Football (Soccer) Thread

[Liep]

Just saw that the US lost again, this time vs Costa-Rica 4-0. Trump effect? 

If Trump had spent a little more time on football during the campaign they would've won bigly.

[FunkMonk]

Just saw that the US lost again, this time vs Costa-Rica 4-0. Trump effect? 

We just don't win anymore

[Tamas]

I think dictatorships work well for national football team performance. Hungary got off the ground as the politics have become darker (and they were on top of the world while the nightmare of the 50s were happening back home), and Poland is flying since they have the potatohead back in charge

[celedhring]

Dunno, we won a bucketload of trophies with possibly the meekest soc-dem government Spain has ever had.

[Duque de Bragança]

I think dictatorships work well for national football team performance. Hungary got off the ground as the politics have become darker (and they were on top of the world while the nightmare of the 50s were happening back home), and Poland is flying since they have the potatohead back in charge

I don't like the incompetent Costa government yet this dictatorship bonus sounds too hard for Portugal. 

[Josquius]

Not sure there.  Hungarys history as a top footballing nation go back to the Austro-Hungarian days from what I've read.

[Liep]

Czechia - Denmark sets new record for fewest spectators ever for a Danish national team football game. Only 1763 came out to the game in Mlada Boleslaw.

[Barrister]

Czechia - Denmark sets new record for fewest spectators ever for a Danish national team football game. Only 1763 came out to the game in Mlada Boleslaw.

So is Czechia actually taking off in the English-speaking world?

Czech Republic was always kind of awkward, but it has 25 years of history behind it at this point.

[Liep]

Czechia - Denmark sets new record for fewest spectators ever for a Danish national team football game. Only 1763 came out to the game in Mlada Boleslaw.

So is Czechia actually taking off in the English-speaking world?

Czech Republic was always kind of awkward, but it has 25 years of history behind it at this point.

I'm not from the English-speaking world though, I like it because it's more similar to the Danish name for it "Tjekkiet" and as you say Czech Republic is a little awkward.

EDIT: I haven't seen it in use anywhere but in the article that said it hadn't been a successful rebranding.

[Josquius]

Czechland or GTFO

[Tamas]

Not sure there.  Hungarys history as a top footballing nation go back to the Austro-Hungarian days from what I've read.

I am not sure, but I am sure it could not had compared to the run we had in the first half of the 50s. The lost WC final in '54 is a national trauma ever since.

[Josquius]

Not sure there.  Hungarys history as a top footballing nation go back to the Austro-Hungarian days from what I've read.

I am not sure, but I am sure it could not had compared to the run we had in the first half of the 50s. The lost WC final in '54 is a national trauma ever since.

I read a book about the history of football tactics. ( ) and a lot of the early innovation before and after ww1 seems to go back to Scottish coaches in Vienna and Budapest.

But then I guess go back that far and everyone outside the UK was shit, it was just in degrees. But that's the roots.

[FunkMonk]

Was that Inverting the Pyramid?

[Josquius]

Was that Inverting the Pyramid?

Yes.
I say I read it... I actually lost interest around 1960.

[FunkMonk]

It's a good book. Very interesting read.