I know the US gets plenty of hate...but I think it would be a great event to host. Hundreds of venues to choose from, you could have the late stage games in bigger arenas . Also, the one guy who everyone hates won't be in charge by then.
I know, I know..everyone only cares about THE WORLD CUP. but there are some fantastic futsal players.
> O goleiro e capitão do Bayern de Munique, Manuel Neuer, de 40 anos, prorrogou seu contrato com o clube por mais uma temporada, até junho de 2027, anunciou a diretoria bávara nesta sexta-feira (15).
> "Tirei um tempo para refletir antes de tomar minha decisão. Aqui tenho todas as condições: com esta equipe, podemos vencer qualquer adversário", declarou Neuer.
> Segundo a imprensa alemã, o veterano goleiro deve revezar ainda mais a titularidade com o jovem Jonas Urbig (22 anos), contratado junto ao Colônia em janeiro de 2025 e apontado como futuro substituto de Neuer no Bayern.
I know there are afcon qualifiers coming up, but there's only 2 matches scheduled for this window, and teams can play up to 4 matches now, so why haven't they?
Messi 3
CR7 13
Henry 48
Zizou 50
Modric 55
Mbappe 65
Iniesta 70
Xavi 75
R9 87
Ronaldinho 94
Ibra 95
It’s not a bad list. It’s like top 10+1. Who would you add/drop? Sequence is pretty good. Can we leave out the Messi/CR7 debate please (I think that’s covered ad nauseam in other forums).
Numbers are /100. Numbers biased towards USA sports aka irrelevant for this discussion - just take it as 1-11.
Zizou gotta be in front of Henry. Zizou beat the best futbol team every assembled, and did so 2x. Euro/WC had only been done once or twice before when accomomplished. France got grouped in WC when zizou was injured.
Probably Dai Dai best and Tukoh Taka worst
Get well soon, champ.
Any thoughts from you guys?
In a lot of countries, football is the most popular sport. But from all the countries that don’t have football as the most popular sport, who is still doing the best job? Producing players, infrastructure, league system etc.
Before VAR there were very clear and serious mistakes, such as:
In contrast, 2026 world cup had no serious mistakes. Subjective borderline cases? Of course. It's impossible not to have those, people will always debate and it's very hard to judge some actions in football, even in replays, etc, there's always ambiguity.
VAR kills a bit of the excitement, e.g. when it's a goal they are checking offside? Of course. It should be as quick as possible. But I rather wait for a correct decision than getting the wrong one instantly.
This said I think there should still be changes. Teams should be allowed challenges, VAR should revise all cards while game runs since it doesn't delay things and offside rule needs an update to stop silly millimetric offsides, eg Wenger's rule.
What are your thoughts?
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FIFA has historically restricted the Olympics soccer tournaments by scheduling conflicts and limiting participants to U-23 players, but with the latest row against the coalition led by UEFA could we see more focus on this other world tournament? What if the coalition ignores FIFA and allows the best players in the world to play?
Despite strong urging from one of the nation‘s most popular clubs Real Kakamora to withdraw its backing of Infantino, SIFF has decided to follow suit with its neighbours Papua New Guinea in declaring its support for the re-election of FIFA’s embattled president. A disappointing decision to say the least - a response is expected from the club in the coming hours
> Infantino was cleared by Fifa’s ethics committee in July 2016 of breaching conflict of interest rules around his private jet use.
> It details private jet flights to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin and then to Qatar, paid for by Russia and Qatar, joining a Uefa private flight to Slovenia and flying with his wife and mother from Milan to Rome to meet Pope Francis and then back to Geneva.
> Infantino told the investigation the private jet belonged to Leon Semenenko, a Russian billionaire and one-time business partner of Alisher Usmanov, who at one point had a significant stake in Arsenal.
> Infantino was also cleared of an ethics breach by his initial refusal to sign a contract after becoming Fifa president — he told a Fifa Council meeting that the proposed $2million (£1.48million) salary put forward by Domenico Scala, the then head of Fifa’s audit and compliance committee, was “insulting”. Fifa’s latest annual report shows Infantino earned $6million last year.
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