look here for the article: http://www.uefa.com/uefa/news/Kind=128/newsId=46157.html

:goodjob: that way we will at least be able to take part at the eurochampionships again ;)

Congratulations.

Hmm, now even two places will be preoccupied. :hmm:

Well if "Nordic 2008" would have been chosen that would have been four...

Anyway, that opens up the possibility to be close to alot of football, first 2006 then 2008. :D :goodjob:

I was about to post it too. I suported the Greek-Turkish bid, but I guess this one is allright. It's certainly better than Nordic 2008 or Scotland-Ireland.
Congratulations.

I think it was the best possibility together with the Nordic countries. Croatia and Bosnia couldn't have possibly believed they would get it.

Very bad News.
Nothing against Switzerland... Just Austria.

What have the poor Ösis done to you? ;)

Originally posted by IceBlaZe
Very bad News.
Nothing against Switzerland... Just Austria.

Well Iceblaze, I could guess your reason for the dislike, but I think you could very well re-evaluate your feelings for switzerland.../ot

I think it's a good thing. The austrian football hasn't been very strong lately (saw some reports on the down side some months ago...), but this can be a push in the right direction. Teams like Sturm Graz have had their impact on the European scene.

And not to mention the swiss contender in the CL! :goodjob:

I hope this is a motivation for the austrian players in particular (haven't much hope for the swiss...): ditch that ass of a coach, and take your time to build a team in Korean style!

Hans Krankel is not the best coach, but he has good connections to the media and to those, who decide about our coach. they have offered him a contract until 2008:mad:
i don`t see any future for the austrian football, but that doesn`t matter. i can see footballs best close to me 2006 in munich and 2008 in salzburg and vienna! :)
@ICeBLAZe:What is your problem with Austria? We are far less antisemitic than France or Germany.

@ICeBLAZe:What is your problem with Austria? We are far less antisemitic than France or Germany.

You are the only country who didn't went through a significant change in the education and social systems after the holocaust.
Plus, a large part of your population voted for a declared Nazi sympathiser who illegaly inherited most of his property from Jews who were banned from Austria during WW2.

Hey, they should build the stadium in the Alps and play in the snow! :D I never have seen a football game in the snow...

Co-hosting is very popular now, isn't it? First Netherlands / Belgium for Euro 2000, then Japan / Korea for the 2002 World Cup; we just had Singapore / Indonesia for the Tiger Cup, and now this.

I'd like to see Malaysia and Singapore co-host the World Cup at some point. They're both improving teams and would make good co-hosts in the future. Asian football is worth supporting, in my honest opinion. And they both have a history of successful hosting of large sporting events, such as the Commonwealth Games and the SEA Games.

:lol: Yeah well, some strange guy over here said Holland could host a world cup in 10 years (but I think after 2006 the WC of 2018 will be the first held in Europe)...anyway, I don't think there will be a World Cup here anyway, nor Olympics.

The problem with joint hosting, is when both the hosts would be unlikely to qualify for the tournament. At least Japan and S Korea could say they probably would have qualified anyway.

nowadays holland can't be all sure of that anymore...we've been put on the ground with both are feet late 2001....

But Holland would still be expected to qualify and Belgium are a likely qualifier as well.

Originally posted by Globber
Hey, they should build the stadium in the Alps and play in the snow! :D I never have seen a football game in the snow...

You haven't?

:rolleyes:

:lol: ya, you must live some hot place. Never even seen european matches in snow? And I think pretty much every stadium over there is in the Alps, especially the Swiss ones.

Even then: just check some Champions League Dynamo Kiev home pitch action.
They even play with a pink ball... wussies!

Congratulations to Austria and Switzerland

Co-hosting allows smaller countries to become hosts, and thats good for the world game. It's a global trend too. If your're taking a cup to a big place, might as well give smaller neighbours a few games as well. There has been talk off a joint NZ/Australia bid for the Football WC. Also, i read on teletext the other day that Quebec and NY State were considering a joint Olympic bid.

It's a tad unfair that all three German states get tournaments in a short period of 2 years. German bias?
I'd much rather the Championship went to the Celtic bid, or at least, to the Greece/Turkey bid or even the Russian bid, since all of these countries are more important in footballing terms and have not previously hosted a major international football tournament. The decision was, quite frankly, a joke - but I'm not laughing :cry:

I think you can hardly call Switzerland a German state. If you say all three I'd guess you meant Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein. I think the Swiss are just as much French, and some Italian as well.

Originally posted by willemvanoranje
I think you can hardly call Switzerland a German state. If you say all three I'd guess you meant Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein. I think the Swiss are just as much French, and some Italian as well.


GARBAGE!!! :) Swizerland is 65% German. Swizerland is overly associated with being French, the vast majority are German. I know the Swiss aren't German like the Austrians, but it's still unfair. Do you think it's fair?

Sorry for missing Liechtenstein, but it's too small.

:lol: Allright, and Liechtenstein probably doesn't even have a stadium with 20.000 seats. I don't know any French Swiss, just some German Swiss, but I guess indeed they're more German then.