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Guessing Beasley is the only one that played when these met in 2002?

That Beckermen looks massively limited

USMNT all owa the shop

Lol @ that defending

Got money on Portugal and Ronaldo any time. Yanks are rubbish lads.

It's actually 1 since 2002. 2 since 1996. Ecuador and Denmark. Second rate is generous.

Portugal comfortable win

Algeria could play Germany next round. Out for revenge for 82.

Been a great World Cup but we could really do with an absolute screamer from distance.

That'll be why only one of them qualified and none of them qualified from the groups at last years ACoN.

wow much tall for korean

Plus the North Africans are always able to draft in some more French players when the squad needs topping up. What? They continuously lose their best players to European nations.. Like whom? NSIS The likes of Zidane, Nasri, Benzema etc are all French. They are born in France and products of French life and the French football system. I don't see how they are 'losing' those players. If anything they are lucky to be gaining the 2nd rate of their diaspora in France when their own system can't produce players. If it wasn't for the French football system they wouldn't be at a World Cup. Unprovable either way How is it unprovable? Algeria have barely produced any players in the current squad through their own system. It's ridiculous to suggest they've been robbed of a player such as Benzema, who's parents I'm fairly sure were born in France nevermind him. Are you suggesting a huge talent like Zidane couldn't have carved out a decent career in football for himself had he been born the other side of a pond? Or he couldn't have chosen to play for Algeria if he had been so inclined? So is it just pure chance that all the great footballing talent happens to be in the Algerian disapora that has been born in France and there's none left in the population still athome? Either a mighty coincidence, or that the footballing system/environment the player comes through is probably far more important to shaping the player than their natural born talent (if even such a thing exists).

Plus the North Africans are always able to draft in some more French players when the squad needs topping up. What? They continuously lose their best players to European nations.. Like whom? NSIS The likes of Zidane, Nasri, Benzema etc are all French. They are born in France and products of French life and the French football system. I don't see how they are 'losing' those players. If anything they are lucky to be gaining the 2nd rate of their diaspora in France when their own system can't produce players. If it wasn't for the French football system they wouldn't be at a World Cup. Unprovable either way How is it unprovable? Algeria have barely produced any players in the current squad through their own system. It's ridiculous to suggest they've been robbed of a player such as Benzema, who's parents I'm fairly sure were born in France nevermind him.

Plus the North Africans are always able to draft in some more French players when the squad needs topping up. What? They continuously lose their best players to European nations.. Like whom? NSIS The likes of Zidane, Nasri, Benzema etc are all French. They are born in France and products of French life and the French football system. I don't see how they are 'losing' those players. If anything they are lucky to be gaining the 2nd rate of their diaspora in France when their own system can't produce players. If it wasn't for the French football system they wouldn't be at a World Cup.

Plus the North Africans are always able to draft in some more French players when the squad needs topping up. What? They continuously lose their best players to European nations.. Like whom?

Plus the North Africans are always able to draft in some more French players when the squad needs topping up.

Remember when Russia and South Korea had Dutch managers? Better days.

Asia should have sent the Norks instead

Still think Portugal will win

Dutch fan gets Tattoo of RvP's goal :lol:

Depends if los ticos qualify as first or 2nd. Anyone getting Costa Rica should really be aiming for quarterfinals at the very least despite Costa Rica having been a surprise. It'll be a good match up that one if it happens

I'm personally a bit puzzled why you're allowed foreign managers in international football anyway, but if its allowed then there's no difference between a German managing us and an Italian in Capello. The rivalry is a false one, we're also-rans while they're perennial achievers. It's like trying to say Manchester United are Newcastle's rivals. There would be no difference to a German managing say Sweden or the Czechs based on our record.

CIV should be looking at a QF if they don't fuck up

Very disappointing from Bosnia, never got going. 3 minutes though, that is farcical