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questions about soccer, or er football... (pg. 2)
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| paranoik0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by MW17cc
1. How is a champion crowned in the English Premier league? |
answered already a couple times, basically it's a league where whoever gets more points is the champion (3 points for win, 1 for draw in case you didn't know already :p ), there's no playoffs or knockout stage or anything like that
| quote: | | 2. How exactly does the UEFA cup work? |
participants are the teams that almost qualified for the Champions League, and the teams that get knocked out of the Champions League in the early stages. the format is really strange nowadays, with a two-leg knockout round, then a weird group stage with 5 teams per group where they only play each other once, then two-leg knockout till the end except the one-leg final
| quote: | | 3. What is the most prestigous title a club team can win? |
UEFA Champions League, although it can be debated that the new FIFA World Club Championship is the real world champion title but Liverpool this year didn't even want to participate in that :haha: I disagree with raveed, the Champions League is definitely more important than any national title, even in the strongest leagues. It's just that it's a lot more unpredictable, a bad match can throw them out so a season cannot only depend on that - that's why managers are fired if the league position is too low, but not if the teams get knocked out early of the CL.
| quote: | | 4. (Briefly) What the hell happened to Manchester United, with the whole fans in black protest thing and all? |
haven't heard anything on this
| quote: | | 5. Why is Real Madrid so average with all those superstar players? |
Lack of stability (3 managers per season average), lack of team spirit (too many egos), incompetent squad sense in buying players (too many forwards, they value players' reputation way too much over their actual quality), players getting old (Zidane and Roberto Carlos are definitely near retiring), incredibly huge expectations (winning both league and Champions League is always expected).
| quote: | | 6. Who would you rank as the top 5-10 players in the world? |
Goalies: Gianluigi Buffon (italian, Juventus), Petr Cech (czech, Chelsea)
Defenders: John Terry (english, Chelsea)
Midfielders: Ronaldinho (brazilian, Barcelona), Frank Lampard (english, Chelsea), Kaká (brazilian, AC Milan), Steven Gerrard (english, Liverpool)
Forwards: Andryi Shevchenko (ukranian, AC Milan), Samuel Eto'o (cameroonese(sp?), Barcelona), Thierry Henry (french, Arsenal)
| quote: | | 7. From what I understand, if USA advances through it's draw in the World Cup, we will have to play Brazil in one of the next two rounds. I know they will be heavily favored, but we are ranked #6 now, so is there any chance we could beat them? How often do underdogs win big soccer matches? |
Umm that's slightly wrong. If both USA and Brazil go through, they either play each other in the next round or in the final (not the quarter-finals). I don't rate USA as low as some people here, but they're definitely not the 6th best team in the world and against Brazil, who are definitely the best team in the world, would probably have a chance in 10.
| quote: | | 8. Is there anything else interesting or important I should know? |
One of the antecipated games of the season is today: Chelsea-Barcelona. Don't miss that one. |
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| MW17cc |
Thanks guys, you've been very helpful.
Sounds like not very good news about Brasil. Hopefully if we play them they will all get food poisoning on the day of the match or something, oh well...
Thanks for heads up on the Chelsea- Barcelona match, I just checked and it's on TV here today, so I'm definitely going to watch it. |
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| The_G0dfather |
| quote: | Originally posted by MW17cc
Thanks for heads up on the Chelsea- Barcelona match, I just checked and it's on TV here today, so I'm definitely going to watch it. |
enjoy yourself, this is thé clash of the titans
and remember, there is still a 2nd leg to be played after this game so the result isnt final yet |
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| fastmp3 |
| and remember, Barca is the best team in the world |
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| Cloud |
| quote: | Originally posted by fastmp3
and remember, Barca is the best team in the world |
no, it's just your fav... |
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| Rockabye |
| quote: | Originally posted by MW17cc
Sounds like not very good news about Brasil. Hopefully if we play them they will all get food poisoning on the day of the match or something, oh well...
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I don't think you'll advance to the 1/8 finals ;) |
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| fastmp3 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cloud
no, it's just your fav... |
STFU greek boy |
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| MW17cc |
| ok well the first half of the Chelsea- Barcelona game was like watching paint dry, but the second half was thrilling, what a game! what was the deal with the field? it was horrible. |
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| ArcticBeach |
| quote: | Originally posted by MW17cc
ok well the first half of the Chelsea- Barcelona game was like watching paint dry, but the second half was thrilling, what a game! what was the deal with the field? it was horrible. |
after last season they put out new grass but it got some weird disease and the grass is dying and they cant put out new before the league is finnsihed soo they put out sand on the field, well thats what the they said on the Swedish tv when I saw the game :D |
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| Cloud |
| quote: | Originally posted by fastmp3
STFU greek boy |
:o :p |
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| Centra Spike |
| quote: | Originally posted by MW17cc
ok well the first half of the Chelsea- Barcelona game was like watching paint dry, but the second half was thrilling, what a game! what was the deal with the field? it was horrible. |
Chelsea flooded their pitch with water in the days before the game to make the surface as bad as possible. Teams which play good passing football (like barcelona) usually find it difficult to play on a crap surface, because the ball will bobble around a lot, making their passes innaccurate and unpredictable. Since chelsea play defensive counter-attacking football with lots of long balls and rely on free kicks and corners a lot for goals, they were hoping this would give them a big advantage (obviously the surface of the pitch doesnt affect the ball when its in the air).
Inferior teams often use tactics such as this. |
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