Soccer

euro round-up
premier league went as expected no shocks.

player for sevilla puerta has a heart attack. valencia lose 3-0 to villareal, david villa and joaquin sent off.

italy, juve come back really well 5-1 win against livorno. milan as expected 3-0 kaka is on fire. and inter 1-1, they concede in the last minute. julio cesar sent off for handballing out of his area cost inter the game.

and bayern are on fire, they playing really good football. all the players are getting involved. luca toni scored but got injured. bayern are jus going around routing every team.

Solskjær retires:-


http://sport.independent.co.uk/footb...cle2901033.ece

a true legend and model professional.

Sevilla's Antonio Puerta has died. aged 22.
he collapsed on saturday with a heart attack. died today.
very sad news.....prayers go out to his family.

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Originally Posted by Tonearm_Terrorwrist

gaelic football isn't even close to aussie rules man, different ball game

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They're fairly similar, which is why the Aussie scouts go over and bring the Irish players back.

Anyway, it is a shame Ole has retired, he'll be missed. Such a legend.

Puerta dying was a major suprise, he was about to step up as well.

kaka should get player of the year
he is madd slept on!!!

this sunday

brazil vs usa
who reigns supreme???

rip puerta real sad news. reason why i think that the leagues for countries with hot summers shouldnt start. footballers get over worked as it is, but playing in 40degree heat is too much. some jus cant take it.

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rip puerta real sad news. reason why i think that the leagues for countries with hot summers shouldnt start. footballers get over worked as it is, but playing in 40degree heat is too much. some jus cant take it.

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I reckon there could be something more sinister going on....quite a few young players at every level of the game have died from heart attacks over the last couple of years.....teams have been giving players new shit that either gets by the tests or aint illegal yet to aid recovery from injury for a few years now and some folk think that could be contributing to it, there's been a documentry about it in scandinavia but so far no other major media coverage......

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Originally Posted by chiba

kaka should get player of the year
he is madd slept on!!!

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:frusty: you aren't fucking serious he is slept on are you?

RIP Puerta. i read somewhere he had blood problems and if it went too low he used to faint n shit, dude seems to of had some problems. this is terrible news.

also nottingham defender clive clarke collapsed in the dressing room against leicester. let's hope he recovers

no jumping on the chel$ki is not the thing to do fucking chel$ki is turning into scum of the highest order - go with your heritage man

another player collapsed with a heart attack last night:-

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...692896,00.html

hey
does anybody know where i can get an adidas peru jersey, shirt, trackjacket
i checked ebay and some other stores

i went to korea this weekend and i saw the trackjacket at the adidas original store
i didnt buy it coz i figured japan has it
as it turns out theres none in japan or their out of stock in my size
:frusty:


if anybody has info
much appreciated :beer:

peace

champs league, finally besiktas are in it. lets see wat our super young team can do.

celtic are in the champions league group stage, thats a good competition to follow your team Mr MMA. manchester united are in it to, so both teams might end up on the same group.

we finally get a team that is strong enough to win the champions league and we're in the uefa cup. daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn fucking shit

another footballer dies after collapsing, this time in israel at training

http://www.foxsports.com.au/common/i...5632346,00.jpg Nsofwa ... an image from a better day. Pic: Agence France-Presse

Striker dies after collapsing

From correspondents in Jerusalem
August 30, 2007
A ZAMBIAN footballer playing in the Israeli league collapsed and died after a training match overnight, in an eerie echo of the tragedy that befell Spain midfield player Antonio Puerta.
Chaswe Nsofwa, 27, who played for Hapoel Beersheva, collapsed during a training game in the south of the country, a hospital source said.
Nsofwa was taken to hospital in Beersheva, where he was declared dead.
The cause of his death was not revealed.
Puerta, 22, collapsed while playing for Seviila in a Primera Liga match on Saturday, but died on Tuesday after multiple organ failure caused by prolonged cardiac arrest.
Club officials and teammates tried to restart Nsofwa's heart for several minutes on the field, before taking him to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
"When we arrived, we found the soccer player lying on the grass. We found his friends trying to help him," a paramedic said.
"We gave him first aid, electric shocks and an external pacemaker, but despite all our efforts, he was declared dead at the hospital."
The reason for Nsofwa's collapse is unclear, but temperatures on the field had approached 40C with low humidity.
Nsofwa, who joined Hapoel Beersheba in the off-season, scored a goal in his team's 3-0 win over Hakoach Amidar Ramat Gan on Saturday.
Other players who have died after collapsing on the field include Benfica and Hungary striker Miklos Feher, who died from a heart attack during a Portugal league match in January 2004.
Portugal player Hugo Cunha, of first-division Leiria, died following a cardiac arrest in 2005.

Cameroon international Marc-Vivien Foe collapsed and died while playing in the 2003 Confederations Cup tournament in France, and Colombia teen Victor Alfonso Guerrero collapsed and died during training in April 2006.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,...-23215,00.html

another tragedy. a sad week for football indeed, and it's only thursday.

RIP

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^ Yeh, I watched the game where they played the Hearts, and they kicked the crap out of them 5-0. Some good games to watch coming up for my teams 4sure!

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they played yesterday against spartak moscow, the hearts game was a scottish league game. in the champions league now celtic will play the real big boys of europe.

other news eto'o is out for 2 months. and yes tonearm bayern not being in the champs league is jus a tradegy. bayern are playing the most attractive football in europe at the moment. i like the way the entire team is involved. great to see hamit altintop get 2 goals in the bundesliga already.

too many footballers are collapsing and dying i think its time for FIFA to act and see wats going on.

^Must be something in the water..

I'm looking forward to the draw, its just a shitter that Ajax didn't qualify again, I've been wanting us to be drawn in a group with them for ages, its a great reason to go to the Dam other than the ganj and hookers, the Arena is a really impressive stadium.

Juan Román Riquelme has signed for Atlético Madrid for a fee of $11 million and the deal will be officially announced later today, according to reports in Spain.

Atlético have had a busy summer in the transfer market having already bought Diego Forlán, Simão, José Antonio Reyes, Luís García and Raúl García and they are still in the market for Thiago Motta.



WoW, Atletico getting serious. Who finishes higher in the league, Atletico or Real?

^ barca
lol

there are no groups of death the only gay thing that happened was my 2 teams in the same group. group A liverpool and besiktas. should be alright for both teams liverpool obvious favourites, porto should be a challenge, marseille have lost ribery and he was a big player for them.

the interesting group should be the chelsea group with valencia and schalke. other than that though i think the groups are pretty even.

Well Im pretty happy with the group we have : Liverpool, Porto and Besiktas... the only team I really fear beeing Porto.

Im happy with milans group, celtic and some other teams that shouldnt test milan too much.



Filippo Inzaghi scored in a continental final for the second time in three months, getting the equalizer and enabling AC Milan to beat Sevilla 3-1 Friday to claim the European Super Cup for a fifth time.

http://msn.foxsports.com/id/7176098_18_1.jpg


thats my boiiiiii.

milan looked pretty impressive in that game, pippo still has the killer touch. but i think on another day sevilla would have put up a better fight.

i've heard no news about riquelme, today on english tv there was a rumour that he would go to everton. but now the transfer window is closed, and no news on him moving away from villareal.

uefa cup draw aswell, i was jus looking out for one thing and the fact that athletico madrid will play a 2nd division turkish team jus makes me laugh.

^ i heard chelsea was interested in riquelme as well
but didnt he sign to athletico???

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Im happy with milans group, celtic and some other teams that shouldnt test milan too much.



Filippo Inzaghi scored in a continental final for the second time in three months, getting the equalizer and enabling AC Milan to beat Sevilla 3-1 Friday to claim the European Super Cup for a fifth time.

http://msn.foxsports.com/id/7176098_18_1.jpg


thats my boiiiiii.

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I really have a lot of admiration for Inzaghi... I mean, this dude really sucks technically, his skills in football are so limited, but he got that incredible flair and that impressive hunger to score. Every season Im like "the miracle gonna stop", but the motherfucker still scores, especially in very important matchs... That's just incredible

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^ i heard chelsea was interested in riquelme as well
but didnt he sign to athletico???

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didnt the transfer hit a snag that atletico has too many foreigners?

bayern drawn with belenenses, should be easy

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didnt the transfer hit a snag that atletico has too many foreigners?

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:?
such a rule actually exists

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:?
such a rule actually exists

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spanish clubs are only allowed to have i think 3 or 4 non eu players. so players with a south american passport count as a foreigner. this is done so teams dnt do an arsenal and have an entire squad built from foreigners. aimed to develop the homegrown player, so the international team can be better to.

i see more than 3 or 4 foreign players on a team

look at ac milan, real madrid, barcelona, chelsea, man u etc

but its true or else the home teams wouldnt shine

ac milan? chel$ki? man u? i believe it was stated spanish clubs have a foreing player limit

and some of the ones at at barca, real etc... have EU passports making them exempt. i'm pretty sure ronaldinho just got spanish citizenship not long ago

spain has a foreign player rule turkey has one to, u can only have 7 foreigners in your squad in turkey and that includes eu nationals. and yeah ronaldihno has a spanish passport so he doesnt count as a foreigner for barcelona. so there are ways around the rule.

^i heard kaka has italian citizenship or passport
ahaha

its all starting to make sence now
loopholes
lol

i'm pretty sure italy don't have foreign player limitations

Spain has a rule where you can pnly have 3 non-eu players in your squad. Italy has the rule that every team can only sign 1 non-eu player every season. So why does Inter have many Argentinians? They all have double passports. Kaka now got an Italian passport. Whats stupid tho if a player say for instance Adriano (who is Brazilian and don't have an Italian passport) and he gets transferred from Inter to Milan or Roma he doesn't count as a non-eu player. So if Milan or Roma bought already a non-eu player they still can get their hands on Adriano or for that matter every player that plays in Italy who is a non-eu player. Why that is? I don't know.

http://www.ilromanista.it/images/gal...i%20premia.jpg

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Spain has a rule where you can pnly have 3 non-eu players in your squad. Italy has the rule that every team can only sign 1 non-eu player every season. So why does Inter have many Argentinians? They all have double passports. Kaka now got an Italian passport. Whats stupid tho if a player say for instance Adriano (who is Brazilian and don't have an Italian passport) and he gets transferred from Inter to Milan or Roma he doesn't count as a non-eu player. So if Milan or Roma bought already a non-eu player they still can get their hands on Adriano or for that matter every player that plays in Italy who is a non-eu player. Why that is? I don't know.

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because serie a is as dodgy as a back alley

AHAHA
How about international squads
like people say france has alot of foreign players (mostly from africa)
compared to other international squada like holland, portugal, japan, germany, etc

but from what i see most of the africans from france are from former french colonies so i think theyre eligible for a french passport?? frenchshin would be able to clarify that one

it's like most australians go and play in britain because of the anglo saxon heritage of this country and most would have heritage to britain or greece, italy, balkan countries etc so they can be exempt due to their grandparents being born in that country. i'd assume it's roughly the same deal in france

like you said it's just full of loopholes

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but from what i see most of the africans from france are from former french colonies so i think theyre eligible for a french passport?? frenchshin would be able to clarify that one

it's like most australians go and play in britain because of the anglo saxon heritage of this country and most would have heritage to britain or greece, italy, balkan countries etc so they can be exempt due to their grandparents being born in that country. i'd assume it's roughly the same deal in france

like you said it's just full of loopholes

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all players in french squad are french, it is forbidden to have foreiners (unlike in rugby) in a national squad anyway. Most of the black players in the french squad are born in France, the other has been living here since their childhood.
Not all of them comes from an african countries, i e Henry is from Martinique, a french Island in caraibea

vieirra is african born.