Mpejkrm's World Cup Challenge

[Mpejkrm]

Paris Saint-Germain Sign Stefan Velkov

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The 19 year old Bulgarian central defender has agreed with the Ligue 1 side on a four year contract worth 31K pounds p/w. PSG negotiated a fee of 19 million pounds to sign Velkov from Girondins Bordeaux.

Velkov is a full Bulgaria international, having made his senior squad debut on March 31, 2015 against Saudi Arabia and going on to be capped six times. Velkov began his youth career at Slavia (Sofia) before signing with Girondins Bordeaux in 2013. Last season he made 23 appearances and had an average match rating of 7.10.

 

[Mpejkrm]

Argentina Return to Top in August 2016 Men's World Ranking
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Argentina has returned to the top of the FIFA/Coca-Cola Men's World Rankings following a brief one month absence. La Albiceleste won their second straight Copa America last month. England and Italy each fell one spot, to second and third, respectively.

Ecuador, who came runner-up in the Copa America, moved up four spots to 15th. Japan fell three spots to 19th.

Eritrea made the biggest jump this month, moving up 18 spots to 157th. Other countries to move up more than 15 spots were Guinea-Bissau (145th, up 18), Swaziland (149, up 17), Comoros (170th, up 16) and Mauritania (140th, up 16).

Syria were the only country to drop more than five spots, falling 9 spots to 118th.


The top 20:

1.

Argentina

2
2.

England

1
3.

Italy

1
4.

Spain
5.

Uruguay
6.

Belgium
7.

Germany
8.

Brazil

1
9.

Croatia

1
10.

Switzerland
11.

Netherlands
12.

Mexico
13.

Chile
14.

Portugal
15.

Ecuador

4
16.

Russia

1
17.

France
18.

Czech Republic
19.

Japan

3
20.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

[rocco russo]

Your Bulgarian players are snatching hefty fees! I think that if you do well with the nation the youth rating increases and you get better regens.

 

[Mpejkrm]

Bulgaria Squad for World Cup Qualifiers Announced
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Bulgarian national team manager Mitch Collins has named his 23-man squad to face Macedonia and Armenia in 2018 World Cup Qualifying matches this week.

Only one change was made from Collins' last squad. Striker Ilian Micanski, who infamously scored 6 goals in a 2014 World Cup Qualifier against Malta, was dropped from the squad for the first time in Collins' tenure. In his place, Collins recalled 27 year old Rubin striker Ventsislav Hristov.

The full squad is below.

Goalkeepers

Plamen Iliev, Georgi Kitanov, Vladislav Stoyanov

Defenders

Ivan Dimov, Plamen Galabov, Ivan Ivanov, Iliya Milanov, Anton Nedyalkov, Georgi Terziev, Stefan Velkov, Petar Zanev

Midfielders

Ivaylo Chochev, Spas Delev, Milen Gamakov, Kritiyan Kitov, Georgi Milanov, Todor Nedelev, Ivelin Popov, Simeon Slavchev, Radoslav Tonev

Forwards

Milcho Angelov, Kiril Despodov, Ventsislav Hristov




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[Jamie Carragher]

Great idea for a challenge this, might try it myself as i'm getting bored with club saves.
Detail in your posts are awesome, kutgw!