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DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
How much revenue does the top USL division make?
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I've heard their average salary for a team is around $300k for ten months. That doesn't quite line up with some of the figures I've seen elsewhere, so it may be old. Most of their income comes from gates sales, and the arenas they play in are not huge.

But what is huge today? Women's football in Germany. (It's the international break, not a ton going on.)
Second tier women's team Hamburger SV are in the women's cup semifinals. They typically play on a practice pitch just outside the men's stadium, to sub 1000 crowds. However, they played their quarterfinal cup game in the men's stadium in front of a crowd of 17,000, and won. Now for the semi final, the women are playing in the men's stadium and it has sold out- 57,000 fans bought tickets (about double the number of fans who can fit into crosstown rivals St. Pauli for a men's match in the top flight). This will be the largest attended women's football game for a domestic match in Germany, and apparently second only to a women's World Cup match in Berlin in the early 2000s.

The unfortunate situation is HSV are playing against a first tier club, Werder Bremen, who were only promoted a few years ago. But die Frauen Dinos are looking at this as a bonus and trying to stay focused on a promotion (currently in third in the second league but on a run upward). The home field advantage worked a month ago, who knows what this will bring. Certainly bringing in nearly 10x the gate receipts won't hurt.

The ultimate irony/pain would be if die Frauen were to get promoted this year, and the men not. The men are on top of the table in the second division, but with a narrow 3 point lead, with eight games to go. The men seemed to have a curse hanging over them since they were relegated in 2018.

The women's match is on tv in Germany and everywhere else in the world, free, on DAZN in about an hour (DAZN most widely known on the Farms for broadcasting the Salt Papi - Andy Warski "fight").
 
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Follow-up (sorry for dp):

Hamburg lost in extra time. They were up a woman for the bulk of the second half, but gave up a dumb goal. They equalized but couldn't get ahead. They were just tired and the quality of Werder Bremen finally showed through. It was hard fought, and the crowds really did show up!
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It may not have mattered that much (although the extra Euros would have helped for at least making the final), because Bayern await and are looking for their first domestic double in Die Frauen Bundesliga. Still, a weird if interesting happening in Europe this weekend.
 
Please fire Dorival tomorrow.

Not even 45 minutes left and we are going to lose hard

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I expected Brazil to lose but not like this. The only game I remember being this apathic was 7x1 in 2014.

I wasn't even mad, it wasn't like a sudden defeat, it was just the natural course of the shit river that has been flowing ever since 2022 elimination.

This was a complete embarassment and I hope Dorival and CBF fuck themselves in an eternal orgy in hell.
 
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Start of The Tuchel Era is looking OK. Not sure if you can make football look ok against latvia but its not much better than under southgate so far

Liverpool fans having a normal one about Trent leaving. Wonder how they'll take salah and vvd going too
 
Shining Wit said:
Start of The Tuchel Era is looking OK. Not sure if you can make football look ok against latvia but its not much better than under southgate so far
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Idk what Ingerland is expecting with Tuchel right out of the gate. He doesn't get much time with the players to work on anything so its going to start off slow until they maybe change the way they play in a full Tuchel style
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
Idk what Ingerland is expecting with Tuchel right out of the gate. He doesn't get much time with the players to work on anything so its going to start off slow until they maybe change the way they play in a full Tuchel style
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The bare minimum would have been fucking Jordan Henderson and Kyle Walker off tbh
 
Thavidu said:
G A R E T H
S O U T H G A T E
Manager of Brazil

Sounds great :story:
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You know what? I would accept it.

The last two years were a nightmare, we already knew before 2022 WC that Tite would leave after it and we couldn't find someone to coach. Then Ramon, then fucking DINIZ, then Dorival.

In these two years we never had a team, we had some players that would try to solve it alone and fail (Vinicius Jr), where we would wait for Neymar to come back.

I truly believe most coaches are afraid of coaching Brazil. The pressure is too great for any of them. It is easier to coach some african team than to deal with players' egos all the damn time.

If Southgate can manage this shit and make us play like a team like Tite did in 2022, I would accept it. I just can't take watching those retards trying to launch the ball in the left side of the field for vinicius to fucking lose again, he isn't Neymar, he isn't a protagonist, his numbers are terrible and he is limited as fuck as a player.

Jesus, I just want to see a cohesive team, a group of players that understand their place and position and act like a team instead of these last 2 years.

And now they want Jorge Jesus, fucking hell, there is no peace in this world.

It is absurd that in every club in Brazil, we can find coaches that can work their magic but not for the NT.

And I already forgot how many times some brazilian league fuck literally saved the very few wins we got instead of those real madrid fucks like Vinicius Jr and Rodrygo.

It isn't even a matter of money, CBF can pay good, it is just a matter of no one wants to sit in this hard throbbing cock for obvious reasons.
 
Last week FC Bayern lost Upamecano and Davies bc both returned from the nation league matches injured. Upamecano will be out til the end of the season, Davies will be out til the end of the year. On the weekend Hiroki Ito broke his foot again; the same foot he broke before the season and thus missed the first half of the season. Manuel Neuer is still out bc of injury so Bayern plays with Urbig in the goal whom they got in the winter transfer window.
Basically their whole A defence is now taken out now.

The Inter vs FC Bayern matches in the next two weeks are going to be wild.
 
Last year's DFB cup winner Leverkusen just lost their half final match against 3rd tier club Arminia Bielefeld. It's going to be the first ever final for Bielefeld.

Tomorrow it's Stuttgart vs Leipzig. Leipzig kicked their coach on Sunday after losing to Mönchengladbach in the league.
 
Onni Kalsarikännit said:
Last year's DFB cup winner Leverkusen just lost their half final match against 3rd tier club Arminia Bielefeld. It's going to be the first ever final for Bielefeld.

Tomorrow it's Stuttgart vs Leipzig. Leipzig kicked their coach on Sunday after losing to Mönchengladbach in the league.
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That was a wild game. The fan celebration, the players, just a magic scene. I'm not able to watch a ton of 3.Liga but dang, this was something else.
 
Onni Kalsarikännit said:
Tomorrow it's Stuttgart vs Leipzig. Leipzig kicked their coach on Sunday after losing to Mönchengladbach in the league.
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Stuttgart just won 3:1 against RB Leipzig so the final of DFB cup will be Stuttgart vs Arminia Bielefeld. One of the best outcomes. No FC Bayern, no Leverkusen, no Leipzig, no Wolfsburg, none of the big clubs or of the really hated clubs but a young Stuttgart team that enjoys great sympathy from a lot of footy fans versus a low tier underdog team from Bielefeld that kicked out f o u r Bundesliga clubs in a row.

Nature is finally healing.
 
Onni Kalsarikännit said:
Stuttgart just won 3:1 against RB Leipzig so the final of DFB cup will be Stuttgart vs Arminia Bielefeld. One of the best outcomes. No FC Bayern, no Leverkusen, no Leipzig, no Wolfsburg, none of the big clubs or of the really hated clubs but a young Stuttgart team that enjoys great sympathy from a lot of footy fans versus a low tier underdog team from Bielefeld that kicked out f o u r Bundesliga clubs in a row.

Nature is finally healing.
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Nick Woltemade looks like he could be something special.
 
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