UEFA EURO 2016

[Jack Lambert]

Germany deserved this draw (I wish they'd have lost) and I hope that somehow, someway, they lose to Northern Ireland next week, Poland beats Ukraine, and Germany misses out on advancing from Group C.

Too bad Klose, Lahm, and Mertesacker are retired from international play, various quality Germans were left out for no good reason other than filling a diversity quota, and the talented Marco Reus was injured.

That's what irks me more than anything about this "German" squad. Players like Mathias Ginter, Robert Huth, Christoph Kramer, Julian Brandt, etc. all left out of the team in favor of AA minorities like Sane, Tah, Rudiger, and Can. Speaking of him, I saw 20 year old Sane was bought by Man City for 40 million Euros...

 

[Jack Lambert]

Eder, a naturalized Brazilian, scores for Italy against Sweden. I would've preferred it be someone else, but the Italians have an all-white team, and are definitely worth cheering for! The only two non-whites on the whole roster haven't played through the first two games. One of the few West Euro countries to have an all-white starting XI.

 

[Jack Lambert]

Two all-white sides in the Czech Republic and Croatia playing now!! Gebre Selessie got bench for the Czechs.

 

[frederic38]

i hope that modric's injury won't be too important, it would be a huge blow for this all white team if their best player couldn't play for the rest of the tournament

 

[frederic38]

spain destroyed turkey 3-0, after croatia dominated them also but couldn't score more than 1
spain and italy are both all white starters and have qualified for the next round already
especially impressive from spain, with 2 goals from morata who becomes top scorer of the competition
italy and spain have to win this competition, it would be perfect

 

[ThePhilosopher]

First off,addressing the post right above I must say that 100% Muslim Turkey have been the worst team of the tournament so far.Also Albania full of Shiptars and Muslims clearly doesn't belong in this tournament.In the second goal the useless muslim defender outdid what any black would've done:

https://streamable.com/1ome
https://streamable.com/f4o1
https://streamable.com/govu

The third goal was a great team goal as well.

All four goals from the Croatia-Czech game(2-2),which was by far the best of the tournament so far and not simply because there were no blacks/muslims on the pitch:

https://streamable.com/x7kq
https://streamable.com/ybvx
https://streamable.com/ofwe
https://streamable.com/bmm7


Excellent opening goal by Perisic but the best goal was the third one above,or Czech's first after going 2 down.Tomas Rosicky's ball was amazing,but the header by Skoda was world class!Second best of the tournament so far!Rosicky isn't called Little Mozart for nothing!Still going strong at 35,in his fourth Euro tournament.

Finally Eder's goal for Italy:

Eder goal vs Swenden (Italy 1-0 Sweden)

And finally Frederic,both Spain and Italy cannot win the tournament

 

[ThePhilosopher]

Rosicky is out for the rest of the tournament!

This is the end of his international career

 

[Phall]

rough news for Rosicky if true. i still remember him destroying hopes for the USA (way back when I had them!) with this ridiculous missile in 2006

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amazing he did so much for so long as a member of a churning roster at Arsenal.

 

[frederic38]

"And finally Frederic,both Spain and Italy cannot win the tournament"

come on there must be a way
if i have to chose i team then i chose spain

"Rosicky is out for the rest of the tournament!"

from what i have read he would only miss the last game of the group phase

 

[frederic38]

this goal by morata looked really hard to score: https://streamable.com/1ome

 

[Jack Lambert]

I'd love to see Italy win it all. Gianluigi Buffon has been one of my favorite players, and is still playing at a high level at 38 years old; I'd love to see him add a European Championship to his resume. Very "odd" that Italy and Spain, the two Western European countries left to my knowledge with all-white starting XI's, have looked arguably the best in the tournament thus far.

Spain wouldn't be a bad choice either. Winning three Euros in a row would be cool to see as well.

 

[celticdb15]

2 of Belgium's goals scored by negroes against Ireland's negro goalie. Sad that Ireland plays such a boring, defensive style..

 

[Jack Lambert]

2 of Belgium's goals scored by negroes against Ireland's negro goalie. Sad that Ireland plays such a boring, defensive style..

Belgium has to be the most disgusting team in this tournament. Belgium has all of their black/Arab players in attack, which sucks. At least England/France have fairly white attackers, resulting in whites getting their fair share of the goals. With Belgium, they have Hazard and DeBruyne, with their all-black striking corps, Witsel, Fellaini, and Naingolain.

EDIT: I guess I've misspoke; Belgium had 8 whites starting today. However, the presence of their all-black striking corp and an all-minority central midfield gives a lot of goals to their black players.

 

[Matra2]

Look on the bright side. Kevin De Bruyne has been the best player at the tournament on set pieces and crosses in general.

 

[frederic38]

it's going to be interesting, the white teams croatia, spain, italy, against the not so white teams belgium, germany and france
unlike the 2014 world cup i think that the non white teams actually have a chance to win
belgium have been helped by the absence of kompany, they have an all white defense i think now in addition to having some of the best talents in some positions (hazard, debruyne, courtois)
and france no longer have benzema so they can score goals, payet is exploding with the absence of the usual arab play makers, and deschamps didn't have the guts to start even one black central defender, so we are back to 2012 (with laurent blanc), with a white and an arab in central defense, which is the most intelligent thing to do (but in deschamp's case it's also helped by sakho and varane not being here, for doping and injury respectively )

 

[frederic38]

speaking of belgium, they prevented another terror attack to happen in belgium just before this game
it was supposed to be an attack targeting soccer fans

 

[frederic38]

Look on the bright side. Kevin De Bruyne has been the best player at the tournament on set pieces and crosses in general.

great play by debruyne on lukaku's first goal too
the irish defender was a little bit naive but debruyne is one of the best players in the world if you want to create goal scoring oportunities

 

[Jack Lambert]

Sigurdsson converts a penalty!!! Iceland up 1-0 on Hungary!

 

[frederic38]

Sigurdsson converts a penalty!!! Iceland up 1-0 on Hungary!

so far in this group, hungary 1st, iceland 2nd, lol
iceland are for real
very glad to have them at the tournament

anything could happen in this group
but at least one of the all white teams (hungary and iceland) should advance, i hope so
if both qualify that would be a huge upset

 

[Lisa D return]

it's going to be interesting, the white teams croatia, spain, italy, against the not so white teams belgium, germany and france
unlike the 2014 world cup i think that the non white teams actually have a chance to win
belgium have been helped by the absence of kompany, they have an all white defense i think now in addition to having some of the best talents in some positions (hazard, debruyne, courtois)
and france no longer have benzema so they can score goals, payet is exploding with the absence of the usual arab play makers, and deschamps didn't have the guts to start even one black central defender, so we are back to 2012 (with laurent blanc), with a white and an arab in central defense, which is the most intelligent thing to do (but in deschamp's case it's also helped by sakho and varane not being here, for doping and injury respectively )

frederic, I remember that once, Laurent Blanc aligned an all-white squad (or with one arab/black player). It was an historical moment, since we had also once an all-black squad during Domenech's time. When was it?

 

[frederic38]

frederic, I remember that once, Laurent Blanc aligned an all-white squad (or with one arab/black player). It was an historical moment, since we had also once an all-black squad during Domenech's time. When was it?

i don't think there was an all white starting 11, but he had only 2 blacks starting at a few games, at a time when france could have easily got 8 black starters (there were a lot fewer white players back then)
in the streak of games against united states , belgium and germany, where france had good results, he started only 2 blacks and 2 arabs most of the time
there were points in the game where there was only 1 black and 1 arab on the field after substitutions, which was crazy after having 8+black starters a lot of the time and considering that there were few white french players back then
it was when giroud started playing and when he scored his first international goal, against germany
it was short but it was the best time of the french national team

 

[Lisa D return]

i don't think there was an all white starting 11, but he had only 2 blacks starting at a few games, at a time when france could have easily got 8 black starters (there were a lot fewer white players back then)
in the streak of games against united states , belgium and germany, where france had good results, he started only 2 blacks and 2 arabs most of the time
there were points in the game where there was only 1 black and 1 arab on the field after substitutions, which was crazy after having 8+black starters a lot of the time and considering that there were few white french players back then
it was when giroud started playing and when he scored his first international goal, against germany
it was short but it was the best time of the french national team

thanks frederic, you have a wonderful memory!
I remember that it was not a starting team but due to substitutions, there was once only white (or only one non white) players on the field under Laurent Blanc.

Your remarks are very interesting.
I was thinking that an all-white squad today would be perfectly conceivable and good enough, with players that are not here like Debuchy, Valbuena, Perrin, Gameiro, Perrin, Féret, Grenier, Laporte, Corchia, Rabiot, Cabella, Gonalons, Gourcuff, Kozielo…

 

[Matra2]

Paul Pogba back in the French starting XI.

If they don't lose to Switzerland tonight France are set to play a third place team from groups C,D or E. Right now that would be Northern Ireland, the Czech Republic, Sweden or Rep of Ireland. Of those fairly weak teams I think the Czechs would have the best chance of an upset.

 

[Freethinker]

There are so many negros and non-Whites in this "Switzerland" vs "France" match that one would be forgiven for thinking this a Ligue 1 match.

As I type this, The Giaraffe on Iceskates is at it again. This goofy negro has to be one of the clumsiest athletes I've ever seen. The announcer made some mundane comment about many players having trouble keeping their footing but so far I'm only noticing blacks falling over themselves as usual.

 

[Freethinker]

Lol. This game is a clown show. Some black on Switzerland carried Pogba on his back for a couple strides. Then another black French player falls. Then a Muslim on Switzerland promptly loses a ball out of bounds.

This 15 second turn of events sums things up. Don't know how much I can watch. Time for the Romania game I suppose.