The Ultimate Football Thread 2013-2014 Vol. 4 EPL, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A etc

[chiva1908]

Thats because its ridiculously easy to become a Portuguese citizen if you can prove you have Portuguese blood.

I literally got my Portuguese citizenship within 1 hour at the consulate in New York before I went to go study in Italy so it'd be easier to travel around Europe being an EU member. I was born, raised, and went to school here. Never lived in Portugal but they just gave it to me.

So many Brazilians get that same privilege. Even if they probably only have 25-50% Portuguese blood.

Portugal wants citizens, they've had many leave in the past 100 years and they have a low birth-rate, they need people.

Must be like in Uruguay. I read that almost 1/3 of their population are people over the age of 55...

 

[Coupé It]

Must be like in Uruguay. I read that almost 1/3 of their population are people over the age of 55...

Old folks being the majority is not our problem. Portugal just wants more citizens since so many left.

This new generation of Portuguese people aren't leaving anymore tho, they're staying. No need to leave now. Things are much better and advanced compared to the dictatorship days.

Quintero in the game

 

[chiva1908]

Herrera on the pitch

 

[chiva1908]

Quintero in the game

Dude has lost the damn ball every time he's touched it

 

[Coupé It]

Dude has lost the damn ball every time he's touched it

You'll see...

Dudes left foot is like the hammer of Thor. Weird being that he's such a little guy.

 

[chiva1908]

WTF did the ref just do?

 

[Coupé It]

Damn, Porto is screwed for the next game. Fernando is our rock in the midfield. Not to worried about Jackson Martinez not playing. Ghilas will take the spot and do well.

 

[tego calderon el abayarde]

Quaresma looks like Fousey aka illest

 

[chiva1908]

MOTM = Sevilla's GK

 

[chiva1908]

Juve 1-0 Lyon
Basel 3-0 Valencia

 

[Coupé It]

Quaresma looks like Fousey aka illest

Whose that?

Everyone calls Quaresma "Cigano" in Portugal. Which means "gypsy". His mother is a Gyp.

 

[Coupé It]

MOTM = Sevilla's GK

True, Porto had more chances.

Look at you tho, becoming a Porto fan. Good for you. Lots of Colombians jumped on the bandwagon when we started buying Colombian players, now it looks like the same is happening with Mexicans.

The more the better, need more global fans.

 

[chiva1908]

True, Porto had more chances.

Look at you tho, becoming a Porto fan. Good for you. Lots of Colombians jumped on the bandwagon when we started buying Colombian players, now it looks like the same is happening with Mexicans.

The more the better, need more global fans.

Not enough of us in Europe for me to pick and choose. I'll enjoy and root for teams that have Mexicans and/or play well.

I'll forever only be a fan of ONE club tho

 

[atransta]

Whose that?

Everyone calls Quaresma "Cigano" in Portugal. Which means "gypsy". His mother is a Gyp.

 

[Gex the Damaja]

Thats because its ridiculously easy to become a Portuguese citizen if you can prove you have Portuguese blood.

I literally got my Portuguese citizenship within 1 hour at the consulate in New York before I went to go study in Italy so it'd be easier to travel around Europe being an EU member. I was born, raised, and went to school here. Never lived in Portugal but they just gave it to me.

So many Brazilians get that same privilege. Even if they probably only have 25-50% Portuguese blood.

Portugal wants citizens, they've had many leave in the past 100 years and they have a low birth-rate, they need people.

In what sense? I looked into it recently, seems difficult for anyone without a parent or grandparent born there.

 

[Coupé It]

In what sense? I looked into it recently, seems difficult for anyone without a parent or grandparent born there.

You Portuguese?

Getting citizenship because one of your grandfather's or grandmother's were born in a foreign country seems pretty easy and nonchalant when you compare to other countries.

My cousins in France were all born, raised, and schooled there and they were never French citizens until they reached a certain age because their parents were born in Portugal. I found that ridiculous.

All I'm saying is from my experience and from what I've seen, it's not difficult to be a Portuguese citizen if you can prove your Portuguese.

 

[Gex the Damaja]

You Portuguese?

Getting citizenship because one of your grandfather's or grandmother's were born in a foreign country seems pretty easy and nonchalant when you compare to other countries.

My cousins in France were all born, raised, and schooled there and they were never French citizens until they reached a certain age because their parents were born in Portugal. I found that ridiculous.

All I'm saying is from my experience and from what I've seen, it's not difficult to be a Portuguese citizen if you can prove your Portuguese.

I believe I can establish a link to Portugal, last name is portuguese. Anyway, don't want to clutter the thread with non-football talk so I'll look into.

 

[cs02132]

Mangala! AGAIN!!!

Stays getting those goals

Stock and price stays rising.

I picked him up in my FIFA career because of you

I think hes 28, rated 85. he gets 4-6 goals a season, very attacking

 

[mastamind89]

 

[mastamind89]

 

[Coupé It]

For those who missed it...

Mangala's header with Quaresma's trivela cross

 

[mastamind89]

A history of the communications between FIFA and FC Barcelona concerning underage players registration:
February 5 2013 the Club receives the request from FIFA (via RFEF) for information concerning the registration of Lee Sung Woo, which was presented and as a measure of the Club’s complete transparency and willingness to collaborate, we also included information concerning another Korean youngster (Jang Gyeolhee) who was in the same situation and whose name was also mentioned in the papers concerning Lee Sung Woo. We duly answered FIFA’s request on February 15 2013.

On March 1 2013, President Rosell sent a letter to the FIFA Secretary General to propose substantial modifications to Article 19 of the Protection of Underage Players to make it more effective.

On May 6 2013, the Club received notification from FIFA that they wanted information concerning 16 more players and any other non-Spanish players who were not registered with the RFEF or who were only registered with the Federació Catalana de Futbol. The Club duly gave details of 15 more players and sent all the information requested on May 16, 2013. At this time information concerning a total of 33 players had been provided by the Club.

On July 9, the Club recieved a reply from FIFA’s secretary general, Jerome Valcke, to President Rosell concerning the Club’s proposal to consider an exception to article 19 of the Protection of Underage Players, which referred to a possible analysis of the issue by the Player Status Committee at the end of the year.

On July 12 2013 the Club received notification from FIFA (via RFEF) of a request for more information about 25 of the 33 players, which was sent on July 17, 2013.

On 25 September 2013, FIFA contacted RFEF with 31 letters – one for each player investigated - requiring further information from 18 of them and informing them that disciplinary proceedings were being opened which would be sent to the Disciplinary Commission at its meeting on November 29, 2013. This information was re-sent to the Clubby the RFEF on October 4 2013 and the corresponding appeals were lodged on October 8, 2013.

On 20 November 2013, FIFA (via RFEF) asked for further information concerning 12 of the 18 players, which was sent to FIFA on November 25, 2013.

On 26 November 2013, FIFA asked for information concerning 4 more players who they believed should have been included in response to the request made on May 6, 2013. This information was sent on December 3, 2013, which was the deadline set by FIFA. The total number of players about whom information had been requested was now 37.

On 28 November, before the deadline set for the presentation of the information requested above, FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee met and decided on the sanctions to be applied to FC Barcelona, which was not communicated to the Club until yesterday, April 2, 2014 -4 months and 5 days after the decision had been taken. The FIFA Secretary General has today admitted that he is unaware of the reasons why this decision was not communicated until now.

On 9 December 2013, eleven days after the disciplinary decision had been taken, FIFA confirmed they had recieved the information they had asked for before the deadline they had set.. They also asked for information concerning all the non-Spanish underage players registered at that time and who had been registered since May 16 2013. This information was sent on 16 December, one day before the deadline set by FIFA. It is surprising that FIFA continued to request information despite having already taken its decision to impose sanctions.

Yesterday, 2 April 2014, we received notification of the sanctions to be imposed by FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee. Out of a total of 37 players investigated, FIFA considered that 9 did not fulfil the conditions laid out in the Rules for Transfer of Players

http://www.fcbarcelona.com/club/det...lona-concerning-underage-players-registration

 

[AZwildcats]

That Quaremsa cross 

 

[chiva1908]

You Portuguese?

Getting citizenship because one of your grandfather's or grandmother's were born in a foreign country seems pretty easy and nonchalant when you compare to other countries.

My cousins in France were all born, raised, and schooled there and they were never French citizens until they reached a certain age because their parents were born in Portugal. I found that ridiculous.

All I'm saying is from my experience and from what I've seen, it's not difficult to be a Portuguese citizen if you can prove your Portuguese.

It's the same in Italy. That's why Balotelli never played with any of the Italian squads when he was younger. I too find this ridiculous.

 

[mr marcus]

Italy

Country is so ******* backwards but you can say that for most of Europe