The International Football Thread

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Kasper Hjulmand is a hell of a manager, Denmark just thrashing France atm

2 nil at HT and could have easily been 4 nil

https://livestreams.totalsportek.com/game/denmark-vs-france/2074/

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Aleksandar Mitrovic scored a hat-trick as Serbia thrashed Sweden 4-1 in Belgrade in the Nations League.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63023757

highlights

https://sblanh.com/h56dkat1jf48.html

Edited September 25, 2022 by Vesper

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Benoit Badiashile is not impressive as a CB

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😂🏆🔵

 

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Denmark unveil World Cup ‘protest’ kits criticising Qatar’s human rights record

 

Designs from Hummel include one to honour migrant workers

Three options comply with Fifa rules over explicit statements

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/sep/28/denmark-unveil-world-cup-protest-kits-over-qatar-human-rights-record

Denmark will wear shirts at the World Cup that criticise the human rights record of host nation Qatar, with a black option unveiled to honour migrant workers who died during construction work for the tournament.

“The colour of mourning,” kit manufacturer Hummel said in a post on Instagram releasing the black third-choice design. “While we support the Danish national team all the way, this shouldn’t be confused with support for a tournament that has cost thousands of people their lives,” the company said.

The designs seem to complete a promise made by the Danish FA last November to wear clothing with “critical messages” at the tournament.

Though Fifa’s World Cup rules prohibit political statements on team uniform, the three Denmark shirt designs in all-red, all-white and all-black appear to comply with no words or symbols that are an explicit statement. The national team badge, Hummel logo and decorative white chevrons – a famous feature of the Denmark shirt since the 1980s – are faded into the same single colour as the shirt, but remain visible. “We support the Danish national team all the way, but that isn’t the same as supporting Qatar as a host nation,” added Hummel.

Denmark, ranked No 10 in the world, and who reached the European Championship semi-finals last year, have been one of the 32 World Cup teams most likely to take a strong stance against Qatar. The Danish FA also joined a European campaign launched last week for captains to wear heart-shaped, multi-coloured “OneLove” armbands in World Cup games.

Qatar has been fiercely criticised in the past decade for its treatment of migrant workers, mostly from south Asia, needed to build tens of billions of pounds’ worth of stadiums, roads, hotels and further infrastructure.

Danish officials have taken a leading role in a group of European football federations visiting Qatar to monitor the progress of promised reforms in labour laws.

Denmark have been drawn in a group with defending champions France, who typically wear a dark blue shirt, Australia, whose first-choice colour is gold, and Tunisia, who wear white. The match schedule for the tournament lists Denmark as the home team with first choice of colour only for its opening game on 22 November against Tunisia.

 

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Trevoh and RLC named to England squad.

 

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25 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Trevoh and RLC named to England squad.

 

FFS leave them alone.

It is obviously just the 55man squad and I doubt they will make the shortlist but still the fewer of our players are associated with this comical gauntlet of a tourney and those corrupted organisations from FA to FIFA the better.

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Edited December 19, 2022 by milka

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EXCLUSIVE: Gianni Infantino wants to hold the World Cup every THREE YEARS after being emboldened by the commercial success of Qatar 2022 - with the FIFA president convinced that staging the tournament in the European winter is a game-changer

FIFA president Gianni Infantino wants to hold the World Cup every three years

He is convinced that staging it in Europe's winter has proved a game-changer 

Infantino’s long-term ambition is to institute a radical new tournament cycle 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11555609/FIFA-boss-Gianni-Infantino-wants-hold-World-Cup-THREE-years.html

 

 

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THREE HOSTS, 48 TEAMS AND 80 GAMES: HOW THE 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP WILL WORK

RUDI SCHULLER

20 Dec 2022

https://www.dazn.com/en-NZ/news/soccer/three-hosts-48-teams-and-80-games-how-the-2026-fifa-world-cup-will-work/16jos4xfvz8yi1vk0b33lbcl8t

 

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12 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

 

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Pele's daughter, Kely Nascimento, says he'll spend Christmas in hospital. The Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein confirm Pele's cancer has progressed and "requires greater care related to renal and cardiac dysfunctions". Get well soon,

@Pele 

 

 

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Pele in Stockholm, June 1958, for the World Cup

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FIFA’s access all areas accreditation really is good

 

 

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Pele gone.