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Now, if you’re able to support a local team, I think you should do so. That doesn’t mean you cannot also support a big team, but I personally think cultivating local talent and a local league is obviously extremely important.

however, in some places- like the US, Australia, Russia, or any other large country, supporting your local isn’t just a given.

for example, i have a family member who lives in some backwoods ass town in the American midwest. The closest team to them is over 6 hours away for a home game, and they play teams even further away than that. and in addition to that, the team was established in 2020- years after they began supporting a European team (dortmund)

so, what would you say to this person? that they have to stop supporting the team they’ve supported since they were 9 and support a team that they rarely can get tickets to, let alone make the long commute for a home game?

telling people who are not European to ‘support your local’ is showcasing european football culture’s entitlement. that is simply not a possibility for some, and often local teams are created long after they had a favorite European team.

i don’t think it’s intentional— of course not. English people are always shocked to hear of a 6 hour commute to the home stadium, because their football infrastructure is so much better than in the US and many other countries.

i understand why people say it, and i agree with the fundamental idea: without those small teams, there would be no football. but criticizing foreigners for supporting a european team is not how you achieve that.

The type of players that just have one move, it might be cut inside and shoot, or always looking for the same pass. Anyone who’s game hinges massively on their ability to effectively execute the one move they can do be better then everyone else.

As the title suggests I am interested in knowing who some of the best young Italian players/prospects are in Football?

Based on my limited knowledge, I know some of the top young players include Sandro Tonali, Fabio Miretti, Moise Kean, Rovella & Fagioli.

Let’s say if you had to rank the top 10 young Italians who would they be? And which ones have potential to become a true world superstar?

What if, in order to be offside, you had to be fully offide the moment the pass was made AND the moments the pass was received

I'm a Newcastle fan btw

I was explaining cards to someone today and they asked if yellow cards were assigned to the player committing the foul or the team. This really got me thinking. What if yellow cards were assigned to the team and therefore every two yellows the fouled team would get to choose which player from the team committing the foul would be red carded? Less stop start to games, cheap fouls would be more costly, less delay of game and diving…

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So obviously everyone knows that mbappe and real Madrid saga and it's going on from ages and might happen next season but many people say that real madrid might go for haland instead as he is more of a number 9 that is wanted.

But i think is both of them will not perform good at real madrid cz haland gets very few touches and does not involve in the game much ( he hardly has 5-6 touches every game and 2 of them converts into goal ) but that can not happen at the Bernabeu as both systems are very different from each other and any real madrid's striker need to involve in the game more.

But if we put mbappe as a striker that most of the people think that will be extraordinary and the attack will be so powerful that no one can beat us in speed and dribbling. But but but what i think is that even mbappe will fail here as he is more of a number 7 instead of number 9 he can play as a striker but can not do what a pure number 9 can as he does not have that attributes, example like benzama, kylian is fast and is a great dribbler that's good but they are not that much necessary if you are playing as a central striker, almost most of the strikers they are not very good dribblers and many of them are not even pacy examples like Giroud so I don't see mbappe playing as a central striker and that has so much to do with the future plans and not much people talks about it.

I might be wrong here correct me and let's discuss about this.

Most people criticized Joao for his comments about Atletico but he was right. It's way easier to perform in a possesion side than in a defensive side

When you only touch the ball 5-10 times per game it's harder to perform that if you touch it 45-50 times per game. Joao wasn't lying when he said most players would prefer to touch the ball 50 times than 10 times.

Just compare today's game between Barca and Atletico. Just compare how much touches did Joao had in comparison to Griezzman and you would see how Joao actually had a point.

The FA Cup is fine on its own. We don't need the EFL Cup too. Most clubs priorities the FA Cup way more, it's a more prestigious prize and the tournament has way more fixtures. Clubs also prioritise league matches over the EFL Cup anyway, so the EFL just adds to the fixture congestion of a lot of teams. Players are getting injured across every team anyway.

During a busy fixture schedule, clubs have to put together a team to play in the EFL cup midweek whilst trying to save their best players for the important league match 3 days later, but also trying not to get humiliated too badly in a Cup game that most teams don't really care too much about.

This is the most unbelievable story and it's happening right now in Brazil. Our league is played with 38 matches like the Premier League. So, Botafogo started winning everything, they made the best campaing in history during the first 19 games, they had 47 points, with 15 wins and only 2 losses. During this run, they won all their 10 home games, conceding only 3 goals. And by the end of this 19 games they were 13 points clear from Grêmio, the second place. But in the middle of the league, Al Nassr, the team where Cristiano Ronaldo plays, made an offer to have Botafogo's coach and he accept. Botafogo then get a new manager but things don't go well, and the players make a pressure to get him fired and keep a guy who was already in the club.

Then, they lost a derby to Flamengo and lost to Atlético Mineiro, the difference fell a little but they won two more games and drew another one. Then they faced Athletico Paranaense home on a Sunday and would face Fortaleza on a Tuesday, but the game against Athletico needed to be finished on Monday because the lights went out during the game, which led to the game against Fortaleza to be postponed. This was a bad thing because on that week Fortaleza would play the Copa Sul-Americana final, and probably would use an alternative team against Botafaogo. The game against Athletico finished 1-1. On that same week, they lost home against Cuiabá.

Then things started to go incredibly downhill and they never won a game since. They would face Palmeiras on Wednesday on game 31, and at the time, Palmeiras was second place, 6 points behind Botafogo. So, if they win, they would open 9 points to second place, with 8 games to play because they had that game against Fortaleza. Botafogo was playing home, and they opened 3-0 on first half. Second half Palmeiras made 3-1, and Botafogo had one player sent off. But then they got a penalty on minute 82, but... they lost the penalty and saw Palmerias make a comeback from 3-1 to 3-4, scoring a goal on last minute. The difference fell to 3 points.

So, next Monday they had a derby against Vasco, who is fighting against relegation, and they lost 1-0. Palmeiras won their game. They were tied on points. On Thursday, Botafogo would face Grêmio at home. Again, they opened 3-1 and then...Luis Suarez scored a hat-trick and won 4-3 to Grêmio. They had bottled two times a 3-1 score at home inside one week and had lost the top of the league. But the craziest thing is that on that day, a RBD show would happen on Rio de Janeiro, on Botafogo's stadium, so the game needed to go somewhere else and they played on Vasco's field, which allowed Luis Suarez to play, because Botafogo use a synthetic grass on their field, and Suarez have a knee problem that he can't play on synthetic grass. Vasco's stadium, otherwise, have natural grass, so Suarez was allowed to play and score a hat-trick.

Next game, they faced Bragantino away, and was winning the game until last minute, when they conceded a goal and drew 2-2. Then last Sunday they played Santos at home, a team who also is fighting relegation. They were winning 1-0 then conceded a goal on last minute, again. And finally last Wednesday, they were facing Coritiba away, a team who was already relegated and was playing in an empty stadium because their fans fought Cruzeiro fans inside the pitch during a game. At this time, if Botafogo win, they would be only 1 point behind Palmeiras. Everything was normal, they were drawing 0-0 when Botafogo got a penalty on 95 minute. They score. The referee add two more minutes because the delay to shoot the penalty and to celebrate, then on next attack, Coritiba scores on 99 minute. And they fumbled again and was 3 points behind Palmeiras, but they have less goal difference. The only normal game they had was the one against Fortaleza, which they tied 2-2 but without any crazy thing happening on last minute. And to finish, today they drew 0-0 with Cruzeiro and officially don't have chance to be champions because Palmeiras won a game against Fluminense, who is a Botafogo rival and is thinking about Club World Cup, so they played an alternative team. Right now Botafogo is 5th and they have chances of not getting a place on Libertadores group stage next week, needing to play 2 play-offs to get the spot.

They were the best team in history on the first 19 games, and then the last 19 they have a campaing of a relegated team. They were so ahead that they have now 10 games without a single win and still are on top 5 teams on the league. There is a saying in Brazil that "there's some things that only happen with Botafogo", but what happened during this league is way beyond anyone could expect.

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For me its Immobile. Horrendous player. Worst player ive seen play for the Italian National team, fucking useless every game I see him which is usually an important game, literally has no other skills other than finishing and that also goes to shit vs good teams.

Who yall got?

Who's the best in their prime? In what order?

I’ll say when the media said CR7 is gay Add yours

Hey guys. The site I used to watch on got shutdown sadly, and there’s some games I want to watch tonight. Do any of you have some recommendations?

No racism please. No sensitive people also.

I am just curious

If you’ve been a PSG fan your whole life, I got nothing but love for ya.

But as a FIFA player online who is still playing last year’s version, all the PSG bandwagoners and the fools at EA sports, I just wanna say, retirement home talent doesn’t make you a contender.

Two years of FIFA were virtually ruined by the Messi, Mbappe, Neymar group up front, but when you play them the defense and goaltending are also world class. Video games often do that because they know some kid who bought the game to play with Messi doesn’t want 2021 Messi, he wants 2012 Messi.

There’s no shame in Messi slowing down in his 30s, but it is reality.

Now no one cares about my video game frustrations with this team, but I’d like offer up that the PSG management had 12 year old gamer’s idea of how to build a team. It’s all about the biggest name, even if you get him at the end of his career.

I mean we could put together a team with Lebron, Jordan, Bird, etc but if it’s the last year of their career, they are going to get smoked by younger teams with more energy. PSG was doing what now the Saudi league is doing, buying up guys on their last legs in terms of the highest level of club football.

A lot of people are worried about it, but I think it’s a great opportunity for European clubs. You can sell someone you know has lost a step for enough money to acquire multiple potential young stars.

It only gets scary when the majority of young players want to go there, but that won’t happen because the Saudi league wants “names” not guys who are busy making a name for themselves. Saudi league only gets them all when it has the same TV viewership and the same brand name impact. A young star player who goes there now risks losing millions in endorsements and an unquantifiable amount of brand recognition, both due to the limited television exposure.