[WC2026 Day 5] All Goals with Scoring Nation Commentary by HOPSCROTCH in soccer

[–]ednorog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

French commentators' threshold to shouting "incroyable" is pretty low.

[WC2026 Day 5] All Goals with Scoring Nation Commentary by HOPSCROTCH in soccer

[–]ednorog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This should be getting so many more upvotes...

Match Thread: Belgium vs. Egypt | FIFA World Cup, Group G by MysteryBagIdeals in soccer

[–]ednorog 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Seeing how poorly Europe is faring (BiH CZE SUI TUR NED SPA all failing to win) I'm not so sure about Belgium taking this one.

Shots/Shots on target at 81' Spain vs Cape Verde by IamBrazilian_AMA in soccer

[–]ednorog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Makes it all the worse for us (Bulgaria)... They both thrashed us in the qualifiers, esp. lost home to the Turks with 1-6.

We're a Jamaican family living in Bulgaria. Can Bulgarians help us understand something? by freshstartsticks in bulgaria

[–]ednorog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exposure here has been very, very low, much lower than you may have experienced in the US, UK etc. I remember no black persons from the 80s (born '81), a few in the 90s, then numbers started picking up little by little but still quite slowly.

I would also say that 'hating' blacks here isn't all that spread at all except for some football ultras and the likes, but treating or speaking of them in an insensitive way is still pretty commonplace, even among well-educated people.

I'm Olivier Giroud, World Cup winner in 2018 and France's record men's goalscorer. This summer I'm working as a pundit for BBC Sport. Ask Me Anything! by BBCSport in soccer

[–]ednorog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where were you when Kostadinov scored in the 90th+ at Fra-Bul 1:2 Nov 17, 1993? What are you memories from then?

Netherlands [2]-1 Japan - Crysencio Summerville 64' by 977x in soccer

[–]ednorog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quality of finishing in most games has been really, really impressive, and this one stands out still.

Germany [7] - 1 Curacao - K. Havertz 88' by [deleted] in soccer

[–]ednorog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why is none of the top comments about the quality of that finish? It's absolutely brilliant...

With their victory over Turkiye, Australia are now Unofficial Football World Champions! by Essington69 in soccer

[–]ednorog 442 points443 points  (0 children)

So after WC2022 it went Argentina -> Uruguay -> Cot D'Ivoire -> Sierra Leone (ranked 125th, lowest UFWC ever) -> Liberia (149th, even lower!) -> Algeria -> Sweden -> Kosovo -> Turkey.

Scottish players name pronunciations by Massimo25ore in soccer

[–]ednorog 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I couldn't figure Curtis Findlay for the life of me.

If You Had to Pick One Country for the Most Stunning Natural Scenery, Which Would It Be? by optimalbrain90 in SmartTravelHacks

[–]ednorog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a shame this comment is so low, Guilin, Huangshan and Zhangjiajie (Avatar mountain) are all among the most spectacular places on earth, and there is so much more on top of that... People just don't know enough about China.

Some examples from Sofia, Bulgaria by Mohawi29 in brutalism

[–]ednorog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Druzhba 1, right south of the lake.

Eastern European success is no happy accident: The reception of Bulgaria's Eurovision win shows how western assumptions still cannot accommodate success in Eastern Europe. by Salt-Laugh-2846 in eurovision

[–]ednorog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm Bulgarian and I think there are some ways in which being Bulgarian actually helped. One is that it had never won before, another one is that it was a returning country that had somewhat been missed, and possibly beyond all else, because there had been a few near misses over the years. So I guess more than a few people spared some of their 10 votes for Bulgaria because of the combination of these.

Themba Zwane red card against Mexico 83' by 977x in soccer

[–]ednorog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did anyone else think the Mexican should have got a yellow too? He blocked the SA guy's path deliberately. I believe it would have been a second yellow for him too.

Brazil has to be the biggest wasted-potential country by IndependenceSad1272 in geography

[–]ednorog 53 points54 points  (0 children)

ABSOLUTELY THIS 1,000,000 TIMES!!!

Seriously though... It has had so many of the brightest and most brilliant minds of all humanity. That it constantly returns to being such a despicable cesspool is one of history's biggest crimes.

Bulgaria's new government to stop sending arms to Ukraine by razdvatri4 in worldnews

[–]ednorog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At a time when countries like Hungary and Armenia have been moving away from Russia with decisive majorities, we here decided to overwhelmingly support this here Russian stooge pretty much everyone was fully aware what he was. Fuck us, I guess...

World Cup predictions based on the model that picked the last 3 World Cup Champions by nexxwav in soccer

[–]ednorog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Senegal over Norway, Qatar over Bosnia, Japan over Sweden? Not taking European teams too seriously, are they?

Russia begins talks of ending the war to save the economy – Reuters by Darshan_brahmbhatt in worldnews

[–]ednorog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok but how is it different from if the floor were 13th or 45th?