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Post by blood on Mar 9, 2014 20:22:40 GMT 8
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Post by jandrewfc87 on Mar 10, 2014 1:13:08 GMT 8
Just watch Spain or Barcelona or Arsenal play. Size does matter only if they are more technical than your team. But a physically gifted, technically brilliant, and creative player is rare. There can only be a handful of people like yaya toure. jandrewfc87 you mentioned yaya so you are City Citizen I suppose Yes he is a heck of a midfielder, defender, box-to-box utility guy. Such an incredible agile tall guy. But most gifted players, they mostly thrive when in a great team environment. Messi in Argentina? Doesnt work. Eric Cantona in France? Nope. Haha well yeah, obviously. That's why I included if the teams are tactically and technically similar, the bigger team wins but that's hardly the case because there are only a handful of yaya toure's. Take the confederations cup for example. Brazil and Spain were technically and tactically in the same level but their midfield were more physical that game. So the next time they play each other, Spain would need to adjust tactically to compensate for the disparity in physicality.
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Post by jandrewfc87 on Mar 10, 2014 1:14:04 GMT 8
Just watch Spain or Barcelona or Arsenal play. Size does matter only if they are more technical than your team. But a physically gifted, technically brilliant, and creative player is rare. There can only be a handful of people like yaya toure. jandrewfc87 you mentioned yaya so you are City Citizen I suppose Yes he is a heck of a midfielder, defender, box-to-box utility guy. Such an incredible agile tall guy. But most gifted players, they mostly thrive when in a great team environment. Messi in Argentina? Doesnt work. Eric Cantona in France? Nope. I'm only a citizen because of pellegrini, I've been a fan since his villarreal days!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2014 2:57:20 GMT 8
jandrewfc87 you mentioned yaya so you are City Citizen I suppose Yes he is a heck of a midfielder, defender, box-to-box utility guy. Such an incredible agile tall guy. But most gifted players, they mostly thrive when in a great team environment. Messi in Argentina? Doesnt work. Eric Cantona in France? Nope. Haha well yeah, obviously. That's why I included if the teams are tactically and technically similar, the bigger team wins but that's hardly the case because there are only a handful of yaya toure's. Take the confederations cup for example. Brazil and Spain were technically and tactically in the same level but their midfield were more physical that game. So the next time they play each other, Spain would need to adjust tactically to compensate for the disparity in physicality. More convenient, wouldn't you say, for a club coach, than it is for a national team coach in terms of rosters and line ups? It looks like it in our little 'height' analogy here. Smarty pants Pellegrini huh? A great coach.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2014 3:52:19 GMT 8
Warning: Look up the word "augur" before proceeding to read, as the word is used here by Manager Dan Palami. The guy must have a college degree, and I don't. Thomas Dooley Plays Down Philippines’ AFC Challenge Cup contention (By Ashley Hammond, Staff Reporter, gulfnews.com, March 6, 2014)Dubai: New Philippines coach Thomas Dooley has denied his team are one of the favourites heading into the AFC Challenge Cup despite improved performances in recent friendly matches. The Azkals, or Street Dogs, followed up last week’s goalless draw away to Malaysia by impressing in a 1-0 defeat against higher-ranked Azerbaijan at Dubai’s Al Shabab Stadium on Wednesday. Elvin Yunuszade separated the two sides just before the half-hour mark, heading in a corner from Vagif Javadov. The Philippines were using the game — Dooley’s second in charge since replacing Michael Weiss last month — to prepare for the AFC Challenge Cup in May. Having reached the semi-finals in their last appearance in the tournament in 2012, the Azkals are now targeting outright victory in order to qualify for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup for the first time in their history. But despite putting up a good fight against Berti Vogts’ side, who are 34 positions higher than 127th-placed Philippines in the world rankings, Dooley said an AFC Challenge Cup win over lesser-ranked Asian nations was anything but guaranteed. “There are no favourites in the Challenge Cup,” said German-American Dooley, who represented the USA in the 1994 Fifa World Cup. “When you go into the DFB Cup [German Cup] and play against a fourth-division side in the first round, if you don’t take it seriously you’re out."“Colombia were one of the favourites in the ‘94 World Cup and we [the USA] beat them 2-1. Whatever they say about rankings, you have to take it serious from the first minute of preparation and play like we did against those guys [Azerbaijan] tonight."“We want to play against bigger teams [like Azerbaijan] that’s our goal, but do we think we are favourites [for the AFC Challenge Cup]? We have to show we want to win, and can win, from scoring goals. Only then will we see how far we can go.”
Meanwhile, Azkals team manager Dan Palami said what he saw of the team in Dooley’s first two games in charge bodes well for the future. “The fact that we gave Malaysia and Azerbaijan a really good fight speaks well of the coach, who has almost performed a miracle considering the short time he has had with the squad,” said Palami. “If we have this kind of style inside six training sessions, imagine what will happen when the team has more time together. In the context of our preparation for the AFC Challenge Cup, this can only augur well for us come May.”m.gulfnews.com/sport/football/thomas-dooley-plays-down-philippines-afc-challenge-cup-contention-1.1300333
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Post by xyz1000 on Mar 10, 2014 10:33:27 GMT 8
Just to give some context to that 94 World Cup match, Colombia was indeed a favorite to make it to the later stages. There was a Colombia own goal and the Yanks did play with passion in front of a home crowd. A sad moment in all of soccer history, Colombia went home and Escobar, the Colombian defender who did the own goal, was assassinated. The murder was associated with gambling losses by drug lords. For their part, took all their games very seriously like Dooley said and made it to the knockout stages for the first time since 1930.
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Post by boybato on Mar 10, 2014 13:24:04 GMT 8
Link for some highlights..
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Post by dingg0y on Mar 15, 2014 13:14:44 GMT 8
link for the full match please...
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