Congratulations to Palestine

Oat23

They beat the Philippines 1-0 in the AFC Challenge Cup final this evening, their first ever title. They have secured qualification for the AFC Asian Cup in Australia this January.

Their league only turned professional 3 years ago. Before that is was amateur and all but 3 or 4 of their players still play in the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SENGuLhMACM

Augmerson

Congrats to Palestine!

Fr Tod Umptious

Why ?

Son Of A Vidic

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Why ?

Why Why?

efb

Imagine a game against Isreal... I'd say Isreal would dominate possession...

alanceltic

Masters at organising a good solid wall

Oat23

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Why ?

Because it is the first thing they have ever won, and with all the sh*t they have to go through they deserve a pat on the back for qualifying for a major tournament IMO.

DerekDGoldfish

efb wrote: »

Imagine a game against Isreal... I'd say Isreal would dominate possession...

Long periods camped in the opposition half with occasional counter attacks from Palestine.

Guy:Incognito

Oat23 wrote: »

Because it is the first thing they have ever won, and with all the sh*t they have to go through they deserve a pat on the back for qualifying for a major tournament IMO.

Meh, come back when they've won the nations cup.

losthorizon

you can buy their jersey here for those interested in wearing foreign teams kits.

http://www.ipsc.ie/category/soccer

grenache

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Why ?

Are you well?!

Dozen Wicked Words

So would they eventually play in European qualifying tournaments like their friendly neighbours. Might not be that far away, if Gibraltar are getting a crack at it.

efb

DerekDGoldfish wrote: »

Long periods camped in the opposition half with occasional counter attacks from Palestine.

Palestine play through a loan striker into Israeli half to be completely taken out by their centre halves, ref plays on...

Oat23

efb wrote: »

Palestine play through a loan striker into Israeli half to be completely taken out by their centre halves, ref plays on...

Israel forcefully removes the Palestinian midfield from the pitch and subs in their own players. Ref turns a blind eye .

riffmongous

losthorizon wrote: »

you can buy their jersey here for those interested in wearing foreign teams kits.

http://www.ipsc.ie/category/soccer

The classic one is a nice looking jersey imo

Zebra3

Oat23 wrote: »

Israel forcefully removes the Palestinian midfield from the pitch and subs in their own players. Ref turns a blind eye .

Impartial American ref.

Guy:Incognito

Oat23 wrote: »

Israel forcefully removes the Palestinian midfield from the pitch and subs in their own players. Ref turns a blind eye .

Israeli striker through on goal, palastinian defender kicks him in the face and clears the ball. Israeli player gets blamed. :-)

Augmerson

Palestine and Israel meet in Play-off for WC. First leg played in Israel. Second leg cannot be played as Palestine's stadium is demolished and houses built on it.

Seaneh

efb wrote: »

Imagine a game against Isreal... I'd say Isreal would dominate possession...

Probably occupy the Palestinian half for most of the game with a lot of offsides and professional fouls taking out key players on the Palestinian side.

Damnit, beaten to it!

DerekDGoldfish wrote: »

Long periods camped in the opposition half with occasional counter attacks from Palestine.

Seaneh

Considering that 30% of their population are de facto banned from representing them due to living in the world's largest open air prison and the other 70% of their population lives under illegal apartheid military occupation, this is a massive achievement.

Seaneh

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Israeli striker through on goal, palastinian defender kicks him in the face and clears the ball. Israeli player gets blamed. :-)

Reality:

Israeli and Palestinian player have a tussle in the box. Israeli throws a punch, Palestinian throws one back. Ref tells the Israeli to calm down or next time it's a booking, Palestinian player is sent off and given a lifetime ban with no appeal.

losthorizon

Seaneh wrote: »

Reality:

Israeli and Palestinian player have a tussle in the box. Israeli throws a punch, Palestinian throws one back. Ref tells the Israeli to calm down or next time it's a booking, Palestinian player is sent off and given a lifetime ban with no appeal.

Bit harsh on the Israeli player isnt it?

Seaneh

losthorizon wrote: »

Bit harsh on the Israeli player isnt it?

Poor petal is awfully hard done by. Starts the fight and gets told off, shocking.

Zebra3

Seaneh wrote: »

Poor petal is awfully hard done by. Starts the fight and gets told off, shocking.

Then claims anti-semitism.

keano_afc

Thread is going to be moved to After Hours at this rate.

losthorizon

keano_afc wrote: »

Thread is going to be moved to After Hours at this rate.

Hey, the whole Sokker forum should be moved to AH as nobody here actually goes to watch football games.

Fr Tod Umptious

losthorizon wrote: »

Hey, the whole Sokker forum should be moved to AH as nobody here actually goes to watch football games.

Oh God all mighty.

The LOI whinge brigade even manage to have a gripe during a light hearted thread about Palestine.

Get a life.

kevpants

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

So would they eventually play in European qualifying tournaments like their friendly neighbours. Might not be that far away, if Gibraltar are getting a crack at it.

No they'd play against other Middle Eastern teams. Israel play in Europe because pretty much every other team they'd face in qualification wants to wipe them off the map. Ya know because of all the illegal occupation and the apartheid thing.

anncoates

Finally: an international team for earnest football hipsters that worship FC St Pauli (from their laptops).

NIMAN

I wonder was there much celebrating in Republican areas of NI?

OneEightSeven

Seaneh wrote: »

Reality:

Israeli and Palestinian player have a tussle in the box. Israeli throws a punch, Palestinian throws one back. Ref tells the Israeli to calm down or next time it's a booking, Palestinian player is sent off and given a lifetime ban with no appeal.

Then the Palestinian suicide bombers planted in the Israeli fans, detonate their suicide vests, but every quasi-liberal in Europe ignore the fact that's there árseholes on both sides because they are bigoted.

patmac

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Then the Palestinian suicide bombers planted in the Israeli fans, detonate their suicide vests, but every quasi-liberal in Europe ignore the fact that's there árseholes on both sides because they are bigoted.

Not much lolz there tbh.

Seaneh

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Then the Palestinian suicide bombers planted in the Israeli fans, detonate their suicide vests, but every quasi-liberal in Europe ignore the fact that's there árseholes on both sides because they are bigoted.

You are calling me bigoted because I don't support an illegal military occupation, human rights abuses, war crimes and apartheid.
Makes perfect sense.

GLaDOS

Well this thread escalated quickly

efb

People front of Judea 1-1 Judea's People's front

keano_afc

Seaneh wrote: »

You are calling me bigoted because I don't support an illegal military occupation, human rights abuses, war crimes and apartheid.
Makes perfect sense.

Not for this thread Seaneh. Lets stick to the football eh?

Seaneh

keano_afc wrote: »

Not for this thread Seaneh. Lets stick to the football eh?

Direct reply to an accusation.

If someone is going to call people bigots then they should be called on it.

Augmerson

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Then the Palestinian suicide bombers planted in the Israeli fans, detonate their suicide vests, but every quasi-liberal in Europe ignore the fact that's there árseholes on both sides because they are bigoted.

Hey buddy I prefer pinko bleedingheart quasi-liberal, amirite?

losthorizon

Oops and people thought it was bad when I mentioned the LOI :eek::p

circadian

Well done, it's good to see.