I Know what happened to the Netherlands team ?
2018 FIFA World Cup
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They are using goal line technology in Germany now.
They just suck for the last 4 years.
They started using it in UK Premier League in 2013, they will introduce it next year in the UK Championship (second division).
What about the next generation of players ?
This is the next generation. I don't see much improvement in the neat future. It's not just the national team, but also teams here are not performing well. I think our days being a great football country are over.
Sad really
Ah well, we now have Max in the Formula 1. So we just change to car racing instead
Less hooligans as well....There was a guy on UK radio from Netherlands. He said when the premier league and other big Champions League clubs first went there to buy they bought great players, then they bought good players. They have taken so many good players from the Dutch league that those left are only "so so". Big clubs academies and teams are now taking players so young and under developed that the ones left will never develop. You become a great striker playing against great defenders and vice versa. Players like Depay and Babel were taken far too young to Man U and Liverpool. although Depay was a good striker in Netherlands and may become a great player at the top level he wasn't good enough at the time to get into Man Uniteds first team and without match competition he couldn't improve.
You know pbehn, everybody has their own theory as to why this is. This one I didn't hear yet, but it was only a matter of time before someone started blaming other countries.
I remember when it was motorcycle racing with the late great Jack Middelburg. I saw him win the 500cc GP at Silverstone in 1981 which I think was the last win by a privateer in top flight M/cycle sport. You would have to be in Netherlands to be surrounded by more drunk celebrating Dutchmen.Ah well, we now have Max in the Formula 1. So we just change to car racing instead
It was a long and interesting discussion Marcel which he backed up with lots of facts. When the premier league was formed the best players for Ajax were some of the best in the world. Van Nistelroy, Bergkamp and Overmars would get in almost any top team and improve it. Depay I believe was a top scorer in the Eredivisie but no where near good enough at Man United. The UK has the opposite problem because so many top players come here and huge numbers of teenagers from everywhere. The chances of someone eligible to play for England getting through Chelseas academy and into the England team are almost zero. Even Kevin De Breune and Romelu Lukaku left Chelsea to get first team football while Pogba was sold for buttons to Juve by Man united and then bought back for £100 million.
The same has been said about the whole of South America, their teams like Argentina are no where near as good as they used to be because their leagues have been "over fished"
You cannot blame foreigners for Depay leaving, he was signed by Van Gaal when he managed Man United.
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Crimea_River
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U.S. is out. And after Fox paid $200MM for the TV rights. Ouch!
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Ouch is right!
It stinks we missed getting in. Last time I worked for an International Co based in Sweden and we had fun watching it.
It stinks we missed getting in. Last time I worked for an International Co based in Sweden and we had fun watching it.
That wont happen again FIFA hope. I don't mean that the USA will take steps to win through I mean that FIFA will take steps to make sure they qualify in future. They will award USA a future world cup or change the qualification system. That may seem like a wild conspiracy theory until you look where the present Under 17 tournament is being held INDIA. India has no history of playing football at all but has 1.3 billion people which is all that interests the marketing people. While everyone says they love seeing Iceland at major tournaments the finance people hate it. They don't put on a World Cup for teams from a little island to turn up. They would rather have two pub teams from India and China.
Money talks and unfortunately it is getting more and more important all the time
The USA has been eliminated from World Cup Qualification. The majority of the country can now go back to hating the sport...
Shortround6
Major General
They don't hate it.
Hating would require effort, they are just totally indifferent to it.
Hating would require effort, they are just totally indifferent to it.
2018 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights - Wikipedia
FOX can't be happy about having broadcasting rights in the USA. Wonder if I can now buy an ad spot for WW2Aircraft.net. I'll offer them 5 dollar.
FOX can't be happy about having broadcasting rights in the USA. Wonder if I can now buy an ad spot for WW2Aircraft.net. I'll offer them 5 dollar.
