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Futbol FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Thread v4: Countdown to the Final Edition

Will there be any more upsets? (according to betting favorites)


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Good for him. I’m not either, works perfectly fine and never had any issues. Going to lose sleep now because an anonymous Twitter user won’t blow me now thanks

He should never have shown his face, that’s like posting nudes 101 man. But whoever leaked it is a cunt of the highest order. Should be jailed as far as I’m concerned
 
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24,28 Olympics are considered World Cups because pros were allowed to play. That's why Uruguay wears 4 stars on their jersey.

Nobody outside your country is aware of that.
And i was the kind of dude to watch the cup final between Bolton and Blackpool in the late 80s, as a kid, on VHS...as a fuckin french.
 
Nobody outside your country is aware of that.
And i was the kind of dude to watch the cup final between Bolton and Blackpool in the late 80s, as a kid, on VHS...as a fuckin french.

Well FIFA considered them "world championships" at the time. The stars are on the jersey.

I'm Uruguayan/German American so I'ma covered either way tho:) In anycase I'm spreading the glorious tale of Uruguays WC threepeat. It's about to be the centennial of such glory after all.
 
Is Deschamps 100% steppind down win or lose? Regardless it will be a hard job to follow.

Deschamps is not liked that much in France.
The majority will respect him of course.
But he has his critics.
About his past as a player (had a reputation to "ban" certain guys from the national team when he was a player himself), as the 93 Marseille captain (a club who won the CL while being sanctionned for corruption) and as a too realistic and pragmatic coach of the national team.
That being said, despite not being platini or zidane or Henry or bappe (etc...), he remains the most important guy in our football, the french cunts will understand that when he ll say goodbye for good.

My guess: if he wins, he has a good chance to say bye.
 
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Deschamps is not liked that much in France.
The majority will respect him of course.
But he has his critics.
About his past as a player (had a reputation to "ban" certain guys from the national team when he was a player himself), as the 93 Marseille captain (a club who won the CL while being sanctionned for corruption) and as a too realistic and pragmatic coach of the national team.
That being said, despite not being platini or zidane or Henry or bappe (etc...), he remains the most important guy in our football, the french cunts will understand that when he ll say goodbye for good.

My guess: if he wins, he has a good chance to say bye.

Kinda wild he's been the captain or coach for all of Frances trophies except Euro 84. Why don't they like him?
 
"Immigrant background" isn't the same thing as "naturalized."

England, France, Netherlands have a bunch of black and Arab dudes but they all (with a couple of exceptions) were born, raised, and developed as players in Europe.

The Moroccans were also born and raised in various European countries so they had to get naturalized to play for Morocco. It really cuts into the whole "underdog" story, IMO. Not fully underdogs if their best players lived their whole lives in rich European countries, are they?

First of all, what does being rich have anything to do with any of this ? USA would be underdog to Brazil and are much richer. Leicester were underdogs when winning the EPL in 2016, and being poor or rich had nothing to do with it.

Second of all, you get the Moroccan nationality by birth to Moroccan parents wherever you’re born, you do not need to get naturalised. That depends from country to country. Other countries might require you to get naturalised even if born there. In America you are considered American if born there, but that’s not the reality everywhere.

Anyway, I won’t be an asshole and will assume I understand what you mean by « naturalised » even if not correct, since all these players were considered Moroccans at birth. Reality is that you don’t get to decide what other people feel like. When you have a culture and parents from another country, you just grow up with that culture, especially if surrounded by huge immigrant communities like in Europe. It’s just the way it is, national sentiment takes time to develop sometimes, across generations. They might decide to go with country of birth, or not, one is not more or less illegitimate than the other.

Reality is that here it’s only just a matter of Europeans shitting on Africans who dare defending their country of origin, since they consider themselves to be much more superior. Funnily enough, most of the Moroccan players would not have sniffed European teams anyways, apart from Hakimi and Ziyech, so not sure what they’re complaining about.
 
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Deschamps is not liked that much in France.
The majority will respect him of course.
But he has his critics.
About his past as a player (had a reputation to "ban" certain guys from the national team when he was a player himself), as the 93 Marseille captain (a club who won the CL while being sanctionned for corruption) and as a too realistic and pragmatic coach of the national team.
That being said, despite not being platini or zidane or Henry or bappe (etc...), he remains the most important guy in our football, the french cunts will understand that when he ll say goodbye for good.

My guess: if he wins, he has a good chance to say bye.

I was under the impression he was very well liked. Sure he has his critics for being overly defensive (he was a great defender after all) but he is beloved. If France wins WC 2022 I can’t see the people of France not placing him right beneath Zizou.

Poll of Didier after the failed Euro 2020 campaign:

https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2021/77-of-french-people-want-didier-deschamps-to-stay/

RTL/Odoxa have produced a poll on the matter of how the French public feels about Didier Deschamps and the result is overwhelmingly positive for the France manager despite Les Bleus’ shock EURO 2020 elimination at the hands of Switzerland.

65% of French people and 85% of French football fans are disappointed with how France did. 52% of French people and 71% of French football fans have a good opinion of Les Bleus, down 11% and 21% respectively from a month ago.

66% of French people and 58% of French football fans are not worried about the future of the national team. In the eyes of the French public, 77% feel that the players are responsible for the failed EURO 2020 campaign, only 21% feel that Deschamps is most responsible.

77% of French people and 78% of French football fans want Didier Deschamps to remain as manager.

If Didier Deschamps was to leave, 64% of French people and 72% of French football fans would like to see Zinedine Zidane to replace him.
 
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