Morocco was under French control and is translated to Maroc in French.I have been around the beautiful game since I was a little kid. Nobody has ever been able to explain to me why Morocco is abbreviated MAR?
Morocco was under French control and is translated to Maroc in French.I have been around the beautiful game since I was a little kid. Nobody has ever been able to explain to me why Morocco is abbreviated MAR?
It had the same effect as when United benched him, the team played better together. Assuming he comes off the bench the rest of the tournament, he at least showed he will be a force / menace going against tired teams.Why is that LOL?
On the other end of the spectrum, FC Cincinnati had GREAT fan supposrt during their USL days and helped them leap to MLS.Just having other levels without possible access to MLS doesn’t help fan/population engagement in my population. If I lived in a town that had a USL team I probably wouldn’t care much. Glorified friendly matches is what their games would feel like to me.
If someone was paying me $200 mil/year it honestly wouldn’t matter whether I enjoyed it or not.
It would probably be cheesy, but, in the down time, I'd love to see some kind of skills/shooting competition for former players/media personalities of each country.I miss the World Cup. They got me hooked with the daily action and now I have to wait 2 days before the next match. Are you kidding me? Send those players out there with a days rest and give me my daytime soccer. They didn't give the construction workers days off, why should the guys playing a game get better treatment?
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It would probably be cheesy, but, in the down time, I'd love to see some kind of skills/shooting competition for former players/media personalities of each country.
They could divide up the proceeds and donate them to various charities. It would give people a chance to see some of their favorite players without the animosity that normally accompanies a typical match. I think fans would eat that up.
Oh, I completely understand the corruption. That's why doing something like this would be a great way to garner some good will. I realize it will never happen, but I still think it would be great for all parties involved.You understand this event is being run by FIFA, right? If there is any sort of additional revenue coming in, it's going into their pockets.
But maybe schedule the U20 WC to correspond to these dates and have those knock-out round matches on the off days of the WC?
Croatia’s goaltender has been the man in this game.
People will think this boring because “no scoring” but this is an epic battle of strategy.
It's like a pitcher's dual in baseball
that knee went a little bit sideways
Left back about to come in. I’m sure he is hurt, but maybe can give them 20 minutes of good play.You can see the Brazilian's attack is imbalanced - always goes from their right flank because their left backs are injured and their right back is playing as a left back today