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To be fair Serie D girone I is usually one of the toughest girone's due to travel, and fans (as they're more behind their teams in the south) and by behind their teams I mean if the team does good the away team is gonna have a tough atmosphere, if they're not doing well the home team is gonna have a tough atmosphere. This season is difficult because there were 5 teams built to go to Serie C, Cavese, Nocerina, Vibonese, Gela and Messina. Gela and Messina are underperforming big time, Messina started the season horrifically but seem to have picked up lately as they've picked up 11 points from the past 5 games .
I think we have 2 Canadians in this girone, 1 on Cavese who is a goalie (idk if he is playing) and the 2nd just got picked up by Isola Capo Rizzuto.
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7 hours ago, jpg75 said:
Read UT's post again. Do some google research. Then come back and fix your post again.
Maybe I don't fully understand it, my bad
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7 hours ago, jpg75 said:
Fixed what, exactly?
my original post
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8 hours ago, jpg75 said:
Fixed it
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13 hours ago, Unnamed Trialist said:
There are a lot of Canadian players listing Chile as a second nationality lately, as a way of getting an EU passport. This is related to a recent WHO ruling on acquired genetic traits, what is called soft inheritance. If you can get your Chile nationality recognized as a Canadian, you can fast track your EU status and even pass it on to your children, so we can get multiple generations of Canadians under the Chile flag, also known as La Roja, like Canada, Reds, playing in European lower tiers. If we don't have a thread on this on the board you should probably start one.
That may be the case for some players but for these 2 specific players it's simply a mistake by whoever uploaded the information.
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7 hours ago, Jith12 said:
I'm confused. If he has no connection to Chile then why is it listed as his second nationality?
That's exactly my point lol, it needs to be changed, neither have any connection to Chile other than the fact Pancho plays in Chile.
My post was simply to point out a mistake lmfao
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6 hours ago, Jith12 said:
How does Chile have anything to do with this?
Under 2nd nationality Pancho Fernandez is listed as Chilean and Filipino. His 2nd nationality is Filipino, there's no chilean blood in him. Same goes for David Romano who's 2nd nationality is listed as Chilean and Italian. He also has no chilean in him, his 2nd nationality is only Italian.
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Just 2 corrections that Pancho Fernandez who plays in Chile for La Serena is a 1998 (not sure what month or day) and is only of Filipino descent not Chilean. Also David Romano who plays for FC Murese in Italy has only an Italian passport not a Chilean passport, both of are not of Chilean descent.
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37 minutes ago, Toje said:
Austin Coelho is now with Braga U19 in Portugal.
Portuguese teams are great at developing players
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Friend of my son is playing in the Eccellenza in Italy for FC Murese in Baslicata. Name is David Romano and is a 98. Trying to find a link. This is D5 Italy
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21 hours ago, BCM said:
I think among the non-academy teams (and that's really what they are, unfortunately) I'd say there's 5-9 players per team that would laugh at the suggestion of moving to Spain/Italy 4th or 5th tier - and if they did so would be taking a more than 50% pay cut. Case in point, Jamaica had at least three players on its Gold Cup roster from USL. Remove those 5-9 players, and then those levels may be on par.
I can't say that I have seen much 4th and 5th tier football in Spain and Italy, but just that a lot of USL players would see it as a drop, and their bank account would certainly drop.
PS - there's a lot of former Premier and 1st (2nd) division English clubs in Conference and League 2 now - doesn't mean that they're still good! Yeovil Town was in the Championship in 2014 and now in Conference. Swindon and Oldham were Premier League teams - what does it mean now? Nothing.
I guess that goes both ways though. I'm sure 5-9 players would laugh if they were asked to go to the USL.
If you take the best teams against the best and the worst teams against the worst then I'd give the advantage to the 4th and 5th tiers of Spain and Italy. Of course the best teams in USL would do well in these divisions but I doubt that they'd win it.
This is all a matter of opinion because there have been no games to suggest who is stronger.
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10 hours ago, BCM said:
And yet some among us are calling for him to be included in the squad for the El Salvador game... Reality check. One. Two.
Serie D has many teams who were previously even in Serie A. Como, Messina and Varesa as well as many teams who have reached the heights of Serie B. Italy and Spain's 4th and 5th divisions are of a higher level or equal in quality to the USL.
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2 minutes ago, Toje said:
Sebastian Breza has signed with Potenza in Serie D (Italy)
Bit of a drop from Palermo, was hoping he would end up in Serie C. Playing in Italy is great for experience though. Italian teams tend to do very well at developing their players. Still very young (1998 I think?) I think the move was so that he can get regular minutes.
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On 8/31/2017 at 5:34 PM, jordan said:
Marcus Godinho on loan till January at Berwick Rangers
Isn't that 4th division in Scotland? I wonder how their 4th division ranks with other 4th divisions around Europe
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1 hour ago, Toje said:
James Stamopoulos has signed with Ergotelis in Greece. They currently play in the 2nd tier after winning promotion last season.
Maxime Blanchard (19 year old keeper from Montreal) has signed with USD Cavese in the Italian 4th tier.
Cavese is a strong team, they're going to be pushing for Serie C this year. Last year they came 2nd and lost in the playoffs. Hopefully Blanchard can get some minutes and push to be a starter.
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NEW Mother of all Canucks Abroad (and domestic)
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I agree that in La Liga they are way more technical but to be fair it seems like you're basing your view off of a Atalanta vs Benevento game, even though Atalanta is very good tactically as shown in their games in Europe this season in a difficult group involving Lyon and Everton (I know Everton isn't that good of a team but individually the players are not garbage). Benevento meanwhile is a nightmare defensively so i understand why you'd think the Italian league is not as tactical. Just last night Juventus put on a tactical master class. I like Napoli but what Juventus did was just outstanding from a defensive perspective. When they had to go and get the goal they got it, and it wasn't their sole chance, Higuain also missed an easy chance for a player of his ability. Once they got the goal they limited Napoli to half-chances throughout the game. Chances where Napoli could have scored but were bad angled shots or from outside of the box. Napoli couldn't go through the middle at all.