OT: Euro 2020 starts today
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I’m shocked they are going to play this game right now. Half the players on both sides were in tears.
Kudos to the medical staff. I’ve seen that blank open eyed look on Erikson’s face before. Really thought he was gone. They just may have brought him back to life.
Kudos to the medical staff. I’ve seen that blank open eyed look on Erikson’s face before. Really thought he was gone. They just may have brought him back to life.
Different tournament but Vietnam defeated the UAE today 1-0 to win their group and qualify for round 3 in WC tournament.
Go Golden Stars!!!!
Go Golden Stars!!!!
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Copa America starts on Sunday. The Euros are terrific, but with 24 teams, too many mismatches. I also like that the Copa matches are on after the Euros. Who's up for a quintupleheader of soccer on Sunday?
Also rooting for England as my Grandmother is a Scouser born and raised (and I'm an LFC fan) so... YNWA/COYB!
First 15 minutes England dominated, Croatia slowly crept back into it.
Oh ok so they dominated in the part of the game I missed…sorry for the jinx if you’re an England fan lol.
Don’t know if that was everywhere but that was just one sports website I had read. I think it was France, England, Belgium..and Portugal may have been 4th I don’t remember. Germany is the team I root for but they and Spain and Netherlands were farther down the list like in the second tier.
Sterling has some speed and looks like a potential threat on any given possession.
edit: maybe spoke to soon on Sterling lol…that was a pretty bad shot.
edit: maybe spoke to soon on Sterling lol…that was a pretty bad shot.
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top of the board looked something like:
| England | +450 |
| France | +500 |
| Belgium | +600 |
| Italy | +800 |
| Spain | +800 |
| Germany | +900 |
| Portugal | +900 |
| Netherlands | +1400 |
Except against UK nations and the USA, I'm a huge Croatia fan. How can you not admire a team from a nation with a population that is less than half of New Jersey punching above its weight the way their team does.
The way the tournament is setup it’s probably better to come in second place in England’s group. The group winners will play the second place team in the France, Portugal, Germany group, while the second place team would play a team from a different group.
If anyone else needed a geographical reminder about what Yugoslavia turned into because of today’s participants, here you go (and it’s amazing how difficult it is to find a map denoting North Macedonia as anything other than Macedonia even though it’s been that since February 2019, largely because of Greek insistence since much of the region by that name is inside Greece)…
Miss Triumph the Insult Dog during world team soccer events!
The Greeks have a point.. as was described to me back in the mid-90s by an American Greek.
Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander.. ya know.. "the Great".. were both Greeks as were Spartans, Athenians, etc.
The new nation that called itself Macedon wanted to claim that history. But it is not theirs.. it belongs to the region SOUTH of them... which is inside GREECE.
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What a heads up play by the Czech player scoring from way out with goalie far out of goal. Nice smart play.
It was more than a smart play. It was a GREAT play. Very high degree of difficulty.
Amazing shot by Schick, who also had a gorgeous header goal in the first half, from over 50 yards out. Too bad, as the Scots had started out well in the 2nd half, hitting the crossbar. Almost as good as Carli Lloyd's goal from midfield in the World Cup final against Japan.
To put that goal into perspective - imagine a field goal kicker attempting a 50 yard field goal on a dead run - but the kick has to go exactly 50 yards. 49 is no good, and 51 is no good.
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