Azeem

In before Michael England are starting as favorites given they are by default favorites no matter how shit they are like their last defeat to Iceland. They have good players in the defense, not so good in midfield and piss poor strikers. They have Bellingham who is in great form after winning the Champions League with Real Madrid. However, Serbia has vastly improved and they have Mitrovic who plays in the Saudi Pro League. And that's about it.

anyone noticed Iman Wasim's attitude ? he wasn't even bothering to run. Wasted the most balls.

what a shit show by Pakistan batters. low scoring match was expected given the previous matches here but Naseem showed more intent than everyone. Deserved to get eliminated Credit to death over bowling by Bumrah.

This stadium is atrocious even for a club match, the ball literally stucks in the outfield.

They lost to Iceland

That is expected with every massacre/genocide/historical injustice, recently UN assembly passed a resolution to recognize Srebrenica as a genocide which is really nothing just a token gesture but the Serbian President had an epic meltdown lol

Him and Fakhar should've batted with Fakhar on the strike.

Pakistan has a habit of giving breakthroughs to smaller teams by losing to them in tournaments. Lost to Bangladesh in 99 in their first WC, lost to Ireland in 2007 giving their first big moment, lost to Zimbabwe last T20 when their cricket was going through an existential crisis and now giving a boost to cricket in US. But on a more serious note Pakistan is opposite of a team whose sum is greater than its parts. Relies on individual brilliance (which they have fair bit) but it only comes far and few.

I went with others. Euros have a history of unexpected winners Denmark, Greece etc even last two winners Italy, Portugal weren't exactly expected.

I'm more active on Discord now so I kinda miss some interactions here.

in any civilized society he would've been jailed for cheating on Shakira anyway !

Friday 14th June, 2024 Group A Germany 2-0 Scotland, 20.00 Saturday 15th June, 2024 Group A Hungary 1-2 Switzerland, 14.00 Group B Spain 1-1 Croatia, 17.00 Italy 1-0 Albania, 20.00 Sunday 16th June, 2024 Group C Slovenia 1-3 Denmark, 17.00 Serbia 1-1 England, 20.00 Group D Poland 2-3 Netherlands, 14.00 Monday 17th June, 2024 Group E Romania 0-2 Ukraine, 14.00 Belgium 1-3 Slovakia, 17.00 Group D Austria 0-2 France, 20.00 Tuesday 18th June, 2024 Turkey 2-2 Georgia, 14.00 Portugal 3-1 Czech Republic, 20.00

My reasons for each team for not winning Germany Going through a bad patch for some time now with mixed results recently Scotland Have never progressed out of the group stages in history and not likely to change that Hungary Remerging on the intl scene after decades of wilderness that is good enough Switzerland Switzerland in football is like India pre-2003 in cricket which was called team of bank clerics. Competitive enough to do the job here and there but nothing inspiring about them individually and collectively. Spain apart from that 2008-12 period they have always been chokers on intl scene Croatia Their best days are behind them Italy Last Euro win was an anomaly from the deep structural problems in their football. Even a broken clock thing Albania Why have they even qualified ? Slovenia Should be happy they even qualified Denmark Piss poor at the last WC under different conditions showed they are not all that great with last Euro run Serbia meh England Self-explanatory Poland Like Switzerland but have one very popular player Netherlands Were really good in last WC expect them to reach semis but 50/50 after that Austria Like Slovenia but have one very famous player who I believe won't be playing France No reason not to win Belgium Wasted golden generation now back to being mediocre like they were from 2000s to early 2010s Slovakia meh Romania Eww Ukraine Expect them to top their group but meh after that Turkey Did fuck all despite so much talk around them last Euros. A mediocre NT in essence, the best entertainment they can give is by starting one those brawls like in their league Georgia Technically shouldn't even be here since they are part of Asia Portugal Ronaldo haters kept saying they are better without Ronaldo but did the same without Ronaldo last WC. QF stuff max Czech Republic Croatia of Euros but won't win it

Group A Germany, Hungary, Switzerland Group B Spain, Croatia, Italy Group C England, Denmark, Slovenia Group D France, Netherlands, Poland Group E Ukraine, Slovakia, Belgium Group F Portugal, Czech Republic, Turkey Top goal scorer Mbappe Winner France

I'm in

I think at this point you guys are being naive to not know why West don't condemn Israel so I'll address the elephant in the room. It's simple Israel is a settler project of West in a very key region of the world and to maintain it they will have to pay some price for it from time to time even in the loss of their own citizens. That said I think it's not completely accurate to say West is backing Israel, it's Protestant West. Catholic majority countries like Spain, Ireland, Italy etc have been very critical of Israel but they don't really matter tbh so it doesn't show in material effect. I was having this discussion with someone actually that Catholics and Sunnis together make the majority of the world but they are totally useless at the moment. not one state that has their majority really matters globally. You could make some excuse for France, Turkey, Saudi but I don't really buy it. And Saudis aren't really Sunni to begin with, they have their own thing. It's the Protestant (US-UK) and Shia (Iran) that are the most active global players despite being numerically a minority. Fascinating

I took stickers on a hotel door room without permission once.

There is this image created of the 'West' that everything good about it material progress, law and order etc is due to some gigantic team effort where everyone from US to Australia works in shifts. But when it comes to bad things the blame is individualized as one off 'mistakes'. Hitler, Leopold in Belgium etc they did not come out of isolation. These are systematic things which are again being seen in Gaza.

Visuals of famine now coming out of Gaza. It's now also time the term fundamentalist West or something like that is also used. The unsheltering US support for Israel and things like Iraq war before that are not just for strictly geopolitical reasons or for natural resources etc it goes beyond that. Western power circles are the same colonial fundamentalist that they were centuries ago. That EU guy even saying rest of the world is a jungle and Europe is a garden a while back speaks that they deep down still hold the ideas of racial superiority.

Normal but I hold the pen very hard.

Being drunk should have no influence in judging heinous crimes like rape or actions that may lead to death, drunk driving imo

Pantheon is a project by MIT university to rank the most notable people in human history based on how much traffic the Wikipedia profile of the personality gets. In order to get in the database the person's Wiki page must be in at least 15 different language versions of Wikipedia then it applies a complex mathematical equation to assign an HPI (historical popularity index) to rank personalities. https://pantheon.world/explore/rankings?show=people&years=-3501,2023 Based on that these are the most notable footballer figures player+coach born in each country (just born may not have actually played for that country). The ones I already know about are bolded. Please bold the ones you already knew about List A Afghanistan: Zohaib Islam Amiri Albania: Panajot Pano Algeria: Rabah Madjer Andorra: Oscar Sonejee Angola: Fernando Peyroteo Argentina: Diego Maradona Armenia: Henrikh Mkhtitaryan Australia: Graham Arnold Austria: Josef Bican Azerbaijan: Tofiq Bahramov List B Bahrain: A'ala Hubail Belarus: Sergei Aleinikov Belgium: Jean-Marrie Pffaf Belize: Dean McCaulay Benin: Stephane Sessegnon Bermuda: Shaun Goater Bhutan: Wangay Dorji Bolivia: Ulises Saucedo Bosnia & Herzegovina: Vahid Halilhodzic Botswana: Dipsy Selolwane Brazil: Pele Bulgaria: Hristo Stiochkov Burkina Faso: Jonathan Pitroipa Burundi: Shabani Nonda List C Cambodia: Chan Vathanaka Cameroon: Roger Milla Canada: John Van't Schip Cape Verde: Rolando Central African Rep: Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa Chad: Japhet N'Doram Chile: Ivan Zamorano China: Lie Tie Colombia: Rene Higuita Congo DR: Claude Makelele Congo Rep: Delvin N'Dinga Costa Rica: Keylor Navas Croatia: Davor Suker Cuba: Jorge Romo Cyprus: Michalis Konstantinou Czech Republic: Josef Masopust List D Denmark: Peter Schmeichel Dominican Republic: Junior Firpo List E Ecuador: Alberto Spencer Egypt: Mohamad Salah El Salvador: Jaime Rodriguez England: Bobby Charlton Estonia: Valeri Karpin Eswatini: Bongani Khumalo List F Fiji: Roy Krishna Finland: Jari Litmanen France: Zinedine Zidane List G Gabon: Mario Lemina Gambia: Omar Colley Georgia: Murtaz Khurtsilava Germany: Gerd Muller Ghana: Abedi Pele Greece: Theodoros Zagorakis Guatemala: Carlos Ruiz Guinea: Naby Keita Guinea-Bissau: Ansu Fati List H Haiti: Emmanuel Sanon Honduras: David Suazo Hong Kong: Chan Siu Ki Hungary: Ferenc Puskas List I Iceland: Eiour Guojohnsen India: Sunil Chetri Indonesia: Beb Bakhyus Iran: Ali Daei Iraq: Ahmed Radhi Ireland: Roy Keane Israel: Yochanan Vollach Italy: Giuseppe Meazza List J Jamaica: Raheem Sterling Japan: Kazuyoshi Miura (I knew he's the oldest player but didn't knew his name) Jordan: Amer Shafi List K Kazakhstan: Serhiy Skachenko Kenya: Michael Olunga Kosovo: Xerdan Shaqiri Kuwait: Faisal Al-Dakhil Kyrgyzstan: Ilzat Akhmetov List L Laos: Visay Phaphouvanim Latvia: Maris Verpakovskis Lebanon: Yousef Mohamed Liberia: George Weah Libya: Claudio Gentile Liechtenstein: Rainer Hasler Lithuania: Arminas Narbekovas Luxembourg: Louis Pilot List M Macedonia: Dragoslav Sekularac Madagascar: Anicet Abel Malawi: Russell Mwafulirwa Malaysia: Mokhtar Dahari Maldives: Ali Ashfaq Mali: Salif Keita Malta: Michael Mifsuda Mauritania: Adama Ba Mexico: Antonio Carbajal Moldova: Itzhak Shum Montenegro: Dejan Savicevic Morocco: Just Fontaine Mozambique: Eusebio List N Namibia: Collin Benjamin Nepal: Rohit Chand Netherlands: Johan Cruyff New Zealand: Wynton Rufer Nicaragua: Oscar Duarte Niger: Moussa Maazou Nigeria: Jay-Jay Okocha North Korea: Lee Yoo-hyung Northern Ireland: George Best Norway: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer List O Oman: Ali Al-Habsi List P Pakistan: Rubin Okotie Panama: Jorge Dely Valdes Paraguay: Jose Luis Chilavert Peru: Teofillo Cubillas Philippines: Paulino Alcantara Poland: Udo Lattek Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo List Q Qatar: Akram Afif List R Romania: Mircea Lucesu Russia: Lev Yashin List S St Kitts & Nevis: Keith Gumbs Saudi Arabia: Majed Abdullah Scotland: Kenny Dalgish Senegal: Jean-Pierre Adams Serbia: Drajan Dzajic Seirra Leone: Trevoh Chalobah Singapore: Terry Butcher Slovakia: Ferdinand Daucik Slovenia: Branko Oblak Somalia: Abdisalam Ibrahim South Africa: Bruce Grobbelar South Korea: Cha Bum-Kun Spain: Santiago Bernabeu Sudan: Almoez Ali Suriname: Edgar Davids Sweden: Gunnar Nordahl Switzerland: Robert De Mattio Syria: Mahmoud Dahoud List T Tajikistan: Rashid Rakhimov Thailand: Kiatisuk Senamuang Togo: Emmanuel Adebayor Trinidad & Tobago: Dwight Yorke Tunisia: Sadok Sassi Turkey: Hakan Sukur Turkmenistan: Rolan Gusev List U Uganda: Pione Sisto Ukraine: Andriy Shevchenko UAE: Adnan Al-Talyani USA: Bert Petanaude Uruguay: Jose Nasazzi Uzbekistan: Vasilis Hatzipanagis List V Venezuela: Leonardo Jardim Vietnam: La Cong Vinh List W Wales: Ryan Giggs List Z Zambia: Godfrey Chitalu Zimbabwe: Benjani Mwaruwari

Nuclear weapons are almost a century old technology no tech can be made exclusive for that long. Before we see an actual county using one we will see more Beirut like explosions.