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Post by Iron Duke on Jun 25, 2018 10:10:59 GMT
My mistake, I wanted to put in a closing bracket Ah I see Sorry, what are you guys talking about? Who showed an eagle? |
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Post by Arya Stark on Jun 25, 2018 14:06:15 GMT
Sorry, what are you guys talking about? Who showed an eagle? During the Serbia-Switzerland match, the two Swiss players who scored (Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri) both showed an eagle during their goal celebrations. Both players are of Kosovar Albanian descent, so this likely meant an Albanian Eagle. FIFA seemed to interpret this as a political message (tbh I don't know too much about it) |
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Post by Iron Duke on Jun 25, 2018 15:58:48 GMT
Sorry, what are you guys talking about? Who showed an eagle? During the Serbia-Switzerland match, the two Swiss players who scored (Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri) both showed an eagle during their goal celebrations. Both players are of Kosovar Albanian descent, so this likely meant an Albanian Eagle. FIFA seemed to interpret this as a political message (tbh I don't know too much about it) Ah ok thanks, I did watch the match but never noticed that at the time. Although even if I had the significance would've been lost on me. I'm all for keeping politics out of sport though! |
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Post by Arya Stark on Jun 25, 2018 17:20:26 GMT
Ah ok thanks, I did watch the match but never noticed that at the time. Although even if I had the significance would've been lost on me. I'm all for keeping politics out of sport though! Same here, but clearly Xhaka and Shaqiri aren't of the same opinion |
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Post by Arya Stark on Jun 25, 2018 17:36:48 GMT
Sorry, what are you guys talking about? Who showed an eagle? During the Serbia-Switzerland match, the two Swiss players who scored (Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri) both showed an eagle during their goal celebrations. Both players are of Kosovar Albanian descent, so this likely meant an Albanian Eagle. FIFA seemed to interpret this as a political message (tbh I don't know too much about it) OK, an update on that, for those interested: Shaqiri and Xhaka were not suspended, but they were both fined 10,000 Swiss francs. Swiss national team captain Stephan Lichsteiner was also fined 5,000 |
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Post by stoic on Jun 27, 2018 2:28:30 GMT
Argentina - Nigeria 2-1. All according to the plan  France is the next victim  |
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Post by Professor Duck on Jun 27, 2018 13:06:04 GMT
Argentina - Nigeria 2-1. All according to the plan France is the next victim Hehehe we shall see how far your Argentina goes. |
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Post by Arya Stark on Jun 27, 2018 13:50:30 GMT
Argentina - Nigeria 2-1. All according to the plan France is the next victim Hehehe we shall see how far your Argentina goes. Against France? Yeah given that Les Bleus have players like Griezmann, Mbappé, and Lemar, I'm a bit worried for Argentina's defense |
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Post by stoic on Jun 27, 2018 14:55:24 GMT
Argentina - Nigeria 2-1. All according to the plan France is the next victim Hehehe we shall see how far your Argentina goes. It is simply impossible to play worse than before I expect only improvements |
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Post by stoic on Jun 27, 2018 14:59:54 GMT
Hehehe we shall see how far your Argentina goes. Against France? Yeah given that Les Bleus have players like Griezmann, Mbappé, and Lemar, I'm a bit worried for Argentina's defense "Worry" is Argentina's second name... Or the third name... I can't remember exactly, but it is definitely one of the first three names |
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Post by stoic on Jun 27, 2018 16:00:56 GMT
South Korea - Germany 2-0.
Amazing...
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Post by Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb on Jun 27, 2018 16:03:24 GMT
South Korea - Germany 2-0. Amazing... Ouch. That was big |
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Post by stoic on Jun 27, 2018 16:51:43 GMT
South Korea - Germany 2-0. Amazing... Ouch. That was big I hope they won't blame a "Russian winter" for that |
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Post by Arya Stark on Jun 28, 2018 0:06:54 GMT
I hope they won't blame a "Russian winter" for that What about a Korean summer? |
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Post by Arya Stark on Jun 28, 2018 0:15:12 GMT
On a slightly unrelated note, the Mexicans were so happy that Germany failed to progress (had the Germans won 1-0 Mexico would crash out) that I saw several instances of Mexicans parading or doing similar things to Korean fans. In short, the Mexican fans were utterly ecstatic
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