USA in FIFA world rankings?!!

[B_part]

Originally posted by Donut: Don't think we've had an Italian on IW before B_part. Welcome!

Thanks.
BTW, great forum.

[B_part]

Originally posted by Deathbringer: 1)Er.. you must remember that Italy were very unlucky in the Worldcup. They had numerous goals ruled against them. Two or three goals that Italy scored were disallowed due to offside, but in the replay it was proven that it was bad judgement on the linesmen side. The last World cup was the worst in history when it came to linesmen making the wrong decision. 2)Friendly's doesn't mean anything. Managers often use friendly's just to try out new members, or give the bench a run. Also players don't put in as much effort in Friendly's compared to their club games because they don't want to get an injury that will put them on the sidelines during their club games. I highly doubt that Italy were playing to the best of their ability.

1)Yeah, I remember, I remember all too well. In fact it wasn't two or three goals, but it was five, and the last of them was the golden goal who gave us victory against South Korea... And given what happened to Spain in the following turn, and given also the fact that the game referee, B. Moreno is being kicked out of Fifa for corruption, one could also doubt that it was simply a wrong decision. Anyway, it was our fault: we should have crushed them under 3 or 4 goals.

2)Well, for Italy and its coach that match wasn't a friendly (actually neither for Fifa, it was an European championship qualification match), since if anything went wrong there, the coach would be busted.
What you say about the players who prefer to spare their energies is true, however. They weren't sparing themselves in Korea, though, and the result wasn't so bright anyway.

[johnny]

Originally posted by B_part: quote: Originally posted by Donut: Don't think we've had an Italian on IW before B_part. Welcome!

Thanks.
BTW, great forum.[/QUOTE]Who are you rooting for, Inter or AC ? Btw, welcome to IW.

[Lanesra]

Actual phone call on Talk Sport on Tue, 10 Sep 2002 at 15:22:56

Presenter: We have Jim on the line who wants to discuss the Faroe
Islands/Scotland game.
Jim: Thanks...er yeah. Just want to say it's an absolute disgrace. I
mean,we're playing probably the weakest side in world football and we can't do
better than a draw.

Presenter: It was a poor result.
Jim: Poor result! Poor result! It's absolutely scandalous. The manager has
lost the plot completely, he's got to go. I know we've never set the
world alight over the years on the international stage but I can't remember
things being this bad. It's the end for us. The absolute end. I can't see
us ever recovering from a setback like this. We're a complete laughing
stock.

Presenter: Look Jim. I know it seems bad now but there is still a long way
to go. I can't see you qualifying for Euro 2004 but hopefully things
will improve.

Jim: I never expected for a moment we would qualify. I don't mind that so
much. We're not good enough. But listen, to not qualify is one thing,
but to fail to beat a team like Scotland is a different matter. It's a bitter
blow for everyone here on the Islands.

(Uproar and laughter in the studio)

[B_part]

Originally posted by johnny: Who are you rooting for, Inter or AC ? Btw, welcome to IW.

None of them, really. I'm for Juventus (Turin team, yet the most supported team in Italy).

P.S. With "AC" you mean AC Milan? In Italian AC means only "Football Club" ("Associazione Calcio"). [img]smile.gif[/img]

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