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he looks like some kind of former soviet human experiment

This guy was great on The Shining

Not so fast! Let this be our final battle

HIT HIS WEAK SPOT

FUCK! How did he know?!

Have they lost in some sort of footed ball match?

haha we were playing like a piece of shit . <can't believe it.

Mother Russia!

Take Kuyt off -> lose. :P

use Robben against Romania for no reason so his injury gets worse -> lose

Arshavin its like the white romario :D

pd: go spain :D

like cooler actually

arshavin > *

so now we can lose the half final since we left holland and england behind us. :D

biachtes :( life sucks etc etc.

Damn it. I bet on Holland to win before the tournament kicked off. They looked like a completely different side tonight. Definitely peaked too soon :((((((((((

Hope my second bet comes in, Spain to win o/

You should never bet on Holland or Spain in big tourneys...
They always play great in qualification and group stage but as soon as it matters they fail.
Quite the opposite of teams like Italy or Germany.

Yea I know. Every tournament it's the same. I just thought it would be a different story this time around. Plus I don't bet much :P

Well, you should have :)

Spain won though dude.

I meant "you should have bet much" on Spain victory :p

<3 russia, especially pavliuchenko & arshavin

The Russians had the strength to play for 200 minutes!

russia with better drugs than holland lol

Called New Zealand syndrome.

hahaha yeah, beating other teams by >100 score in group matches and then foofed by France xD

russia were just more hungry for it, you could tell the way they chased balls down, passed the ball around etc. Holland played like france in that game. Disappointing more than anything really, i thought they could have gone all the way. Im half dutch, was watching the game with my russian gf, wasnt fun :/

Russia play such wonderful football in this tournament! If they keep playing like this i hope they win it!

this is just another argument that england should ez up on capello. As u can now see was a really hard quali group.

Russia never looked this good in qualification and wtf does Capello have to do with it? McClaren was the England manager back then.

Who did play good in qualification?

Turkey, Greece and the Czechis!

Turkey and Russia had the worst second place finishes actually.

Why do all the England pundits keep saying Turkey breezed through the group? :(

As far as I know, Holland were poor, Italy were poor, France were poor, Portugal were poor, Romania were poor, Poland were poor, Germany were ok, Croatia were good, Spain were ok, Sweden were poor.

Seems to me like all the teams were shit!

You come to some weird conclusions mate.

calling sweden poor is like calling the chinese wall "kinda long" :(

You did qualify though? :P

Qualifying for a tournament is useless if you fail to achieve anything in it.

no it isn't, not by a long shot.

Maybe it's no too great for the national pride, but for the players it's definately a great experience.

Yeah getting completely outplayed must be a great experience...

Depends on how you take it really.

For example I once qualified for a Worldcup in Shanghai, and I knew that I wold be the second yougest player there and wouldn't have any chance to even reach the top half of the table. I still tried my very best and enjoyed every game and the whole experience.
placed 53rd out of 62 I think :]

In ping pong?

http://private.addcom.de/dxb/dxbres.html

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1st link wasn't correct: http://private.addcom.de/dxb/dxbwm99.html

Do you play it online? It's the first time I hear of Europeans playing Xianqi. It looks like Go is more popular outside of Asia.

haven't played it online in at least five years. But I'm pretty much inactive at the moment at the moment anyway. Almost never play even thoug some people are plaing in my town and only went to one tournament in this season. Which is a shame cause I might have had a shot at qualifying for Vancouver :/

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and yeah go is more popular, the German xiangqi "scene" consists of maybe 60 more or less active players.

Don't tell Scotland or the Republic of Ireland that :X

Turkey almost lost their place to a shitty team like Norway. The only thing that saved their asses were the opposing teams horrible goalkeepers.

ye i ment McClaren, my fault.
Ye but u could see that russia was getting overall better. Hiddink startet about the same time as Bilic, and imo they two both did a great job with developing there teams.

I saw them play in the qualification. They looked nowhere near as good as they do now and they were quite lucky that Croatia did them a favour.

I wish I were not (mostly) russian and I don't want to speak this motherfucking language and I hate every asshole mother russia has born. Those football suckers can go and die, I hate them and I advice you to hate them too. Pussies to say the least.

a bit harsh

i always hated and it seems i will always hate the Russian state (in its every past and future incarnations), but hating the common folk, be it even the national football team, is stupid.

To you, maybe. In fact when I come to a shop or buy a ticket in cinema or whatever I meet this common folk, = I meet soviet people, they behave like assholes, they are assholes. To you they may look better because you don't see them often. Even if you do see them, they most likely behave a bit better with you because you are a foreigner (= you have money).

Quick example... I go to university, foreign languages faculty and there is an obligatory course of physical education (I believe it can't be obligatory in any other country?) and it's a three-year course, 56 (112 hours) lessons per year. So I go there for the first time and the teacher meets me with a good portion of hate for no reason. I go there once more, then I happen to get in a car accident. A car runs into me and my clavicle is broken (so I obviously won't be able to go to any physical education for a long time). I come to the teacher with a health certificate. She says something like (literally) "fuck off". So I have a problem which comes out of nowhere. I have this problem for 2 years now. If you do think we live in a civilized society, you are mistaken. What do you think those greedy university bastards want? Money! I can pay them, but they won't take it from me. They want money of all the people who learn in the university but not me. Fun.

well yeah.. i haven't met any russians so far
btw are you ukrainian studying in russia or what?

no it's just that my parents are russian (at leat my mother believes she is). I live in Ukraine and in fact I'm talking about post-USSR society overall. Ukraine is (a little) better, we have some kind of democracy... but still it is a nightmare, not a country.

Your example is just ridiculous.
Where is teh connection between Russia and ukrainian university (specifically ukrainian teacher)? Is she/he a 55-year-old repson, with her/his head still full of soviet propaganda shit? Wake up! Russia != USSR. Generation, that was born and lived most of their lives in soviet times, is fucking old now and will die soon.
Btw, do you hate your mother for being russian? If yes, you're retarded, sorry. Master your english or whatever language you're studying ang GTFO somewhere ... h8r.

I don't hate anyone in the world just for being russian...
Speaking of this football team, I don't like them for a reason: I find that they play like tractor drivers who were not paid their salary, but they still feel they are cool, they still feel patriotic. I find all this dangerous. Russians feel like their nation makes some progress, they see their team win in football, in hockey, the gayest of them wins eurovision... In fact, most part of russian people still dream of vodka for breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper too. But I definately don't think being russian makes you what you are. There are good people in every country.

now now, what's yeltsin gonna say :>

look at yourself or at your country first please

yeah I look at myself, I'm OK. I llok at my country and it makes me wanna puke. but watching news on a russian channel makes me rrrrrrrreally sick. so forget it, life is pain here, but russian life is just a rollercoaster of death.

really i wish you would get in a really bad country dude
you have pc internet and posting some shit omn stupid wensites
and 50% of the people in the world did never made a phone call
so please stop the whine
:)

russia germany finals plz

gonna be 2nd bürgerkrieg in a week then :D

yeah, could be a Pyrrhic victory if we win the final.

rage the biggest immigrant groups = fail. :-(

no more kebap and clubbing for half a year xD

i won't be buying Döner in the next weeks no matter what.

If we win I don't want to try the "special sauce" and if they win I don't wanna ee the arrogant smiles.

Well punish in WK

lmao@romania

sif someone really cares :D