The first goalkeeper Mouez Hassen was injured in his shoulder in the first game. Ben Moustpha can not play against Panama. In the source below, the team doctor explains the nature of the injury (A strain of a knee ligament).
Source: https://www.facebook.com/AttessiaTV/videos/839088959618191/
With an estimated global following of 4 billion people, football (or soccer as the North Americans call it) is the world's most popular sport, and this is also the case in the Eastern European country of Romania, where the fans are so passionate, they will angrily chase the players of the opposite team and referees if their team loses, and the football club owners are uncreative enough to come up with team names such as "Methane Gas Medias", "Oil Ploiesti", "Romanian Railways Cluj" "Textile Factory Arad" and the now defunct team known as "Chinese Man Timisoara" (which surprisingly, has nothing to do with China). But today we will talk about Romania's top football club, it's eccentric owner and how it lost it's name and brand
The Golden Era
In June 1947, in the then Kingdom of Romania, the Ministry of National Defense founded a football club called Steaua Bucharest, fully owned and controlled by the army. Steaua quickly rose through the ranks of the Romanian football divisions and eventually became the star of Romanian football, literally, as "Steaua" means "the star".
The club reached it's peak in 1986, when Steaua faced Spain's Barcelona in the final of the Champions League, the biggest football competition in Europe and the second biggest in the world, right after the FIFA world cup. After 120 minutes, neither team managed to score a goal so the match entered the penalty shoot-outs, where each team has 5 shots and takes turns shooting at the goal, with the goal only defended by the opposing team's goalkeeper. Fortunately for Steaua, their goalkeeper, Helmuth Duckadam, was about to set a world record and managed to defend the goal from 4 consecutive shots. (this is the only source I could find in english, the full penalty shoot-out I could only find in Romanian).
Steaua became the first Eastern European club to win the Champions League, they were praised personally by the communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu and the club continued strong until 1989, when the Eastern Bloc fell. Now, in a democratic, capitalist country, many of the football players of the "golden generation" departed Steaua to join the richer football clubs of Western Europe and despite Steaua still being a strong competitor in the Romanian football league, it would never again compete at the highest levels of European football. In 1998,
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Should be enough to have Sauce named a consensus All-American, if not unanimous. I can’t remember the five organizations that need to name him for that to be a thing.
A thought came to me — what if Blood Bowl, but Knights Radiant? And now that thought has come to you too. My perspective is as an imaginary Alethi sports commentator/journalist, writing at a time after Rhythm of War, but with a similar political climate, and as if more were known about each Surge than we see in the books. Yes, this is primarily for lightweaver laser guns.
###The Premise
The year is 1174 Burn's Sleep Rosharan Calendar. King Dalinar and Queen Navani Kholin, possessed by what the Queen's Wit has termed 'the spirit of whimsy', have established an Association Football league in Urithiru. In a published statement penned in his hand, the King of Urithiru says the following about its founding:
> Our aim is to give Surgebinders safe experience fighting with and against other Surgebinders in this league. To ensure a fair competition in the spirit of Honor the Almighty, and to maximise our Radiants' capacities to think on their feet and remain prepared, the teams shall play in a double round robin format, with each set of matches announced the night before, and all matches of a day playing in parallel. Each Allied Order shall be eligible to form one Club, save for Bondsmiths and Enlightened Radiants, as interpretations of Law 3 of the Laws of the Game dictate a minimum of 7 players per team on the pitch at all times. Ardents, graciously donated by their majesties Queen Jasnah Kholin and Her Royal Highness, Brightness Fen Rnamdi, have been chosen to referee the matches, while we, the Order of Bondsmiths, administer the league. The Englightened Radiant, my son Radiant Renarin, has proven to be a treasure trove of information and a sound judge of skill, so his time will be offered along with his close male confidant Brightsinger Singerlord Rlain for teams who lack a base understanding of the sport and rules.
###The Rules
While a full rulebook is yet to circulate except among the teams themselves, rumours abound. In our (newly) professional opinions, these are the most promising and most notable rules-apparent, as decided upon by the Bondsmiths' Committee of referees and league administrators.
####Traditional rules?
King Dalinar Kholin is not famous for his staunch adherence to tradition, so many have questioned if the league will feature a novel rulebook, or if it will be largely similar to the traditional set. We cannot know for sure yet, but
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So basically, I feel that the referee in a football match should be able to award a goal to a team if they are very clearly prevented from what would have been a certain goal by an opponent committing a foul or otherwise breaking the rules.
I will readily admit that I don't think this rule would need to be implemented very often, because there are very few occasions when it is 'certain' a footballer is going to score a goal. Even a player through one on one with the goalkeeper might miss or the goalkeeper might save it. A penalty kick is just about the clearest goalscoring opportunity a team can get, so it's a fair punishment in my view for when a team has been denied a good goal-scoring opportunity.
However, there are occasionally cases where a goal which is certain or all but certain is prevented by foul play. E.g. the 2010 World Cup quarter-final when Ghana were denied a last-minute goal by Luis Suarez handling the ball. In this case, the ball was literally about to cross the line when Suarez blocked it with his hand, so it seems 100% certain that without the handball, Ghana would have scored a goal and advanced to the semi-final. In my view, it would be fair in a situation like that to simply award a goal to the attacking team. A penalty kick doesn't sufficiently compensate for what would have been a certain goal.
FPAI Indian player of the year
- Sunil Chhetri – 2019-20 (BFC)
- Arindam Bhattacharya – 2020-21 (ATKMB)
FPAI Young Player of the year
- Jerry Mawihminghthanga 2019-20 –(Odisha FC)
- Lalengmawia 2020-21 –(North East United)
FPAI Foreign Player of the year
- Roy Krishna – 2019-20 (
ATKMBATK) - Igor Angulo – 2020-21 (FC Goa)
FPAI Coach of the year
- Sergio Lobera – 2019-20 (
Mumbai CityFC Goa) - Khalid Jamil – 2020-21 (NEUFC)
Source- Marcus Mergulhao
I often see yanks say something like "I root for Totten Ham, Manchestershire Reds and Messi" (grammar fixed for legibility)
Let's watch these pasty suit wearing middle aged lawyers determine the future of our working class club.
No idea what they are saying but HWTL
https://twitter.com/CATribunal (Livestream link)
Just got into Gaelic. This post I saw made me wonder.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AFL/comments/msca55/how_well_would_a_powerful_shooter_in_soccer_do_at/
So would skills from other football sports like punting n American Gridiron and power shots in soccer transition to Gaelic smoothly?
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