Segun Oluwaniyi Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 He did get a Croatian passport so he could move to Dortmund before 18, so I guess you're excused. Don't want to get too bold here, but with him and a lot of our other top prospects, we could be pretty good in 5-7 years / you'll never be good unless your country significantly changes it's attitude to the sport With the best athletes in the world, massive investment, and massive immigration from football-playing nations, the US will only continue to improve, tbh, regardless of any attitude towards it. Though I do question how much better their results will actually be. In my opinion, the US actually massively overachieves at this point. Despite a fairly lacklustre player set, they rubbish the the terrible teams in CONCACAF, compete with Mexico (who have far superior players), and make the knockout rounds of the World Cup. Unless you are on the level of Germany, I don't understand what else you will be doing out of North America. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Lots of talk that Aymeric Laporte is going to switch to Spain. That would be a huge boost to our CB options, which aren't too good after Piqué/Ramos. I'm actually really surprised Laporte doesn't have a single France cap at this point, he's class. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Ketsbia Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Jim White replacing Colin Murray on TalkSport. Sounds grim. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemtizz Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Lots of talk that Aymeric Laporte is going to switch to Spain. That would be a huge boost to our CB options, which aren't too good after Piqué/Ramos. I'm actually really surprised Laporte doesn't have a single France cap at this point, he's class. Would have gone to the Euros if not for the injury. Though it's Deschamps so probably not... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasper Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Might be old news to many but thought this was pretty interesting: http://thesetpieces.com/world-football/beating-system-wales-planned-seeding-success-calculator/ "The crucial upshot is this: for the most part, friendly matches are damaging to the top countries’ ranking points – even wins." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemtizz Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/05/paul-scholes-non-league-football-premier-league You hear about people saying English football’s the best football there is around. I think Spain’s by far the best league. Germany has better teams. In Italy probably the strength in depth isn’t great. They talk about Italy being a bad league but I don’t think English people look at it. They say it’s boring. No chance. The Juventus team would beat any team in this league. They came up to Manchester City and beat them easy. But we have this interpretation of the Italian league that it’s rubbish. They only try to defend. No chance. A little hard to read at times but agree with all of it, apart from enjoying non-league football. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Prefers non-league so much he's picked a team, changed their colours and pumped a ridiculous amount of money in to get them away from non-league. Horrible, dirty Ginger scrote. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Might be old news to many but thought this was pretty interesting: http://thesetpieces.com/world-football/beating-system-wales-planned-seeding-success-calculator/ "The crucial upshot is this: for the most part, friendly matches are damaging to the top countries’ ranking points – even wins." Good read, thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Marca just ran a "Descendant of Spanish immigrants" best XI. Not too bad. http://e00-marca.uecdn.es/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2016/09/05/14730690858248.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 I would not have guessed Senderos had Spanish blood Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 I would not have guessed Senderos had Spanish blood I guess I'm being woooshed here since it's a perfectly Spanish surname... Not a bad list of players, although I would probably only have Aubameyang and Carrasco in the actual Spanish squad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Mario Gomez huh. Never woulda known. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Ricardo Rodriguez too. Where's the clue? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 I have never heard of a Spanish person called Senderos tbh. More to do with his looks anyway than the name Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsted Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 I have never heard of a Spanish person called Senderos tbh. More to do with his looks anyway than the name "Senderos is a child of Serbian (Zorica Novković) and Spanish (Julián Senderos) immigrants." And yet it's true! Who would have guessed? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Ha ha ha! https://www.facebook.com/302439376632606/videos/532685473607994/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 I have never heard of a Spanish person called Senderos tbh. More to do with his looks anyway than the name "Senderos is a child of Serbian (Zorica Novković) and Spanish (Julián Senderos) immigrants." And yet it's true! Who would have guessed? Besides France, for obvious proximity reasons, there was a very large Spanish immigration into Switzerland during Franco times, to perform menial and industry jobs. Also Germany. That's why there's so many Swiss and German players in that list. In more recent times England has been a favorite destination, so I guess in 20+ years there might be a George García up there. I think they are jumping the gun a bit with Lallana (I think he has a Spanish grandfather but that's it). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmoset Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Pretty much on this subject and it's a bit Milner, but recently met a Polish Brazilian, which I thought was a very unusual combo. Turns out due to immigration in the early 20th century, Brazil has the 2nd biggest Polish population outside of Poland. Would never have guessed that in a pub quiz and found it quite interesting. :milner: :milner: :milner: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 I have never heard of a Spanish person called Senderos tbh. More to do with his looks anyway than the name "Senderos is a child of Serbian (Zorica Novković) and Spanish (Julián Senderos) immigrants." And yet it's true! Who would have guessed? Besides France, for obvious proximity reasons, there was a very large Spanish immigration into Switzerland during Franco times, to perform menial and industry jobs. Also Germany. That's why there's so many Swiss and German players in that list. In more recent times England has been a favorite destination, so I guess in 20+ years there might be a George García up there. I think they are jumping the gun a bit with Lallana (I think he has a Spanish grandfather but that's it). Doesn't seem to a problem for the "Irish" tbf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Pretty much on this subject and it's a bit Milner, but recently met a Polish Brazilian, which I thought was a very unusual combo. Turns out due to immigration in the early 20th century, Brazil has the 2nd biggest Polish population outside of Poland. Would never have guessed that in a pub quiz and found it quite interesting. :milner: :milner: :milner: Biggest Oktoberfest outside of Germany too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 I have never heard of a Spanish person called Senderos tbh. More to do with his looks anyway than the name "Senderos is a child of Serbian (Zorica Novković) and Spanish (Julián Senderos) immigrants." And yet it's true! Who would have guessed? Besides France, for obvious proximity reasons, there was a very large Spanish immigration into Switzerland during Franco times, to perform menial and industry jobs. Also Germany. That's why there's so many Swiss and German players in that list. In more recent times England has been a favorite destination, so I guess in 20+ years there might be a George García up there. I think they are jumping the gun a bit with Lallana (I think he has a Spanish grandfather but that's it). Doesn't seem to a problem for the "Irish" tbf. Doesn't seem to be a problem for you either tbf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Pretty much on this subject and it's a bit Milner, but recently met a Polish Brazilian, which I thought was a very unusual combo. Turns out due to immigration in the early 20th century, Brazil has the 2nd biggest Polish population outside of Poland. Would never have guessed that in a pub quiz and found it quite interesting. :milner: :milner: :milner: Biggest Oktoberfest outside of Germany too. The Brazil/Japan links are really interesting too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Filipe Luis is a Polezilian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Pretty much on this subject and it's a bit Milner, but recently met a Polish Brazilian, which I thought was a very unusual combo. Turns out due to immigration in the early 20th century, Brazil has the 2nd biggest Polish population outside of Poland. Would never have guessed that in a pub quiz and found it quite interesting. :milner: :milner: :milner: Biggest Oktoberfest outside of Germany too. The Brazil/Japan links are really interesting too. Their neighbourhood, Liberdade, is the only part of Sao Paolo where you don't feel you're about to imminently stabbed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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