Men's Soccer (Football) Thread Soccer • Page 160

I actually know who most of these people are.

Never heard of the baseball guy though.

 

Hugo Sanchez aside, notice how the US and Canada representatives are legends in different sports lol. Give me Paul Peschisolido.

 

Carli Lloyd tbf is more decorated than most soccer players

 

Touche!

 

Rio is an absolute charisma vacuum

 

Pot 3 & 4 teams licking their lips looking at that USA / Australia group lol

 

Modric on his zimmer it is.

 

England can't get Norway now btw. Such is the nature of the draw.

 

Tough first game for England.

 

Not much neutral interest in those first two groups

 

Brazil v Scotland wooo

 

Brazil-Morocco
Spain-Uruguay
England-Croatia

Only real standout games thus far...

 

I think they look really fun. Group A especially.

 

Germany v Ecuador - recently read an article about Ecuador's rapid football development so I'll be watching with a keen eye.
France v Senegal - Senegal have a serious upset chance, which would be funny given the historic significance.
Netherlands v Japan - the ultimate "will they finally turn up?" derby.

 

France, Senegal, Norway should be fun

 

Ronaldo will be desperate to play against Uzbekistan

 

I had identified those (alongside Canada-Switzerland, US-Paraguay) as the next most interesting, so glad I'm keeping up unintentionally, haha.

 

Group D might be the weakest group of all time ha. Pretty cool though, hope Turkey make it.

 

England’s group is very whelming

 

Mexico -‘Winner playoff D’ (Denmark, North Macedonia, Republic of Ireland, Czech Republic)
Canada - 'Winner playoff A' (Italy, Northern Ireland, Wales, Bosnia)
USA - 'Winner playoff C' (Turkey, Romania, Slovakia, Kosovo)
France - 'Winner playoff 2' (Iraq, Bolivia, Suriname)
Netherlands - 'Winner playoff B' (Ukraine, Sweden, Poland, Albania)
Portugal - 'Winner playoff 1' (DR Congo, New Caledonia, Jamaica)

In case you need a cheat sheet.

 

Iraq in that group would be chef's kiss for obvious reasons. What a celebration for the nation.

 

Middlesbrough winning after 10 minutes at Hull, love to see it

 

The potential Edwards/Hellberg switcheroo in the summer will be a chef's kiss moment if it occurs!

I don't know why, but I always like Boro, Sunderland and Newcastle being in the Premier League together.

 

Proper Barclays teams. Get Bolton in there too. Blackburn with Morten Gamst Pedersen too.

 

Middlesborough, Norwich, Blackburn, Portsmouth, and Bolton are “proper PL teams” to me. Which absolutely gives away my age.