Spyro Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 That’s surprising, thought they would have a few players overseas with parental rights that could play, like most international teams do. Thanks though 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 2 minutes ago, Spyro said: That’s surprising, thought they would have a few players overseas with parental rights that could play, like most international teams do. Thanks though Looks like they do, just a shame they are a bit shit. This is one of their recent call ups... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahis_Nabi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Bit like old times for Australia meeting Chinese Taipei or Taiwan as they were known. They met each other in Oceania qualifiers for the 1978, 1982 and 1986 World Cups. They were placed in Oceania so PR China wouldn't go in the huff. First time meeting between Australia and Nepal though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 A few interesting match ups there! Group C and D have potential too... Is it a big surprise that Pakistan didn’t qualify? I’m not clued up on Asian football at all but I would’ve thought they’d be able to put a decent team out. Football within Pakistan has been a bit of a mess past few years. FA was suspended by FIFA at tailend of 2017 until March following year & has had several corruption scandals along with rival factions going to court in a power struggle. The mentioned resulted in the countries domestic league not operating between 15-16 & 17-18 although it's now back up and running. The country is ranked 205th in world rankings, 46th aka last in Asian rankings & last within the SAFF region which is the weakest of the AFC regions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Spyro said: That’s surprising, thought they would have a few players overseas with parental rights that could play, like most international teams do. Thanks though They're certainly not helped by the fact that British football, English football in particularly, is massively underachieving in terms of bringing through Asian talent. I think Neil Taylor is the only player of sub-continental descent to play international football for one of the Home Nations. If more players were to come through, Pakistan and India would improve. Still, both should be producing much more talent than they do anyway, given their populations. Being cricket mad isn't much of an excuse when you think of how many sports Brits, French, Americans, Aussies and so on are into, and they all do much better at football. I've no idea why they have been so rubbish for so long, or what the solution is. Edited July 18, 2019 by Bully Wee Villa 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Atletico Madrid have recently opened an academy in Pakistan believing the country has the potential to produce players. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marten Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 7 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said: They're certainly not helped by the fact that British football, English football in particularly, is massively underachieving in terms of bringing through Asian talent. I think Neil Taylor is the only player of sub-continental descent to play international football for one of the Home Nations. If more players were to come through, Pakistan and India would improve. Still, both should be producing much more talent than they do anyway, given their populations. Being cricket mad isn't much of an excuse when you think of how many sports Brits, French, Americans, Aussies and so on are into, and they all do much better at football. I've no idea why they have been so rubbish for so long, or what the solution is. India will have more of a chance to improve in the near future. A decent organisation of football is finally getting off the ground there a bit. Football is very popular there, not as much as cricket, but popular enough for a country with that population to grow to at least being a decent side in Asia on a permanent basis. Although also amongst British Indians there are very few decent football players at the moment in the UK. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 If Australia can get into Eurovision, make them qualify through the European route rather than playing a bunch of Asian posties and joiners. IMO 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Can we move Scotland to CONCACAF and get an easy qualifying route while we are it it, too, please? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandcowden Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Can we move Scotland to CONCACAF and get an easy qualifying route while we are it it, too, please? if only we'd made a go of Darien.... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 You'd think countries with the populations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh would be able to find 11 men at least reasonably capable of kicking a football around. I know football isn't the (or even *a*) main sport for any of them, but still. Surely every country has people who obsess over niche sports. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 On 17/07/2019 at 19:45, Marten said: North Korea and South Korea in the same group. Two countries still officially at war, yet UEFA separates Gibraltar and Spain. Not that many years ago only a couple of Indians had played abroad and those were at Barnsley + DC United, IIRC. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 Two countries still officially at war, yet UEFA separates Gibraltar and Spain. Not that many years ago only a couple of Indians had played abroad and those were at Barnsley + DC United, IIRC. There was Bhaichung Bhutia who spent five years with Bury in early 2000's & is regarded as the country's best ever player. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Group D is literally the Group of Death. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Tarmo Kink Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Group D is literally the Group of Death. Group E might as well get the bat and ball out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 CAF's lowest ranked team Somalia (202) beat Zimbabwe (112) 1-0 last night. Zimbabwe are the highest ranked team at this stage of CAF qualifying. This is Somalia's first win in any qualifying since beating Kenya in 1984. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin.Hood Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 CAF's lowest ranked team Somalia (202) beat Zimbabwe (112) 1-0 last night. Zimbabwe are the highest ranked team at this stage of CAF qualifying. This is Somalia's first win in any qualifying since beating Kenya in 1984. Is there a list of teams that have never won competitively?Tried Google and my favourite twitter but didnt get a full list unless I started looking through each tournament maybe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Is there a list of teams that have never won competitively?Tried Google and my favourite twitter but didnt get a full list unless I started looking through each tournament maybe. I believe San Marino is only one. They have amassed a solitary win overall beating Liechenstein in a 2004 friendly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 (edited) Kiribati have never won a game. They've only played 11 games in their history. Closest was losing on penalties to Tuvalu at the Pacific Games 1979, after drawing 3-3. Niue have only ever played 2 games, at that tournament in 1983, and lost them 0-14 and 0-19. Federated States of Micronesia haven't won since beating Northern Marianas 7-0 in the Micronesian Cup 1999. However they aren't FIFA members = no WC qualifiers. Famously back in 2002 on the same day as the World Cup Final in Japan the "Other Final" between the 2 lowest-ranked nations in the world Bhutan and Montserrat was played. Bhutan won 4-0... their first victory in 15yrs of trying... and have won 6 games in the 17yrs since. Montserrat had beaten Anguilla back in 1995 - and have hardly lost in the last few years. Edited September 6, 2019 by HibeeJibee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Tarmo Kink Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Kiribati have never won a game. They've only played 11 games in their history. Closest was losing on penalties to Tuvalu at the Pacific Games 1979, after drawing 3-3. Niue have only ever played 2 games, at that tournament in 1983, and lost them 0-14 and 0-19. Federated States of Micronesia haven't won since beating Northern Marianas 7-0 in the Micronesian Cup 1999. However they aren't FIFA members = no WC qualifiers. Famously back in 2002 on the same day as the World Cup Final in Japan the "Other Final" between the 2 lowest-ranked nations in the world Bhutan and Montserrat was played. Bhutan won 4-0... their first victory in 15yrs of trying... and have won 6 games in the 17yrs since. Montserrat had beaten Anguilla back in 1995 - and have hardly lost in the last few years.Having watched the EAFF East Asian Cup quite a lot, I’m surprised the Northern Mariana Islands aren’t winless to be honest. Regularly losing to teams like Guam, Taiwan, Macau and Mongolia fairly convincingly and don’t play in much else. The only win I can see was over Macau in 2015. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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