The Association Football Thread

[AlizéeSuperFanFIN]

Uefa Euro 2020 is going, it has not been talked about here.

For us Finns, the competition is now special when we 'Huuhkajat" participate in the men's final tournament for the first time! Even our golden generation (Litmanen, Hyypiä, etc.) had never reached the competition before.

Part of the reason, of course, is when the number of teams increases from 16 to 24. Personally, I don't like increasing the team numbers too much...

But we finished 17th, so we were knocked out of the playoffs very marginally as the first team, so the place in the games was clearly deserved!

By the way, Finland is even more of a ice hockey country, and we just lost IIHF World Champs gold to Canadians before these games

Personally, I don’t even like that much of the European Football Championships (Although of course I watch every match ), and even though I’m a completely crazy bench athlete - I like the FIFA World Cup a lot more.

The coaches have made European football boring and overall my favorite football team is from South America i.e. Argentina / La AlbiCeleste!