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Alright ladies and gentlemen, at the request of many otherwise unhappy families, we're going to have another stab at setting up a CFC Tour contest, this old classic of our forum. :yeah: Hopefully it will turn out better than the last time I organized one... :blush The rules are going to be...

1.756.812 putative new Maradonas stemming from the Pampas later, finally one that actually lives up to the promise. Not a new Maradona yet, but not far off track either I guess. Lionel Messi's impersonation of El Pibe earlier today.

Found this online quiz through another site. You have to guess the name of the 48 players pictured. The quiz is brazilian so some of them may be a bit obscure for an international audience. I got 36 correct. :)

This thread is not intended at bashing the man. He ended his career in horrendous manner, and I'm sure no one regrets it more than him (unless he'll surprisingly comeback to clean his image). I'm also sure that right now it is hard to go past that action and see beyond that, but the fact remains...

When the WC begins, this forum is gonna be invaded by lots and lots of posters, and it's not hard to imagine a thread being opened for every little incidence of the event. So, like we did for Euro 2004, I suggest we open up one thread for each group of the first round, where ideally we shall...

The absence of a thread on the subject indicates that this wasn't a widely followed event here on CFC, but for the past 2 weeks, this was a nice event to open the apetite for the WC, and it was definitely much more entertaining than expected. The final was yesterday between Holland and Ukraine...

For this WC FIFA said the teams had to bumit the list of players selected almost a month before the tournament kick-off. All the teams are therfore known for more than a week already. But similarly ita was said that any injured player can be replaced until 24 hours before the WC, so what we have...

Italian newspaper Tuttosport gives a trophy to the best U20 player of the year. It is the equivalent to the France Football's Ballon d'Or to upcoming talents, although imo maybe they should consider changing the name "Golden Boy" to something else... This year, as expected, the winner is...

I guess we're all excited about tomorrow's WC draw, but since we're at it, the pots for the Euro 2008 qualifying draw have also been decided. The draw will take place on the 27th of January. Austria and Switzerland are obviously directly qualified. There will be 7 groups and both the winners and...

What are the criteria to be selected for the NZ Maori team? Just any Maori ancestor at any point of your genealogical tree, or at least a specific number of grandparents or great-grandparents, etc.? I ask this because last time I feard about that team, when they beat the B&I Lions in the Summer...

Yesterday the french newspaper Le Monde had this cover story: http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-700474,0.html (Sorry, french link, but I give an extensive summary in the rest of this post) It is a report conducted by a group from a Vancouver university and financed by the UN...

Tonight, 21:00 GMT. Estádio do Dragão, Porto. Here it is, the great derby of Portugal, and this season, also a derby of Holland. At the start of the season Benfica was a disgrace, but in later games they have improved. Porto was a joy, but now already started loosing points...

The Tour will start this weekend, and I was wondering if there is interest in doing the game we've done in the past couple of years. Basicly, as it is so late, it would be the same model we worked out 2 years ago. However, this year, I don't think I can organise the entire game as I did in...

Wait for the poll.

Inspired in the thread about the fall of the Ottomoan Empire, and taking in consideration the immense rivalry between the empire proper and the former provinces in the Balkans as well as Russia in the XIX century and early XX, could someone educated on the subject explain how in the end the...

What sports does your favourite club compete in? Do they only have teams in football, or do they a multiple sports club? In case they only have one sport, do you support other clubs in a different sport? My club, FC Porto has teams and individual athletes competing under its banner in the...

I guess the masses weren't ready for the tremendous concentration of football knowledge generated by the 5th Advent of the football quiz at the time. But after waiting a year, I think we should give it another try and ressurrect the most classic of all threads in the Sports Forum. :yeah: The...

In recent months a new amazing talent has atracted some widespread atention in Brazil. So far so good, as we're all used to see fantastic young players coming out of Brazil, but actually there is something unusual about this one. He's 9 years old. Yeah, you read well: 9 years old. As much as...

I am a member of an amateur theatre company, where I perform as an actor and write some of the scenes of the plays. I want to prepare a small performance for wednesday or thursday about women. :) I am interested in all sorts of info from tales, legends, books, songs, religious hymns and...

Today Rossi, "il dottore" won his 4th conseutive world title in MotoGP (and 6th counting 125 and 250 cc). One more and he'll equal Mick Doohan. He'll still have to win 4 more to equal Giacomo Agostini though. I never saw Agostini racing, but he's an amazing legend. With regards to the rest, I...