I dont really know what I am saying, I just memorized it...guess didnt do a good job at that...what did i say?
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++ [ originally posted by Rami ] ++
I dont really know what I am saying, I just memorized it...guess didnt do a good job at that...what did i say?
I dont really know what I am saying, I just memorized it...guess didnt do a good job at that...what did i say?
++ [ originally posted by m_elayyan ] ++
I could not believe it , Northern ireland is a weak team , while england have a lot of so called stars , what a shame
I could not believe it , Northern ireland is a weak team , while england have a lot of so called stars , what a shame
Newspaper reports this morning claim that the Manchester United teenager reacted angrily to Beckham and Ferdinand's attempts to calm the player down after he lost the plot at the end of the first half.
Rooney was booked for a rash challenge on Keith Gillespie and was lucky not to have been sent off. Consequently he'll miss next months qualifier against Austria through suspension.
However, it seems the real drama happened following the half-time whistle, when the 19-year-old hurled a string of expletives at his team-mates and coach Steve McClaren had to seperate the players.
Regarding Rooney's yellow card, boss Sven-Goran Eriksson said: "He is that kind of player, always playing on the edge of everything. This was a stupid challenge, of course it was, and he could even have been sent off for that.
"Unfortunately, for him and the rest of the team, after this accident we lost our spirit totally. I am sorry to say, but that is one of the reasons we lost the game."
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Before, i was very concern about Brazil future... Then something very strange happen. Parreira, the Brazilian cattenacio lover, started to play a ofensive football!
Unfortunaly "life is not perfect"... Brazilians are so optmist that some journalist are saying this feeling is very smiliar the atmosphere in 1982. And this could very dangers to us. I hope, at least, next year we don't play agaist Italy.
Unfortunaly "life is not perfect"... Brazilians are so optmist that some journalist are saying this feeling is very smiliar the atmosphere in 1982. And this could very dangers to us. I hope, at least, next year we don't play agaist Italy.
Recent World Cups have seen Cameroun, Senegal and Nigeria strengthen their grip on African football, causing many shock results in the process. This year, however, a surprise may be in store, especially for Nigeria’s “Super Eagles”. After a disappointing 1-1 home draw in Kano, the once-proud Eagles are currently in second place behind Angola’s “Palancas Negras” (a breed of black antelopes threatened by extinction) with only a couple of games left to decide the fate of African Group 4. So who will qualify? Will Angola stun the football would and seal their place at next year’s World Cup in Germany?
In recent years, this south-west African nation has only hit the headlines because of a brutal, inhumane civil war. For nearly 30 years, the former Portuguese colony was haunted by tragedy, with terror stunting the country’s growth.
Angola gained independence from Portugal in 1975, but only since 2002 has there been a ceasefire agreement between the government and the rebel Union of Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) organisation.
While the rise of Angolan football may have been unexpected, Portugal was, in many ways, heavily-involved. In 1996, Carlos Alhinho - a former Portuguese international with roots in the Cape Verde islands - had a stunning revelation while coach of the “Palancas Negras”. With Angola having qualified for their first African Cup of Nations finals in South Africa, Alhinho traveled to Lisbon to search for professionals with Angolan heritage. There are more than four million refugees in Portugal, and his idea proved to be a masterstroke and an immediate success.
After organising a series of friendly matches in Lisbon, the team that Alhinho fielded in the African Cup of Nations were barely recognisable from the side that had negotiated the qualifying round. None of the new players had set foot in Angola since fleeing the country, but they were all quick to seize the opportunity to play international football. The philosophers’ stone had been found ... thanks to Alhinho.
Angola still uses the same system to search for international players, both in France as well as in Portugal. The Angolan players have monikers such as Freddy (Uniao Leiria, Portugal) or Marco Paulo (Stade Laval, France).
Goalkeeper Joao Ricardo, most recently of Moreirense in Portugal, is currently out of contract and may soon have to drop down the leagues in order to retain his place in the national team.
One of the heroes of the new generation is Figueiredo, the son of Portuguese settlers in Angola who fled after the country gained independence.
The midfielder plays for Azores-based Lusitania in the Portuguese third division, and he scored the equalizing goal that secured a remarkable 1-1 draw with Nigeria, who had taken the lead thanks to a strike from Jay-Jay Okocha. But the shining star of Angolan football t is undoubtedly the playmaker, Fabrice Akwa.
An agile and speedy striker, Akwa was born and bred in Angola, but moved to Benfica at an early age. Frustrated at not being able to make an immediate breakthrough in Lisbon, Akwa, who is now 28, moved on to Qatar SC in Saudi Arabia. Akwa can be a lethal striker, as his nine goals for Qatar SC last season demonstrated. He also has a highly impressive strike rate of 28 goals in 56 games for Angola.
Angola coach, Luis De Oliveira Goncalves, knows that Angola have a gem in Akwa. Goncalves led the Angola U-20 team to African glory in 2001 before reaching the second round of the FIFA World Youth Championship in Argentina. He has built a team that promises even more in the future. As well as the Portuguese and Arabian legionnaires, Angola also boast internationals plying their trade in Egypt (Gilberto/Flavio at Al-Ahly) and tin Turkey (Andre at Gaziantespor).
There is also money to be made at home, as despite the chaos caused by the years of civil war, Angolan club football is one of the strongest in Africa thanks to the country’s rich oil and mineral resources. The clubs are linked to state oil companies, the military or the police, in much the same way as football was organised in the former Soviet Union, a country that had close political ties with Angola for many years. AS Aviacao, Angolan champions in each of the last three years, are owned by the state airline TAAG. In Jamba, Jacinto, Sergio and Simao, Aviacao boast the entire defence of the Angolan national team, but other leading clubs, such as Primero Agosto (army), Inter Club (police) and Petro Atletico are not short of internationals either.
Angola’s success in the World Cup qualifiers is all the more outstanding when you consider that the coach has had to make do without the country’s main stars. Benfica striker, Mantorras, has suffered a succession of serious knee injuries in recent years and having undergone a series of operations, he is not yet able to play a full 90 minutes of football. Nevertheless, the 23-year-old scored eight goals last season and would be a key figure in Germany 2006 if Angola were to qualify. Conversely, Angola have all but given up on persuading Nando Rafael of German giants, Hertha Berlin, to pledge his allegiance to them. The 21-year-old lost both his parents in the civil war and fled to Europe as a child. The striker is currently trying to obtain a new nationality –either Dutch or German - which would rule him out of the plans of the “Palancas Negras”, Angola’s black antelopes, who are trying to take the final jump that would carry them to the FIFA World Cup in Germany.
In recent years, this south-west African nation has only hit the headlines because of a brutal, inhumane civil war. For nearly 30 years, the former Portuguese colony was haunted by tragedy, with terror stunting the country’s growth.
Angola gained independence from Portugal in 1975, but only since 2002 has there been a ceasefire agreement between the government and the rebel Union of Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) organisation.
While the rise of Angolan football may have been unexpected, Portugal was, in many ways, heavily-involved. In 1996, Carlos Alhinho - a former Portuguese international with roots in the Cape Verde islands - had a stunning revelation while coach of the “Palancas Negras”. With Angola having qualified for their first African Cup of Nations finals in South Africa, Alhinho traveled to Lisbon to search for professionals with Angolan heritage. There are more than four million refugees in Portugal, and his idea proved to be a masterstroke and an immediate success.
After organising a series of friendly matches in Lisbon, the team that Alhinho fielded in the African Cup of Nations were barely recognisable from the side that had negotiated the qualifying round. None of the new players had set foot in Angola since fleeing the country, but they were all quick to seize the opportunity to play international football. The philosophers’ stone had been found ... thanks to Alhinho.
Angola still uses the same system to search for international players, both in France as well as in Portugal. The Angolan players have monikers such as Freddy (Uniao Leiria, Portugal) or Marco Paulo (Stade Laval, France).
Goalkeeper Joao Ricardo, most recently of Moreirense in Portugal, is currently out of contract and may soon have to drop down the leagues in order to retain his place in the national team.
One of the heroes of the new generation is Figueiredo, the son of Portuguese settlers in Angola who fled after the country gained independence.
The midfielder plays for Azores-based Lusitania in the Portuguese third division, and he scored the equalizing goal that secured a remarkable 1-1 draw with Nigeria, who had taken the lead thanks to a strike from Jay-Jay Okocha. But the shining star of Angolan football t is undoubtedly the playmaker, Fabrice Akwa.
An agile and speedy striker, Akwa was born and bred in Angola, but moved to Benfica at an early age. Frustrated at not being able to make an immediate breakthrough in Lisbon, Akwa, who is now 28, moved on to Qatar SC in Saudi Arabia. Akwa can be a lethal striker, as his nine goals for Qatar SC last season demonstrated. He also has a highly impressive strike rate of 28 goals in 56 games for Angola.
Angola coach, Luis De Oliveira Goncalves, knows that Angola have a gem in Akwa. Goncalves led the Angola U-20 team to African glory in 2001 before reaching the second round of the FIFA World Youth Championship in Argentina. He has built a team that promises even more in the future. As well as the Portuguese and Arabian legionnaires, Angola also boast internationals plying their trade in Egypt (Gilberto/Flavio at Al-Ahly) and tin Turkey (Andre at Gaziantespor).
There is also money to be made at home, as despite the chaos caused by the years of civil war, Angolan club football is one of the strongest in Africa thanks to the country’s rich oil and mineral resources. The clubs are linked to state oil companies, the military or the police, in much the same way as football was organised in the former Soviet Union, a country that had close political ties with Angola for many years. AS Aviacao, Angolan champions in each of the last three years, are owned by the state airline TAAG. In Jamba, Jacinto, Sergio and Simao, Aviacao boast the entire defence of the Angolan national team, but other leading clubs, such as Primero Agosto (army), Inter Club (police) and Petro Atletico are not short of internationals either.
Angola’s success in the World Cup qualifiers is all the more outstanding when you consider that the coach has had to make do without the country’s main stars. Benfica striker, Mantorras, has suffered a succession of serious knee injuries in recent years and having undergone a series of operations, he is not yet able to play a full 90 minutes of football. Nevertheless, the 23-year-old scored eight goals last season and would be a key figure in Germany 2006 if Angola were to qualify. Conversely, Angola have all but given up on persuading Nando Rafael of German giants, Hertha Berlin, to pledge his allegiance to them. The 21-year-old lost both his parents in the civil war and fled to Europe as a child. The striker is currently trying to obtain a new nationality –either Dutch or German - which would rule him out of the plans of the “Palancas Negras”, Angola’s black antelopes, who are trying to take the final jump that would carry them to the FIFA World Cup in Germany.
++ [ originally posted by Jeeks ] ++
I would first pray we won't see a minute-by-minute commentary of the game here.
I would first pray we won't see a minute-by-minute commentary of the game here.
I'll give you a good analysis when I return if we do qualify. Then there'll be cause for celebration.
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