http://www.fifa.com/en/comp/index/0,2442,U172005,00.html?comp=U17&year=2005

mexico its world cup soccer champion of U17, so i think mexico is my favorite :) to germany 2006

And Ronaldo is being heard by the Scotland Yard...

Bruno Jesus: Dias da Cunha resigned a few minutes ago. At last!!!!!

Andre Faria:The President won't resign the club!Eventually he will set elections for the board (I hope)...anyway I think he suffers from Alzheimer or something like that...saying that if he owned the club the coach Peseiro would never ever leave the club...go figure once again!

And the president will resign today. Hopefully...

Peseiro resigned yesterday...

Andre Faria: However I think he won't last till the end of the week...if so,he sould be shot!And that stupid President too they are destroying the club!

Andre Faria:Well...he wanted to resign,but President of Sporting didn't accept his resignation...go figure!

José Peseiro is going to be dismissed tomorrow...

I had €100 on Greece (and €100 on Czech Republic).
Obviously, Czech rep was my 'serious' bet and Greece was my 'well I'd better put something on them being as I live here and my wife will batter me if I don't show some support' bet.

bumble: How much did you put on Greece to win it?

Bry: Time to go back to Euro 2004 and gloat!

bumble (ban | hide) 26. June 2004, 12:06:15
I've got Czech Rep at 12/1 to win Euro 2004 before the tournament started.
I got 100/1 on Greece as well.
Portugal were at 5/1 but I didn't back them.

cindsman: yes, they are my tip too, but 3/1 isn't good value for money over so many games.....

Bry: England 7/1? more like 700/1! We have a manager who just sits there with his arms folded when losing! Brazil will win it with thier 2nd 11.

I think England or Germany are the best value for money,.....

Brazil 3/1
Argentina 6/1
England 7/1
Germany 8/1
Holland 9/1
Italy 9/1
France 11/1
Spain 16/1
Portugal 25/1
Sweden 33/1
Czech Republic 40/1
Ukraine 40/1
Croatia 50/1
Mexico 50/1
Serbia & Montenegro 66/1
USA 80/1
Ivory Coast 100/1
Paraguay 100/1
Poland 100/1
Turkey 100/1
Ghana 150/1
Slovakia 150/1
Switzerland 150/1
Australia 200/1
Ecuador 200/1
Japan 200/1
South Korea 200/1
Norway 250/1
Togo 250/1
Uruguay 250/1
Tunisia 300/1
Angola 400/1
Costa Rica 500/1
Iran 500/1
Saudi Arabia 500/1
Bahrain 1000/1
Trinidad & Tobago 1000/1

Holland are one of the best teams in the World - on paper. With such a great side they should do a lot better at final tournaments, but like Spain, always disappoint.

Hrqls: Yes, I reckognised the name. Thanks for joining.

I'm grumpy! Porto - 0 Benfica -2! But they deserve it, even in our bad bad bad moments of last year, I never had this nightmare! :-(

The best coach in Portugal is José Peseiro of Sporting...yes he is what I call an excellent coach,the successor of José Mourinhooh yeah!!!

Co adriaanse is at the moment the best coach in Portugal... And he did an excellent campaign in AZ Alkmaar...

Hrqls:
They play tonight not yesterday, I will update you. Sorry you don't like Adriaanse, but I see you choose Alkmaar for your name team. So, I'm curious why you don't like him?
I must say I'm a supporter of FCPorto, still world champion of football not Soccer Andersp! (I understand that americans call it that, though I strongly disagree, but a european like you!??!?!... Tsss Tsss). So anyway Co its now trainer of my team so I hope they beat Koeman!
:-) POOOOOOOORTOOO

Pedro Martínez: no way ... they wanted to win with tremendous numbers .. at least thats what the newspapers said the day before :)

ah well .. in the end it doesnt matter .. just some more doubts if the dutch team can make it to the finals at all :)

yesterday i read in the newspaper that ronald koeman is a trainer in portugal as well as co adriaanse .. they had to play yesterday evening against eachother ? was the match worthy watching ? who won ? (please : koeman ?? i dont like co adriaanse that much :))

Czuch Chuckers: LOL..well now you better "throw in" those 10 bucks on your soccerteam ...but dont expect them to give the same odds :)

Andersp: I remember being in nevada (legal gambling) the year before my favorite NFL team won the super bowl. They were almost at 500 to 1 underdogs to win it all. I remeber thinking how stupid I wqas to not at least put down 10 bucks on them, just for the fun of having the ticket! Just that 10 bucks would have won me 5 thousand! Oh well... thats why they call it gambling I guess....

France.

Czuch Chuckers: Im not sure that USA "pays back" so much. To me they seem to be one of the favourites. I could bet a cpl of bucks on them too..but of course i bet more on Sweden :)

USA qualified earlier than ever before for them... that is my prediction. What odds will I get on that bet?

Andre Faria:Yes...you just have to see him play with his team SPORTING...
However he is the goalkeeper of PORTUGAL...a real nightmare como true!

Frango=chicken...

Ricardo is awful...

That goal by Poborsky is what we call "Frango" by Victor Baía...he was to ahead,and not positioned well.But that happens today with PORTUGAl too,with Ricardo...he is a real chicken!

Hrqls: That was just a training match, I bet the players focused especially on that nobody would get hurt in that game.

Andre Faria: lol :)

Pedro Martínex: the dutch team can be great .. but they can also be very bad .. lacking energy or enthousiasm sometimes (for example the last match with macedonie :))

Andre Faria: And so does Vítor Baía I bet.

Pedro Martínez: Don´t remind me that game. I still remmber Poborsky´s goal...

Andre Faria: In Euro 2004 I was betting in Portugal - Czech Republic in the final...

I was hoping for this final also. It would have been nice to see a rematch of the Euro 1996 game. :)

Andre Faria:Spain????I hate those ********!!!I would rather support GERMANY or REPUBLIC OF IRELAND!!!
Spain???I hope they don't get qualified!

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A very interesting final would be:
GERMANY-PORTUGAL
This would be nice...

Pedro Martínez: anyway, after prtugal, I´m always supporting Spain. They are like our brothers...

So Czech Republic is not qualified yet right?
ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah !

Pedro Martínez: Sure it would. In Euro 2004 I was betting in Portugal - Czech Republic in the final...

Bruno Jesus: Portugal and Czech Rep., both with 35 goals...

Andre Faria: But wouldn't it be interesting to see these two countries in the finals?

The Dutch have a great team - they defeated us 2-0 in Prague last Saturday. Humiliation.
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FIFA World Cup play-off draw:
Spain v Slovakia
Switzerland v Turkey
Norway v Czech Republic

Anyway PORTUGAL is the team with more scored goals in the qualifiying games...

Is czech republic qualified yet?I heard they have to go to the play-offs...is that right?

Bruno Jesus: Yeah, PORTUGAL!

Pedro Martínez: Czech Republik has some chances. Slovakia? Naaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Hrqls: naaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!! LOL

bumble: but... but... I was being serious!

Bry: noone mentions the netherlands ? ;(

(great links dandan .. 'wow' was the correct word for sure! .. i saw 2 dutch guys .. both being swept away by the majestic ball handling of their opponents :))