Football Thread!

[Soldier of Macedon]

Here is the Croatian player Zvonimir Boban kicking a Yugoslav policeman because the latter had just beaten up a supporter from his club, Dinamo Zagreb. This took place during the infamous riot between Dinamo and Red Star supporters:

Zvonimir Boban Kicking Yugoslav Police - YouTube

He was suspended by the Yugoslav Football Association for six months and had criminal charges filed against him. Here is what he had to say about the incident:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinamo_..._Belgrade_riot

Here I was, a public face prepared to risk his life, career, and everything that fame could have brought, all because of one ideal, one cause; the Croatian cause.

Not that I condone what happened between the supporters that day, but how many Macedonian sports figures are prepared to risk their career and everything that fame could bring them, for the Macedonian Cause? And I am not even talking about physical violence, just an expression of national pride, for example, publicly rejecting the ventilator.

[United MKD]

Yep, then you have Drazen Petrovic in the early 90's publicly showing his disgust at the Cetniks in the Croat-Serb war and distancing himself from Vlade Divac which was also started by Vlade throwing away the Croat flag after a fan waved it around when Yugoslavia won the world basketball championships. I wonder if Vlade did that to a Macedonian flag what would a reaction be by one of our players compared to Drazen's. We don't have that same mentality as the Serbs and Croats when it comes to making a stance for our rights.

[Soldier of Macedon]

Have a look at the disgusting terminology used in this article from the official UEFA website, they have even falsified a quote from Pancev:

http://www.uefa.com/memberassociatio...id=212883.html

Pancev spoke with optimism about his country's footballing future at the time of his Golden Player nomination. "There have always been, and will always be, talented players in FYROM," he said. "There are some organisational problems, but when these are overcome and the right people are in the right jobs, then I believe Macedonian football will continue to improve."

Maggots. As if Pancev would ever refer to his own country by that racist acronym. On the other hand, Gruevski insisted on it by taking Greece to the ICJ to ensure that they do accept us by that racist acronym in international organisations. If the 'leaders' don't respect their own country in the international arena, why would anybody else.

[EgejskaMakedonia]

Here's an interesting article that exposes the conditions in the Macedonian football league for what they truly are. He makes some very valid points, and perhaps the poor conditions and little to no investment into the pitch, rooms and stadiums is partly to blame for the lack of talent that is currently being developed within Macedonia.

http://www.macedonianfootball.com/in...stic&Itemid=63

[makedonche]

EM
Interesting article - I left them a little message!

[dimi28495]

Gjore Jovanovski should be President of FFM. He acknowledges the problems and talks sense. How is football in Macedonia going to improve if the pitches look worse than the local football clubs park across the road from my house here in Sydney and there are no proper change rooms or stands. After these basic footballing necessities are taken care of we can start talking of bringing in foreign coaches to train the youth. This focus should not just be on the Skopje based clubs either but from all over Macedonia. Look at other countries Croatia, Cyrprus... They were not that good either a few years ago but now they have teams participating in the Champions and Europa League group stages. It is my dream to see a Macedonian club in this. Along with this is the national team which I dream of seeing in a world cup one day. Someone told me Puma were thinking of starting to sell official jerseys, not sure if it is still happening. A very good idea that has been mentioned before is that international friendlies should be made with countries high in Macedonian population such as Australia or Canada. This is not impossible other countries have done it, so can we but not with the people in charge at the moment who are not willing to improve or even acknowledge problems despite we have now fallen to under 100 in the rankings.
GJORE JOVANOVSKI FOR PRESIDENT OF FFM!!

[United MKD]

Hari the mafia boss will not leave that position, he'll have to die before anyone replaces him.

[DedoAleko]

[makedonche]

Originally Posted by DedoAleko

Dedo Aleko
..hahahahahahah........toa ye zlatno! .....that's gold!

[George S.]

good riddance to the greeks we hope they pack their bags & go back to where they came from .