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I love the Basque Williams Bros. Inaki (Ghana) and little bro' Nico.
Bilbao winning the Cup after losing their previous 6 Copa del Rey finals and coming up the waterfront with Cup on a barge with a flotilla around them was a huge highlight.

The cantera policy of Bilbao picking only Basque players was strictly enforced even Bilbao's first French Basque Bixente Lizzarrzu (sic) in the 90's caused a big debate.
Miguel Jones (1938 - 2020) born in Equitorial Guinea grew up dreaming of playing for Bilbao but he won Liga titles with Atletico Madrid instead.

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Andalusian born Roberto Lopez Ufarte ended up Real Sociedad.

The Sociedad and Bilbao hombres got the glory tonight with less of a Barca and Madrid influence than before.

The Williams' Ghanian parents walked through the Sahara and got over the fence in Melilla to get into Spain. A lawyer advised them to say they were from Liberia to get asylum. What a story...

When I was a kid a read a book about 1950's Jackie Robinson the baseball player after the desegregation of the sport.

Before Nico came along I had an idea for a kids book with some similar ideas - Lorenzo (cross between Vieira and Pirlo) and big bro' Michelangelo (skilful striker) were two black kids from Florence whose parents are their agents. Through the lads brilliance Fiorentina bit by bit rise up to win Serie A and they stay loyal to the Viola. They both play regularly for the Azzurri and Lorenzo (name good for a few Magnifico headlines) captains them to the World Cup - no shit! Throughout the guys are gents and become national heroes... Roy of the Rovers and Kafka ain't got nothing on me!

Back in the real world Nico hopefully stays with Bilbao but they'll probably get a 100 million for him shortly.
 
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Entertaining game to be fair. Any finals I watch (champions league mainly) seem to be pretty turgid.
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Second half was excellent, the first not too memorable. Spain's wingers were really dangerous. Apart from the double save / clearance from Rice / Saka, Cole Palmer's goal was one of very few chances England had. Only Watkins miscontrolling the ball when he was almost through on goal comes to mind.
Spain were really dangerous on the attack and Pickford saved England a few times. Spain should've got a second at 1-0.
Spain's defence could be better at times though.

Spain were the only big nation who showed up and did themselves justice.
Other that it was the likes of Georgia, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia who made the tournament. Austria should have gone further.
Not a good tournament overall.
The season is finally over.... for about 10 days
 
I missed the whole thing because work.
I wished the England team no specific harm*. It's not like Spain have some kind of plucky underdog story I could get into. Also, Spain is the only European international team I've seen live. Their fans were described by my colleagues as "posh weirdos" and "like Fulham fans". No umph to them at all.

*The fans on the other hand, I'll spare you the details, but yeah, loads of pricks being pricks around here all day. Shit haircuts. Coke dealers did well no doubt.
 
Please sign petition asking FIFA Council Members to ban Israel from football.
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nuke terrorist said:
Please sign petition asking FIFA Council Members to ban Israel from football.
Decision pending on 20th July 2024.
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Red Card Israel at FIFA Council

Urgent Call to Action Please take 10 seconds to email FIFA Council Members and ask them to #RedCardIsrael and suspend Israeli teams at the FIFA Extraordinary Council Meeting on 20th of July 2024. The sanctioning of Israeli teams is a real opportunity to help isolate Israel internationally for...
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On Friday 19th, despite Infantino saying a decision would be made by 20th July, FIFA decided to postpone a proposal to ban Israel. So Israel are free to compete in Paris 2024 Olympic football.

Be ready to petition this pathetic man again and send Infantino a message about how disgusted you are in the meantime.

Also still annoyed - with myself - for forgetting to watch an Mna beating France 3-1 in Cork.
Yeah it was a weak France team but I will take it. Unless Kavartshekelia's sisters aren't playing for Georgia, Ireland should be OK in the play off.

Sorry, I have more bad news - Trio Mandili the Georgian women singers who I posted videos of a few times, toured Israel in June 2024. Shoulda finished with them sooner.

 
nuke terrorist said:
FIFA decided to postpone
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nuke terrorist said:
I hope Iran, Mexico and Venezuela are in the USA's group at the next World Cup.
If I lived in Paris I would seriously consider buying tickets for Israel's matches and roar ''FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA...'' for 2 hours.
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sounds like that might get me arrested.
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so much for ''freedom of expression''
 
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