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have a beer Archangel lmao
World Cup 1998-2018 top 4 finishes:
4: Germany 3: Brasil, Netherlands, France 2: Croatia 1: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay, England, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, Belgium, Korea
what a great company to be in.
last top 4 finish for England till Russia: 1990 WC Italy, Croatia wasn't recognized as an independent state at the time.
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On July 12 2018 00:16 snailz wrote: have a beer Archangel lmao
World Cup 1998-2018 top 4 finishes:
4: Germany 3: Brasil, Netherlands, France 2: Croatia 1: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay, England, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, Belgium, Korea
what a great company to be in.
last top 4 finish for England till Russia: 1990 WC Italy, Croatia wasn't recognized as an independent state at the time. You are only looking at last 20 years. Also even 1 WC win means more than 50 2nd places. Those stars on shirts are given only to WC winners...
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On July 12 2018 00:18 -Archangel- wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2018 00:16 snailz wrote: have a beer Archangel lmao
World Cup 1998-2018 top 4 finishes:
4: Germany 3: Brasil, Netherlands, France 2: Croatia 1: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay, England, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, Belgium, Korea
what a great company to be in.
last top 4 finish for England till Russia: 1990 WC Italy, Croatia wasn't recognized as an independent state at the time. You are only looking at last 20 years. Also even 1 WC win means more than 50 2nd places.
i'm looking at first WC we were eligible to qualify, and the runs since then. i'm not saying we're better than any of the countries "below" us, but rather pointing out what an achievement that is for country of 4 mil people. by population, only Uruguay is below us from all countries that made top4 in last 20 years.
also you need to chill, seriously
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France12472 Posts
Yeah, I mostly cheer against the teams whose fans (be it on TL/reddit or in real life bars, thxfully I don't use twitter) bark too loud and you almost make me want to cheer for England, Archangel :o.
Even tho we are probably favorites in the finals whoever wins tonight, it will be a fucking hard fight to grab that 2nd star. Euro 2016 put us in our place and hopefully we won't repeat the same mistake. Pogba seems to be in the right mindset right now
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On July 12 2018 00:13 -Archangel- wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2018 00:10 Jockmcplop wrote:On July 11 2018 23:55 -Archangel- wrote:On July 11 2018 21:42 Poopi wrote:On July 11 2018 21:36 -Archangel- wrote:On July 11 2018 21:23 Jockmcplop wrote:On July 11 2018 20:53 -Archangel- wrote: Also I need to add that when WC is done English and French will go back to watching good high level football in their own leagues and root for their teams that get to play vs other good teams almost every week. They get to watch good football often. They also get to continue living in rich and well organized countries (even if they don't know it). We in Croatia only have this. When this is over we go back to our black hole of Europe, both in football sense and in quality of life sense. Then we wait for 2 more years until next big tournament to get to see our team play some good football and win some games vs good opponents. During that time just for a short while we are all happy and for a short time ignore where we life and how we live. Are you literally asking people to support Croatia out of sympathy? lol No, I am just explaining how much of an underdog we are I am not sure people understand this because they see Modric = Real and Rakitic = Barcelona. How bad is Croatia quality of life? We are at the bottom of almost every list in EU. I bet all of your think Greece is worst in EU or something, we are way below them. Since EU opened their job market to us, we lost 500 000 people (official and unofficial) out of our 4.5 mil population.. it is that bad. And our Prime Minister proudly proclaimed that % of unemployed people in Croatia is now lower.. so also no hope for the future. Not even refugees want to stay in Croatia :D I have 3 friends who separately went to live in Croatia and are still there. They are all super happy over there. That's not to say anything about the struggles of the Croatian people, I have no idea about that, but it always looked like a good place for a foreigner to go and live. A retired foreigner that is getting paid from his own country will live well if he can not get irritated easily by corruption at every step. A foreigner that is just working here and getting a regular Croatian level salary will not be happy. I would expect that guy is here because of a Croatian girl, I will admit our average girl is way more beautiful than in many countries. Also more loyal and "old school". The one and only thing which shocked me in Croatia was the amount of couples with a huge age difference, very beautiful young women with old ugly (and I assume rich) men. Is that what you mean by "old shcool"?
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On July 12 2018 00:33 nojok wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2018 00:13 -Archangel- wrote:On July 12 2018 00:10 Jockmcplop wrote:On July 11 2018 23:55 -Archangel- wrote:On July 11 2018 21:42 Poopi wrote:On July 11 2018 21:36 -Archangel- wrote:On July 11 2018 21:23 Jockmcplop wrote:On July 11 2018 20:53 -Archangel- wrote: Also I need to add that when WC is done English and French will go back to watching good high level football in their own leagues and root for their teams that get to play vs other good teams almost every week. They get to watch good football often. They also get to continue living in rich and well organized countries (even if they don't know it). We in Croatia only have this. When this is over we go back to our black hole of Europe, both in football sense and in quality of life sense. Then we wait for 2 more years until next big tournament to get to see our team play some good football and win some games vs good opponents. During that time just for a short while we are all happy and for a short time ignore where we life and how we live. Are you literally asking people to support Croatia out of sympathy? lol No, I am just explaining how much of an underdog we are I am not sure people understand this because they see Modric = Real and Rakitic = Barcelona. How bad is Croatia quality of life? We are at the bottom of almost every list in EU. I bet all of your think Greece is worst in EU or something, we are way below them. Since EU opened their job market to us, we lost 500 000 people (official and unofficial) out of our 4.5 mil population.. it is that bad. And our Prime Minister proudly proclaimed that % of unemployed people in Croatia is now lower.. so also no hope for the future. Not even refugees want to stay in Croatia :D I have 3 friends who separately went to live in Croatia and are still there. They are all super happy over there. That's not to say anything about the struggles of the Croatian people, I have no idea about that, but it always looked like a good place for a foreigner to go and live. A retired foreigner that is getting paid from his own country will live well if he can not get irritated easily by corruption at every step. A foreigner that is just working here and getting a regular Croatian level salary will not be happy. I would expect that guy is here because of a Croatian girl, I will admit our average girl is way more beautiful than in many countries. Also more loyal and "old school". The one and only thing which shocked me in Croatia was the amount of couples with a huge age difference, very beautiful young women with old ugly (and I assume rich) men. Is that what you mean by "old shcool"?
no, he means women who will cook and clean and actually enjoy it. but there's new age women as well, gold diggers if you will. so basically same as everywhere in europe, except women on average are a bit more traditional.
maybe now we can go back to football xD how bout that Harry Kane vs Dejan Lovren rematch boys?
edit: while we're discussing football fans and pundits, i've heard Rio Ferdinand was talking about what strategy to use vs France in semifinal prematch show ^^
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United Kingdom13774 Posts
On July 12 2018 00:29 Poopi wrote: Yeah, I mostly cheer against the teams whose fans (be it on TL/reddit or in real life bars, thxfully I don't use twitter) bark too loud and you almost make me want to cheer for England, Archangel :o. Whoa whoa whoa, even this isn't anywhere close to England fans.
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Anyone has a stream for England Croatia? Exciting!
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thank god corluka is on the bench
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TLADT24917 Posts
On July 12 2018 01:56 shabby wrote: Anyone has a stream for England Croatia? Exciting! you can check out reddit soccerstreams if you want.
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On July 12 2018 02:11 BigFan wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2018 01:56 shabby wrote: Anyone has a stream for England Croatia? Exciting! you can check out reddit soccerstreams if you want. Hilariously these streams are better than what ITV provide.
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On July 12 2018 02:11 BigFan wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2018 01:56 shabby wrote: Anyone has a stream for England Croatia? Exciting! you can check out reddit soccerstreams if you want. Not sure if it works there but www.tvn.cl (national tv channel) streams it
It would be in Spanish tho
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Croatia is such an underdog, it makes me almost want to cheer for them.
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On July 12 2018 02:11 BigFan wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2018 01:56 shabby wrote: Anyone has a stream for England Croatia? Exciting! you can check out reddit soccerstreams if you want.
Thanks a lot, works great.
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Football's coming home lads
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Oh no the 3-note trumpet player got a ticket for this too
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On July 12 2018 03:03 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: Oh no the 3-note trumpet player got a ticket for this too At least it's not an orchestra of vuvuzelas.
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United States97248 Posts
That was a pretty good goal
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