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Former GKs turned successful coaches are kinda rare? I can think of Lopetegui and Zoff on the top of my mind.
Not only is Jake Daniels gay but he’s also poor. Offer 350k net per week and you would have more allies Jake, duh.
/s, obviously
FIFA and UEFA would somehow double the amount of fixtures if India starts watching football.
Czechia-Moldova game brings me back to 2001, when Bulgaria was in a similar situation - we were travelling to Prague for a final group fixture. We needed a win to make it to the playoffs, CzechRep would do with a draw. Czech were favorites with Nedved, Poborsky, Baros but we had a moderately strong team, with emerging Berbatov, Martin and Stilian Petrov, and legend Balakov as a playmaker. People were excited and making comparisons with our epic win against France in 1993.
Czechia won 6-0.
Czechia youth team beat BG youth team 8-1.
I used to be a fan of Czech NT in the 1990s and 2000s, but this current team is a bit underwhelming. Like, quite a few solid players but no one really brilliant.
Good luck to Moldova, win would be massive for them.
That’s what you get for not starting Bremer (which I’m fine with, less chance of injury)
Well, youth football is hard and costs money to do it properly. You need good coaches, infrastructure investment, etc, just for a product to maybe happen in 7-8 years. If you’re a club owner, it’s much easier and faster to just get ready foreign products, usually on free, and hope to sell them abroad for small profit. That’s the business model for most clubs. They don’t want that changed, therefore they elect The Wig every 4 years, knowing that he won’t pressure them to do anything (methodology, investment).
Like, don’t get me wrong, FANS hate Bobby, but club owners (mostly) LOVE him. He just lets them do whatever they want.
Just a bit of a background why people hate the BFS:
We used to be quite decent in football between the 1950s and 1990s - we featured in the - 62, 66, 70, 74, 86, 94 and 98 WCs and had some pretty good players along the way, although during socialism most of them were not allowed to play abroad. Last big tournament we featured was Euro 2004. One year later Bobby The Wig became BFS president. And has been ever since. We haven’t produced even an average player in a decade. We have no players in any top 4 leagues. The upper half of our clubs play with 80-90% foreigners. Bobby doesn’t give a shit. In fact, he claims that BFS are doing their job perfectly and it’s the clubs fault that they don’t produce any good players. Which is false since it’s explicitly said in the BFS manifesto that youth development is their job. The league is a total joke - we have a boutique little club formed in 2010 owned by a billionaire which has won the league 12-13 times in a row because they just buy the best foreigners. Stadiums are shit.