UEFA Euro 2016

[alfred russel]

So they put Poland, Ukraine, and Germany in one group?

[Duque de Bragança]

According to the French press, one notable fact is Kevin Trapp not being among the three German goalkeepers. He's the current goalkeeper of Paris Saint-Germain.
Trapp à la trappe, says the franco press ( untranslatable pun intended).

I'm not sure it's untranslatable.  "Trap" is another name for "goal";  "Trapp of the trap" seems a reasonable pun to me.

Then make it not so easily translatable.

[Duque de Bragança]

So they put Poland, Ukraine, and Germany in one group?

Yes, they forgot Russia.

[The Larch]

So they put Poland, Ukraine, and Germany in one group?

Also Austria and Hungary in another one. Just like in the good old times!

[Admiral Yi]

Heard on NPR that some French dude was arrested in Ukraine with a large stash of weapons he was planning on using to attack fodbol matches, mosques and synagogues to protest Muslim immigration and stuff.

[Valmy]

He was going to attack Synagogues to protest Muslim immigration? Ah well I guess any excuse will do.

[Duque de Bragança]

He was going to attack Synagogues to protest Muslim immigration? Ah well I guess any excuse will do.

If it's true, classic tension strategy. French sources do not see him as a terrorist yet, but arms smuggler at the very least. I guess if links to supply islamist groups were proven that could change. The last precedent is some arm smuggler linked to the far-right and/or police informer, who presumably sold some weapons to Coulibaly, responsible for the Hyper Casher attacks.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2015/05/04/01016-20150504ARTFIG00002-une-figure-de-l-extreme-droite-lilloise-fournisseur-d-armes-presume-d-amedy-coulibaly.php

All of this is still murky and should get its own thread.

[alfred russel]

So they put Poland, Ukraine, and Germany in one group?

Also Austria and Hungary in another one. Just like in the good old times!

Serbia and Turkey should be in there with them. In the end, everyone would unite by hating on Serbia.

[The Larch]

Switzerland Vs. Albania should also be fun. 6 Swiss internationals are ethnically Albanian, having either been born in Switzerland or moved there when very young, while 9 Albanian internationals either were born in Switzerland and/or played for the Swiss squad until U-21, when they declared for Albania. There are even two brothers, the Xhakas, one in each team, the older Taulant in Albania and the younger Granit in Switzerland.

[Liep]

Instead of the Euros our team is in Japan playing the Kirin Cup. We lost in penalties in the semis to Bosnia but beat the hell out of Bulgaria in the 3rd place final. Eriksen scored a hattrick. Utterly unsatisfying still.

[Valmy]

Also Austria and Hungary in another one. Just like in the good old times!

Serbia and Turkey should be in there with them. In the end, everyone would unite by hating on Serbia.

Just like in the good old times!

[Liep]

The only Danish player at the Euro, Emre Mor, has been sold from his Danish club to Dortmund for about €10 million which makes it the biggest sale in the history of the Danish league.

And we lost him to goddamn Turkey.

[Duque de Bragança]

Going Laurent Blanc on us Liep? Where's your PC? 

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/06/world/la-fg-france-soccer-20110506

Laurent Blanc, the national team manager, is heard saying he broadly agreed with limiting the number of nonwhite players who then "go on to play for North African or African teams." He backed a change of selection criteria to favor "boys ... with our own culture."

[Valmy]

I remember this controversy, about Frenchmen on the French team, from years ago. Is it still ongoing or are we just digging up years old stuff now that international football is topical?

[Duque de Bragança]

There was another round of it with the ongoing Benzema controversy which I mentioned earlier in the thread.