TIL you need to win a World Cup or else you aren't relevant at all.
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TIL you need to win a World Cup or else you aren't relevant at all.
Iceland is nowhere near as bad as Greece in 04.
franbatista123
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What? Greece was better, far more organized and they had a few big names in their 11.
You are dreaming. No one has been able to do it as bad as them. No one wants to do it as bad as them as it was a disgrace.
John Dunbar
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it's totally understandable to dislike 2004 greece, but to say that they weren't good is just silly.
Greece had a pretty bad team. They won because they had one of the greatest coaches of all time. That said, they were really solid defensively and played the appropriate football necessary to beat e.g. Portugal.
I'm not sure why people would dislike them though. It's one of the biggest underdog stories of all time.
Melfice7
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With the referees in their pocket, Portugal played fantastic football in 2004
John Dunbar
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great coaching is irrelevant if there isn't a team that can pull it off.
They weren't good tho
John Dunbar
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better than anyone else in the tournament at least, and that's all it takes.
You are confusing good with entertaining. They were a good team, they were just incredibly boring to watch.
Come on, they had Charisteas as a striker.
Absolutely. To quote their coach:"Modern ist, wer gewinnt." ("If you win you are modern.").
He accomplished football miracles. Winning with Kaiserslautern the year they came back to Bundesliga (maybe the greatest football underdog story of all time), winning the European Championship with Greece...unbelievable.
John Dunbar
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generally rubbish, sure, but if your striker scores 3 goals in 6 matches, including in the final, you can't fault them in that particular tournament.
I agree. Greece showed up. They played solid football, they had the right strategy, the players worked as hard as possible, all in all they did great. They beat Portugal twice, they beat France and they beat dark horse Czech Republic, all teams from Pot 1. They won deservedly.
Great coaching and tactics. An odd tournament that saw Germany spain and Italy all go out in group stages.
They beat the best team in the tournament Czech Republic and hosts Portugal sure but all three goals were the same in each game and in the final game they sat with 8 defenders in the box for like the entire second half.
I don't think a team can get away with that anymore because teams like Spain or Germany would just pick you apart.
Wind's Howling
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I expect Ronaldo to be on fire tonight. He was so agitated by Iceland that they celebrated the 1-1 that I expect him to fuel that hatred into positive energy.
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Or he gets infuriated and grabs a red card.
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Or he gets infuriated and grabs a red card.
You don't fluke the Euros. Even Denmark 1992 were fully deserving and they didn't even qualify in the first instance.
Not saying the best team always wins, but you gotta be good.
Wind's Howling
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That kid leading Ronaldo to the field was a bit excited
So adorable.
I respect Ronaldo for being an actual human being there. Plenty of times another player just totally ignores the child on the other end, but he genuinely laughs and talks with the kid.
Kenzodielocke
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Ronaldo seems to be excited.
Yeah I've heard countless times that he was actually genuinely nice in "real life".
gutter_trash
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Best anthem!
Pumped up! Do it!
Pumped up! Do it!
Well, as I've said earlier in this topic, Paris is the 3rd Portuguese town in the world. ^^
There's a huge Portuguese community here.
Many talk with them, many are too focussed, others are simply nervous themselves.
We call that human.
about 800k portuguese, france is our second home
Wind's Howling
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Nah some other teams did yesterday already.
Surprised me. ^^
And you're a joyous bunch.
ActStriker
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You can't waste that
Heebie Jeebies
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Should've buried that
800k portuguese in France + a lot more 2nd gen and 3rd gen french of protuguese descent
ROBERT PIRES <3
Wind's Howling
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Judging by the amount of good players on Austria's side I find it absolutely mind blowing that they lost from Hungary.
From what I have seen from Hungary today. Surprise of this EC that they are at the top of this group.
From what I have seen from Hungary today. Surprise of this EC that they are at the top of this group.
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