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Ridman

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Ahahaha Poland, our worst loss in 50 years. Amazing that a nation with a population of 40m and football as it´s most popular sport can´t even produce a single half-decent defender. Not saying we have a superb midfield or an amzing strikeforce but the defense is beyond a joke. At least the future is bright, our U21 only lost 3-0 to Kazakhstan U21  :celb:

it's a fact and not only in poland, the likes of the czech republic, hungary, romania,bulgaria, whom at one time were decent are going backwards at an astonishing rate

 

Well the Czech´s are 10m in comparison and they´ve managed to produce players like Nedved, Poborsky, Baros, Rosicky, Koller, Ujfaluši, Grygera etc. in recent years. Whilst Poland has produced absolutely nothing. Something  isn´t right over there.

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Ahahaha Poland, our worst loss in 50 years. Amazing that a nation with a population of 40m and football as it´s most popular sport can´t even produce a single half-decent defender. Not saying we have a superb midfield or an amzing strikeforce but the defense is beyond a joke. At least the future is bright, our U21 only lost 3-0 to Kazakhstan U21  :celb:

it's a fact and not only in poland, the likes of the czech republic, hungary, romania,bulgaria, whom at one time were decent are going backwards at an astonishing rate

 

Well the Czech´s are 10m in comparison and they´ve managed to produce players like Nedved, Poborsky, Baros, Rosicky, Koller, Ujfaluši, Grygera etc. in recent years. Whilst Poland has produced absolutely nothing. Something  isn´t right over there.

all those czechs are of the past really. they are the czech version of lato,boniek and denya
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Hungary are actually going forward, they hadn't really been decent in decades and made a decent show in WC qualifying in a pretty strong group.

 

At the same time you got teams like Bosnia, Slovenia and Slovakia - who were a joke - being decent nowadays. It comes and goes, the fact is that without a strong domestic league is hard to mantain continued success.

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Ahahaha Poland, our worst loss in 50 years. Amazing that a nation with a population of 40m and football as it´s most popular sport can´t even produce a single half-decent defender. Not saying we have a superb midfield or an amzing strikeforce but the defense is beyond a joke. At least the future is bright, our U21 only lost 3-0 to Kazakhstan U21  :celb:

 

At least you've a bye to the Euro's.

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Teams that are of the lower band (below the likes of Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Italy etc) seem to trasition between having good generations and bad generations of players.

 

Romania and Bulgaria in the early 90s had very good teams, Poland in the 80s, Czech republic in the earlier part of this decade, Hungary in the 50s etc. I think that in the future these teams will get a wave of players coming through and will do well again.

 

It's interesting to think how good a collective Yugoslavia team would be now, if you combined Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Macedonia together. The talent pool there would be good enough to win a World Cup, for example:

 

-----------Handanovic---------------

Corluka--Vidic--Ivanovic--Kolorov

--------------Stankovic--------------

Modric----Misimovic-----Vucinic---

--------------Dzeko------------------

 

And then a bench of: Pletikosa, Pranjic, Kranjcar, Simunic, Basa, Jovetic, Eduardo, Srna, Krasic, Vukcevic, Pandev, Salihovic, Kacar, Tosic, Olic, Petric, Zigic etc etc

 

Probably better off they're seperate (politically, definitely I know) so that they all get to play international football.

 

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http://www.donga.com/photo/news/200906/200906180230.jpg

 

Just wanted to elaborate a bit more on one of my personal legends :lol:

 

Du-Ri Cha is a bit of a cult hero over here. He's a complete freak of nature: an Asian with the speed of Martins and the strength of Drogba (runs the 100m in under 11 seconds, has actually tussled shoulder-to-shoulder with Drogba and knocked him over.) Just one thing: he cannot play football. At all.

 

If he had even an ounce of aptitude for the game he probably would have been the greatest striker to ever wear a Korea shirt, instead he got shunted out to fullback midway through his career because his club manager realized that was the position where he'd be able to use his speed and strength while doing the least damage to the team as a whole.

 

It's a bit mental at South Korea home games. We cheer whenever he picks up the ball, cheer whenever he steamrolls over an entire flank and runs through onto goal, and cheer even louder when he inevitably f***s it up in the most comical fashion imaginable. Absolute legend (and he'll be marking Messi by the way)

 

Would love it for us to sign him :lol:

 

 

 

I`ve watched quite a bit of the Bundesliga over the years (on and off) and Cha Du Ri hasn`t really cemented himself a regular place in any of his teams and  has always been shuffled around different positions.......well for Frankfurt and FSV Mainz anyway.  Haven`t seen much of Freiburg at all though.

 

He is out of contract with Freiburg apparently now....just what our hierarchy wants (FREE).... :frantic: ...though he is 29. I read anyway that he wants to move to the K-league. If he continues to do well at this world cup he might change his mind.

 

PS: living in Korea, I haven`t seen much of this cult hero status of his that you mentioned! unless it has been very recent

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http://www.donga.com/photo/news/200906/200906180230.jpg

 

Just wanted to elaborate a bit more on one of my personal legends :lol:

 

Du-Ri Cha is a bit of a cult hero over here. He's a complete freak of nature: an Asian with the speed of Martins and the strength of Drogba (runs the 100m in under 11 seconds, has actually tussled shoulder-to-shoulder with Drogba and knocked him over.) Just one thing: he cannot play football. At all.

 

If he had even an ounce of aptitude for the game he probably would have been the greatest striker to ever wear a Korea shirt, instead he got shunted out to fullback midway through his career because his club manager realized that was the position where he'd be able to use his speed and strength while doing the least damage to the team as a whole.

 

It's a bit mental at South Korea home games. We cheer whenever he picks up the ball, cheer whenever he steamrolls over an entire flank and runs through onto goal, and cheer even louder when he inevitably f***s it up in the most comical fashion imaginable. Absolute legend (and he'll be marking Messi by the way)

 

Would love it for us to sign him :lol:

 

 

 

I`ve watched quite a bit of the Bundesliga over the years (on and off) and Cha Du Ri hasn`t really cemented himself a regular place in any of his teams and  has always been shuffled around different positions.......well for Frankfurt and FSV Mainz anyway.  Haven`t seen much of Freiburg at all though.

 

He is out of contract with Freiburg apparently now....just what our hierarchy wants (FREE).... :frantic: ...though he is 29. I read anyway that he wants to move to the K-league. If he continues to do well at this world cup he might change his mind.

 

PS: living in Korea, I haven`t seen much of this cult hero status of his that you mentioned! unless it has been very recent

 

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Zs0kfwV6jXk/TBXmfNohFMI/AAAAAAAAAGc/Ra-YVt8XTV0/s640/00700.jpg

 

http://www.gasengi.com/data/cheditor4/1006/jpIkbxTo.jpg

 

Are you sure it's not just that you haven't been looking hard enough? :lol:

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LooneyToonArmy

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Just wanted to elaborate a bit more on one of my personal legends :lol:

 

Du-Ri Cha is a bit of a cult hero over here. He's a complete freak of nature: an Asian with the speed of Martins and the strength of Drogba (runs the 100m in under 11 seconds, has actually tussled shoulder-to-shoulder with Drogba and knocked him over.) Just one thing: he cannot play football. At all.

 

If he had even an ounce of aptitude for the game he probably would have been the greatest striker to ever wear a Korea shirt, instead he got shunted out to fullback midway through his career because his club manager realized that was the position where he'd be able to use his speed and strength while doing the least damage to the team as a whole.

 

It's a bit mental at South Korea home games. We cheer whenever he picks up the ball, cheer whenever he steamrolls over an entire flank and runs through onto goal, and cheer even louder when he inevitably f***s it up in the most comical fashion imaginable. Absolute legend (and he'll be marking Messi by the way)

 

Would love it for us to sign him :lol:

 

 

 

I`ve watched quite a bit of the Bundesliga over the years (on and off) and Cha Du Ri hasn`t really cemented himself a regular place in any of his teams and  has always been shuffled around different positions.......well for Frankfurt and FSV Mainz anyway.  Haven`t seen much of Freiburg at all though.

 

He is out of contract with Freiburg apparently now....just what our hierarchy wants (FREE).... :frantic: ...though he is 29. I read anyway that he wants to move to the K-league. If he continues to do well at this world cup he might change his mind.

 

PS: living in Korea, I haven`t seen much of this cult hero status of his that you mentioned! unless it has been very recent

 

Are you sure it's not just that you haven't been looking hard enough? :lol:

 

I was at World Cup stadium watching the game with the thousands of others..... and hardly anyone mentioned the lad before the game when I was talking to them about the team/players....well now is different. :lol:

 

where did you watch it? Coex? City Hall?

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Just wanted to elaborate a bit more on one of my personal legends :lol:

 

Du-Ri Cha is a bit of a cult hero over here. He's a complete freak of nature: an Asian with the speed of Martins and the strength of Drogba (runs the 100m in under 11 seconds, has actually tussled shoulder-to-shoulder with Drogba and knocked him over.) Just one thing: he cannot play football. At all.

 

If he had even an ounce of aptitude for the game he probably would have been the greatest striker to ever wear a Korea shirt, instead he got shunted out to fullback midway through his career because his club manager realized that was the position where he'd be able to use his speed and strength while doing the least damage to the team as a whole.

 

It's a bit mental at South Korea home games. We cheer whenever he picks up the ball, cheer whenever he steamrolls over an entire flank and runs through onto goal, and cheer even louder when he inevitably f***s it up in the most comical fashion imaginable. Absolute legend (and he'll be marking Messi by the way)

 

Would love it for us to sign him :lol:

 

 

 

I`ve watched quite a bit of the Bundesliga over the years (on and off) and Cha Du Ri hasn`t really cemented himself a regular place in any of his teams and  has always been shuffled around different positions.......well for Frankfurt and FSV Mainz anyway.  Haven`t seen much of Freiburg at all though.

 

He is out of contract with Freiburg apparently now....just what our hierarchy wants (FREE).... :frantic: ...though he is 29. I read anyway that he wants to move to the K-league. If he continues to do well at this world cup he might change his mind.

 

PS: living in Korea, I haven`t seen much of this cult hero status of his that you mentioned! unless it has been very recent

 

Are you sure it's not just that you haven't been looking hard enough? :lol:

 

I was at World Cup stadium watching the game with the thousands of others..... and hardly anyone mentioned the lad before the game when I was talking to them about the team/players....well now is different. :lol:

 

where did you watch it? Coex? City Hall?

 

I stayed home cooked a nice meal with 5 of my mates and got piss drunk. Didn't feel like braving the crowds this time.

 

I dunno who you've been listening to but I'm surprised there's been no mention of him, I was at World Cup Stadium for our last home friendly against Ecuador and everyone was going bonkers whenever he touched the ball.

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What the fuck is it with this commentator? He's got the broadest Canada accent ever and go "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLL" like the latin Americans. It's surreal, man. :lol:

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Listening to Montreal Impact vs. Vancouver Whitecaps.

 

The Canadian accent on the commentators are making this a very, very, amusing experience. :lol:

 

Absolutely love the Impact.  Stoked for them to (hopefully) get the next MLS expansion.

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That young 'un for Spartak M looks half decent, it amazes me at how much sleeper talent is currently playing in Russia - though that could be my own ignorance.

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