The Soccer Thread

[f16harm]

We are stuck with fucking Rooster and Pollock at Goalkeeper....No Given, or Schwarzer as a second choice.

Sometimes I find Wenger to be a bullheaded old crotch, almost like the Dave Wannstedt era in Miami. And enough with the fucking Frenchies on the team for crissakes

 

[Cody]

9/11 Columbus@LA Galaxy Supporter Shield preview?

 

[davie]

9/11 lol

 

[wingsfan77]

9/11 lol

yeah, because that's hilarious

 

[davie]

yeah, because that's hilarious

no, but this was

and so was Real pulling the plug on Van der Vaart to Tottenham with 5minutes to go before the deadline.

 

[davie]

Let's see if Borriello scores more than Ibrahimovic this season since Milan got the fag in on loan and let Borriello go to Roma.

 

[citizenerased]

no, but this was

and so was Real pulling the plug on Van der Vaart to Tottenham with 5minutes to go before the deadline.

:shifty:

 

[f16harm]

^ both of you boners need to cut the shit. It's not funny, and pretty classless whatever way you put it.

 

[Champ]

Fuck Robinho

 

[Krebs]

stop bitching champ

 

[killgod]

Came across an article from May that I never heard about.

CONCACAF has submitted a proposal to FIFA to alter it's World Cup Qualification stages and to have 4 spots in the WC instead of the 3.5 (with the other half belonging to CONMEBOL)


The last format for 2010, was to have the top 13 auto advance to round 2, the bottom 22 to play in a random draw 2 leg situation. Winners would advance to round 2 to play the bye teams in another 2 leg match.

Top 12 remaining teams would be split into 3 groups of 4, home/away matches, top 2 advance to round 4.

The 6 team round 4, everyone plays home/away, top 3 go to World Cup, 4th place plays 5th place in CONMEBOL in a 2 leg playoff to get that "half" spot.


It was really shitty by design IMO, first two rounds are a waste as only one nation from round one even got through to round 3. They just get pounded in the 2nd round by the stronger nations.




The new proposal is this.

Round One

Top 32 nations, 4 teams, 8 groups. Home/away matches, top 2 advance.

Round Two

16 nations, 4 teams, 4 groups. Home/away matches, top 2 advance.

Round Three

8 nations, 4 teams, 2 groups. Group winners go to WC. 2nd place teams play off in a 2 leg match, winner goes to WC, loser plays 5th place from CONMEBOL in a 2 leg to get that half spot.

However, CONCACAF has requested 4 spots in the WC instead of 3.5. Not sure who they want FIFA to take the half spot away from. If granted, then the top 2 teams in Round 3 advance to WC without those 2 leg playoffs.



Neat stuff, should make CONCACAF qualifying much more entertaining. Under last WC's format, nothing to really pay attention to until Round 3 and a couple bad games would end it there.....so really you could watch 1 or 2 matches and then that would be it for your nation.

 

[CaribbeanJoseph]

Yea, that's much better KG, CONCACAF qualification is hella stupid.

 

[Archer]

Who would they take the .5 from?

South America, Africa, Asia and Europe have the right amount imo

The zone that NZ won [forgetting the name] only has .5 so you can't really take that away either

 

[killgod]

Who would they take the .5 from?

South America, Africa, Asia and Europe have the right amount imo

The zone that NZ won [forgetting the name] only has .5 so you can't really take that away either

CONMEBOL has 4.5 and only 10 nations. CONCACAF has 3.5 and 35 nations.

4 from each is certainly a fair proposal IMO.

 

[BigHouseUSA]

That probably won't happen, nor does CONCACAF deserve that other .5

 

[CaribbeanJoseph]

Who would they take the .5 from?

South America, Africa, Asia and Europe have the right amount imo

The zone that NZ won [forgetting the name] only has .5 so you can't really take that away either

Take .5 from South America both would then have 4, 4 out of 10 from South America is fair enough imo.

edit: KG got there first

 

[Fappin Raptor]

CONMEBOL has 4.5 and only 10 nations. CONCACAF has 3.5 and 35 nations.

4 from each is certainly a fair proposal IMO.

CONMEBOL has 9 of their 10 in the Top 50, where as CONCACAF has 3.

 

[killgod]

CONMEBOL has 9 of their 10 in the Top 50, where as CONCACAF has 3.

FIFA also weighs things differently between regions. For a CONMEBOL nation to defeat another CONMEBOL nation (even a lesser one) they'd score more points than say Canada would defeating Mexico.


It's not like the top end of CONCACAF is that far off. Costa Rica was eliminated in a VERY QUESTIONABLE situation vs Uruguay. SA 2010 easily could (and in some opinions should) have been 4 from each.

Uruguay, the same nation that went so far, was oh so close to not even being there.

 

[Archer]

The spots should be decided by how good a continent is not how many nations it has trying to qualify

We don't need to water down an already watered down tourney

Africa got 6 spots last time [48 in their zone I think] but only ONE made it out the groups which was a quite pathetic effort to be honest. South America had 5 spots out of 10 and all 5 made it out

South America gets the perfect amount. They have the toughest zone to qualify from and fully deserve those spots imo. [I'm talking top to bottom. Europe probably has more good teams but they all get seperated in qualifying]

 

[Cody]

Manchester United two points behind Chelsea.