Re: World Cup (2018) - Group A (Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uruguay)

by BarrileteCosmico Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:07 pm

Egypt lost all rights to sympathy when their fans started using the vuvuzelas non stop.

Also they had 2 player nicknamed Trezeguet and Electricity. It's like a bad game of FM.

Went in passively rooting for Uruguay and ended up actively rooting against Egypt.

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:08 pm

Based on that game i would look to try and get Cavani in the box more and let Suarez create.

Cavani looks a lot more confident in and around goal to me.

by Hapless_Hans Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:20 pm

I was about to ask but then felt as if I had missed something obvious

can anyone explain to me why the one Egypt player is called Trezeguet, exactly?
Because it's apparently not his actual name, and as a nickname it's.. well.. the name of another unrelated player..?

How do you justify this nonsense?

by Hapless_Hans Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:24 pm

It's even on his shirt, isn't it?

Imagine if suddenly we started calling Timo Werner "David Villa", and then also wrote David Villa on his jersey, and on the teamsheet, instead of Werner, people would be asking questions and rightly so

by S Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:27 pm

Dont see an issue with it

by zigra Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:36 pm

Hapless_Hans wrote:It's even on his shirt, isn't it?

Imagine if suddenly we started calling Timo Werner "David Villa", and then also wrote David Villa on his jersey, and on the teamsheet, instead of Werner, people would be asking questions and rightly so

Today a new David Villa has been born to us. He is the Messiah, the saviour of the german NT Molenation

by Unique Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:39 pm

Hapless_Hans wrote:I was about to ask but then felt as if I had missed something obvious

can anyone explain to me why the one Egypt player is called Trezeguet, exactly?
Because it's apparently not his actual name, and as a nickname it's.. well.. the name of another unrelated player..?

How do you justify this nonsense?

also what if he gets booked.

by Nishankly Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:41 pm

Hapless_Hans wrote:I was about to ask but then felt as if I had missed something obvious

can anyone explain to me why the one Egypt player is called Trezeguet, exactly?
Because it's apparently not his actual name, and as a nickname it's.. well.. the name of another unrelated player..?

How do you justify this nonsense?

His real name is Mahmoud Ahmed Ibrahim Hassan, he's not even similar in playing style to David lmao

by Luca Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:44 pm

It is his nickname ^^, I guess it has stuck with him and he's more known by it than his given name

It doesn't seem too wild to me, more so a non-factor

Can't wait for Firenze to make his pro debut with "Numpty" on the back of his shirt after his mercato guru career fails

by Nishankly Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:50 pm

I don't mind nicknames but this one is especially weird to me because:

A) The commentators use it in the game rather than his real name.
B) The nickname holds no significance considering it's derived from another football with no similarities.

Its like Pogba being called Maradona randomly imo

Kaka is an acceptable nickname imo

by Firenze Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:50 pm

It's actually pretty funny, reminds me of when you're kids at school playing kickabout football we all named ourselves after players, Giggsy, Henry, Ronaldinho, Taibi, Totti, etc

except this lad just took it one step further and never grew up

by Nishankly Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:51 pm

Luca wrote:

Can't wait for Firenze to make his pro debut with "Numpty" on the back of his shirt after his mercato guru career fails

But the world will call him Jabroni because of S and that nickname will stick with him in NT football.

by Nishankly Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:51 pm

Firenze wrote:It's actually pretty funny, reminds me of when you're kids at school playing kickabout football we all named ourselves after players, Giggsy, Henry, Ronaldinho, Taibi, Totti, etc

except this lad just took it one step further and never grew up

Exactly.

by iftikhar Fri Jun 15, 2018 4:04 pm

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Egypt lost all rights to sympathy when their fans started using the vuvuzelas non stop.

Also they had 2 player nicknamed Trezeguet and Electricity. It's like a bad game of FM.

Went in passively rooting for Uruguay and ended up actively rooting against Egypt.

An Argentine rooting (passively) for Uruguay??? What the world has come to Very Happy