Friendlies

[XaviMessiGirl]

poor Reina.

[nebeer]

ah happens. Actually mistakes for goalkeepers are the costliest ones. When an attacking player or a midfielder makes a mistake it doesnt get all that attention but a GK or a defender makes a mistake it becomes a huge deal.

[XaviMessiGirl]

tbh right up there with Robert Green, only it won't be as highly publicized.

[nebeer]

tbh right up there with Robert Green, only it won't be as highly publicized.

Yep. Reina can thank God that it wasn't a World Cup game or something. Though even without today's mistake, Valdes should be number 2 imo.

[10Rivaldo]

Valdes 2nd choice, de Gea 3rd choice imo.

[tonio7]

Valdes 2nd choice, de Gea 3rd choice imo.

yup, and eventually De Gea will be 1st

[nebeer]

Valdes 2nd choice, de Gea 3rd choice imo.

Yeah, right! Spain is blessed with great goal keepers, but its rather sad for all the keepers that they are all born at the same time. I hope they are happy with club football and look at this abundance of keepers rather with an upbeat attitude.

[Beast]

'Fake' Togo team played Bahrain in friendly



A "fake" Togo national team played against Bahrain in an international friendly last week, prompting an investigation from the African nation's sports ministry and FIFA.

Bahrain beat who they thought was the Togo national team 3-0 in Bahrain last Tuesday, but Togo officials have claimed to have no knowledge of the match. It has emerged the players may not have been professional footballers or even Togolese nationals but mystery still surrounds their true identity.

Sheik Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, vice president of the Bahrain football federation, has insisted the match was legitimate and that the confusion has been created by a conflict between the Togo sports ministry and the interim Togo football federation. Al Khalifa did concede that the Togo team, which was not expected to feature the country's Europe-based star, was still suspiciously weak.

Further complicating matters was Al Khalifa's admission that the BFF was launching an investigation into the company that arranged the match, a FIFA-approved organisation based in Singapore. Other reports claim a fake agent sold the match to Bahrain.

The chairman of Togo's interim federation, installed after FIFA dissolved the previous body last year, claimed the team was "completely fake".

Seiyi Memene told AP: "We cannot send our players to play friendly matches abroad without the approval of FIFA. The players that took part in the friendly match against Bahrain were completely fake. We have not sent any team of footballers to Bahrain. The players are not known to us."

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[House of Flies]

does this mean that international teams are not that hard to play against? i mean a fake togo team only lost 3-0 to bahrain who almost, for further emphasis-- ALMOST!, made it to the world cup.

[Beast]

Probably an indication of a weak competition in Asia despite the great showing by Japan and S Korea ?

[House of Flies]

Probably an indication of a weak competition in Asia despite the great showing by Japan and S Korea ?

we should make a team and challenge New Zealand. someone needs to bring them to Earth.

[Beast]

i'll be the agent and u assemble a team of forum members
we can buy some original kits and trainers and go to play a friendly for 500 K

[Lemmi]

I already have a full teams orange kit, a first aid kit, some net clips, a captains armband, a great left foot, a pump and the fitness of a clinically obese pig.. so naturally play me at #10

[Beast]

U are the first name on the list.. not for your footballing skills as much as we need a semi-lawyer to bail us out of trouble just in case

[Bojan]