BAP - Can you get your country to the World Cup? Game Thread

July 2015

Achievements

Al Wilson - had a debut to remember as he scored for Basel in their 1-1 draw with St. Gallen in the Swiss Super League.

Elzy Edwards - had a debut to remember as he scored for Schalke in their German Cup First Round match against Altona 93. He becomes the youngest ever goalscorer for Schalke aged 17 years and 32 days.

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Transfer News

Jack Burbridge - Ekranas have accepted an offer from Metalurg Donetsk. They also accepted AS Monaco FC's offer. He is in contract talks with 4 teams but with Ajax, AC Milan, Cagliari, Fiorentina and Livorno also rumoured to be interested in him, he could end up anywhere. He agrees to sign for AS Monaco FC. He rejected offers from Fussballclub Red Bull Salzburg, AS Livorno Calcio, Metalurg Donetsk and BATE Borisov. AS Monaco FC paid 925k for his services.

Elzy Edwards - FC Santa Coloma have accepted an offer from OGC Nice. They also accepted Schalke's offer. Cagliari have just had there offer accepted as well. He agrees to sign a contract with Schalke and joins up with young Liectensteiner striker Pratik Sangle. He signs on a free transfer.

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Injury News

Jack Denzy - will be out for 3 weeks after suffering a twisted knee in training.

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Other News

Hunter Hearst Helmsley - has found it hard to dismiss the rumours that Metalurg Donetsk are interested in signing him. He said he would be torn between his loyalth to Shirak and the chance of playing for a team like Metalurg Donetsk.

Ryan Brebner - put in a man of the match performance for Sheriff in the European Champions Cup Champions Second Qualifying Phase Second Leg victory against Shamrock Rovers. He scored twice in the 4-0 win.

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Stats

PlayerAppearancesGoals
Lewie Roberts3216
Ryan Kimbrell17(2)8
Alex John3(1)3
Ryan Brebner23
Al Wilson21
Matt Smith31
Aaron Lewis31
Reggao de Matteo21
Jack Denzy0(1)1
Elzy Edwards11
Josh Steer--
Thomas Hornsletten--
Dangly McBalls10
Mitch Collins--
Dhillon Dylan--
Freddy Josef--
Andrew Motley--
Jack Burbridge--
Pratik Sangle--
Hunter Hearst Helmsley10
Keiran Laing--

Green text denotes beginning of new season / new club.
Red text denotes no change since last month.

Running totals on post #1 updated.​
 
August 2015

Achievements

Al Wilson - put in a man of the match performance for Basel in their Swiss Super League match against FC Vaduz. He scored a hat-trick in their 4-0 victory.

Hunter Hearst Helmsley - put in a man of the match performance for Armenia u21s against Norway u21s in the European u21 Championship Qualifying Group match. He scored twice as they won 2-1.

Ryan Brebner - put in a man of the match performance for Sheriff against BATE in their meeting in the EURO Cup Playoff First Leg match. He got a hat-trick as Sheriff ran out 4-1 winners. In the second leg, he also picked up the man of the match award after setting up the Sheriff goal in the 1-1 draw that saw them advance to the next round.

Ryan Kimbrell - put in a man of the match performance for BATE against Vitebsk in the Belarus Highest League game. He finished the game with 2 goals to his name.

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Transfer News

Hunter Hearst Helmsley - Shirak have accepted an offer from FC Kobenhavn in the region of 1M. Another 3 clubs have had their offers accepted by Shirak and several other are rumoured to be interested in him as well.
He has accepted the terms offered by FC Kobenhavn having rejected contracts from Fussballclub Red Bull Salzburg, Metalurg Donetsk, Fussballklub Austria Wien and BATE Borisov. The transfer fee was for an initial 850k. He was successful in obtaining a work permit to play in Denmark.
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Injury News

None

Other News

Keiran Laing - was not selected for Iceland for their latest matches.

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Stats

PlayerAppearancesGoals
Lewie Roberts3918
Ryan Kimbrell22(4)12
Ryan Brebner78
Aaron Lewis10(2)7
Al Wilson7(1)6
Alex John4(1)3
Matt Smith52
Reggao de Matteo32
Mitch Collins2(2)2
Elzy Edwards12
Dangly McBalls41
Jack Denzy2(1)1
Josh Steer--
Thomas Hornsletten--
Dhillon Dylan10
Freddy Josef--
Andrew Motley--
Jack Burbridge--
Pratik Sangle--
Hunter Hearst Helmsley40
Keiran Laing--

Green text denotes beginning of new season / new club.
Red text denotes no change since last month.

Running totals on post #1 updated.​
 
Ok I think that I'm going to change the layout of the updates.

I'm going to start to do 6 month updates, 1 January and 1 July.

And these will then be shown in the style of the inbox.

So the next update will take in the months of September, October, November and December 2015.
 
7 goals in 10 starts and 2 subs apps for me! really pleased with that
 
so, apparently Triple H moved to denmark, eh? don't mess it up kobenhavn..
 
Signed for Monaco but probably not going to get any games.
 
September - December 2015

September

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Friday 4th September, 2015

Pratik Sangle - picked up the man of the match award in the Liechtenstein vs Algeria friendly match. He scored both goals in the 3-2 defeat.

Aaron Lewis - picked up the man of the match award in the Malta vs Estonia friendly match. He scored a goal in the 2-1 victory.

Saturday 12th September, 2015

Jack Burbridge - made his debut for AS Monaco FC in the Ligue 1 match against En Avant de Guingamp.

Sunday 27th September, 2015

Jack Burbridge - picked up the man of the match award in the AS Monaco FC u19s match against AS Cannes u19s. He scored twice in the 4-0 French u19s Group 1 victory.

Tuesday 29th September, 2015

Keiran Laing - picked up the man of the match award in the u19 Champions Cup Group G meeting between PSG u19s and Fenerbache u19s. He scored the winner in the 2-1 victory.



October

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Thursday 1st October, 2015

Keiran Laing - has been overlooked for the Iceland squad for their latest match.

Sunday 4th October, 2015

Aaron Lewis - has picked up an automatic one game ban in the Swiss league after collecting 4 yellow cards.

Friday 9th October, 2015

Alex John - picked up the man of the match award for his performance in the Kazakhstan vs Ireland European Championship Qualifying match. He scored the winner in the 2-1 victory.

Saturday 17th October, 2015

Freddy Josef - lack of appearances for PSG means that a call up for Estonia seems to be some time away.

Jack Burbridge - lack of appearances for AS Monaco means that a call up for Lithuania seems to be some time away.

Sunday 18th October, 2015

Andrew Motley - lack of appearances for PSG means that a call up for Cyprus seems to be some time away.

Monday 19th October, 2015

Keiran Laing - lack of appearances for PSG means a call up for Iceland seems to be some time away.

Tuesday 20th October, 2015

Freddy Josef - picked up the man of the match award for his performance in the u19 Champions Cup Group G match, PSG u19s vs Steaua u19s. He scored 2 goals in the 5-1 victory.

Saturday 24th October, 2015

Al Wilson - picked up the man of the match award in the Basel - Thun, Swiss Super League match. He scored twice in the 4-0 victory.

Sunday 25th October, 2015

Andrew Motley - picked up the man of the match award for the PSG u19s victory in the u19s Cup Second Round against Stade Malherbe Caen u19s. He scored twice in the 6-0 thrashing.

Monday 26th October, 2015

Lewie Roberts - finished in joint 1st place for the Finnish Premier League Top Goalscorer award but did not win the award as it was handed to FC Lahti's Tuco as he had the least amount of playing time between the three tied at the top on 13 goals.

Lewie Roberts - finished the season as runner up in the Finnish Premier League Attacker of the Year award.

Wednesday 28th October, 2015

Freddy Josef - picked up the man of the match award for his goalscoring performance for PSG u19s against AS Nancy Lorraine u19s in the French u19s Group 3 match. He scored twice in the 4-0 victory.

Freddy Josef - has picked up an automatic one match ban after being booked in 3 of the last 10 matches.

Thursday 29th October, 2015

Pratik Sangle - lack of appearances for Schalke means a call up for Liechtenstein should be some time away.

November

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Sunday 1st November, 2015

Pratik Sangle - picked up the man of the match award in the German u19s Cup Second Round match, Schalke u19s vs Osnabruck u19s. He scored a marvellous hat-trick in the 4-0 victory.

Friday 6th November, 2015

Jack Burbridge - has been overlooked for the latest Lithuania squad.

Jack Denzy - has been overlooked for the latest Georgia squad.

Dhillon Dylan - pundits are asking why he wasn't included in the Montenegro squad for the latest match.

Keiran Laing - has been overlooked for the laest Iceland squad.

Saturday 7th November, 2015

Ryan Kimbrell - has been announced in the ten man shortlist to win the Belarusian Highest League Best Striker award. He is thought to be one of the front runners for the award.

Sunday 22nd November, 2015

Keiran Laing - lack of appearances for PSG means a call up for Iceland is still some time away.

Tuesday 24th November, 2015

Freddy Josef - lack of appearances for PSG means a call up for Estonia is still some time away.

Thursday 26th November, 2015

Andrew Motley - lack of appearances for PSG means a call up for Cyprus is still some time away.

Sunday 29th November, 2015

Freddy Josef - picked up the man of the match award for his performance in the French u19s Cup Third Round tie, PSG u19s vs Havre Athletic Club u19s. He scores a hat-trick in the 4-1 victory.

Monday 30th November, 2015

Lewie Roberts - has returned to Dortmund after his loan spell at HJK ended.

December
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Tuesday 1 December, 2015

Lewie Roberts - made his debut for Dortmund in the Third Round of the German Cup against Mainz.

Thursday 6 December, 2015

Pratik Sangle - lack of appearances for Schalke means that a call up to the Liechtenstein squad seems to be some time away.

Sunday 6 December, 2015

Freddy Josef - will be ruled out for about 5 weeks after spraining his ankle in training.

Thursday 10 December, 2015

Ryan Kimbrell - has finished in third place in the Belarusian Highest League Most Useful Player award.

Ryan Kimbrell - has finished in third place in the Belarusian Highest League Best Striker award.

Sunday 13 December, 2015

Pratik Sangle - picked up the man of the match award for Schalke u19s, in their German u19s Group 3 match against Braunschweig u19s. He scored twice in the 5-0 victory.

Wednesday 16 December, 2015

Elzy Edwards - picked up the man of the match award for Schalke u19s, in their German u19s Group 3 match against HSV u19s. He scored both goals in the 2-1 victory.

Saturday 19th December, 2015

Mitch Collins - hasn't scored for Schalke in seven matches and it seems to have started to affect his confidence.

Sunday 20th Dwins this award wecember, 2015

Pratik Sangle - picked up the man of the match award for Schalke u19s, in their German u19s Cup Third Round match against RB Leipzig u19s. He scored twice in the 5-0 victory.

Tuesday 29th December, 2015

Mitch Collin - rather indifferent form for Schalke looks unlikely to get him back into the Faroe Is. squad.

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Friday 1st January, 2016

World Golden Ball - Lionel Messi comes first with Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Man Utd's Juan Mata coming second and third respectively.

World Player of the Year - Lionel Messi picks up this award as well, with Juan Mata just pipping Cristiano Ronaldo for second place.

European Golden Boy - Manchester City's Lucas Romero picked up this award.

Ryan Kimbrell - was just beaten into second place for the award given to the Belarusian Player of the Year..

Lewie Roberts - finished as runner-up in the Finnish Player of the Year award.

Lewie Roberts - won the u21 Finnish Player of the Year award.
 
well motley, josef and laing getting some good performances in psg u19s. have any of us gotten first team appearances?
 
France 2016
Euro Championship
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The qualifying competition has ended and a few surprise countries have managed to qualify for the Finals for the 1st time ever. Top 2 teams qualify for the Finals with the top 6 best third place teams involved in a play-off for the final 3 places.

In Group A we had Ryan Kimbrell (Belarus) and Dangly McBalls (FYR Macedonia) attempting to get their countries to France.

In Group B we saw Elzy Edwards (Andorra), Hunter Hearst Helmsley (Armenia) and Al Wilson (Latvia).

Group C saw Ryan Brebner (Moldova), Dhillon Dylan (Montenegro) and Thomas Hornsletten (San Marino) battle it out.

Keiran Laing (Iceland) and Pratik Sangle (Liechtenstein) came head to head in Group D for qualifying for France.

In Group E it was Mitch Collins and his Faroe Is squad that tried to reach France.

Group F saw Jack Denzy (Georgia) and Alex John (Kazakhstan) try to qualify.

Lewie Roberts (Finland) and Aaron Lewis (Malta) met each other in Group G.

Albania's Reggao de Matteo and Lithuania's Jack Burbridge where stuck in Group H with each other.

In Group I we saw Matt Smith (Azerbaijan) and Freddy Josef (Estonia) attempt to score the goals to get their countries to the Finals.


And finally in Group J we had Andrew Motley (Cyprus) and Josh Steer (Luxembourg) battle it out.

So massive congratulations to Belarus, Montenegro and Estonia in qualifying for the finals of the European Championships for the first time ever.

Here is the table of all the third placed teams to see who finished in the top 6 to qualify for a place in the play-offs.

And the draw for the play-offs gave us these matches.

So good luck to Finland in their attempt to become the 4th side to reach the finals in France 2016.
 
France 2016
European Championship
Play-Offs

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Commiserations to Lewie Roberts as he and his teammates fail to qualify via the play-offs for the finals.

Congratulations to Scotland, Sweden and Bulgaria in making it through to France.
 
France 2016
European Championship


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The Finals kick off on June 11 with the holders Spain taking on Italy in a repeat of the 2012 European Championship Final.

Montenegro start their campaign against Portugal on the 12 June.

Estonia take on Sweden on the 14 June with Belarus playing Turkey in their first appearance at the finals.
 
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Estonia realise I'm there best hope up front, even while only playing for PSGs U-19 team
 
my country finished bottom with just a point!!!! Am i the only good player they have?!?!
 
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