⚽ ⚽ International Break Football Thread ⚽ ⚽

Cyprus in League C - not bad

Love how simple it - and it’s interaction with the Euro qualifiers - is.

Usually these UEFA things are stupidly complex but this seems perfectly straightforward for once.

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Okay, so the draw has been made…
where we don’t have enough countries/nations just yet we can either give Jersey etc time to form a team or the team playing Extra 1 etc get a bye to the next round.

Round 1

1 Iraq V Curaçao
2 Saint Lucia V Tajikistan
3 Ghana V Hungary
4 Singapore V Armenia
5 Bahamas V FYR Macedonia
6 Philippines V Rwanda
7 Guatemala V Mongolia
8 Mauritania V Northern Ireland
9 Laos V Spain
10 Algeria V Cyprus
11 São Tomé and Príncipe V Albania
12 Lesotho V Extra 7
13 Extra 17 V Liechtenstein
14 Guinea V Georgia
15 Ecuador V Kosovo
16 Antigua and Barbuda V Slovakia
17 Cameroon V Romania
18 Palau V Sint Maarten
19 Croatia V Bolivia
20 Oman V US Virgin Islands
21 Niger V Czech Republic
22 Vietnam V Extra 15
23 Benin V Trinidad and Tobago
24 Montserrat V Slovenia
25 Jamaica V Guam
26 Namibia V Colombia
27 El Salvador V Libya
28 Myanmar V Tuvalu
29 Morocco V Estonia
30 Sudan V Sri Lanka
31 Congo DR V Japan
32 Andorra V Djibouti
33 Brazil V Extra 20
34 Fiji V Somalia
35 Dominica V Montenegro
36 Swaziland V Israel
37 Egypt V American Samoa
38 Extra 9 V Costa Rica
39 Monaco V Zimbabwe
40 Thailand V Extra 16
41 Cook Islands V Turks and Caicos Islands
42 Belize V Finland
43 Puerto Rico V Extra 12
44 Haiti V Lithuania
45 Germany V Tunisia
46 Australia V Denmark
47 Nepal V Uganda
48 Mauritius V Extra 19
49 Poland V Indonesia
50 Samoa V Extra 6
51 Vatican City V Pakistan
52 Zanzibar V Italy
53 Ivory Coast V Extra 5
54 Mozambique V Suriname
55 Mali V Brunei Darussalam
56 Guadeloupe V Chinese Taipei
57 Qatar2 V Gambia
58 Kyrgyzstan V Bosnia and Herzegovina
59 Northern Cyprus V Niue
60 Extra 10 V Ukraine
61 Honduras V Sweden
62 Saint Kitts and Nevis V Central African Republic
63 Serbia V New Caledonia
64 Paraguay V Netherlands
65 San Marino V Papua New Guinea
66 Macau V Turkey
67 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines V South Sudan
68 Seychelles V Extra 22
69 British Virgin Islands V Moldova
70 Bhutan V Iceland
71 Maldives V Saint Martin
72 Panama V Nauru
73 Madagascar V Austria
74 Mexico V South Africa
75 Cambodia V Canada
76 Chad V Uzbekistan
77 Bermuda V Turkmenistan
78 Bahrain V Belize
79 Saudi Arabia V Gibraltar
80 India V Kiribati
81 Gabon V Malaysia
82 Guinea-Bissau V Faroe Islands
83 Zambia V Somaliland
84 New Zealand V Extra 11
85 Abkhazia V United States
86 Venezuela V Korea Republic
87 Uruguay V Belarus
88 Equatorial Guinea V England
89 Burundi V Bangladesh
90 Bulgaria V Tahiti
91 Extra 4 V Tanzania
92 Scotland V China
93 Switzerland V Nicaragua
94 Artsakh V Syria2
95 South Ossetia V Tonga
96 Malawi V Solomon Islands
97 Extra 1 V Kenya
98 Cayman Islands V Luxembourg
99 Angola V Portugal
100 Dominican Republic V Ethiopia
101 Iran V Greece
102 Extra 2 V Cape Verde
103 Martinique V Republic of Ireland
104 Azerbaijan V Timor-Leste
105 United Arab Emirates V Togo
106 Extra 3 V Afghanistan
107 Vanuatu V Cuba
108 French Guiana V Hong Kong
109 Sierra Leone V Extra 13
110 Nigeria V F.S. Micronesia
111 Belgium V Aruba
112 Palestine V Extra 8
113 Wales V Liberia
114 Senegal V Argentina
115 Latvia V Western Sahara
116 Lebanon V Botswana
117 Grenada V Extra 14
118 Extra 21 V Northern Mariana Islands
119 Kuwait V Kazakhstan
120 Burkina Faso V France
121 Comoros V Anguilla
122 Barbados V Malta
123 Bonaire V Korea DPR
124 Congo V Jordan
125 Yemen V Russia
126 Chile V Norway
127 Guyana V Réunion
128 Peru V Eritrea

Should be a bit of historical needle in the Angola v Portugal match. Looking forward to it.

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I for one can’t wait to get tickets to see Comoros vs Anguilla at Stadio Rino Mercante, or some other such European hotspot.

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120 Burkina Faso V France - should be tasty.

typical that brazil should get a bye :laughing:

Only about 250,000 people in Abkhazia (That’s five times smaller than Trinidad and Tobago) will this mean the USA can see them off?

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Classic grudge match - potential humdinger

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Can see Southgate now, plotting how to grind a 1-0 out of his tight encounter with Equatorial Guinea

Not sure we’d even take China rn tbh

checks average height of both countrys

nah, you’re good.

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Catalonia, The Basque Country & Nagor…Nagoth Abar… for Euro 2024!

LEARN FOOTBALL

Vatican vs Pakistan should be good.

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what is going on in here

Nations League?

Looking forward to the tax-haven clasico at 98, too

Cornwall
Catalunya
Some others…

Either they’ve not done a very good job of promoting this Nations League, or i’m completely detached from international football, but this is honestly the first i’ve heard of this despite reading the papers every day and consuming virtually every #podcast there is.

At least it’s something new, but i’m not really in favour for two reasons. Firstly, the whole point of friendlies is to tailor the pre-tournament opposition to the finals draw - if you’ve been paired with, say, a South American side then you get a bit of pratice losing to another one or two. Secondly, i quite like it, or at least used to, when England play, say, Peru, Ghana or Jamaica.

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I had heard of this, but it was so long ago and because no one ever mentioned it again, I’d assumed that it had been knocked on the head.