there's always a game on somewhere

log thread for forgotten leagues and far away games

21'
Sydney Football Stadium
Sydney FC 1 - 0 Gold Coast United

not that far away, but dynamo kiev and arsenal kiev just started

Excelsior vs Vitesse

Already looking forward to the Brazil vs Ukraine friendly at Pride Park next month.

Okay, I've just looked that up and I know it's for real - but why?

Yeah, I thought I saw that on the Sky Sports News ticker last night and figured I'd had too much wine and it was time to go to my bed.

During a trade show in Burundi a few years prior I caught a game between Vital O and Tourbillon of Chad, I believe it was a friendly. Very highly paced gamed.

Okay, I've just looked that up and I know it's for real - but why?

important sypin needs to get done

SPYIN i mean

Brazillian FA sold off the 'rights' to host games to Kentaro iirc. So they never play in Brazil any more, but in soulless places like Doha, Zimbabwe and Wembley.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/sam-wallace-samba-for-sale-supporters-priced-out-as-brazil-go-globetrotting-with-friendlies-1817296.html

They've done a similar deal with Russia recently.

my guess is that a demotivated don't-want-to-be-there Russia may not be packing them in worldwide

I'm a big fan of the Colombian league games that are on at odd times on GOLTV, Once Caldas v Boyaca Chico and the like.

xps and New Jersey

EA Sports Cup Final

1 Sligo Rovers v Monaghan United 0

on ur xbox or irl

hehe it was just on setanta

i am watching afc champions league? it's in arabic. 3-3

us open cup final 2nite

planet earth is letting me down

RIP

1:30 PM ET Trabzonspor vs FC Schalke 04 19:30 CET
2:45 PM ET Toulouse vs Paris FC 20:45 CET
2:45 PM ET Frosinone vs Livorno 20:45 CET
3:00 PM ET Villarreal B vs Granada 21:00 CET
3:15 PM ET Portimonense vs Vitoria Setubal 21:15 CET

Ach, what am I to do with this?

uhm

trying to reduce time spent watching football myself

Iraq vs Iran tomorrow afternoon.

The MLS site is streaming the pre-draft combine matches live and for free. Currently featuring John Rooney's "AdiPure" team playing against "Jabulani".
http://www.mlssoccer.com/videos?catid=1916&id=11043

1:25 Indonesia Super Liga Live!
Semen Padang vs. Bontang PKT
Live!

/Martin Tyler

silly game, stupid little ground, fuck off
/'keyseyLAD'

Maradona vs Valderrama on Eurosport 2 right now.

copa libertadores? i think that's what it was. FOX DEPORTES EN VIVIO
corinthians and tolima ended 0-0. saw fat ronaldo

Oh Kentaro:

Brazil's 2002 World Cup-winning team will play a friendly next month in the formerly wartorn Russian province of Chechnya, a local official said Wednesday.

Chechnya's government website cited sports minister Haidar Alkhanov as saying Kaka, Ronaldinho and the recently retired Ronaldo are likely to feature in the March 10 match. Chechnya president Ramzan Kadyrov will captain a team comprising local players.

lol

concacaf champions league quarters, snow on the field in columbus

watching the croatian classico, dinamo zagreb and hajduk split. weird looking surface. milan badelj, the new modric, scored a beautiful half-volley from a corner.

the correct term is the eternal derby, apparently

http://dalje.com/slike/slike_3/r1/g2010/m03/y228583083114823.jpg

new krancjar surely? he's 6'1 too

possibly more krancjar-like. i read that dinamo bought him to replace modric. fatos beciraj, a kosavo-born montenegrin, scored a second with a bullet of a header. dinamo 2- hajduk 0.

In what will go down as one of the most bizarre matches in footballing history, Chechnya hosted a game between some of the world's greatest players and a side comprising Chechen and Russian players, captained by the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.

With an 11pm start time, the former Liverpool and Real Madrid midfielder Steve McManaman, the ex-Italian defender Franco Baresi, former French goalkeeper Fabien Barthez and the ex-Portuguese player Luis Figo, in addition to Maradona and Fowler, were among those invited to attend. The World Cup-winning French midfielder Zinedine Zidane denied reports he would play.

[...]

The half-time entertainment – almost as stellar as the footballing legends on the pitch – was provided by R&B performer Craig David.

i knew Craig David must still have a career somewhere

Wouldn't be so sure about Robbie Fowler, though.

oh i thought it meant Arthur Fowler, he used to coach a bit iirc

captained by the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.

It's a WTF enough story without me misreading that as "captured by the Chechen leader".

I'd been wondering how Gullit was getting on in Chechnya - still wondering after reading this. Subject seems ripe for a dispatch from Jonathan Wilson, though Kadyrov is probably a difficult interview to line up.

The meaningless summer friendlies have begun - Bayern Munich v Zenit St. Petersburg streaming free (and legal) here. I guess Gazprom money must be hard to pass up. Klose has just equalised for Bayern - he scores when it counts.

just chilling, had a few drinks, about to go to bed
the j-league is on, urawa red diamonds vs niigata
dangerous free kick parried and the first half ends 1-1

http://i51.tinypic.com/scs50k.jpg

drunk, eating satsumas, and into japan vs north korea

http://www.firstrowsports.tv/watch/92058/2/watch-north-korea-vs-japan.html

http://i42.tinypic.com/wsl3qg.jpg

stoke city vs philadelphia ;)

http://www.philadelphiaunion.com/live

tried to see what else was happening in azerbaijan fitba since tony adams left

theres money so i could see some sort of bunyodkor type of thing happening and getting into the europa league

araz pfk the naxcivan city team no longer seem to be in the second division

no wait they are there and seem to have just been promoted

has an exclave team ever got into european competition

Baltika were relegated in 1998, spending a total of three seasons in the top flight. In 1998 Baltika participated in the Intertoto Cup and reached the third round.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Baltika_Kaliningrad

Is Sheriff the first from an internationally unrecognised breakaway republic?

Khimik Dzerzhinsk vs Neftekhimik

Vahyt Sakhetmyratovich Orazsakhedov (born January 26, 1992) is a Turkmenistani football forward who plays for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk.

In July 2012 on loan transferred to the "Neftekhimik". August 13, 2012 scored the first goal to the "Salute" Belgorod.

vs doing my writing

gonna watch 10 minutes of wrexham - barnet

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/02/article-2251180-16B8FEF8000005DC-936_306x477.jpg

realness brenhines

watching davids is fascinating

he's lying so deep he might as well be centre-back. he might even BE centre-back. haven't worked it out yet. obviously still very classy

The other Lukaku is a bumbling CB then

no wait, a LB

wearing 5, confusingly

jordan lukaku was a winger at anderlecht last time i heard

football FIFA Beach Soccer
Wednesday, November 13th
18:00 - 19:30 (tomorrow) es FC Barcelona vs. Vasco da Gama RJ br Live
football FIFA Beach Soccer
Wednesday, November 13th
19:15 - 20:45 (tomorrow) it AC Milan vs. Flamengo RJ br Live

nothing like waking up to Tom Tomsk
vs
Rubin Kazan
at
9am
to make you feel like you've got DTs
and you're sat outside wetherspoons in the morning

Temperature
-4 °C

cesar navas is in short sleeves

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/atlaspachuca.jpg

2/24/15, 7:37 PM
It’s always happy hour & soccer o’clock somewhere. Proof: Dilly Duka just gave @impactmontreal the lead over Pachuca
vine.co/v/OQl6xjhphPv

Greece has suspended all professional football leagues indefinitely.

Always think of this being a Trabzonspor neighbourhood but the car horns are going crazy for Galatasary tonight. Fenerbahce needed to win to stay in the title race and were two nil down vs Basaksehir with ten minutes to go. Magnificently they managed to equalise and get four of their own players players sent off in those ten minutes but couldn't get a winner.

A bunch of US Open Cup 3rd round matches streaming tonight: http://www.ussoccer.com/lamar-hunt-us-open-cup/open-cup-tournaments/2015-usoc/third-round

Awesome if you like

poor technique
turf fields
"goalies"

and a whole lotta America in general.

Wisla Krakow have somehow managed to sign Kuba Błaszczykowski from Wolfsburg and get kicked out of the Polish league for financial irregularities in the same day.

They were taken over by a consortium of gangsters and hooligans a couple of years ago, which went about as well as you would expect, and seemed to have been sold to a Cambodia investor just before Christmas but something has evidently gone wrong with that.

Love Polish football

This hypothesis is getting severely tested.

Turkey and Mexico suspended their leagues yesterday, so we are pretty much down to Belarus and Australia.

Might start livestreaming my current game of Football Manager.

Come to the conclusion that the fucker is fixed BTW.

was just joking with friends that the safest way to finish the season would be for the managers to play out the remaining games thru an MMO Football Manager.

2019 iteration has a supremely aggravating "play one of the big dogs off the park for 89 minutes only to concede a 30 yard screamer at the last minute" thing going on

there's a piece on the Zanzibar Premier League on the World Service right now!

by the way i don't know if it's still on All 4 but the Diego Maradona documentary is really good stuff

Australia has finally shut down the A-League, bringing a close to Adam le Fondre's brief run as the world's best currently-active striker.

Transferring all my football allegiances to Shakhtyor Soligorsk in these difficult times.

Damn. Expect the next best currently-active stiker to be in Belarus then? xp

Hell of a tussle at the top of the Burundi Premier League. Musongati 4pts behind Le Messager Ngozi but with a game in hand.

by the way i don't know if it's still on All 4 but the Diego Maradona documentary is really good stuff

― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Monday, March 23, 2020 7:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

thx for this noodle. watched it today, cracking stuff, tho in a time of social distancing some of the diego being mobbed in the streets wobbly hand cam footage freaked me out a little. know it's not an original thought but oh to see a peak maradona playing on 2020 pitches under 2020 rules. the number of terrible tackles he just rode and stumbled onward from was amazing.

i know! it's a really well put together film. watching the clogging he routinely got, and you think about cliches about Italian defending but imagine how much worse the average shitkicker was in England at the time. tbh i'd never spent so much time just watching how incredible his movement and control was

it's really good at opening a window into the ways football is seen and played and thought about outside the anglo bubble as well i think, which i'm as guilty of as any lazy tv fan

i spent a lot of it thinking how much my old man wouldn't have got it, the entire culture would be so alien and bad to him and all of that belied by those clips of him playing

i actually found it quite frightening, just impossible to imagine how anyone could deal with that level of adulation and expectation and of course he didn't deal with it. but yeah it was a level of fandom that i am not really familiar with tbh.

also stuff that is either badly translated or more likely i am not understanding culturally re argentina in that i think more than one contributor possibly his trainer plus a journalist refers to diego as "that little black kid"

yeah there are ilxors who'll understand that much better than me but my understanding is that South America has a lot of this kinda racial subdivision expressed thru the language, and then put that thru a translation into English and it won't be clear

https://youtu.be/xRIaHZvjipo

Korean league kicks off in just over 40mins lads.

League winners Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors vs cup winners Suwon Samsung Bluewings.

The BBC showed this live on iPlayer, don't know how many more Korean games they'll show.

Kohlenpott derby today at 15.30!

Heard Sky is giving viewers in Germany the option to add crowd noise to the broadcast lol

Wonder who’ll be the first player to be sent off for spitting