Football (Soccer) Thread

[Liep]

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[Savonarola]

Leicester City football players sacked after racist orgy on tour of Thailand 

Once a racist philosopher, twice a racist pervert.

[katmai]

Serbia wins U 20 World cup defeating Brazil 2-1 in Extra Time.

[Liep]

Serbia wins U 20 World cup defeating Brazil 2-1 in Extra Time.

But U20 is 2nd rate isn't it? All the best players play the U21 tournaments I think.

[Liep]

The highest Danish division is being expanded from 12 to 14 teams and they're introducing a play off for the top 8 teams.

[katmai]

Serbia wins U 20 World cup defeating Brazil 2-1 in Extra Time.

But U20 is 2nd rate isn't it? All the best players play the U21 tournaments I think.

[Liep]

Serbia wins U 20 World cup defeating Brazil 2-1 in Extra Time.

But U20 is 2nd rate isn't it? All the best players play the U21 tournaments I think.

There's a U21 Euro Cup going on right now, and I'm assuming the players can't play both. So I would guess the best players were used for the higher aged team?

[Josquius]

Yeah, U20 is very much the weird ugly child of youth football. U21 is important, U19 also moderately so. U20...is just some thing that they have in the middle as a stop gap.

[katmai]

No idea how you balls of light do it, We here in the greatest country on earth only have National, U-23, U-20, U-19, U-17 teams, none of this U-21 shit.

[Liep]

That is why you'll never be good at football.

[celedhring]

U-20 usually gets depleted of talent, kids that are good enough will play U-21, while U-19 kids are often not physically up to snuff to play against older kids - that age group usually gets a lot of 17 or 18 year old hot prospects that are still too small.

U-23 is only for the Olympics.

[Duque de Bragança]

There's a U21 Euro Cup going on right now

England U21 played well but they ended up beaten by Portugal U21 1-0

[bogh]

Serbia wins U 20 World cup defeating Brazil 2-1 in Extra Time.

I was there last night (the whole thing was held in New Zealand) and it was actually a pretty good game. Serbia were very compact and relied on counters, with Brazil being flamboyant and wasteful. The 3rd place match before it (Senegal vs. Mali) was highly entertaining as well. I also went to a semifinal and a quarterfinal.

The players were quite raw and clearly hadn't played much together, but you could definitely see the potential in some of them and there were flashes of absolutely brilliance along the way. Andrea Pereira from Brazil (who's in the ManU youth squad) scored a fantastic goal against the Serbian keeper who was otherwise very impressive.

[katmai]

Yeah I was watching the game live here in Alaska.

[Syt]