Football Fanats 2008

[BonzaiJoe]

By the way, Diósgyör-Kazincbarcika 2-2 on a preparration match. Dirty Diósgyör!!! 

Are you sure that was the smiley you were looking for? 

[CTG]

Standings of Hungarian first class. ETO has quite a good season so far...

1	MTK Budapest	10	4	2	38-14	34
2	DVSC-TEVA	9	5	2	35-16	32
3	Újpest FC	9	5	2	35-17	32
4	Budapest Honvéd	9	4	3	32-19	31
5	Gabona Trans - Kaposvár	8	5	3	25-20	29
6	Györi ETO	7	7	2	33-19	28
7	ZTE FC	8	3	5	33-22	27
8	Fehérvár FC	7	2	7	25-21	23
9	Nyíregyháza	6	4	6	12-19	22
10	Vasas	4	5	7	18-25	17
11	REAC	4	3	9	14-26	15
12	BFC Siófok	3	6	7	16-22	15
13	Paksi FC	3	5	8	23-34	14
14	Diósgyöri VTK	2	7	7	16-31	13
15	Tatabánya FC	1	2	13	19-48	5
16	FC Sopron	0	0	0	0-0	0

Sopron was disqualified after the autumn season because of financial problems. Other teams will get 3-0 victory automatically without playing with them in the spring season.

[BonzaiJoe]

So Tatabánya's one victory is automatic 3-0 vs Sopron?

Yay for MTK Budapest!

[CTG]

So Tatabánya's one victory is automatic 3-0 vs Sopron?

No. It will be added after the round in which they would meet Sopron. Tatabánya made a surprising victory versus Budapest Honvéd in the 15th round.

But check Nyíregyháza: 16 matches, scored 12 goals, got 19. Last round: Györi ETO - Nyíregyháza 5-0... 

[Chulk]

A news CTG will like. Argentina's tour in Europe will be played with Argentina's first team.
Matches are vs. Cataluña (24/5), Jamaica (1/6) & Hungary (4/6)  .

[CTG]

Hungary - England 15-0 (6-0)!!!

in futsal

[Chulk]

Hungary - England 15-0 (6-0)!!!

in futsal

Great result! Are you really that good or is England really that bad?

[CTG]

Second option (I'm afraid... )

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Second option (I'm afraid... )

You are wrong, Hungarian futsal is close to world elite. They have chance to qualify for the world cup in Brazil. They have to beat the Polish tomorrow (they beat ENG 10-2, MKD 3-2, we beat them 15-0 and 3-0, respectively, so we are the better I think), and then we got through this qualifying group. We are in Europe Top 12 then, these 12 will be randomized into pairs, and the winners can travel to the WCH. Only six places for Europe, but Hungary has a chance I think.

Btw during the broadcast, commentary said that Argentina only beat the English 12-1 on a friendly cup.

In a South American tournament last year, we almost beat the Argentinian team in the semifinal.

[Chulk]

Second option (I'm afraid... )

[...]they beat ENG 10-2, MKD 3-2, we beat them 15-0 and 3-0, respectively, so we are the better I think

That doesn't mean anything. Before Germany '06 we played against Hungary and won 2-1. Then, during the World Cup, we beat Serbia & Montenegro 6-0. Does it mean you are better (or less worse if you want) than S&M? I don't think so.
About ranking, I couldn't find an updated World ranking of Futsal.

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Well, now I saw the end of the POL-MKD match on tv, 6-2 the end. So 1. Hungary 6 pts (18-0) 2. Poland 6 pts (16-4) 3. Macedonia 0 pts (2-9) 4. England 0 pts (2-25). So a draw is enough on Sunday to get to the knockout pairings stage.

During the broadcast, they said Hungary was in the 1st pot when the draw happened, and Poland in the 2nd pot. They also said taht Hungary is twelfth on the World Rank List. Quite good I think. This is not football.

[BonzaiJoe]

What the heck is Futsal 

[Duplode]

Futsal = FIFA-sanctioned indoor football, with 5 players on each team.

[Krys TOFF]

FutSal (Futbol Sala in spanish, or Futbol de Salon in Portuguese, i.e. in-door football) has been created in the 30's in south America.

It is mainly a South American sport, with logical extension in Europe in Spain and Portugal. Since last years, eastern Europe countries started to play it more seriously, especially Russia, Czech rep., Slovakia or Belarus.
European championship organization team is in Russia, European club championship was dominated by Spain and portugal first, and by Russia since around 10 years.
France has an official organization since 2002 only. This is when I first heard about it. We really don't care about it in France, although it is often more spectacular to see compared to real football due to shorter terrain (handball terrain is used).

Paraguay has been world champion 3 times (1988, 2003, 2007), Brazil twice (1982, 1st world championship, and 1985). Argentina (1994), Columbia (2000), Portugal (1991) and Venezuela (1997) has been world champions once.
Portugal is the only non-South American country to have been world champion. Spain had been vice-world champion in 1985.
Originally it was an independant federation (FIFUSA, renamed AMF), it seems now that it is co-organized with FIFA and that there are 2 different classification : FIFA one and AMF one. Sounds weird... the one I talked above is AMF one.

It is said that in Brazil there are more people playing FutSal than real football, I don't know if it's true.

[CTG]

Györi ETO FC - Debrecen (champion of the last three seasons) 3-1 (1-0)

Beware, we are coming!