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FIFA Women's World Cup 2019 || 7 June – 7 July, France

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Elynn

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Secret Squirrel said:
Depends how you define 'mercenaries' I suppose. Qatar are naturalising a bunch of Brazilian players in time for the world cup, I believe China are doing something similar.
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Like who ? There's no brazilian-born player in the squad that won them the Asian Cup, and the vast majority of their players is born in Qatar.
Look at their handball team if you wanna see what a team of mercenaries looks like (11 foreigners out of a 14 player squad for the last world cup or olympics).
 
Heshinsi

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Elynn said:
Germany knows how to grind out results, that's what it is.

This isn't true at all. FIFA eligibility rules aren't that easy to bypass unlike other sports.
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Saudi Arabia does not give citizenship to non Saudis born in that country as a matter of law. Saudi nationality may be given if the father is Saudi himself. I was under the mistaken belief that the player had to have either ancestral ties through parents or grandparent or current citizenship with the country they want to play for. Apparently that doesn't seem to be the case as living in place for a certain number of years can grant you eligibility. I was mistaken.
 
Heshinsi

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Elynn said:
Like who ? There's no brazilian-born player in the squad that won them the Asian Cup, and the vast majority of their players is born in Qatar.
Look at their handball team if you wanna see what a team of mercenaries looks like (11 foreigners out of a 14 player squad for the last world cup or olympics).
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They were doing it and not just them either.

"FIFA President Sepp Blattertold the BBC: "If we don't stop this farce, if we don't take care about the invaders from Brazil towards Europe, Asia and Africa then, in the 2014 or the 2018 World Cup, out of the 32 teams you will have 16 full of Brazilian players."

That's when they brought in the "clear connection" rules that at first had a minimum two years of residency applied.


But these rules still allow the likes of Saudi Arabia (countries that refuse to grant citizenship to people who were born and raised there) the ability to field national teams by the residency method. How can that be your national team when you don't consider some of the players nationals or citizens?
 
Secret Squirrel

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Elynn said:
Like who ? There's no brazilian-born player in the squad that won them the Asian Cup, and the vast majority of their players is born in Qatar.
Look at their handball team if you wanna see what a team of mercenaries looks like (11 foreigners out of a 14 player squad for the last world cup or olympics).
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Seems I'm a couple of years out of date :) eg

Since taking the Qatar job in September 2016, the Uruguayan has relied on foreign talents such as Brazilian-born Rodrigo Tabata and Uruguayan-born Sebastian Soria. It's likely Soria and Tabata will only feature until the 2018 World Cup, by which time the former will be 35 years old and the latter 37. Despite this, the future of the national team, even in the medium-term, looks like consisting of a number of foreign-born players. In their most recent qualifier, a goalless draw with China, Qatar fielded eight foreign-born players in the starting 11.

Happy to admit it's changed since, which is great
 
Elynn

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Ah yeah, they used to try it but FIFA then asked for a clear connection to the country to be eligible, and I haven't heard of any abuse since then. Thankfully.
 
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Peru

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No Cascarino from start?!?

I mean I'm happy for my Norwegian gals, but loved to see her play in the first match
 
Heshinsi

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Squirrel Killer said:
It'd be kinda funny if Thailand let Sweden drop 14 on them as kind of a "Here's your GD GD US."
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Let? Thailand can do their best and it won't change anything. It's more on Sweden in having to realise that just kicking the ball at the net is all they have to do against that team. I bet that the half time score between the two will be quite a bit more than the USA's 3-0 lead at half time yesterday.
 
Elynn

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Bummed about Cascarino, which I rate way more than Gauvin or even Diani. I thought she played well against Korea too.
I'm trying not to get worked up about some of Diacre's choices anymore but I really don't understand why she does these things sometimes.
 
StrangerDanger

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Heshinsi said:
What group do the top two in the Netherland's group play in the round of 16?
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Elderly Parrot

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You know everybody ripping on the USA for not letting go of the gas delights in mercy ruling teams in PvP.
 
Squirrel Killer

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Heshinsi said:
Let? Thailand can do their best and it won't change anything. It's more on Sweden in having to realise that just kicking the ball at the net is all they have to do against that team. I bet that the half time score between the two will be quite a bit more than the USA's 3-0 lead at half time yesterday.
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Thailand did take Australia to penalties in the Asian Cup semi-finals, and even that was only because they gifted Australia an own goal and a stoppage time equalizer. I'm not saying they're going to beat Sweden, but they could park the bus to limit the bleeding.
 
Heshinsi

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France should try shooting at goal from the right hand instead of pulling it back for the pass.
 
Tygre

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Good game this, two very tough if slightly limited teams.

France look the better side, obviously, but Norway are doing well
 
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Peru

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Decent first half. Good start for us, then we let France control too much and dump balls in our box, but we look fairly dangerous when we strike back. Some good periods of play.

Both teams mostly defend well. Lyon defenders for France and Chelsea pair for Norway.
 
Ganzlinger

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What are the reasons for Hegerberg to not play for Norway? The federation still didn't match their salaries with the men?
 
Tygre

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Oh my god. That is a terrible, terrible own goal.

So casual, so cool. Not a hack, or a slice, or an errant back-pass under pressure.

Just calmly passed the ball into her own net. Ridiculous.
 
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We need to get rid of Thorisdottir, she's the one fucking up at the back
 
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