I remember there once upon a time we had 3 players in Hamburg, one in Koln, 1 in Mienz, 3 in Leverkusen, 1 in BM, 1 in St Pauli, 1 in Charlton, a couple in Belgium, 1 in Turkey and Greece each, 1 in serie A, ..., we still were the same as we are today. Our coach was about to take Croatia to the WC just before he took over Iran. Sadly, within 3 years, our players mostly ended up being benchwarmers, and we didn't make it to the next WC just because Bahrainis honked the horns in front of our hotel.
well even back to time only azizi , daei and kia and bagheri were getting playing time .pashazadeh, mousavi and yadani didn't play at all for leverkuzen in bundesliga if i am not wrong . st-pauli , Mainz were in bundesliga two and emamifar , mahdavi, yazdani were playing for crappy chareloi , our serie A player was samereh who played probably only 2 or 3 games and shahroudi left turkey after half a season and nakisa played for button table Greece team
I"m really happy for them there is not much to cheer for in Algeria these days but their futbol team really surprised and impressed me them, Greece and Costa Rica. I thought all teams would be out for sure. I think we are going to have our hands full with them but I still think the difference is our subs v their subs and Algeria plays it tight in the first half but we pull away in the 2nd. Final Germany 2 Algeria 0 or maybe 3-1.
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Again and again, excellent game play against Germany. Solid defense and attractive move to the front. What more can you expect from such team...
Algeria is actually the winner from last night match. I as a huge German fan, have to accept that even though Germany controlled the match, Algeria had great chances to score in the first half. Germany did not play bad, Algeria was just good. Loew continually makes mistakes bringing wrong players and not letting Khadira and Schweinsteiger playing together. Lahm has to go back and defend like old days....
Algeria is actually the winner from last night match. I as a huge German fan, have to accept that even though Germany controlled the match, Algeria had great chances to score in the first half. Germany did not play bad, Algeria was just good. Loew continually makes mistakes bringing wrong players and not letting Khadira and Schweinsteiger playing together. Lahm has to go back and defend like old days....
Algerians were nearly perfect.
And a classical example of raising your performance and improving game by game. The big stage suited them and they went from ordinary against belgium to better against korea and excellent against Russia and Germany.
They were my darlings of this world cup.
What a display of full flowing passing game against Germany and did not sit back for a second.
And a classical example of raising your performance and improving game by game. The big stage suited them and they went from ordinary against belgium to better against korea and excellent against Russia and Germany.
They were my darlings of this world cup.
What a display of full flowing passing game against Germany and did not sit back for a second.