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Gibraltar's debut in the 2016 European Championship ends in 7-0 loss with Poland
Gibraltar's competitive football debut ended in a predictably one-sided 7-0 loss to Poland on Sunday when the team predominantly made up of amateurs started 2016 European Championship qualifying. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesbut as always its not the winning but the taking part.
Sep 08th, 2014 - 06:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good on Gibraltar, newest member of UEFA
recognition was the winner in this match!
Sep 08th, 2014 - 07:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0At least you tried, a very good game.
Sep 08th, 2014 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0As it is 30 mins down the road, we went to support them last night at the Estadio Algarve, had a great time and good atmosphere and €20,00 a ticket. Just wondering if this is the first time that 2 countires have played 2 full international home matches in the same country at the same time?
Sep 08th, 2014 - 10:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Congratulations Gib on another little piece of history.
Well done Gib. 7-0 against a full Polish national side is not a bad result. Just wait until you get some of these sides at home !!
Sep 08th, 2014 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0my god!! it can´t get any worse for Gibraltar!!
Sep 08th, 2014 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Picardo must be delirous!!
7-0 uufffffffffffffffffff!!
Congrats Gibraltar. If gonna lose, do it in style!
Sep 08th, 2014 - 12:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
A valiant effort. Takes a lot of bravery knowing that you are completely out-gunned but to play with good humour and to still try your best.
Gibraltar can be proud of these plucky chaps.
As @2 said, Recognition is the real winner here. No more claims from Spain.
hahahaha!! what a lot of pussies!! Trying to applaud a useless team...
Sep 08th, 2014 - 12:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There is no place for pussies in International Tournaments..
well done Poland!! ( at least you won for your home country)
“Gibraltar's debut in the 2016 European Championship ends in 7-0 loss with Poland”
Sep 08th, 2014 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LOL
Not to mention that Poland is the #61 (SIXTY ONE) in the FIFA rankings.
“Gibraltar's competitive football debut ...blablabla... when the team predominantly made up of amateurs...blablabla...”
So what?
Los Pumas are also a team made up of amateurs and they were the 3rd best in the WC of 2007.
Now I want to see the mighty Falklands football team.
LOL
Oh Aussie, it's really is so sweet that you try.
Sep 08th, 2014 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0even Scotland did much much better against Germany (2-1).
Sep 08th, 2014 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0*10 You must have felt lonesome in a 30.000 stadium and only 1.000 spectators!!
The Portuguese , who need the money, must have been dissolutioned with you lot....ummmmmmm
#8 #11
Sep 08th, 2014 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You guys really are pathetic. Gibraltar, with a population of around 30,000 was unlikely to beat Poland (population 40 million). Moreover, due to the pathetically childish actions of Spain blocking their participation in UEFA they haven't really had the time to get much high-level practice have they.
San Marino with a population slightly above Gibraltar have played Poland 8 times and have lost 8 times conceding 33 goals for 1 scored.
#9 We will never see a Falkland Islands team playing in any FIFA competition because Argentina are so childish they would block any entry into CONMEBOL.
Pathetic children.
@ #9, Glad you recognise the Falklands as an international team, something your country does not
Sep 08th, 2014 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually, Falklands could play in the European competitions, as they are recognised by the EU
LOL LOL LOL
Seems Brazil has set a trend...lose by 7 to ....whatever .
Sep 08th, 2014 - 07:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0*12 NO EXCUSES!! you play UEFA you SHOULD BE TRAINED,
Sep 08th, 2014 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0YOU SHOULD BE FOCUSED, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY
FOOTBALL, YOU SHOULD BE MOTIVATED, YOU SHOULD WANNA WIN
afterall you have waited for this moment for so long!!!
7 ilsen
Sep 08th, 2014 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well put. As they say, from small acorns.............
Could not have been easy but it's all experience and such valuable experience on the international stage!
Well done guys!!!
Keep at it and hold your heads high
who is training this team????
Sep 08th, 2014 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0he should be sent packing before he does more harm...
and get a trainer THAT KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT FOOTBALL!!
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Sep 08th, 2014 - 08:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Actually, Falklands could play in the European competitions, as they are recognised by the EU”
The thing is the islet dwellers do not know how to play football.
Whatever you play there, well, that is NOT football, you dumbasses
Yeah, aussiesunshine. I mean, you'd never see the Spanish national team losing by, say, 5 goals.
Sep 09th, 2014 - 08:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh...wait...
#19
Sep 09th, 2014 - 09:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0In their defence it was 5-1, though it was against a country a third of their size ;)
#18
I'm pretty sure they know the rules of the game, after all as you keep mentioning they are after all the ancestors of the very people who first codified them. If your comment was more about the quality of the football do you really expect a community of 3000 people to be able to compete against countries thousands of times bigger. You really are an idiot aren't you.
Gibraltar, the newest member of UEAFA.
Sep 09th, 2014 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why shouldn't little countries get to play with their bigger neighbours?
It's only a game.
Good to get the recognition tho.
imbecile 20
Sep 09th, 2014 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“If your comment was more about the quality of the football do you really expect a community of 3000 people to be able to compete against countries thousands of times bigger. You really are an idiot aren't you.”
blabla... community of 3000 people...blablabla.
that is not an excuse, you asshole
pigüé is a community of 10.000 people and they have produced the best polo players in the world during ages.
Polo, football? what does it matter? No matter the origins, both were to have their rules first codified by the British.
Sep 09th, 2014 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0British rules that the world adheres to.
I think there is a lesson in that.
Gibraltar getting the recognition of one the biggest disppointment in football history!!!!
Sep 09th, 2014 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hardly a disappointment. You can't be disappointed at a predictable outcome.
Sep 09th, 2014 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No one expected them to win. Everyone expected them to do their best and try to have a good game. They did that.
It is great that they are now fully recognised by UEFA.
Bet the Spanish are sulking....
so these macacos made all that noise to finally lose by 7 goals against...poland.
Sep 09th, 2014 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the 61 team in the world...
remain at home losers, and try playing checkers
Haha!
Sep 09th, 2014 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In UK English the game is called Draughts.
Checkers is an Americanism. I would have expected such a dedicated Anglophile to have known that.
it is so disappointing for Gibraltar that the leading anti Spanish newspaper PANORAMA DAILY was to embarrased to cover the story........and Picardo has not mentioned the match either......ummmmmm
Sep 09th, 2014 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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