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World Soccer XXXI: Golden Generation?

Few more added as African qualifying has finished: South Africa, Ivory Coast and Senegal.

The final two from Asia: Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Plus the first from UEFA as England have qualified.
 
The WC will remain second class in my heart until my beloved Bahrain and Thailand qualify. I'd accept the Philippines as replacements. Panama at least appeared in 2018.
 
Slap Shot said:
The WC will remain second class in my heart until my beloved Bahrain and Thailand qualify. I'd accept the Philippines as replacements. Panama at least appeared in 2018.
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Bahrain unfortunately finished bottom of their qualifying group. Though, in their defense, it was the group with Japan, Australia, and Saudi Arabia. Not exactly the easiest.
 
Current group leaders in CONCACAF with two matches to play:

Suriname (tied with Panama but ahead on goals scored)
Jamaica
Honduras

Currently, Costa Rica is out of even a playoff spot.
 
Twatwaffle threatened to pull the World Cup from Boston because roving gangs of Antifa thugs are robbing tourists, beating up locals and setting buildings ablaze. It sounds worse than Portland and Chicago! FIFA is quietly hoping he settles down because it doesn't want to be on the hook to pay Boston for the seven games it is contracted to host and finding new host(s) for those games would be a nightmare. Not to mention the tickets already sold. I imagine Kraft has already called up his friend to remind him in whose stadium those games are scheduled to be played...
 
US Soccer has released a proposal for the future of college soccer.

tl;dr: It’s for D1.
Schools would be divided into 4 regional clusters.
Regional clusters would split into 2 regional divisions with 9 of “the most competitive teams” each plus 4 local divisions of 8-10 teams.
Regular season of 18-22 games, taking place from September to April with a two month break starting in December for winter and exams plus no more than 3 games in a 14 day period.
A 64 team National Tournament.
No conferences but traditional conferences would be allowed to run an in season tournament or cup for conference championship.

Nothing on the women’s side right now as there seems to be a lot more resistance to any changes on the women’s side.
 
Once again the rules make no sense.

In the Barca-Olympiacos game in the Champions League a cross by Olympiacos glanced off a Barca arm and players waved for handball, but the referee didn't see it and the game continued. Olympiacos retrieved the cross, crossed it again and it was headed home to cut the score to 2-1. However, VAR directed the referee to the video monitor and a penalty was awarded for handball. Which meant the Olympiacos goal was chopped off. Fortunately, Olympiacos buried the penalty, but it would have been a gross injustice had the kick missed and the score remained 2-0 despite Olympiacos scoring a legitimate goal.
 
ticapnews said:
Once again the rules make no sense.

In the Barca-Olympiacos game in the Champions League a cross by Olympiacos glanced off a Barca arm and players waved for handball, but the referee didn't see it and the game continued. Olympiacos retrieved the cross, crossed it again and it was headed home to cut the score to 2-1. However, VAR directed the referee to the video monitor and a penalty was awarded for handball. Which meant the Olympiacos goal was chopped off. Fortunately, Olympiacos buried the penalty, but it would have been a gross injustice had the kick missed and the score remained 2-0 despite Olympiacos scoring a legitimate goal.
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If you look at the replay on the "goal" Olympiacos scored, the Olympiacos player who crossed the ball was offside, thus why they went back to the PK.

Edit: It's one those situations where having the referee explain the decision like in MLS would be helpful.
 
ticapnews said:
Those are face value. The resale value on the secondary market will be insane. Tickets to the Final will cost more than my car.

La Liga is coming to America. Villareal is moving its home game with Barcelona on 20 December to Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. How much money is Villareal going to make? It is offering season ticket holders either a discount on season tickets OR the club will pay transportation, accommodation and admission to the game. So the amount of money must be astronomical. La Liga says it will be beneficial to the entire federation, but outside of Barcelona (exposure, essentially an extra home game and oodles of cash) and Villareal (exposure, oodles of cash) I fail to see how this benefits the rest of the league. What benefit do Sevilla or Getafe get out of this?
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The match is now off, Relevant Sports called it a postponement while La Liga straight up said it’s cancelled.

Apparently the players union was adamantly against the idea and there has been threatened action in the Spanish courts.
 
Jimjamesak said:
The match is now off, Relevant Sports called it a postponement while La Liga straight up said it’s cancelled.

Apparently the players union was adamantly against the idea and there has been threatened action in the Spanish courts.
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Good. The players were absolutely getting shafted. I wonder if the Italians will follow suit. A game in Miami is bad enough, but to Perth? That's borderline psychotic.

Jimjamesak said:
If you look at the replay on the "goal" Olympiacos scored, the Olympiacos player who crossed the ball was offside, thus why they went back to the PK.
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Jimjamesak said:
Edit: It's one those situations where having the referee explain the decision like in MLS would be helpful.
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Was it flagged live and the announcers just missed it or was it only seen on replay? They never mentioned anything about offside on the broadcast. Still, it highlights the ridiculous nature of the rule. It would be akin to scoring a goal in hockey but the referee waving it off because the defense committed a penalty. So no goal, but hey, you get this shiny power play instead!
 
ticapnews said:
Good. The players were absolutely getting shafted. I wonder if the Italians will follow suit. A game in Miami is bad enough, but to Perth? That's borderline psychotic.



Was it flagged live and the announcers just missed it or was it only seen on replay? They never mentioned anything about offside on the broadcast. Still, it highlights the ridiculous nature of the rule. It would be akin to scoring a goal in hockey but the referee waving it off because the defense committed a penalty. So no goal, but hey, you get this shiny power play instead!
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It’s irrelevant if the offside was called on the field or not, the whole sequence is reviewed.

So when a goal is scored, the entire play, basically everything from the team had possession and was clearly moving the ball forward, is reviewed for clear and obvious errors.

The sequence that occurred was this:

1. Ball strikes Barcelona player’s outstretched arm, a handball but not called immediately so advantage is applied.

2. Ball goes off the Olympiacos player’s head to a teammate in an offside position.

3. Said Olympiacos player plays ball to a teammate who scores.

The Olympiacos goal is disallowed because there was an offside offense in the attacking phase of play. But, because the handball occurred before the offside (and thus no advantage occurred), you go back and award the penalty kick.

The fact of the handball occurring does not mean you ignore the subsequent offside. Essentially two wrongs do not make a right.

The equivalent in hockey would be a player being cross checked and while falling he kicks out at the puck and scores a goal. Yeah he got cross checked, absolutely a penalty, but that doesn’t absolve the fact he kicked the puck intentionally.
 
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A Spanish court has cleared the way for Real Madrid to sue UEFA over the proposed European Super League. It is doubtful Real will actually sue and even less likely it would win such a case, but the court has said it can try...
 
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