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2018-19 Club Soccer (UCL, EL, Libertadores, CCL & Domestic Leagues)

kella

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That's a really good finish from Welbz but wow Coates fucked that up.
 

Karl Hungus

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An electrician’s odd plot to make $607,933.50

The bombs were ready to detonate when the black-and-yellow bus pulled into L’Arrivée Hotel & Spa, on the outskirts of Dortmund, Germany, on April 11, 2017. The driver, Christian Schulz, had arrived to take the players of Borussia Dortmund, one of the country’s best soccer teams, to their Champions League tournament quarterfinal in nearby Signal Iduna Park. Dortmund was set to play AS Monaco and hoped to move a step closer to Europe’s most prestigious club trophy.


Shortly before 7 p.m., the players climbed aboard the bus. On schedule, Schulz set off on the 15-minute drive to the stadium near the center of Dortmund, a city of 600,000 that’s considered the faded capital of the German rust belt. Matthias Ginter, a soft-spoken 23-year-old center back, settled into a seat in the rear. Since joining the team in 2014, Ginter’s strong play has helped keep it near the top ranks of European soccer. He’d already lived through one of the most traumatic recent moments in the sport. Two years earlier, Ginter was playing in an exhibition match between the German and French national teams in Paris when three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the stadium, marking the beginning of a terror attack that killed 130 people across the city. He rationalized it as the kind of thing that happens only once in a person’s life.


The three bombs in Dortmund were filled with metal pins and hidden on the side of the driveway, about midway between the hotel and the street. As the bus approached the road, the bombs exploded, sending a cloud of heat, dirt, and metal shooting through the air. One of the bus’s windows was punctured, and glass splinters flew through the interior. A pin shot into a headrest near center back Marc Bartra, barely missing his head. Schulz stepped on the gas and stopped a few hundred feet away. It seemed like a miracle: Aside from Bartra, who was put into an ambulance with an injured wrist, nobody was hurt. Most of the pins were scattered across the pavement.


No soccer team had ever been assaulted like this. In previous months in Germany, Islamic State terrorists had set off a suicide bomb at a music festival, killed nine people with a truck, and attacked train passengers with an ax. Two years earlier, a match between Germany and the Netherlands was called off after Israeli intelligence suggested an imminent bombing by Islamic extremists. Many in the German media assumed the same groups were behind this attack.


As police arrived, they had no way of knowing the bomber was in L’Arrivée’s restaurant, eating steak and sweet potatoes.
 

Yankee151

Hot Girl Summer
River are the first finalists after scoring a 95' minute penalty on the road. Boca are up 2-0 and go on the road tomorrow to Palmeiras. Tonight's game already had the police needing to protect the referees, if we get a Superclasico...


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Snorky's Shame

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Well, the Superclasico Copa Libertadores Final is now a reality. Do not like the voodoo Gallardo has over Boca Juniors in big games though...

I put the over/under on deaths in Argentina related to this game at 100 (be it suicide, murder, heart-attack, rioting, etc...). Forget inviting MLS teams to increase interest in the Libertadores in the United States, just show them this.

Did I mention Buenos Aires is hosting the G-20 summit around the same time? RIP Buenos Aires police.

Somewhat obligatory:

 

Karl Hungus

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I hate that there's no english- language Libertadores broadcast here. Yeah, the soccer tends to suck but I'd still watch.
 

Karl Hungus

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PSG/Man City being exposed. Hope both clubs get killed by FFP (but it will never happen).




Bayern also gets dragged in that issue for their Super League ambitions, exploring ways to keep players away from national teams, and pushing a bunch of 'reforms' in Europe that have made rich clubs richer.

300
 
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Snorky's Shame

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Monaco 0-4 Brugge

Not to mention being implicated in the FFP scandal, perhaps Henry should have taken up Bordeaux’s offer.
 

Snorky's Shame

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Any defender/defensive midfielder Barcelona was looking at just got more expensive. When Ter Stegen isn’t saving your ass you get days like today.

The UCL is completely wide open. Every team has a significant flaw.
 

Snorky's Shame

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Well, at least there’s no away goals rule in the Final. Losing Pavon early hurt but no Borre for River Plate in the next leg.

Benedetto at the end though...
 

Yankee151

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Not sure whether to blame Armani for the 1st Boca goal or to give him credit for that save on Benedetto, heh. Good game though
 

Snorky's Shame

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So it looks like River Plate-Boca Juniors has been delayed because Boca’s bus got tear gassed and the driver passed out.

Should have played in Miami lol.

EDIT: Game delayed, will start 5:15 ET
 
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Snorky's Shame

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River Plate-Boca Juniors isn’t happening today either.

Seriously, just make this a one leg final on neutral ground or just abandon the competition. Have to make it a point that this type of behavior is unacceptable.

Just play this game in Abu Dhabi or Dubai before the Club World Cup.
 
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Karl Hungus

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In case it hasn't gotten more absurd, the final leg will be played in Qatar.

https://www.eldiariodelarepublica.c...ni-paraguay-la-superfinal-se-jugaria-en-qatar


There shouldn't be a second leg. Boca got thrown out of the competition a few years ago for their tear gas incident and River were given a 3-0 forfeit victory. The same standard should be applied here.



On a different note, I'd love to see how the Turner coverage is faring. How many people are actually watching the games on the B/R app (if it's even working)? No one I know has shelled out for it.
 

DeadMan

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There shouldn't be a second leg. Boca got thrown out of the competition a few years ago for their tear gas incident and River were given a 3-0 forfeit victory. The same standard should be applied here.

It's CONMEBOL. Is anyone surprised?
 

Snorky's Shame

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Well, if Athletic and Barcelona make the Copa Del Rey Final again, they should ask to use the Bernabeu. I wonder what excuse Uncle Flo would use.
 

DeadMan

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Interesting VAR in the Schalke - Dortmund game. Looked like a penalty to me on replay, but not in real time at all. Color commentator saying Reus didn’t have intent though... Christ.
 

kella

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Telemundo broadcast worse quality than the least reputable reddit stream lol
 

kella

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Golatho

Need a gif of boca manager
 
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