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[rck3sactown]

Ooh Ledley Ledley

he's only got one knee

he's better than John Terry

oooh ledley ledley

 

[d3si]

Turkey

Dutch

 

[eiddyfouw]

Ooh Ledley Ledley
he's only got one knee
he's better than John Terry
oooh ledley ledley

Kinda crazy, that three of the XI are from Arsenal...

 

[AZwildcats]

Great to see Arda Turan still balling out there

 

[Thierry Henry]

Ooh Ledley Ledley
he's only got one knee
he's better than John Terry
oooh ledley ledley

Kinda crazy, that three of the XI are from Arsenal...

just came in here to post the same

I don't know how there has not been a complete overhaul of our medical team

Great to see Arda Turan still balling out there

even though he cannot play until January, he's still training everyday with the first team

I don't know if he's allowed to play for Barca B, but I wouldn't be surprised if he and Aleix Vidal were

 

[Thierry Henry]

Quoting this from 101GG

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/d...age-dwarfed-by-premier-league-money-gazzetta/

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

Gazzetta dello Sport have published a list of the highest paid players in Serie A this weekend.

In the context of the Premier League’s obscenely excessive wealth and continued hoovering up of Europe’s middle class talent, the list makes for very interesting reading.

Roma captain Daniele De Rossi is listed as Serie A’s highest paid player with an annual wage of €6.5m (after tax, while PL wages are listed as gross).

Gonzalo Higuain is ranked 2nd, with €5.5m annual wage, while Paul Pogba and Edin Dzeko are joint third on €4.5m annually.

Comparing these wages with those of the Premier League’s, we get a clear illustration of just the financial clout England now wields over Italy.

A player like Xherdan Shaqiri left Inter Milan for Stoke City this summer, and there’s no arguing that money was a factor.

The Swiss international earns around 60,000 pounds a week at Stoke, which works out at around €4.25m annually – just shy of Pogba and Dzeko’s wages.

So in other words, Stoke can match the salaries of Serie A’s top clubs.

Let alone the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool.

Also, this chart showing some youth academy stats

 

[jape]

Great to see Arda Turan still balling out there

visca barca

 

[mastamind89]

A couple of years back, FIFA started an investigation to see if Barça broke the rules with international transfers of youth players. Players under the age of 16 (EU) or 18 (non-EU) are basically not allowed to move to European clubs outside their country unless they move for reasons unrelated to football.
Finding out that Barça indeed did break some rules, they banned the players in question to play official matches for the youth teams at FC Barcelona.
These are the players: Theo Chendri (France), Paik (South-Korea), Jang (South-Korea) and Lee (South-Korea), Bobby Adekanye (the Netherlands, now at Liverpool), Takefusa Kubo (Japan, back to Tokyo FC), Kais Ruis (France, back to PSG), Patrice Sousia (Cameroon) and Ben Lederman (USA, going to Florida).
Most of the kids still stayed at the club for a while, knowing that they were still allowed to play friendlies and friendly tournaments happen often at youth level. After a while, FIFA also decided to ban these players from playing there as well.
A few months after that, the ban also hit the first team: Barça got the transfer ban, meaning that they wouldn't be allowed to sign players for 2 transfer windows. This ban expired after September.
Starting this week, FIFA decided that the kids weren't being punished enough and actually informed Barça that the kids can't train or even live at the club.
Patrice Sousia, who is from Cameroon and basically has nothing in Spain except for Barça, this meant that he had to move out of his house at La Masia (Barça's youth academy). Since he had nowhere to go, the parents of one of his ex-teammates (Alex Collado) offered him a place to stay.
This all is under the rulings of 'protecting the kids'.
Source: http://www.mundodeportivo.com/20150906/201569939762/la-fifa-echa-a-patrice-de-la-masia.html
More info at : https://twitter.com/youngcules

 

[PRIME]

It's gotta be hilarious when soccer players meet famous American athletes. Dudes are probably like wtf kinda hormones are they putting in the food there and thank god these guys didn't decide to become soccer players and have dozens of Super Fellaini's running around. Imagine Fellaini ball to a 6'6" super athlete with a 40 inch vertical ruining the spectacle of the game

Also I bet the soccer players despite being world famous aren't the ones that feel like the alphas. The NBA and NFL players are just so damn big and dwarf them

okay.

Nah he's right, Messi isn't feeling like an alpha next to Mr. Watt

Yeah, you're probably right. He's only considered the greatest to ever grace the worlds most popular sport, while earning hundreds of thousands of Euros a week.

Dude has got to feel like a beta when he meets a larger athlete playing a sport that only one country plays.

You're totally right. Never thought of it that way....

But about when Messi met Kobe?

It was probably fanboy ism all around them

 

[rck3sactown]

Nah Messi was probably like "who is this schmuck?"

 

[rck3sactown]

Good attempt there Ronnie

 

[Coupé It]

Força Portugal!!!

We win this its all but wrapped up, no god damn playoffs!

Can't believe how bad Serbia has been btw. They only have 1 point in our group.

 

[rck3sactown]

Força Portugal!!!

We win this its all but wrapped up, no god damn playoffs!

Can't believe how bad Serbia has been btw. They only have 1 point in our group.

I kinda want to see Albania win cuz it would be funny

but naw Força Portugal indeed

 

[Coupé It]

I kinda want to see Albania win cuz it would be funny



but naw Força Portugal indeed

**** Albania, they are the weirdest and one of the most uncivilized country in Europe.

Anyone but them

 

[MetalMario]

Poland manhandling right now.

 

[Thierry Henry]

Scotland vs Germany is lit right now

 

[luisfigo]

Força Portugal!!!

We win this its all but wrapped up, no god damn playoffs!

Can't believe how bad Serbia has been btw. They only have 1 point in our group.

Not used to this. And of course they're sitting in first when the top two teams qualify. But this team is is far from contending next year. Typical 1-0 santos result is expected. . Everybody is trash except for Ronnie, Pepe, old man Ricky and Bernardo. Everything looked so much better when Bernardo has the ball at his feet.

 

[imasoleman18]

smh

 

[rck3sactown]

I could have scored on that

 

[rook]

3 points

 

[Coupé It]

That's how you win a game!!! Fergie Time winner!!!

Quaresma, you whip that ball so hard!!

 

[Armada]

But about when Messi met Kobe?

It was probably fanboy ism all around them

For some reason this reminded me of a video where a Chinese Kobe fan cried when he meet him

 

[jape]

for the person who made the asinine statement about messi only being great in this era

 

[rolaholic]

It was a pretty dumb comment ,just one nit pick from those stats posted,Messi is 2nd in all time La Liga hattys now to Ronnies 27...he can't have ALL the records man :x

 

[DeadsetAce]

dog