Subject: Mini World Cup

Hello, next season i want to organize a tournament for teams which didn't qualify to the "big" World Cup.

I think it will be more interesting than playing boring friendlies ;)

It will be 2nd edition of that Cup. The first was played almost 4 seasons ago and the winner was Romania (link to the 1st edition)

This will be probably schedule for this tournament and others(World Cup and U-21 World Cup):

WEEK 2 (2007-07-07)
Mini World Cup - Group Stage

WEEK 3 (2007-07-14)
Mini World Cup - Group Stage

WEEK 4 (2007-07-21)
Mini World Cup - Group Stage
Senior World Cup – Group Stage

WEEK 5 (2007-07-28)
Mini World Cup - 1/8 finals (16 teams)
Senior World Cup – Group stage

WEEK 6 (2007-08-04)
Mini World Cup - 1/4 finals (8 teams)
Senior World Cup – Group stage

WEEK 7 (2007-08-11)
Mini World Cup - Semifinals (4 teams)
Senior World Cup – Eight-Finals
U21 World Cup – Qualifications

WEEK 8 (2007-08-18)
Mini World Cup - Final (amd 3rd place match)
Senior World Cup – Quarter-Finals
U21 World Cup – Qualifications

WEEK 9 (2007-08-25)
Senior World Cup – Semi-Finals
U21 World Cup – Qualifications

WEEK 10 (2007-09-01)
Senior World Cup – Final

WEEK 11 (2007-09-08)
U21 World Cup – Group stage (32 teams)

WEEK 12 (2007-09-15)
U21 World Cup – Group stage (32 teams)

WEEK 13 (2007-09-22)
U21 World Cup – Group stage (32 teams)

WEEK 14 (2007-09-29)
U21 World Cup – Eight-Finals (16 teams)

WEEK 15 (2007-10-06)
U21 World Cup – Quarter-Finals (8 teams)

WEEK 0 (2007-10-13)
U21 World Cup – Semi-Finals (4 teams)

WEEK 1 (2007-10-20)
U21 World Cup – Final (2 teams)

WEEK 2 (2007-10-27)
New NT season
Senior World Cup – Qualifications

The rules which will exactly say how many teams will qualify from each group to the 1/8 finals will be done when I will know how many teams want to participate in this tournament. (so after the results of new elections, because new coaches should make this decisions).
There will be four-teams-groups (some could be three-teams if we can't make all with 4 teams). So the qualifying could be for example:
- best two teams from each group and 3 best teams from 3rd positions or
- best team from each group and 7 best teams from 2nd positions.
All depend on that how many groups we will have

I must tell you that there will be no problem when you will want to play in both Mini World Cup and U-21 World Cup. I talked about this with Hellsangel (U-21WC organizer) and 4 best teams will qualify to the u-21 World Cup without playing in u-21 WC Qualifications.

if you have any questions please ask them in this topic on forum sokker international

sorry I coppied dates from forum with u-21 shedule and there was a mistake.

we will start in WEEK 2 but this week will be on 14-07 of course not on 7-07 as i wrote it in the first post.

hello forum of MWC was just created:

here is link to this forum: Mini World Cup

If you have any questions please ask in freestyle topic

For NT coaches:

Please don't arrange any friendlies for next Saturday if you to take part in the Mini World Cup

Group E: (4 teams)
1. South Africa
2. Slovenija
3. Shqipëria
4. Malaysia

Matches:
WEEK 2 (2007-07-14)
South Africa - Slovenija
Shqipëria - Malaysia

WEEK 3 (2007-07-21)
South Africa - Shqipëria
Slovenija - Malaysia

WEEK 4 (2007-07-28)
Malaysia - South Africa
Slovenija - Shqipëria

Won our first match against Slovenija, the toughest opposition in the group on paper, 3-1. A win this weekend will see us through to the last 16.

South Africa - Slovenija (3-1)
Shqiperia - Malaysia (1-2)
(edited)

Demolished Shqiperia this week 5-0, with 26 shots to 0. Thanks very much to Phibeon and Theunis over the last two weeks. Your input has been invaluable. :)

South Africa - Shqiperia (5-0)
Slovenija - Malaysia (3-1)

South Africa (2) 2-0-0 F8 A1 Pts 6
Slovenija (2) 1-0-1 F4 A4 Pts 3
Malaysia (2) 1-0-1 F3 A4 Pts 3
Shqiperia (2) 0-0-2 F1 A7 Pts 0

nice work mate :)

What the heck happened to us this week?

Yellow card first minute.

Central defender gets sent off second minute for a penalty which they score.

Our winger had to cover central defence, so we're down to 10 men with no winger, blunting our attack.

Our other central defender goes off injured in the 22nd minute.

We equalise, only to see them score by throwing the ball direrctly into the net to take the lead back.

Then they finish us off with a soft goal.

Miserable 3-1 loss against a much weaker team. :(

Group E:
1. Slovenija 6 11:4
2. South Africa 6 9:4
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3. Malaysia 6 6:5
4. Shqipëria 0 1:14

At least we still qualify, but only in second place instead of first where should've been. Hopefully that's our freak result out of the way for the tournament!

Here's our potential fixtures:

Last 16

Austria Vs Malaysia
Slovenija Vs Turkey
Uruguay Vs Macedonia
Venezuela Vs South Africa
Sweden Vs Iceland
Ireland Vs Nigeria
Hungary Vs Israel
Serbia Vs Greece

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Quarter-finals

Austria/Malaysia Vs Slovenija/Turkey

Uruguay/Macedonia Vs Venezuela/South Africa

Sweden/Iceland Vs Ireland/Nigeria

Hungary/Israel Vs Serbia/Greece

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Semi-finals

Austria/Malaysia/Slovenija/Turkey Vs Hungary/Israel Vs Serbia/Greece

Uruguay/Macedonia/Venezuela/South Africa Vs Sweden/Iceland/Ireland/Nigeria

man that is bad luck :)

It occurs to me that Malaysia are our bogey side. Remember we played them in the WC qualifiers too and dominated with 20 shots to 3, only to draw the match 3-3!

hmm interesting things like that happen. Look at my league game yesterday i dominated but only manged to get in 1 goal. Although i did mis a great striker :) but my SA strikers need to step up :)

Ha ha, I managed to score 13 yesterday. my biggest ever win.

Seems that your team is unstoppable atm :)

Sorry fellers. We got beaten 2-1 in the quarter-finals and I'm not at all happy with my tactics in that match.

We almost got away with it though, leading as late as the 73rd minute. Then they equalised and scored the winner with 2 minutes to play.

From next week we'll be playing the U21 WC qualifiers.

Ah not the end of the world