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SEMI FINALS
IRAN V JAPAN
1AM TUESDAY MORNING
QATAR V UAE
1AM WEDNESDAY MORNING
FINAL
1AM SATURDAY MORNING
IRAN V JAPAN
1AM TUESDAY MORNING
QATAR V UAE
1AM WEDNESDAY MORNING
FINAL
1AM SATURDAY MORNING
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Nail, hammer, head.Only about 310,000 of Qatar's population are actual Qatari citizens, the rest are expats. How does a country with no football history with a talent pool that thin to choose from make the final? Is there some sort of match-fixing going on for their opposition to play bad to make them look go so that FIFA can validate giving them the WC?
Qatar, like most middle eastern countries, are decent in familiar surroundings. Away from the middle east, like most of their neighbours, are s**tOnly about 310,000 of Qatar's population are actual Qatari citizens, the rest are expats. How does a country with no football history with a talent pool that thin to choose from make the final? Is there some sort of match-fixing going on for their opposition to play bad to make them look go so that FIFA can validate giving them the WC?
Tonight's game is like choosing cancer or aids. That being said, I actually hope Qatar smash the UAE. Either way, Japan will probably have a hard time in the final, mainly from dodgy refs listening to AFC directives.
Only about 310,000 of Qatar's population are actual Qatari citizens, the rest are expats. How does a country with no football history with a talent pool that thin to choose from make the final? Is there some sort of match-fixing going on for their opposition to play bad to make them look go so that FIFA can validate giving them the WC?
In 2014, the Qatar U-19 National Football Team, composed solely of past or current Aspire Academy student-athletes, won the 38th edition of the AFC U-19 Championship in Myanmar, for the first time in Qatar's history
I'll openly admit I am biased against the gulf states. Soulless entities made up of predominately expats with no footballing history who make their oil money off slavery. Regardless of their youth results, it would be a tragic result for football if those corrupt campaigners became successful, and as I type this, those campaigners go 1-0 up.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspire_Academy
Set up in 2004 with the obvious goal of preparing a decent team for the World Cup.
Importantly:
Those players are now in their footballing prime.
Someone on Reddit posted that although 8 of the team were foreign born, 5 were raised in Qatar and all of them went through the academy. They've largely ditched the route of naturalising Z-grade Brazilians.
Did you raise the same concerns about Iceland's success in continental competition?
What do you like about them?I like Qatar. U19 champions a few years ago. Their time is now.
I'll openly admit I am biased against the gulf states. Soulless entities made up of predominately expats with no footballing history who make their oil money off slavery. Regardless of their youth results, it would be a tragic result for football if those corrupt campaigners became successful, and as I type this, those campaigners go 1-0 up.
As I said, U19 champions in 2014. Same coach the whole way through.What do you like about them?