Global Football Odds & Ends
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So for anyone that is into both skeleton and the EPL, my friend Bree is hanging out with Rebecca Lowe again - after teaching her about skeleton in 2018, which is pretty cool.
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No. They have pulled the jerseys from their web store - you can still buy shorts & socks, but not jerseys. They play tomorrow, so keep an eye out.
Poland announced they won’t play their World Cup qualifier against Russia next month. Lewandowski says the players support the decision. Wow.
Probably won’t happen but I would love all play off teams to refuse to play unless Russia are booted out. Give FIFA a decision to make. Wishful thinking on my part.
Here’s the Schalke jersey. They had a 1-1 draw on the road today Vs Karlsrhue
View: https://twitter.com/s04_en/status/1497571286851194883?s=20&t=AUROV9rm0e4sIxpcHG6C5Q
edit- Already posted, I didn’t check the game week thread
View: https://twitter.com/s04_en/status/1497571286851194883?s=20&t=AUROV9rm0e4sIxpcHG6C5Q
edit- Already posted, I didn’t check the game week thread
Have you seen Puma’s third shirt collection?
https://about.puma.com/en/newsroom/brand-and-product-news/2021/08-19-2021-thirdkits
Rayados look particularly awful. I supposed there’s more of a tradition of doing this sort of thing in Germany, but usually on the back.
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Poland, Sweden, and Czech Republic have all refused to play Russia in upcoming matches under any circumstances. FIFA have sort of acted, but it doesn't appear to be sufficient for those teams:
Washington Post
FIFA’s worst nightmare - an FA taking a principled stand.
Gazprom is a UEFA sponsor. I haven’t found any major Russian firms backing FIFA, but Qatar 2022 had a great time lining up the regular financial partners given the human rights abuses. I wouldn’t be surprised in Russian banks & firms stepped in, but I haven’t found much evidence of that yet.
Russia fixture list -
(H) Belarus
(A) Belarus
(H) Belarus (cup)
(A) Belarus (cup)
(H) Belarus (friendly)
(A) Belarus (friendly)
FIFA historically has been slow to ban countries. They only banned the apartheid regime in South Africa and its racist, whites-only football association in 1961 after the Sharpesville Massacre and other incidents made it untenable to act. That said: when FIFA did so back in the 1960s, those were one of the first sanctions of any kind against South Africa, and it would be good to see FIFA take the lead again.
The ridiculous part of the FIFA/South Africa ban is that as part of South Africa's attempts to lift the ban, they proposed sending an all-White team to the 1966 World Cup and an all-Black team to the 1970 World Cup.
We don't have a Liga MX thread, so not sure where to put this, but there was just now a brutal pitch invasion in Queretaro during the Atlas / Queretaro match. It looks to have started when the Queretaro fans invaded the Atlas porra and start fist fighting that spilled out onto the pitch. They had to suspend it around the 60th minute. The videos look absolutely horrific; I wouldn't be surprised if there are fatalities out of it.
A TV Azteca reporter is saying initial reports of 17 fatalities
View: https://twitter.com/medranoazteca/status/1500294274729975814
A bit surprised it was LigaMX, but something like this was inevitable, outside of England security generally is bad at these things and Ultras are and always have been violent criminals.
The correct answer for every league should be what England has basically done, strip the Ultras out of the game, ban them from stadiums and move the game past them.
Most places won't do that, they won't even try to prevent them from being violent, racist or homophobic during the matches.
The correct answer for every league should be what England has basically done, strip the Ultras out of the game, ban them from stadiums and move the game past them.
Most places won't do that, they won't even try to prevent them from being violent, racist or homophobic during the matches.
I didn’t realize that Yannick Bolasie is playing for Çaykur Rizespor in the Turkish Super League. Nice to see him back out on the field.
United wasting no time in disappointing the entire world the way they usually disappoint their fans.
Seeing sources reporting this, seeing others reporting no deaths. Also saw someone pointing out that if deaths are reported at the stadium, the team and the league would be legally required to compensate the families of the victims, while if they are reported to have died at a hospital, they aren't. So basically, we may not get official word of what actually happened for quite a while.
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I’m in Querétaro now and was thinking about going to that game. Unbelievable. I’m not familiar with Querétaro’s ultras or this rivalry, but this is the last place in Mexico I would have expected something like this to happen.
It seems pretty clear that the official word is going to be a lie considering the first official statement of 22 injured only 2 critically was an obvious lie just from the horrific video widely available
Venting for a bit but this news out of Mexico really upsets me and when I’m down there I go to lots of LigaMX matches. That they’re so far trying to sweep it under the rug when the videos surfacing look like some of the most graphic stuff you’ll find on the internet and calling it “22 injuries” that media here are running with is something.
LigaMX is the most watched league in the US. I would think something like this would be wall to wall news here, but I guess I’m out of touch or people just expect it “cause Mexico” (which is awful btw). Imagine if a sporting event here had an event like that happen; figure they’d shut everything down for a long time. In Mexico, I have to figure J10 kicks off next weekend cause they’re mortified of losing the 2026 World Cup or suffering any additional FIFA sanctions.
LigaMX is the most watched league in the US. I would think something like this would be wall to wall news here, but I guess I’m out of touch or people just expect it “cause Mexico” (which is awful btw). Imagine if a sporting event here had an event like that happen; figure they’d shut everything down for a long time. In Mexico, I have to figure J10 kicks off next weekend cause they’re mortified of losing the 2026 World Cup or suffering any additional FIFA sanctions.
The ratings on Spanish language stations doesn’t move the needle for mainstream media attention. They barely note MLB and NHL exist.
Union Berlin got probably the worst possible draw for the semi-final of the Pokal - away to Leipzig. Hamburg gets Freiburg at home in the other one.
LigaMX announced their response to the Queretaro Ultras violence.
The team must play home games in an empty stadium for a year, fans cannot attend road games for 3 years, and the current owners must sell the club.
https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2022/03/09/mexico-queretaro-vs-atlas-26-injured-sanctions-liga-mx/
The team must play home games in an empty stadium for a year, fans cannot attend road games for 3 years, and the current owners must sell the club.
https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2022/03/09/mexico-queretaro-vs-atlas-26-injured-sanctions-liga-mx/
That's the Karma you get for knocking out St. Pauli while Hamburg gets through
"But internacional games don't matter, his club may suffer if he gets hurt in a meaningless game".
For context, Clauss is 29 years old and spent his career playing in the second division in France and Germany until a breakout season last year at RC Lens.
lol I read your post and started looking for the connection to Sport Club Internacional with Clauss...took me a second.
I was sure that "Turning Red" thread you started was about some documentary about rooting for United.