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Giggs Retires from International Football.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/6703359.stm
I'm gutted, absolutely. He is old i suppose and Wales won't qualify for Euro 2008. It's such a shame he never got to perform in an international tournament. I've got to see his last game on Saturday. My worry is that there is noone around to replace him.:nervous:
I'm gutted, absolutely. He is old i suppose and Wales won't qualify for Euro 2008. It's such a shame he never got to perform in an international tournament. I've got to see his last game on Saturday. My worry is that there is noone around to replace him.:nervous:
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I'm not Welsh so I don't really care, other than to say that, like Bestie, it's a shame he never got to show off his skills at a tournament...
We seemingly can only produce one or two "superstar" players each generation, and apart from being cheated out of a Euro 2004 place by the Russians, lets be realistic about it, we're very unlikely to ever qualify for a tournament unless the Euro Championship is expanded.
I'm more worried about the quality of the youngsters coming through than Giggs retiring. On paper we have a squad that's as strong as Norn Iron or the Republic but they can't make that step up like in 2002-2004.
Thats the worrying thing isn't it. We so almost got to 2004 and only lost out because of the Russian drug cheats. I don't think its impossible to qualify. Look at Northern Ireland like to suggest. But yeah we don't have any good youngsters coming through apart from Bale. We have only a handful of Premiership players and they either are not playing regular first team football or Toshack has managed to alienate them (Savage, Oster, now Cotteril)
I don't rate Toshack as a manager either.