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poklane said:
Thank fuck, for a few weeks I was worried that I'd have to hear or southern neighbors talk about them winning Euro 2016 for years and years and years until we ourselves win a tournament.

Holland I assume. Is Dutch football in trouble?



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Versus_Evil said:
Whos a happy Welshman? This guy.

Crazy thing is Wales have a great chance against Portugal in the semi. Shame you will be without Ramsey 



Slimebeast said:
poklane said:
Thank fuck, for a few weeks I was worried that I'd have to hear or southern neighbors talk about them winning Euro 2016 for years and years and years until we ourselves win a tournament.

Holland I assume. Is Dutch football in trouble?

Trouble would be an understatement. Our national team is garbage, barely any talent coming up, our national league is getting worse every year (in the 2013/2014 we were 8th competition of Europe, next season we're 13th, our national league is officially worse than the Czech Republic's) and things will only get worse.



Ka-pi96 said:
Wow, what an incredible result for Wales.

Disappointing since it probably means that dickhead ronaldo will be in the final now, but still congrats to Wales.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Wales could easily win against Portugal if they play like how they did today.



                
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poklane said:
Slimebeast said:

Holland I assume. Is Dutch football in trouble?

Trouble would be an understatement. Our national team is garbage, barely any talent coming up, our national league is getting worse every year (in the 2013/2014 we were 8th competition of Europe, next season we're 13th, our national league is officially worse than the Czech Republic's) and things will only get worse.

Hmm... Somewhere I read that there are no supertalent yet among your upcoming players, but I hoped I remembered wrong. You still have many players in the top leagues of Europe (xcept for Spain), but Robben, Van Persie etc are old already.

I think it's so interesting, and strange, that all of a sudden Belgium is producing so damn much talent, while Holland is declining. How can that be? The football culture in Holland is clearly stronger than Belgium's and the country bigger and better.



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Courtois just killed his coach.. He did not blame his coach directly but he's saying the tactics were wrong, as wrong when they played Italy..



 

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poklane said:
Thank fuck, for a few weeks I was worried that I'd have to hear or southern neighbors talk about them winning Euro 2016 for years and years and years until we ourselves win a tournament.

The difference is, your Southern neighbours (if they're English) wish Wales all the best, whilst it's never reciprocated... Imagine them wishing you to lose, just so they wouldn't have to hear you talking about it for years...



Slimebeast said:
poklane said:

Trouble would be an understatement. Our national team is garbage, barely any talent coming up, our national league is getting worse every year (in the 2013/2014 we were 8th competition of Europe, next season we're 13th, our national league is officially worse than the Czech Republic's) and things will only get worse.

Hmm... Somewhere I read that there are no supertalent yet among your upcoming players, but I hoped I remembered wrong. You still have many players in the top leagues of Europe (xcept for Spain), but Robben, Van Persie etc are old already.

I think it's so interesting, and strange, that all of a sudden Belgium is producing so damn much talent, while Holland is declining. How can that be? The football culture in Holland is clearly stronger than Belgium's and the country bigger and better.

Just an awful generation (that shit just happens) and the remaining big talents move to countries like England and Spain when they're 16, ruinig their career. Players like Bruma, Rekik, Aké and Ebecilio (and there's way more) were once world class talents, now they're all at clubs which aren't even close to world-class. Ebecilio especially, world class talent, moved to Arsenal when he was 16. Now he's 22 and not good enough for Nottingham Forest (they terminated his loan contract after 6 months) and currently he's at the Eredvisie's #13. Maybe some can still improve a bit because they're young, but things are looking extremely grim.



So either Portugal or Wales is going to be on the final, that's crazy.



                                                                                     

If Wales plays the same game against Portugal, a win is pretty realistic.



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