UEFA EURO 2016

Yeah..I've heard this one too many times to be safely skeptical. I still remember when they sold us Emre Belozoglu(sp?)as "the Maradona of Bosphorus".

España FTMFW!!!

Sorry guys but we are taking another Euro :)

England vs. Portugal in a warm up match coming up real soon. C'mon England! :)

Chosen one in attendance. Someone appears to be missing from the Portugal line up

I hate his face .. but we could have done with him so our defenders can get used to someone like Bale.

Lol yeah I understand but honestly Emre Belozoglu's style is nothing like Maradona. His strength was being effective both offensively and defensively, filling the gaps left by others and having very high stamina. He is a skillful player, but nothing game changing.

Emre Mor, on the other hand, is really like Messi in terms of play style and he shows great potential. We may never be sure about how prolific he will become in the future, but he is only 18 years old. He has the time to get much better. I hope he gets transfered to a team where he can develop his skills under a talent polisher coach such as Simeone.

*checks where he plays* I mean danish championship...not exactly the most challenging <_<

Holy *** that tackle was unreal

It wasn't public. It was known that he has dragging health issues, simply from his career history. I was shocked though that it seems to be this dramatic. After the coach announced that he was in the 'left at home'-club my mind paused for a moment, like the coach's announcement. As I was about to rage at the decission he continued and explained how badly he could move at the moment.

I'm the same. To compare someone to Messi is not just a comparision in pure talent. The people making these comparisions should know by now after the numerous failed candidates. It's also the constancy on an high level against every opponent and the resulting success because of that.
So for me a youngling, who has yet to play against the best for a while, cannot fulfill the necessary conditions to live up to such a comparision.


Well, try your best. We'll see how far it carries you this time.

just saying he plays just like Messi and shows great potential, not saying "as good as" him :D

Yesterday was the last test game of Germany, 2:0 against hungary.
Both goals with off-side positions and one of them was an own goal. It's far from being a team yet, but with the easy group stage this championship there shouldn't be problems in advancing. Hopefully this gives us the time to step up our game for the KO-phase.
Negative points: still the same as in the OP. Very weak wing defenders and no production in front of the goal.
positive points: first time in over a year we did not allow a goal against us. The first goal in the game was a wrong offside call, so we did score one time legally. It just did not count.

Other recent results of important teams and those people showed interest for so far:
Spain 6:1 South Corea
Belgium 1:1 Finland
England 1:0 Portugal
Croatia 10:0 San Marino
France 3:0 Shottland

Question about the Tippspiel (guessing game), shall we have rules on deadlines other than post before the game starts and don't edit results (post changes in a new post)?
I cannot guarantee to be always here one second before the game starts to notice cheating edits.
Personally I think it is not needed, it is just for fun and there are many reasons for last minute posts other than cheating attempts.
If people wait to see the first live picture of the stadium to adjust their Tipp (guess) based on how the grass is cut or watered...while I don't think it is needed I don't mind it.

Tippspiel (guessing game) post. For rules check the OP.

First match of every team:

Friday, June 10
France 5:0 Romania
Saturday, June 11
Albania 1:1 Switzerland
Wales 1:2 Slovakia
England 2:0 Russia
Sunday, June 12
Turkey 0:1 Croatia
Poland 5:0 Northern Ireland
Germany 2:0 Ukraine
Monday, June 13
Spain 3:1 Czech Rep
Rep of Ireland 0:3 Sweden
Belgium 0:1 Italy
Tuesday, June 14
Austria 1:0 Hungary
Portugal 4:0 Iceland

You are underestimating Iceland :D I won't be surprised at all if they destroy Portugal.

Edit: As for Turkey, Czech Republic scares me more than Croatia and Croatia does so more than Spain. We always play better against "stronger" teams. They can't concentrate against weaker or equal teams, but it is a totally different story when it comes to stronger teams. I can count many other downsides our team suffer from but somehow we always manage to pull out crazy come-back stunts. Unfortunately, we don't have Semih Senturk anymore (see: euro 2008 finals). A very recent example is our last Netherlands and Iceland matches in the qualification phase.

Feel free to participate with your own Tipps (guesss).
We'll see how it turns out on game day.

Iceland passed? How the hell did that happen?
*checks group*
Did someone tell Netherlands they had qualification games? I can't explain this!

Netherlands had enough chances not to fail.
They are simply too bad at the moment (arguably since the lost World Cup final against spain).

While there was the semi-final 2014.. they didn't really impress me after their first match.

Apparently this is the song of the competition..



I think it's terrible.

Ok, you asked for it!

Friday, June 10
France 2:0 Romania
Saturday, June 11
Albania 0:1 Switzerland
Wales 1:2 Slovakia
England 1:0 Russia
Sunday, June 12
Turkey 1:1 Croatia
Poland 2:0 Northern Ireland
Germany 2:1 Ukraine
Monday, June 13
Spain 2:0 Czech Rep
Rep of Ireland 0:2 Sweden
Belgium 1:1 Italy
Tuesday, June 14
Austria 1:0 Hungary
Portugal 1:2 Iceland

The last world cup song was terrible as well.

I think I'll just go with this one
since the german song sucks this time as well.
The bad German song for 2016:
2014 and 2006 the german football songs were way better...
2014:
2006:


Your spoiler doesn't work. That song is from 2012? Time flies..
Successfully exported french songs have become a rarity in the last few years since they don't follow their old recipe anymore.


EDIT: @Vinedrius
saved your Tipps.

Rooks sucks.

Apparently this guy was going to do some harm at one of the games.

Interesting that you put Iceland to beat Penaldo and co, will be watching that game. Here`s hoping :)

If you want you can participate in the Tippspiel (guessing game). It's open for everyone. Refer to the OP for rules.

Ok here goes:

Friday, June 10
France 4:0 Romania

Saturday, June 11
Albania 2:1 Switzerland
Wales 3:1 Slovakia
England 3:1 Russia

Sunday, June 12
Turkey 0:2 Croatia
Poland 0:1 Northern Ireland
Germany 4:0 Ukraine

Monday, June 13
Spain 3:0 Czech Rep
Rep of Ireland 0:2 Sweden
Belgium 1:2 Italy

Tuesday, June 14
Austria 1:1 Hungary
Portugal 2:0 Iceland

Alright, saved.

One more test game result, from yesterday:
Belgium 3:2 Norway

Italy played the last friendly match against Finland tonight. Won 2-0. But it was just Finland...they barely know what a ball is shaped like!

Belgium played 1:1 against Finland (1.June).
Stop downtalking Italy! These tricks won't work.

Buffon is going to be playing with a zimmer-frame soon, I'm sure that guy stopped ageing at 20.

Alright time to chip in for the first match! (I did pretty well during world cup with predictions!)

I actually think Romania won't do too bad this cup, but I doubt they're passing through France on the first.

So I say 2-0 France.
Griezmann, Giroud *tries to impossibly guess goals too*