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Post by Nitrogen on Sept 7, 2011 19:45:58 GMT 1
On a brink of upcoming eurocup season i start this thread for those of us, interested in football. Hope i won't be alone on this so i would be glad to see some thoughts on a subject. In this season there are four ukrainian teams competing for european trophies. One - in Champions League and three - in Europa League. In CL it is our pride and glory - Shakhtar Donetsk, reigning national champion and a winner of 2009's UEFA Cup. In EL Ukraine represented by Dynamo Kyiv(2nd UA), Metalist Kharkiv(3rd UA) and Vorskla Poltava(6th UA), the last two - are pretty much mid-tier ukrainian teams, which got stronger just recently thanks to appropriate financial investments. Dynamo, though, was Shakhtar's arch-rival throughout last couple of seasons, but wasn't good enough to qualify to Champions League(Dynamo Kyiv 1–4 Rubin Kazan). Our clubs are not that strong overall, but at this point i'm pretty certain they will be victorious in their first matches. So i'm going cheer hard cuz i'm a bit patriotic too) UEFA Champions League Schedule: uefa.to/CL-Day1UEFA Europa League Schedule: uefa.to/EL-Day1P.S.: Speaking of naming, the second word in all of listed club's titles corresponds to the city from where each of them derives. So we call them Shakhtar, Dynamo, Metalist, Vorskla and even Rubin.
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Post by kanzo on Sept 7, 2011 22:24:01 GMT 1
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Post by Doc on Sept 8, 2011 12:40:09 GMT 1
That second link is malformed kanzo, just like my team - Newcastle
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Post by kanzo on Sept 8, 2011 16:09:43 GMT 1
Fixed the link
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Post by Doc on Sept 8, 2011 22:56:32 GMT 1
Can you fix my team ? Or at least challenge Mike Ashley to a duel ?
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Post by Nitrogen on Sept 9, 2011 0:46:37 GMT 1
football drama, eh?) Oh my, these people KNOW how to cheer! If only we could have such a high level of football culture over here, nothing, except cursing and garbage can be found at our stadium. Prolly, it's because our local team sucks, but either way)
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Post by martinheterjag on Sept 9, 2011 17:32:17 GMT 1
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Post by Nitrogen on Sept 28, 2011 14:00:54 GMT 1
Our national champion lost their first game vs Porto - 2:1. Got two red cards in one game. Quite a start for a season. Vice champion - Dynamo, barely got a draw scoring at 91st minute against Stoke City. Other two teams got a win and a lose, which in the end changed my overall optimistic view on our teams. I don't think they will compete for long now. It seems, at least half of them won't make it out of groups, but we'll see. Another round of beating started now
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