Football (Soccer) Thread

[Tamas]

Rome went with something less known

[Duque de Bragança]

So what's the chosen logo for the Euro 2020 games taking place in Azerbaijan? Great decision by Platini and his ilk to have this nomad Euro in a continental scale. Making it impossible to follow a team for the whole tournament.

[Liep]

[Duque de Bragança]

Tak! 

[Josquius]

This guy Cavani is quite some player

https://streamable.com/zkny

[Duque de Bragança]

 

Well, Paris still won that game but yeah Cavani has been... irregular. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Well, that was short. After a difficult beginning, Sweden scored a goal in the second half and then collapsed in the second half with a somewhat nervous Swedish goalie.

2-1 final score.

[Duque de Bragança]

Well, Valmy is probably pissed off since Mexico won in Columbus for the first time since 1972. Will Valmy support the new wall against Mexico? 

Given the generous if not biased slots for the WC this is not a disaster for the US team.

[Liep]

Apparently we won against Kazakhstan in a move in the right direction after being beaten my Armenia. I'm still not quite sure why Kazakhstan is a member of UEFA though.

[mongers]

Apparently we won against Kazakhstan in a move in the right direction after being beaten my Armenia. I'm still not quite sure why Kazakhstan is a member of UEFA though.

Well it's probably no more dubious than Georgia, which iirc has about 2 sq.miles within Europe, so maybe they've a similar spot of land.

Of course it could be that the bureaucrats just gave all constituent parts of the Soviet Union, membership when it broke up??

[Duque de Bragança]

Apparently we won against Kazakhstan in a move in the right direction after being beaten my Armenia. I'm still not quite sure why Kazakhstan is a member of UEFA though.

Well it's probably no more dubious than Georgia, which iirc has about 2 sq.miles within Europe, so maybe they've a similar spot of land.

Of course it could be that the bureaucrats just gave all constituent parts of the Soviet Union, membership when it broke up??

Not all parts, the other 'stans play in Asia, though Kazakhstan switched to UEFA since it is more "competitive" and easier to qualify with more spots, or so they thought.

[dps]

Apparently we won against Kazakhstan in a move in the right direction after being beaten my Armenia. I'm still not quite sure why Kazakhstan is a member of UEFA though.

Well it's probably no more dubious than Georgia, which iirc has about 2 sq.miles within Europe, so maybe they've a similar spot of land.

I think part of it's west of the Volga, which is the traditional demarcation line.

[Duque de Bragança]

Ural, not Volga. Kazakhstan does not reach the Volga.



The "European" part is mostly desert though.

[dps]

Ural, not Volga. Kazakhstan does not reach the Volga.



The "European" part is mostly desert though.

D'oh.  I meant Ural;  don't know why I said Volga.

And yeah, it's Europe's only desert.

[Josquius]

Since the Europe-Asia split is pretty arbitrary anyway we should really redefine it to be at Russia's western border (Kalingrad excluded).