Subject: [U21][WCQ]Group A

GROUP A – General informations:




Hello friends from Latvia! It is an honor for me to present you the U21 Latvian’s World Cup Qualifying Group A as coach. As you know, this is a difficult group and we have the 3rd chance to qualify at the World Cup (the favourites national teams are France and Denmark). Besides that, we need a little bit luck in the strong matches. But I’m ready to do my best and our players have the neccesary motivation for this WCQ stage. GO LATVIA GO!






Short presentation about our opponents:

France:

France is a unitary semi-presidential republic located mostly in Western Europe, with several overseas regions and territories. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. From its shape, it is often referred to in French as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon").

France is the largest country in Western Europe and the third-largest in Europe as a whole. It possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military, and political influence in Europe and around the world. France has its main ideals expressed in the 18th-century Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. From the 17th to the early 20th century, France built the second-largest colonial empire of the time, ruling large portions of first North America and India and then Northwest and Central Africa; Madagascar; Indochina and southeast China; and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.





Denmark:

Denmark is a sovereign state in Northern Europe, with two additional overseas constituent countries also forming integral parts of the kingdom; the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic and Greenland in North America. Denmark proper is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, located southwest of Sweden, with which it is connected by the Øresund Bridge, and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. The country consists of a large peninsula, Jutland, and many islands, most notably Zealand, Funen, Lolland, Falster and Bornholm, as well as hundreds of minor islands often referred to as the Danish Archipelago.

The Kingdom of Denmark is a constitutional monarchy organised in the form of a parliamentary democracy, with its seat of government in the capital city of Copenhagen. The kingdom is unitary, with powers to manage internal affairs being devolved from the central government to Greenland and the Faroe Islands; this polity is referred to as the rigsfællesskab (the Danish Realm). Denmark proper is the hegemonial area, where judicial, executive, and legislative power reside. The Faroe Islands are defined to be a community of people within the kingdom, and the Greenlandic people are defined as a separate people with the right to self-determination. One of the results of this arrangement is that Denmark became a member of the European Union in 1973, but both Greenland and the Faroe Islands have opted to remain outside of the EU.





Cyprus:

Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria, Lebanon, northwest of Israel and north of Egypt. Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, a member state of the European Union.

The earliest known human activity on the island dates back to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains from this period include the well-preserved Neolithic village of Khirokitia, which has been declared a World Heritage Site with an "enhanced protection" status in the event of armed conflict by UNESCO, along with the archaeological sites of Paphos and the Painted Churches of the Troodos Region. Cyprus is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world.

Cyprus was settled by Mycenean Greeks in two waves in the 2nd millennium BC. As a strategic location in the Middle East, it was subsequently occupied by several major powers, including the empires of the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Persians, from whom the island was seized in 333 BC by Alexander the Great. Subsequent rule by Ptolemaic Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Byzantines, Arab caliphates for a short period, the French Lusignan dynasty, and the Venetians, was followed by the Ottoman conquest in 1571. It remained under Ottoman control for over three centuries. Cyprus was placed under British administration in 1878 until it was granted independence in 1960, becoming a member of the Commonwealth the following year.





Honduras:

Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was at times referred to as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize. The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.

Honduras was home to several important indigenous cultures, most notably the Maya. Much of the country was conquered by Spain which introduced its now predominant language and many of its customs in the sixteenth century. It became independent in 1821 and has been a republic since the end of Spanish rule.

The area of Honduras is about 112,492 km² and the population exceeds eight million. Its northern portions are part of the Western Caribbean Zone. Honduras is most notable for production of minerals, coffee, tropical fruit, sugar cane and recently for export of clothing in the international market.





Senegal:

Senegal is a country in West Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north. Senegal is externally bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south; internally it almost completely surrounds the Gambia, namely on the north, east and south, except for Gambia's short Atlantic coastline. Senegal covers a land area of almost 197,000 square kilometres (76,000 sq mi), and has an estimated population of about 13 million. The climate is tropical with two seasons: the dry season and the rainy season.

Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, is located at the westernmost tip of the country on the Cap-Vert peninsula. About 500 kilometres (300 mi) off the coast lie the Cape Verde Islands. During the 17th and 18th centuries, numerous trading posts, belonging to various colonial empires, were established along the coast. The town of St. Louis became the capital of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, or AOF) before it was moved to Dakar in 1902. Dakar became its capital in 1960 at the time of independence from France. The country is part of The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Integrated with the main bodies of the international community, Senegal is also a member of the African Union (AU) and the Community of Sahel-Saharan States. Since 2 April 2012, the country's president has been Macky Sall.

General information is good, but it would be great to see more info about our opponents in terms of sokker. Some analysis and predictions are welcomed.

Our opponents important players:

French players:

Omar Guilbaud - MID

Stéphane Antoine - MID

Jamal Poirot - ATT

Eddy Lecourt - ATT

Danish players:

Igor Westhausen - MID

Vagn Hoff - MID

Tobias Therkelsen - ATT

Teddy Villadsen - ATT

Cyprus players:

Serhan Boran - MID

Özdemir Barutcu - MID

Boysan Gökçeoğlu - ATT

Tenio Şevket - ATT

Senegalese players:

Daouda Niass - MID

Landing Doucouré - MID

Khalifa Coly - ATT

Youssouf M`Bengue - ATT

Honduras players:

Hugo Purrunga - MID

Fabio Kafati - MID

Rodimiro Montoya - ATT

Hugo Lopez - ATT



Opponents tactical preferences :

The last 2 matches of France:

Brazil U21 2-1 France U21

Italy U21 0-1 France U21

The last 2 matches of Denmark:

Ukraina U21 2-2 Danmark U21

Eesti U21 3-1 Danmark U21

The last 2 matches of Cyprus:

Slovakia U21 2-1 Cyprus U21

Greece U21 1-3 Cyprus U21

The last 2 matches of Senegal:

Philippines U21 1-2 Senegal U21

Senegal U21 0-4 Cameroon U21

The last 2 matches of Honduras:

Spain U21 2-3 Honduras U21

Venezuela U21 7-1 Honduras U21



U21 ranking :

7th place -> France U21 - 2793.78

34th place -> Denmark U21 - 2142.32

43rd place -> Latvia U21 - 1869.75

52nd place -> Cyprus U21 - 1711.91

79th place -> Senegal U21 - 824.64

82nd place -> Honduras U21 - 701.66

1st round:

my predictions:

Honduras U21 2-2 Senegal U21

Cyprus U21 0-2 Latvia U21

Denmark U21 0-1 France U21


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good luck :)

thank you!!

Unfortunately, we lost our first match in WCQ. It is impossible to hope for a victory with 2 injuries on best midfielders. Also, we need more pace on defenders and we need a strong keeper.

France destroyed Denmark (4-1) and they are coming to play with us in the next match.


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dont worry mate ....nothing is lost
good luck further

is not so easy! I still have to update 8 very important players and owners are not answering to my sk mails, even if they read the messages :(((((((((((((( i can't optimize the tactics if I don't have the players updated in ntdb :(

Kypros U21 - Latvija U21 3:0
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cyprus was lucky because of engine's random.

WTF I.Tenisons +19?
Good to know he is one of the best midfielders at the moment.

I know :((( it is engine's fault... it's awfull to see when a strong player suffers bad injury :((

I have solutions until he will be allright, but I've needed him for the match against France.

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2nd round:

Honduras U21 - Cyprus U21
Senegal U21 - Denmark U21
Latvia U21 - France U21

In the second round, at Riga, we play against France U21, the favourite NT for 1st place in this group. We must be realistic about the value between our NT and France NT. Is very difficult to make a great result but we must hope for it. Is good to know that if we have a little bit of luck, we can make a good result. Spēks Latvija!!

Latvija U21 - France U21 0:11