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good news is that russia is kicking itself out of the tournament at the group stages with their terrible team
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Kilmers Elbow posted:
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Jun 15, 2016 23:43
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shatov on wing, glushakov/shirokov in mid, either kokorin or smolov on the other wing i guess, no idea why slutsky is so hell bent on playing a midfield with ZERO international experience
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Jun 15, 2016 23:54
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Russia lost, most excellent
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Jun 16, 2016 00:34
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At least the fans can still compete in the street fighting tournament, since Russia's going out at the group stage regardless 
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https://twitter.com/confortistefano/status/743191815860396032
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Jun 16, 2016 03:55
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What's the golden mushroom the left wing is thinking of?
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https://twitter.com/BeardedGenius/status/743044609761259520
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lol, nothing surprising here
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Doctor Malaver posted:What's the golden mushroom the left wing is thinking of? Golden Ball/Boot, maybe.
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лмао
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maybe wales losing will force slutsky to put out out his best lineup on monday naaaah, expecting more of the same
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stop slutskyshaming
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*barges loudly into thread* give me one steak - well done, a bottle water not cold, and turn off air condition
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Jun 17, 2016 16:31
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Okay, it's time. gently caress England and gently caress Wales.
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Akinfeev- Smolnikov, Ignashevich, V. Berezutski, Kombarov - Glushakov, Mamaev - Smolov, Shirokov, Kokorin - Dzyuba Pretty sure shatov isn't fully fit Can't wait for a dull draw and getting knocked out!
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lmao this is indeed the worst Russia I've ever seen, barring maybe the home game v Austria in qualifying
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Alexeythegreat posted:lmao this is indeed the worst Russia I've ever seen, barring maybe the home game v Austria in qualifying I hope you don't find this offensive but your country is garbage and should be banned from any sporting or athletic competitions for at least the next twenty years.
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Pissflaps posted:I hope you don't find this offensive but your country is garbage and should be banned from any sporting or athletic competitions for at least the next twenty years. While I have seen your posting and know you're trying to troll me, this is not how you should do it, because you are 100% correct. Unironically. The poo poo that floats up with the doping and the phenomenally poo poo showings in the tournaments is just the tip of the corrupt iceberg of poo poo, corruption, ignorant hate and corruption. Maybe a disqualification would make the corrupt fucks in charge learn something.
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Pissflaps posted:I hope you don't find this offensive but your country is garbage and should be banned from any sporting or athletic competitions for at least the next twenty years. This, but England.
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Alexeythegreat posted:While I have seen your posting and know you're trying to troll me, this is not how you should do it, because you are 100% correct. Unironically. I'm not 'trying to troll you' that's my opinion on the state of Russia as a country and a sporting entity. It needs to gently caress off.
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Agreed. Russia should learn to hide their doping use better like the UK does. loving idiots!
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As I am not generally opposed to the Russian World Cup in 2018 I feel a bit sad for you guys, it will be a desaster with that team. Just like the part with noone wanting to accept the captains bind and all that. No matter what fresh blood (hihi) you can get as trainer team now it won't probably help much with a timeframe of 2 years. So its those guys and Slutsky and good riddance with those.
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I'd probably do a charming clean slate and be all "well its the new guys, but they fought" (it worked for us Germans in 2006 very well).
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dogboy posted:I'd probably do a charming clean slate and be all "well its the new guys, but they fought" (it worked for us Germans in 2006 very well). There is no clean slate, because there are no new guys to "fight". That's especially the case with the defense, where the current centrebacks are literally the only Russian CBs who play in a Russian PL team that wasn't relegated, barring one person, who's also poo poo. Germany has schools, Russia does not. Here's what Russia has: - Russian kids, with the exception of the southwestern part of the country, can only practice 5-6 months a year; - The academies are corrupt as poo poo and unless the parents can pay a huge-rear end bribe, the kid isn't advancing anywhere. In many academies it's not just for the admission, but also for progressing to the next year/level in the pyramid; - The coaches of youth teams (national and club alike) need to win tournaments to prove that they're doing something, not develop individual talent, so, where the bribe rule fails to apply, the biggest and the strongest are the ones who will play; - Speaking of coaches, I'm not sure there are any competent kids' coaches in Russia, not after two decades of their average salary being somewhere around 300 dollars; - And the culmination of this all is the quota on foreign players in the PL and D1 teams, meaning that the clubs are forced to play a certain amount of Russian players. Doesn't matter if they're garbage, they play because they're Russian. As a result, anyone barely capable of at least a Jozy-level first touch is ridiculously overpaid. We're talking 2-4 mil Eur/year. Yes, this Russian team gets paid about as much in their clubs as most players from the good teams. No, they don't have to win any competition for that to happen. There is no competition. There isn't even a Serbian/Croatian variant of corruption, where agents try their earnest to sell as many people as possible to Europe, resulting in their individual development, because the Russian clubs will pay a lot more anyway, since they need anyone who can hit the ball and is a Russian national. After the collapse of the USSR, every next generation of Russian footballers was getting worse and worse. 2008 was a one-time miracle concocted by Raymond Verheijen and that team's Zyryanov-Semshov-Semak midfield, which was having its last tournament, and even that was possible only because we were in an rear end group with Greece and Sweden. There's a reason why that same team proceeded to lose to loving Slovenia in the play-offs for the 2010WC qualification. nutri_void fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Jun 21, 2016 |
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Jun 20, 2016 23:39
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Get some Brazilians in ffs, bleach them if you have to.
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Tortuga posted:Get some Brazilians in ffs, bleach them if you have to. The Brazilians who play in Russia that aren't Hulk aren't any better than these garbagemen
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I've heard Zenit has a good academy as they had/have a lot of foreign coaches.
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jyrka posted:I've heard Zenit has a good academy as they had/have a lot of foreign coaches. The director of Zenit's academy is Dutch, but all the coaches are former Russian players. One guy used to be Spalletti's interpreter (lmao). While there were huge changes to it (that, and also the establishment of FC Krasnodar academy), they were way too recent to result in anything as of yet. E: Never mind, the director has been replaced with one of Zenit's "legends" from the Soviet era.
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Alexei, it must be hard for you now but you have to make a video compilation - best of Russian defense. Set it to Benny Hill music.
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Lol @ an Englishman saying anything about doping while Team Sky is a thing and Chris Froome exists
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That's cycling mate, they"re all doped
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It's football mate....
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US and UK beat a bunch of Russian track and field athletes on more gear than a transmission...but do it clean 
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 When you do this poo poo, it really doesn't loving matter if you are doping or not. Also, Russian football (just football, though) doesn't do doping, because they already got caught over 10 years ago and had their disqualifications back then
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That's San Marino levels bad.
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Pand posted:That's San Marino levels bad. San Marino would never defend so poorly. Those tiny teams defend 90 minutes of every game. They've been parking buses for generations and can do it rather well. It's school playground level bad. When the only tactics is 'run towards the ball' regardless of how many teammates are already on it.
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Those 36 conceded goals during the qualifiers must have been a fluke then.
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Alexeythegreat posted:
It's Neil Taylor, mate. I wouldn't have bothered marking him either. No one here can believe he managed to put it away (on the second attempt).
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From what I hear, there's actually some media pressure in Russia about instituting long-term reforms to bear fruit in a decade or so because Russia's play at this tournament was such a disgrace. Alexey, take heart, this could be a good thing in the long run. You always have to fail to reform.
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