A question, oh Swiss guru. Why do the Feltschers (yes, I snigger every time) play for Venezuela? I feel as though you have explained this before, and I didn't pay attention. (Giving myself detention for this forthwith.) Also, apparently cute Fernando AmoebaAmorebieta and his socks plays for them, too. Despite being Basque (you do have to be Basque to play for Bilbao, don't you? Or am I mixing up my La Liga regional attributes?)
I thought ESPN Soccernet were trolling me at first.
The Feltschers have a Venezuelan mum, that's why. Practically all the Swiss team are second-generation immigrants, hence the Albanian flag at training; I count four people of Albanian origin in this call-up alone, plus a Cape Verdean, a Chilean, a Macedonian, a Nigerian, a Turk and a Kurd. Plus there may be others I've missed out cos I don't recognise them. Not bad, eh?
Mr Amoeba! Hahahaha! Should have put him in the animals spam, along with Pato, whose name turned into "pathogen" in Estonian. His wiki says he was born in Venezuela, so he obviously qualifies. *Tries to phrase this next bit delicately* Is he a bit, er, crap? Because I can see how if your choices were Spain or Venezuela, the Venezuelan option would give you a hell of a lot more chance of a call-up.
Trolling you? Oh, were they on about Cavani's mate burning his trousers as well?
Ah, that makes sense, thank you, it's just...if they play their club football in Europe Venezuela seems like a heck of a trek for national call-ups.
Teehee, perhaps you should try and create a Miniature Organisms team, it could be the start of a series! :p To be honest, I don't know if he's crap or not--but it does seem that the Spanish team is pretty well cemented, so even if you're awesome if you're not in it already you're probably shafted.
(Haha, no--just the fact that they were listing two Swiss and a Spaniard in the Venezuelan line-up. I thought they might have been doing it to see if anyone noticed.)
Well, they'll not be alone; I suppose all non-European footballers must have that problem, since presumably the vast majority of them aspire to play in Europe. Awkward. For them, though, I suspect it might be national pride and that. Kuzi elected to play for Serbia for the same reason (or so he says).
Ha! Angua would love it! Oh, and I've just remembered that directly after the Feltschers joined Venezuela beat Argentina for the first time ever, so their recruit-all-the-Swiss-and-Spaniards plan is probably working.
Christ, Crespo's gotten to the age where he looks like an overly excited middle-aged woman when he's happy. Yikes! Full makes to Dzemaili for not being -- or at least not looking -- frightened.
I assume Shaqiri's teammate laugh when they look at him, too? Cripes he's a ridiculous little creature. (My Real (Madrid-loving) friend discovered him during one of the CL matches against United, and was utterly taken by his kick-the-ball-ahead-then-run-after-it-really-really-until-you-collapses-with-exhaustion technique.)
It's disappointing to learn that Edi wasn't in his trousers when they caught fire. BO-RING!
Awww, but look at him laying his head on Crespo's shoulder. He loves him! Evidently he likes older men. (And Crespo always looked a bit odd, at least whenever he opened his mouth.)
His fellow babies (Mehmedi in particular) are just as ridiculous as he is, so presumably don't realise he's hilarious; they're really missing out. I mean, look at this. (He's moving to Bayern, much to my displeasure, so I suppose his huge ego will fit right in.)
Imagine my confusion as I tried to make sense of that article! But it does summon up a great image of a teammate crouching furtively next to Edi's chair with a cigarette lighter, being dead disappointed when people notice he's there. (Or being so obsessed with Cavani he self-immolates in a desperate bid to gain his attention.)
Hee. Either he loves him, or they've worked out an act together in which Crespo is the lion and Dzemaili is the brave-but-foolish trainer, who puts his mouth in said lion's head
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I did see Alexi Sanchez in the stands when Barcelona were mutilating Leverkusen. Does he ever get to play nowadays? Re: Shaq and the Bayernites, I'm just picturing enormous amounts of bickering, plus Shaq being incredibly indignant whenever they call him fat.
OT: I always forget he's got The Deepest Voice In The World. It gives him an inappropriate air of gravity. I do note a Mancunian accent starting to creep in, but he'll have to stay there for a couple of decades if he's going to polish it.
OT2: Bloody Wikipedia. Oh, dear; I hope his nonexistent neck wasn't the problem? Surgery would be tricky. *Looks at the picture* Whoa, now everyone seems to be neckless; I mean, look at that one on the left.
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I thought ESPN Soccernet were trolling me at first.
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Mr Amoeba! Hahahaha! Should have put him in the animals spam, along with Pato, whose name turned into "pathogen" in Estonian. His wiki says he was born in Venezuela, so he obviously qualifies. *Tries to phrase this next bit delicately* Is he a bit, er, crap? Because I can see how if your choices were Spain or Venezuela, the Venezuelan option would give you a hell of a lot more chance of a call-up.
Trolling you? Oh, were they on about Cavani's mate burning his trousers as well?
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Teehee, perhaps you should try and create a Miniature Organisms team, it could be the start of a series! :p To be honest, I don't know if he's crap or not--but it does seem that the Spanish team is pretty well cemented, so even if you're awesome
if you're not in it already you're probably shafted.
(Haha, no--just the fact that they were listing two Swiss and a Spaniard in the Venezuelan line-up. I thought they might have been doing it to see if anyone noticed.)
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Ha! Angua would love it! Oh, and I've just remembered that directly after the Feltschers joined Venezuela beat Argentina for the first time ever, so their recruit-all-the-Swiss-and-Spaniards plan is probably working.
(Am beaming good vibes in your direction.)
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I assume Shaqiri's teammate laugh when they look at him, too? Cripes he's a ridiculous little creature. (My Real (Madrid-loving) friend discovered him during one of the CL matches against United, and was utterly taken by his kick-the-ball-ahead-then-run-after-it-really-really-until-you-collapses-with-exhaustion technique.)
It's disappointing to learn that Edi wasn't in his trousers when they caught fire. BO-RING!
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His fellow babies (Mehmedi in particular) are just as ridiculous as he is, so presumably don't realise he's hilarious; they're really missing out. I mean, look at this. (He's moving to Bayern, much to my displeasure, so I suppose his huge ego will fit right in.)
Imagine my confusion as I tried to make sense of that article! But it does summon up a great image of a teammate crouching furtively next to Edi's chair with a cigarette lighter, being dead disappointed when people notice he's there. (Or being so obsessed with Cavani he self-immolates in a desperate bid to gain his attention.)
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I did see Alexi Sanchez in the stands when Barcelona were mutilating Leverkusen. Does he ever get to play nowadays? Re: Shaq and the Bayernites, I'm just picturing enormous amounts of bickering, plus Shaq being incredibly indignant whenever they call him fat.
OT: I always forget he's got The Deepest Voice In The World. It gives him an inappropriate air of gravity. I do note a Mancunian accent starting to creep in, but he'll have to stay there for a couple of decades if he's going to polish it.
OT2: Bloody Wikipedia. Oh, dear; I hope his nonexistent neck wasn't the problem? Surgery would be tricky. *Looks at the picture* Whoa, now everyone seems to be neckless; I mean, look at that one on the left.
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