I recall at Wembley in 2007 English fans behaved with similar disrespect towards the Croatian anthem.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/sep/05/john-terry-england-wales-respect

 

[Rebajlo]

A bit late (Rebajlo has been rather busy :icon_wink, but here are some breakdowns from last Friday's round of qualifiers. Each of the following matches featured at least one non-White... :mad2:

Bulgaria 0 England 3

BULGARIA:

Started: 11 Whites
Finished: 10 Whites, 1 black (Brazilian Marquinhos)

ENGLAND:

Started: 7 Whites, 4 blacks
Finished: 9 Whites, 2 blacks

Wales 2 Montenegro 1

WALES:

Started: 10 Whites, 1 black
Finished: 8 Whites, 3 blacks

MONTENEGRO:

Started: 11 Whites
Finished: 11 Whites

Azerbaijan 1 Belgium 1

AZERBAIJAN:

A pack of hairy-arsed Muslims who should be "competing" in Asia...

BELGIUM:

Started: 7 Whites, 3 blacks, 1 Arab
Finished: Unchanged ratio* *N.B. The black Brazilian Igor De Camargo replaced the black Romelu Lukaku after 60'

Germany 6 Austria 2

GERMANY:

Started: 10 Whites, 1 Turk
Finished: 9 Whites, 1 black, 1 Turk

AUSTRIA:

Started: 9 Whites, 1 black, 1 Turk
Finished: Unchanged ratio

Ireland 0 Slovakia 0

IRELAND:

Started: 11 Whites
Finished: Unchanged ratio

SLOVAKIA:

Started: 11 Whites
Finished: 10 Whites, 1 black ("naturalised" German-born Karim Guede)

Norway 1 Iceland 0

NORWAY:

Started: 9 Whites, 1 black, 1 Arab
Finished: 7 Whites, 3 blacks, 1 Arab

ICELAND:

Started: 11 Whites
Finished: 11 Whites

Albania 1 France 2

ALBANIA:

Started: 11 Albanians
Finished: 11 Albanians

FRANCE:

Started: 3 Whites*, 5 blacks, 3 Arabs *Includes Muslim convert Franck Ribery
Finished: 4 Whites* ^, 4 blacks, 3 Arabs ^Like frederic38 stated above, Marvin Martin's "suspicious" appearance may very well indicate that he is part black, although I haven't found evidence to confirm this (but, to be honest, I have never spent more than a minute or so looking for it :icon_wink

Netherlands 11 (that's right...) San Marino 0

NETHERLANDS:

Started: 9 Whites, 1 black, 1 small-part Indonesian
Finished: 6 Whites, 4 blacks, 1 small-part Indonesian

SAN MARINO:

Started: 11 Whites
Finished: 11 Whites

Plenty of qualifiers tonight, including England versus Wales at Wembley...

 

[Liverlips]

Wow - the Dutch started 9 whites and one part Asian!

If you told me in 1998 that in 2011 that would be the starting lineup, I wouldn't have believed you. Back then it was a "spot the white man" situation as our guys got lost in a see of dreadlocks.

ESPN had a preview of an England game and the still showed a shot of 5 white men celebrating after a goal. They usually do just the opposite. If there is one dreadlocked buffoon on a white team they will feature him in all the previews - even if he is a backup.

 

[Europe]

England had 8 white starters in the game as they beat Wales 1-0. Robert Earnshaw, a black player for Wales who came on in the 2nd half, missed a wide open goal from a few yards in front of goal.

 

[Rebajlo]

A (very) small selection of Tuesday night's qualifiers:

England 1 Wales 0

ENGLAND:

Started: 8 Whites, 3 blacks
Finished: Unchanged ratio

WALES:

Started: 10 Whites, 1 black
Finished: 9 Whites, 2 blacks

Too bad that England's winner was scored by the black Ashley Young... :mad2:

Switzerland 3 Bulgaria 1

SWITZERLAND:

Started: 4 Whites, 1 black, 4 Albanians, 2 Turks
Finished: 4 Whites, 3 blacks, 1 Albanian, 2 Turks, 1 Arab

There's nothing better than watching "European" football, is there? :angry:

BULGARIA:

Started: 11 Whites
Finished: Unchanged ratio

Spain 6 Liechtenstein 0

SPAIN:

Started: 11 Whites
Finished: 10 Whites, 1 black (Thiago Alcantara)

LIECHTENSTEIN:

Started: 11 Whites
Finished: Unchanged ratio

I'd like to point out that Liechtenstein's reserve goalkeeper is a Turk, Cengiz Bicer... :censored: :censored:

 

[Europe]

Switzerland is a joke--Turks, Arabs, Albanians. What's with all the Albanians? Are they Muslim?

 

[Giles Daldanus]

Only one round to go before the qualifying phase is concluded...I think that the play-offs will be quite interesting, as a number of lesser known sides like Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, as well as possibly Estonia and Armenia will compete against each other for a chance to reach the Euro 2012 tournament. From these four national teams, only Armenia have a naturalized player (Brazilian Marcos Pizzelli) in their ranks. Aras Özbiliz was born in Turkey, but has Armenian roots. Croatia have not been very convincing, but I think that they will be able to qualify.

Groups A (Turkey and Belgium are vying for the second spot), B (Russia will qualify as their opponent is Andorra, but Ireland and Armenia will be fighting for a place in the play-offs), C (first place is in the bag for Italy, but one of Serbia or Estonia will come second) and I (Scotland vs. Czech Republic) will be the ones to watch.

 

[Matra2]

Watching the decisive Denmark v Portugal match I'm impressed with the Danes, who now lead 2-0. They are much more of a team than Portugal with couple of superstar players (Ronaldo and Nani) but not much cohesion.

 

[Matra2]

Ireland squeaked through against Armenia. Maybe they'll play France (currently losing 0-1 to Bosnia) again in a play-off. France could bring Henri back from the New York Red Bulls for that match.

 

[Matra2]

The team representing France got a penalty, scored by Samir Nasri, to make it a draw. So France qualifies for 2012. Serbia out. Scotland out - not exactly a surprise. Denmark qualify but Portugal will have to have a play-off.

Meanwhile on British radio the big story of the night is that Fabio Capello is considering a big money offer to go coach a Russian club.

 

[frederic38]

The team representing France got a penalty, scored by Samir Nasri, to make it a draw. So France qualifies for 2012. Serbia out. Scotland out - not exactly a surprise. Denmark qualify but Portugal will have to have a play-off.

Meanwhile on British radio the big story of the night is that Fabio Capello is considering a big money offer to go coach a Russian club.

anzhi?

what a bad french team
evra played, and not jeremy mathieu, and he once again was horrible

that edin dzeko is the typical premier league foward: over hyped, said to be a killer, scores incredible amount of goals, then plays a really bad match
yes, he scored, but he was awfull, he missed a LOT of really easy goals
and in the first match against france, he was non existant

also, they bosnia had a clear advantage on france in height and aerial balls, but they throwed away all their oportunities to put the ball in front of the goal, in the airs
come on, don't play short corners when you play against france!

 

[Giles Daldanus]

Dzeko showed nice ball control to open the scoring in the match (his shot was almost unstoppable even for a goalkeeper of Lloris' calibre), but I agree that he was wasteful in front of goal on a number of occasions...Bosnia missed a number of chances to put the game beyond France's reach, but I guess that a draw could be considered a fair result. The Bosnian defender was a bit naïve in conceding the penalty that led to the equalizer, but he is not among the more experienced players in the squad, so one cannot blame him.
Ireland vs. Armenia was probably the most exciting match from the final round of the group stage matches...the Irish were quite solid in defense, but it's a pity that Berezovsky's (who is an ethnic Russian, btw) harsh red card resulted in an Armenian performance that was more disjointed than usual.

8 national teams will be fighting for the 4 remaining spots. Portugal, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Croatia will be seeded in tomorrow's draw, while Bosnia & Herzegovina, Estonia, Montenegro and Turkey will be the "outsiders".

 

[Strike]

Latest lineups for the international games:

Spain: 23 Spaniards
Italy: 21 Italians, Thiaggo Motta (Brazilian-born), Pablo Osvaldo (Argentine), and Balotelli. ***Rossi and Cassano are injured.
Germany: 19 Whites, 3 Blacks, 1 Turk, 1 Arab. ***Lahm was left out
Portugal: 19 Whites, 2 Blacks, 1 Brazilian (Pepe), 1 half-Brazilian (Bruno Alves). ***Ricardo Carvalho might return.

Holland: 14 Whites, 7 Blacks, 1 Arab, 1 part Indonesian. ***Robben is still injured.
Belgium: 16 Whites, 6 Blacks, 2 Arabs, 1 half-Indonesian

England: 14 Whites, 9 Blacks. ***Rooney is suspended. Wilshere, Cleverley, and Gerrard are injured. Carroll is playing poorly.
France: 13 Whites, 2 Arabs, 6 Blacks. ***Gourcuff, Mexes, Nasri, Toulalan were all left out.