UEFA EURO 2012

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Ukraine and Sweden no score after 45 mins. Ukraine had two good chances to score - Shevchenko making a complete mess of one of them, the other blocked by desperate Swedish defending. Ibrahimovich with a free header, which hit the post, being Sweden's only real chance. The teams are pretty even with the home team having more possession.

BTW I noticed only two Swedes did NOT sing their national anthem: Ibrahimovich and the black defender Martin Olsson.

that's ****ed up. Obraniak, Polanski, Boenisch and Perquis all sang Polish anthem.
 

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What a game from Shevchenko!!! Two goals for Ukraine today!! Ukrainian fans won't be forgetting this performance any time soon. 2-1 Ukraine!! Great job by Ukraine for fighting back after they went down 1-0!!

Also, about the anthems, the only 3 that don't sing the German anthem are Boateng, Ozil, and Khedira.

I agree backrow, Zeus and everybody else talking about this, could we keep the thread talking about soccer and not which whites are better than which?
 

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Extremely entertaining second half. Good attacking football with great crowd atmosphere. Sweden will need to win against England on Friday...and I hope they do. It would be great to see both these teams go through at the expense of France and England.
 

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i told you guys, ukraine is ready :wink:
yarmolenko is very good
he gave the first assist to schevchenko
schevchenko, probably my favourite player
it's strange to see him still scoring goals
 

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I agree backrow, Zeus and everybody else talking about this, could we keep the thread talking about soccer and not which whites are better than which?

Yes guys, I am done with all this mess and I apologize from all the people who want to talk football.

Shevchenko still has it man, he is an all time great striker, I am glad to see that he hasn't lost his killer instinct!

I can see Ukraine and France going through from this group.

And no white is better than any other white, white pride worldwide!
 

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i told you guys, ukraine is ready :wink:
yarmolenko is very good
he gave the first assist to schevchenko
schevchenko, probably my favourite player
it's strange to see him still scoring goals

I'm glad Ukraine was ready!!:)

They were fun to watch! Shevchenko was especially brilliant with his two goals today! I hope Ukraine advances out of the group along with Sweden!!
 

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Also, about the anthems, the only 3 that don't sing the German anthem are Boateng, Ozil, and Khedira.

Along with Khedira (Tunisian), Ozil (Turkish), and Boateng (Ghanaian-German *******), Lukas Podolski is the only “whiteâ€￾ player on Germany’s roster who refuses to sing “Das Lied der Deutsche.â€￾

I remember reading an article about Podolski “refusingâ€￾ to sing the German anthem whenever Germany is playing Poland…but to be honest, I’ve never seen him sing it once (and I follow Nationalmannschaft closely). Perhaps the little prick should be playing for Poland instead? That is, if he could actually start on the ever-improving Polish squad. Here is an example from a qualifying match back in November. The other Negro (aside from Boateng) is the utterly-worthless Dennis Aogo, who is no longer with the squad...

[video=youtube;4WPh1lPBMmk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPh1lPBMmk[/video]
 

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I'm glad Ukraine was ready!!:)

They were fun to watch! Shevchenko was especially brilliant with his two goals today! I hope Ukraine advances out of the group along with Sweden!!


did you notice the way they played? nobody play like this in the world (well, atleast in europe, i don't know about the whole world)
they have so many attacking player at the same time
their right back, gusiev, plays as a winger, and has the number 9 shirt
it seems that he is never tired, he ran everywhere tonight
they try a lot of long range shots too, and with players like schevchenko, tymoschuk or even nazarenko they score a lot of beautiful goals this way
check out nazarenko's beautiful goal against germany in a recent friendly match:

[video=youtube_share;FT6EwgjH1NA]http://youtu.be/FT6EwgjH1NA[/video]

i think that a lot of teams will be inspired by the way they play in the future

and what a great atmosphere: great fans, the players are like friends (reminds me of an article where arsene wenger said that athletic bilbao's recent successes happened because they had a "cultural unity" - "Une équipe technique, physique et unie culturellement. " = "A skilled and physical team, and united culturally ."
he said that because athletic bilbao is an all white and all basque team http://www.eurosport.fr/arsene-weng...a-ligue-europa_post1480556/blogpostfull.shtml )
 

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Welbeck and Young did nothing up front, not that they got good service. Young's early offside cost them a goal scoring opportunity. Milner was poor too. They should try Carroll in the next match. Benzema and Nasri both played quite well. Benzema's long range shooting was better than it normally is for Real Madrid.

Young, Chamberlain and Wellbeck don't really have that much skill. They couldn't pass much and they couldn't even run with the ball much. Imagine England with Rooney, Wilshere and Lampard, three creative, skilled players. It just go to show that speed isn't much in soccer. Caey Keller was saying that during the Ukraine match. Lampard has more skill than Young, Chamberlain and Wellbeck combined.

They need a playmaker like Wilshere. Without Rooney I would try Defoe and Carroll upfront. They aren't going to do it, but I would be Baines in at left back. Could Baines play left wing. He seems to be pretty skilled. Young will probably be back at left wing though.
 

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I'm glad I'm not having to see Lalas in our coverage. We got some ESPN coverage during the last World Cup and Lalas was madly in love with "super athletic" Ghana. He and Chris Fowler were practically in tears when Uruguay eliminated them.

Excellent memory, Matra. Here in the US, we have the misfortune of having to put up with Alexi "Vuvuzela" Lalas. It's extremely irritating to have to listen to this negrophile fool, who appears to have earned himself a long term position at ESPN, both as an analyst and color commentator. He has done and said all the right things to please his cultural marxists bosses, so unfortunately, he's not going anywhere.
 

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did you notice the way they played? nobody play like this in the world (well, atleast in europe, i don't know about the whole world)
they have so many attacking player at the same time
their right back, gusiev, plays as a winger, and has the number 9 shirt
it seems that he is never tired, he ran everywhere tonight
they try a lot of long range shots too, and with players like schevchenko, tymoschuk or even nazarenko they score a lot of beautiful goals this way
check out nazarenko's beautiful goal against germany in a recent friendly match:

[video=youtube_share;FT6EwgjH1NA]http://youtu.be/FT6EwgjH1NA[/video]

i think that a lot of teams will be inspired by the way they play in the future

and what a great atmosphere: great fans, the players are like friends (reminds me of an article where arsene wenger said that athletic bilbao's recent successes happened because they had a "cultural unity" - "Une équipe technique, physique et unie culturellement. " = "A skilled and physical team, and united culturally ."
he said that because athletic bilbao is an all white and all basque team http://www.eurosport.fr/arsene-weng...a-ligue-europa_post1480556/blogpostfull.shtml )

Yes, I did notice that Ukraine had a lot of attackers coming forward when they had possession. I really like this attacking style that Ukraine uses, and it makes them that much tougher to play against. With the home crowd behind them, Ukraine will be extremely difficult to beat.

Also, I hate having to listen to Lalas on ESPN. At least he doesn't seem to be being rude to his co-host Michael Ballack like he was to Ruud Gillet at the World Cup.
 

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Along with Khedira (Tunisian), Ozil (Turkish), and Boateng (Ghanaian-German *******), Lukas Podolski is the only “white†player on Germany’s roster who refuses to sing “Das Lied der Deutsche.â€

I remember reading an article about Podolski “refusing†to sing the German anthem whenever Germany is playing Poland…but to be honest, I’ve never seen him sing it once (and I follow Nationalmannschaft closely). Perhaps the little prick should be playing for Poland instead? That is, if he could actually start on the ever-improving Polish squad. Here is an example from a qualifying match back in November. The other Negro (aside from Boateng) is the utterly-worthless Dennis Aogo, who is no longer with the squad...
I have never seen Podolski singing the anthem, and I watch most if not all games of our team. Never in like 7 years or so. Both Podolski und Klose were actually born in Poland, both with German ancestry, but I think only Klose thinks of himself as German. He is also one of the few players on the team that plays for Germany, and not for his own gain and merit.
I heard that Özil is thinking of the Quran or something like that during our anthem, but to be honest I don’t even want guys like Özil,Khedira,Aogo (thank god he doesn’t play anymore) or Boateng to sing during our national anthem. Why? cause it’s not their hymn. They have their own national anthems they can sing and their own teams the can play for
 

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yup, Klose is a hard core German wannabe. Podolski is more like, eh, i am Polish i just happen to play for the better side. if i was German, i'd appreciate Klose's attitude more, he's trying to fit in, just as i appreciate Perquis (and his dubious Polish antecedency) and Obraniak singing the anthem.
 

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some news about the french-england match, from a french point of view:

it has been said that the england-france match was the worst of the competition, and we have seen all the teams now (both are the most black and/or arab of the tournament, "curiously")

nobody understood why laurent blanc didn't substituted benzema for giroud
they asked him why he didn't do it at the press conference: http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/-que-doit-on-dire-alors-des-anglais/290719
here is what they say at the most famous french newspaper, "l'equipe":

crucial everytime he played for the french national team (goal or assist) except against the USA, giroud will have to wait to celebrate his 7th match with the french national team, since he warmed up against england, but didn't came in
yet karim benzema was not having a great match

all the pundits agree that france is playing whithout striker, because benzema is doing the same than anelka at the 2010 world cup, he is never in the penalty area


there is also some kind of scandal because, as you know, the french football federation tried very hard to change the french national team's image after the 2010 world cup
one of the things they tried to change was the relation between the press and the french team
but the arab nasri, after his goal, insulted the french press:

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so everyone is very angry at nasri currently
i mean he just scored 1 goal and france didn't even win against england with a lot of injuried players, it's not like he won the world cup



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regarding germany and the fact that klose doesn't plays, i think that germany is obsessed with youg players, but you don't win a competition with teenagers
for example, i would have hummels and mertesacker as defenders
klose as the main strikers
and there are other old players who are not even in the team
schevchenko showed that experienced players can be an advantage
even drogba showed this against bayern munchen

here is the medium age of each teams at the euro champs:
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germany is the youngest (youngest at the top, oldest at the bottom)
the table also shows the oldest and youngest player of each team


Both Podolski und Klose were actually born in Poland, both with German ancestry, but I think only Klose thinks of himself as German.

i have read that klose was 100% german and podolsky mainly german but a little bit of polish ancestry

I heard that Özil is thinking of the Quran or something like that during our anthem, but to be honest I don’t even want guys like Özil,Khedira,Aogo (thank god he doesn’t play anymore) or Boateng to sing during our national anthem. Why? cause it’s not their hymn. They have their own national anthems they can sing and their own teams the can play for

i agree
it's always insulting to see players who don't sing the anthem but it would be every jew's dream to see colored players sing the german anthem
for the white players like perquis or obraniak or klose, it's different, they have to sing the anthem
 

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I have never seen Podolski singing the anthem, and I watch most if not all games of our team. Never in like 7 years or so. Both Podolski und Klose were actually born in Poland, both with German ancestry, but I think only Klose thinks of himself as German. He is also one of the few players on the team that plays for Germany, and not for his own gain and merit.
I heard that Özil is thinking of the Quran or something like that during our anthem, but to be honest I don’t even want guys like Özil,Khedira,Aogo (thank god he doesn’t play anymore) or Boateng to sing during our national anthem. Why? cause it’s not their hymn. They have their own national anthems they can sing and their own teams the can play for

Well, Klose’s father (Josef Klose) is a German man from the former Prussian province of “Upper Silesia,†whereas his mother is fully Polish. And yes, Klose was born in Poland and his family moved to the town of “Kusel†(former West Germany) in 1985. His father and mother both spoke Polish in the household, he married a Polish woman named “Sylwia†(the couple have twin boys and the family allegedly communicates in Polish), and he supposedly lives in Poland exclusively during the offseason…

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CAPTION: Klose w/ Wife and Sons

I’ve been a fan of his for 10 years, beginning at the 2002 World Cup Finals in Japan-Korea. I wish him the very best in Euro Cup 2012, and would love to see him re-emerge for World Cup 2014 and Brazil...possibly breaking Ronaldo's all-time scoring record of 15 goals.

As for Podolski, well, I’ve never seen any evidence (anecdotal or factual) that he is anything accept for entirely Polish. He was born in Poland and his family moved to West Germany in 1987. His paternal grandparents had citizenship in Germany, but I believe they were also entirely Polish. Like Klose, Podolski married a Polish woman named “Monika.†I believe Podolski is a fully-time resident of Germany…

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CAPTION: Podolski w/ Wife and Son

I support white players in international soccer, and it doesn’t bother me (too much) when white Europeans play for a non-native national squad. I wouldn’t mind if Germans played for Poland, or visa-versa…but Podolski’s failure to sing the anthem of a nation that has, quite literally, given him every opportunity at stardom (for nearly a decade), is rather vexing.
 

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I don’t mind players with roots from other European countries either (Like Gomez for example), however it should be still a German squad. Not even guys like Podolski (Or do you know Piotr Trochowski ? he played a few years in the midfield as a lame duck) are guys the problem, but players like Cacau, David Odonkor, Aogo….And also Khedira und Özil.Especially Özil. No vision at all, doesn’t move, cant play the final pass, never plays through the middle. He can be as bad as he wants, but since he plays for Real and is “teh best playar evarr!!!!111â€￾ he can afford it. In the media he will always be the best, and everyone else will just buy in. We have 2 Players that have the potential to be our Xavi und Iniesta: Götze und Kroos; both benchwarmers right now. And I dont think that they will get a chance anytime soon, maybe Götze but not Kroos, since he has no Lobby at all.
 

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Poland is an extremely overrated team, in front of their people all they did was playing good for the first 20-25 minutes (plain enthusiasm) and after that Greece literally owned them.
Greek players scored and dominated the field with a player less in the field, because of the unfair red card Papastathopoulos received!

The athleticism, speed and stamina of the Greek players prevailed in second half and it showed big time.

I expect Santos to wake up and do his job right and we should win against the current very weak team of Czech Republic and Russia which is good, but in no way better than Greece.


Greece is a very good team and doesn't get no credit from the media or even the fans (in here as well)

I expect the Jewish dominated media disliking us, but I see many white people as well (Germans and English mostly) not liking us much, maybe because we are a nation of 10-11 million citizens, with 2-3 millions of non white illegal immigration and we resist to their "global" plans and keep our national teams in all major sports almost 100% white!

Or maybe they are mad that a small non rich nation like us has won so many titles in major sports such as basketball, football, Olympics etc....Who knows, oh well if we were Jamaicans or Nigerians we would be worshiped in the Jewish dominated media 24/7 for our athletic achievements!

Good job but we should have won that match, we were better!

Zeus -

Why the hell are you even posting in this section? You obviously possess kindergarten-level knowledge of football, you misconstrue other members' posts, and your "contributions" consist of jingoistic panegyrics of the Greek national team mixed with paranoid ravings about anti-Hellenic bias both in sport and in White nationalist circles. Unless you haven't noticed, you are the only one who is mentioning theories about Greeks not being considered White.

Take the time to re-read my earlier post in this thread (page 6, #119). You are one of those clowns who are insecure about either the darkness of their hair, skin, or eyes or about the cast of their features and believe that people of northern European appearance view them as some kind of lesser beings. What happened? Some blonde or red-headed British girl knocked you back and called you a greasy Turk? Is that it, Zorba?

Don't use this forum to salve your inferiority complexes, insult northern Europeans and sow division. People wish to discuss the football, not your half-arsed neuroses amd perpetually battered ego.

Poland is an overrated team? Who, pray tell, is overrating Poland? Because it's certainly not the world media, or the Polish media, or even Polish fans.

Ill tell you one thing which definitely is overrated: the Greek Ministry of Finance. Best get your posts in quickly genius, because they'll be cutting off your electricity soon. But wait, the hated light-skinned northern European taxpayer who reviles Greeks so much shall stump up for another "rescue package" so you boys can continue to laze about cafes cramming your unshaven jaws with stuffed vine leaves, drinking ****ing ouzo and reminscing about the good old days of two thousand years passed before strolling off to the chemist to buy this week's jumbo tube of industrial-strength depilatory cream for the wife's forearms...

I wouldn't be drawing too much attention to Greece's "achievements" in the arena of sport if I were you. But as you insist on making a fool of yourself, let's begin with football.

With the exception of that once-in-history win at the 2004 European Championship characterised by your team's negative, spoiling, defensive anti-football throughout the tournament, the Greek record in the sport is bloody well lamentable. Apart from 2004 and the current edition, Greece have only previously qualified for the European Championship finals twice, going out in the first round without a win in both 1980 and 2008.

The Greeks' World Cup pedigree is even more "impressive", having qualified for the finals on a paltry two occasions: 1994 and 2010. Your heroes' 1994 adventure was particularly notable, losing all three matches and in the process conceding ten goals and failing to score themselves. The 2-0 loss to Nigeria in the final group game must have swelled that Hellenic heart of yours, on top of those two humiliating 4-0 beltings at the hands of Argentina and Bulgaria. As you mentioned Greece's population, I'm more than happy to point out that Bulgaria's population is less than that of Greece (which, of course, fails to include all of the traditionally leftist Greeks who are here in Australia bludging on bogus workers' compensation payouts...). I guess it would have been wiser to keep that big mouth of yours shut, eh?

Just for another bit of fun, how about we examine the Greek record at the Olympic Games, shall we? Quite naturally, we'll have to limit our discussion to the Summer Games, as Greece has never won a medal at the Winter Games...

Funnily enough, I've rammed this down the throats of other chip-on-the-shoulder Greek braggarts in the past (there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of such idiots - you don't happen to own one of those stupid t-shirts emblazoned with "Greeks Do It Better!", do you?), but I've just taken a couple of moments to double-check the statistics to be sure, so here we go.

The mighty Greeks have participated in all 26 Olympic Games and have won a towering 108 medals, 30 of which are gold. With such a stratospheric count, I'll wager that everyone is already green with envy...

But here's the humorous catch: of those two totals, it is important to note that 10 gold medals, 17 silver, and 19 bronze were "won" at the very first modern Olympics held in Athens back in 1896. That's 46 of that proud total of 108 medals and 10 of the 30 gold. Now, in case you didn't know, there were only 246 competitors in those first games - and 169 of those were Greeks!

So, if we therefore subtract the Greeks' virtually "artificial" haul from the 1896 Games, the figures look even bleaker, don't they, o lord of Olympus? This means that since that initial less-than-competitive "competition", the Hellenic supermen and superwomen have won a poxy 62 medals (20 gold, 25 silver, 17 bronze).

But wait! Didn't Konstantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou dodge drug tests on several occasions, culminating in their staged "motor accident" a couple of days before the 2004 Olympics? Yes, that's right, isn't it, so the gold and silver medals those two "won" in the Sydney Olympics weren't exactly on the level, were they? Oh, my, that medal tally is looking worse by the minute...

One more thing. Two of Greece's gold medals were won by the weightlifter Kakhi Kakhiashvili - a Georgian name but, well, at least his mother was Greek, wasn't she? Say, you're also half-Greek, aren't you. Maybe the other Greek boys didn't consider you "Greek" enough? Hmmm, that's an interesting thought...

As for basketball, I know **** all about that particular sport, nor do I care. All I do know is that Greece have never won an Olympic medal in basketball.

By the way, name the Greek gold medallists from the last games in Beijing. As I said earlier, you should keep that big gob shut...

Zeus said:
No offense but that question of yours makes no sense and is completely idiotic my friend, we can't argue on something which is considered against the laws of nature, it's simply impossible. The fact only that some guys in such site, like you for example, make such heretical questions, it's scary to me........Are we sure that all the members in here are Proud pro whites after all? I mean there are medley questions about Joe Frazier, questions "what if" your sister married a Turk or a Negro and so on.

I take offense to such question to be honest, but oh well I won't even start.........I am the troll after all!

Well, meathead, Von Winkelried didn't find the question insulting and even managed to answer it succinctly in the space of a short paragraph, yet you came up with another barrow load of ****e...

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Anyways, the ref was 100% anti-Greek last night, but it's ok, maybe he had his own personal demons. At this point this might sounds totally such a ridiculousness and stereotypical, but I tend to believe that the international hate (from other whites in most cases) against Greeks, has a lot to do with some men from specific nations (especially Germany, England, France, Italy and Scandinavian countries) who are mad for the whole situation of their women visiting Greece during the summers for vacations, ending up marrying and have kids with Greek men. To me that's obnoxious, since it's two white nationalities "mixing" (there's not racial mix in the least though), but I guess some let's say Brits or even French ( speaking from personal experience) prefer their white ladies to marry "local" Negroes or non white Arabs, instead of Greeks, Italians etc..........The results of the Jewish propaganda or plain bruised ego? Who knows!

As Matra2 said, only the worst British slags lower themselves to consort with Greeks. These are the same slappers who shag Negroes, Arabs, Turlks and other sub-human dregs. Mind you, I understand how excited those swarthy, hairy-arsed, garlic-breathed, octopus-munching fishermen and goatherds must become when they catch even the briefest glimpse of any northern European women, even if it is some syphilitic, bottom-of-the-gutter moll. That premature ejaculation problem must be really frustrating...

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Zeus, you are welcome to the housing estate skank whores who go to Greece to get laid. Make sure you've got plenty of penicillin.

Nice one, mate.

Zeus said:
I bet you wouldn't say that in my face, or maybe your fantasy is to be just another drunk Brit tourist who gets emasculated, beat or even stabbed from a Greek man in Crete or Rhodes or Corfu etc. I heard you even film documentaries in the UK, how British tourists go in Greece for the summer and getting beat because of their excessive drinking, they get out of control with fatal result being provocative & disrespectful just like you, ending up being emasculated from Greek men........the same Greek men that British women come to have babies with

What's your mental age, tough guy? Thirteen? Fourteen? You certainly aren't doing yourself any favours with this type of puerile internet bravado. So, what are you going to do, get your twenty Vaseline-coiffed cousins to "kick his ass"?

Here's a thought: maybe you could change your username (following your next ban, perhaps...) to "The Hellenic Hammer" in a chilling reference to your fearsome jaw-breaking fists. I bet you're so hard that you wear a necklace fashioned from the splintered teeth of your countless victims to complement your fake gold chains and pelt of matted chest hair...

Zeus said:
I understand your frustration, I wouldn't wanna be a white British male neither

Don't worry, Zorba. The feeling is mutual, with compound interest, as the likes of Matra2 and me are quite happy that we're not constantly mistaken for gyppos or Turks.
 
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My main hope concerning this Euro is that the big non-white four (France, England, Netherlands and Portugal) get eliminated before the quarter finals. Germans with their "multikulti" team should also get eliminated soon enough. I'm rooting for Spain, because it's the whitest team (except for David "El Chino" Silva and Navas who is one of the whitest gypsy I've ever seen) that has chance to win the tournament. I would however prefer to see Llorente play instead of Torres. Soldado could also have been a great asset for Spain, but Del Bosque seems to dislike him.
 

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i don't want this topic to turn into a debate about greek achievments in the olympic games, so please zeus don't start defending kenteris by saying that he wasn't on drugs (he was my favourite sprinter but it's the soccer section here and i want to prevent an endless discussion about kenteris to take place here)

today, i'm rooting for greece (with holevas who is partly uruguayan, non-white) against the czech republic with 1 black


one thing that hasn't been said here yet is that in europe there are a lot of incredible goalkeepers, the best ones are here
buffon did an awesome match against spain, so did casillas
hart saved a header by diarra of france, incredible save
the 2nd polish goalkeeper came in and saved a penalty
there are some awesome saves
 

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Well, after two minutes, the Czech Republic are ahead 1-0 on Jiracek's goal.

Check that, 2-0 now after 5 min with Pilar's goal.

What a dream start for the Czech Republic!
 

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what a HUGE mistake by the Czech goalkeeper and defender! giving up a goal like that could come back to bite them. oh, dear!

otherwise, Greece has looked completely out of sorts. i wonder if this will be the spark that lights the Greek fire. *pun*

i've been very impressed by the Czechs, though. they've looked very strong.
 

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strange match
greece gave up 2 goals in 5 minutes, it could be because their 2 central defenders can't play (1 is injuried, and the other got a ridiculous red card in the first match)
they didn't gave up, but there was a disallowed goal (maybe wrongfully disallowed) and another offside were the greeks were about to score but actually he was not offside
it was annoying to see the referee interfere so much in the game
greece can still qualify though and i believe they will make it
a draw would have been deserved in that match

what a HUGE mistake by the Czech goalkeeper and defender! giving up a goal like that could come back to bite them. oh, dear!

i remember that in the last euro champs cech did the same against turkey, his team lost because of this
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...sts-Czech-Republic-their-Euro-2008-dream.html
 

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Greece played much more aggressively in the second half, but they waited too long before they picked up the pace. the Czechs had to hold on late, but they had just enough left in the tank to come out with the win.

i'm wondering if they lack depth or is it conditioning, because for the second match in a row they seemed to be fatigued in the latter portions of the game.

up next, i'm really looking forward to the Poland-Russia contest. i wasn't able to watch the Russians in their opening match, but they appear to play an exciting style.

also, off the pitch, the media is trying to stir up a lot of animosity between the Poles and Russian peoples. hopefully nothing comes of it ... White folk don't need to fight each other.
 

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not knowing many of the players, it appears the Poland-Russia matchup is an all-White affair, at least based on the starting lineups. an all-White 22? surely FIFA will throw a fit!
 

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not knowing many of the players, it appears the Poland-Russia matchup is an all-White affair, at least based on the starting lineups. an all-White 22? surely FIFA will throw a fit!


It should stay that way, Jimmy!! All of the subs both teams used in their opening games are white!!

I've also been looking forward to this game; it should be pretty exciting, and I like how Russia plays as well.
 
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