Netherlands are sending one member of parliament to Qatar, for one match

minister Conny Helder will be in the VIP box on November 29th at Netherlands - Qatar, she was invited by Qatarese officials themselves



if Netherlands qualifies for the knockout stage, they can reconsider sending more officials, a visit from prime minister Rutte or King Willem-Alexander are possible options then

Well England’s main man Kane is extremely fatigued !!

Not only has he not been able to finish games he’s not been able to complete training sessions !?!?

How is that going to improve over the next ten days when they are hoping to have intensive training/coaching sessions !?

Sterling our second scorer has scored just 3 premier league goals and one of them was a flukey deflection


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Argentina squad
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Spain squad
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Canada will reveal their squad tomorrow :)



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South Korea squad

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Cody Gakpo the man in form from eredivisie in the Dutch Team
 

Top scorer of the eredivisie, the most assists, the most successful passes, the most chances created and so on. It's a nice list of stats in which Cody Gakpo excels this season.

After the final selection of national coach Louis van Gaal on Friday, the 23-year-old winger of PSV is ready for his first World Cup. "I know it's something special. It's the highest stage you can play on and I'm very curious to see how I feel about it."

Special relationship with Dumfries

Playing for club or country can involve differences in tactics and position, but also when it comes to the environment and with whom you share the dressing room. That is also realized by nine-time international Gakpo, who at the last European Championship was allowed to participate eleven minutes in the group stage against North Macedonia.

"It's very different, because you don't often play together. But the group has broadly stayed together in the past year in such a way that you are a bit used to each other."

He can count on PSV colleagues Luuk de Jong and Xavi Simons. And a former teammate who acts as a kind of mentor. "Denzel Dumfries and I, we have a very good relationship. I speak to him often when I have questions. He already has a bit more experience, so he helps me a lot."

Gakpo continues: "With Steven Bergwijn I also go, I also played with that at PSV. I also have to say that Jurriën Timber and I are growing closer to each other."

Learning during the World Cup
Despite his top statistics after fourteen games in the eredivisie, such as most shots on goal (26) and the second most successful dribbles (25), the native of Eindhoven still sees plenty of areas for improvement.

"I want to be even more consistent and score even more. I think I can also learn a lot in terms of my head strength, my left leg and choosing position."

In the 105 matches he played in the eredivisie, he only came to seventeen goal attempts with the head. Of those, four ended up between the posts and one in the goal. It is true that in the same period of time he already scored twelve times with the left: a third of his shots with his wrong leg ended as a goal.

But you also improve yourself by learning and gaining experience, for example at a final tournament. "Of course you can learn a lot from other professionals in your team, who have already experienced such things. How they deal with certain situations. You get to know each other better and I think you can get a lot out of a tournament like that on the field, but also off it."

The next step
A good World Cup will only increase the interest of foreign top clubs. Yet the tastemaker of PSV does not think of an interim departure, after all the transfer troubles of last summer.

Gakpo: "I think at the end of this season I'll be ready to make that step. I feel like I was at the beginning of this season, but after this season I'm even more ready to take that next step."

His dream club? He's already there, he says with a smile. "PSV was always my dream club. Other than that, I don't really have one."

But when he thinks of the world top: "Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool. It would be an honor to be able to play there, but I also have to see what kind of team I would do best."

First orange and the World Cup, with the first group game in more than a week.

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So Wilson and Sterling protect themselves by claiming “ illness “
All this while Maddison was playing his heart out , scoring then getting injured !!

What a load of cobblers


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I never want to see Trevoh Chalobah’s name linked to England !!

He’s completely useless


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you don't have to score with Havertz though


for the goals they got Sané, Gnabry ;)


and Super Mario Gotze can easily also play on 10, has been super consistent at Frankfurt this season, as well as last season solid at PSV

tonight's squad reveal Canada


tomorrow squad reveal Ghana

Canada squad
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Opening Ceremony performers are Shakira, BTS and Black Eyed Peas

for 20th November, before the opening match of Qatar vs Ecuador

2022 World Cup Discussion Thread
 

Black Eyed Peas !!!

Are they still relevant ???

How on Earth did they get this gig ?

There last hit was about 15 years ago wasn’t it ?


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have you been living under a rock or something?


yes they are still relevant, likely they will perform this song, they recently made with Shakira

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me19SUmWu2s

or this one, or both

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMLk_T0PPbk

first match we're going to watch here is France vs Australia, for Australia on tuesday


hopefully socceroos have paid attention of les blues their weaknesses in nations league



and hopefully our first shocker of the world cup, always liked Graham Arnold too (quite a legend here in my nation still, from his NAC Breda days) and Guusje Geluk Hiddink, Rene Meulensteen :love:

Its starts on Sunday :conf:

yes that one i'll watch too


just the one in the middle i ignore, on mondays

a team coached by some ''god'' movie star or something, Louis van whatever, despise him :fan:

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Netherlands team before departure at schiphol to Qatar

Is Messi going to the World Cup?

It's coming home, it's coming home :dance:

2022 World Cup Discussion Thread
 

Yes … and with the best Argentina squad in recent memory.. he’s scored 0 international goals in his last 3 games alone

They are second favourites after Brazil

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0 goals, wow :laugh:

2022 World Cup Discussion Thread
 

The Black Eyed Peas haven’t had an album in the charts since 2010 !!

Last official single make the charts was in 2011 .. with a reissued version of their main song Where is the Love scraping into the top 50 at number 47 in 2015 !

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