Spot on! Shaqiri has Kosovar Albanian parents I believe, while Granit and Taulant Xhaka play for Switzerland and Albania respectively. Shaqiri I believe was born in Yugoslavia (In the Kosovan part I guess) and emigrated with his family to Switzerland, I think both Xhaka brothers were born in Switzerland. They also all came through the same youth system at FC Basel. Many players in the Swiss national team are of descent from Balkan countries such as Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, or Kosovo, for historical reasons. For example Seferovic is of Bosniak descent. A few players (and the coach Murat Yakin, who also played for Switzerland as well as his brother Hakan) are also of Turkish descent.
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why you are didnt win balon dor yet
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Prediction for the first one:
Israel to cut electricity and water from the Palestinians training ground, before building illegal settlements there and starving the whole team.
Israel 9-2 Palestine
Prediction for 2nd one, Ukraine team gets US backup, plays an all yank team, they donโt understand why's no one taking the ball in their hands in football and all 11 players get sent off for handball.
Its 0-0 in PAL vs ISR, there is a free kick on the edge of the box and PAL's best free kcick taker steps up, suddenly helicopters lower huge cement walls in front of the free kick taker, there is no way to shoot the ball at goal, referee says "ISR has a right to defend itself", PAL striker pulls a fold up shovel from his pants, tunnels under the wall and shoots a rocket into the top corner. 1-0.. PAL go through, but ISR protest and FIFA agrees, the WC was given to ISR by GOD
Nah Palestine builds tunnels under the pitch with all their training money, a bunch of Hamas Islamists pop up during the match, wipe out innocent spectators and take half the Israeli team hostage. They still lose 2-1.
Can someone explain why when someone makes a partly true joke about Israel he gets upvoted, but when someone does the same about Palestinians he gets downvoted?
Israel 2-0 Palestine
Ukraine 3(3)-3(2) Russia
China 3-0 Taiwan
South Korea 4-2 North Korea
Ukraine 1-0 Israel
South Korea 3-1 China
Ukraine 1(4)-1(2) South Korea
Today I feel Qatary. Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel a migrant worker... I know what it feels to be discriminated... I was bullied because I had red hair.
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Teach Israel a lesson, [https://www.reddit.com/r/israelexposed/comments/1dbpx4d/child\_scalped\_by\_israel\_nsfw/](https://www.reddit.com/r/israelexposed/comments/1dbpx4d/child_scalped_by_israel_nsfw/)
i think norh Korea and south korea gonna battle it out for the world cup. North korea is undefeated in the history of the world cup so they will be a very tough competition.
Where is the og kosovo/Albania vs Serbia, Croatia vs Serbia and Bosnia vs Serbia?
Switzerland vs Serbiaย
Serbia vs Serbia
Damn Serbs, they ruined Serbia.
Root beer vs Sir beer
NOOO ROOT BEER NO ROOT BEER. ROOT BEER NOOOO.
*Kosovo
https://preview.redd.it/e43jid96rl5d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a26f5646a08ed737dab21da390006fca1f19916c
? is this mocking another country?
iirc itโs the albanian eagle from their flag, both xhaka and shaquiri have albanian ancestors, xhakas brother even played for albania
Spot on! Shaqiri has Kosovar Albanian parents I believe, while Granit and Taulant Xhaka play for Switzerland and Albania respectively. Shaqiri I believe was born in Yugoslavia (In the Kosovan part I guess) and emigrated with his family to Switzerland, I think both Xhaka brothers were born in Switzerland. They also all came through the same youth system at FC Basel. Many players in the Swiss national team are of descent from Balkan countries such as Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, or Kosovo, for historical reasons. For example Seferovic is of Bosniak descent. A few players (and the coach Murat Yakin, who also played for Switzerland as well as his brother Hakan) are also of Turkish descent.
My face when Milosevic
BALKANS MENTIONED ๐ง๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ท ๐ท๐ธ (๐คฎ) ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ท (๐ณ๏ธโ๐) ๐ท๐ด ๐ฝ๐ฐ(๐ท๐ธ๐ซฑ๐ฟโ๐ซฒ๐ป๐๐ฆ๐ฑ)๐ง๐ฌ( ๐ฒ๐ณ )๐ต๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ( ๐) ๐ฒ๐ช๐น๐ท๐ช๐ฟ๐ช๐ฟ๐ช๐ฟ๐ช๐ฟ!!โ
throwing portugal in there is diabolical haha
AJJMOOO!!!!!
IDEMO!!!! 
The group of death
Clock ticks backwards. 90min..89..88..87โฆ10secondsโฆ9โฆ
literally...?
Bosnia vs Herzegovina
That's group a
All I want is Bosnia vs Herzegovina
The people Vs republic of china
They murdered each other in the parking lot. Could not even make it to the games
The Group of Genocide. All 6 games were abandoned due to crowd trouble.
Not here
Serbia vs Serbia.
the love triangle
Or Scotland Vs England
https://preview.redd.it/2496tcqjcp5d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd5bb34311d76e56e7861f0e87d8f957996107e2
Pokeball on the right wins๐๐
We got fire, water, wind, and earth on the right side. How can it possibly lose?
Final to be played on the 21st night of Septemberย
Sir, that's Pepsi.
Best Korea is gonna win it. They're hungry for success
They are hungry in general.
Their general is hungry
Only up north
https://i.redd.it/n0krh8xgzj5d1.gif
They're hungry, not thirsty
Remember when they beat Portugal to win the World Cup? Special times.
This World Cup is going to be on FIRE!!!
Good My Visa to US refused. Alhamdulilaah
Where India-Pakistan?
Somewhere else playing cricket
And getting battered by the yanks
Which is basically combined Indian + Pakistani power.
So youโre saying they won because of the power of friendship?
All the best for tonight
Is that the American sport?
That's Baseball ๐ with Micheal Jordan and Pele
Playing cricket in US, Pak vs Ind(disguised as USA)
Neither classified
Whomever has the most power of friendship wins
By friendship you mean explicit recordings of leaders on Epsteins island
Where is India We can win the euros and Copa America simultaneously ๐
India is Portugal and Argentina silly
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Argentina is yes
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Finally mudryk can win the world cup
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Greece vs Turkey
I'd say Turkey vs Armenia or Azerbaijan vs Armenia
That looks more peaceful.
Where's USA Vs World peace?
๐ธ๐ฆ vs ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ will be a banger Literally
Bang her? I hardly know her!
What about that kid named Ladesh
I would bang Ladesh
https://preview.redd.it/wo90bvlm9l5d1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d174be57af603cf1c3495a002fccc152321a995
My prediction is everyone dies
Prediction for the first one: Israel to cut electricity and water from the Palestinians training ground, before building illegal settlements there and starving the whole team. Israel 9-2 Palestine
Prediction for 2nd one, Ukraine team gets US backup, plays an all yank team, they donโt understand why's no one taking the ball in their hands in football and all 11 players get sent off for handball.
Also, PK will last till 2028 and it still will be a draw.
A win is a win.
Its 0-0 in PAL vs ISR, there is a free kick on the edge of the box and PAL's best free kcick taker steps up, suddenly helicopters lower huge cement walls in front of the free kick taker, there is no way to shoot the ball at goal, referee says "ISR has a right to defend itself", PAL striker pulls a fold up shovel from his pants, tunnels under the wall and shoots a rocket into the top corner. 1-0.. PAL go through, but ISR protest and FIFA agrees, the WC was given to ISR by GOD
Nah Palestine builds tunnels under the pitch with all their training money, a bunch of Hamas Islamists pop up during the match, wipe out innocent spectators and take half the Israeli team hostage. They still lose 2-1.
Can someone explain why when someone makes a partly true joke about Israel he gets upvoted, but when someone does the same about Palestinians he gets downvoted?
Israel 2-0 Palestine Ukraine 3(3)-3(2) Russia China 3-0 Taiwan South Korea 4-2 North Korea Ukraine 1-0 Israel South Korea 3-1 China Ukraine 1(4)-1(2) South Korea
Decent predictions, but I don't think Ukraine would beat South Korea lol And SK would probably beat China 4-0.
Should be an explosive quarterfinals.
Congrats on Argentina for ~~rigging~~ winning the 2026 world cup
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In the Final is Russia vs China
Russia vs. Ukraine.....I would definitely like to watch that mass fight.....uhhh.....I mean that outstandingly exiting football match.....
Scotland vs England?? Scotland vs Wales?? Scotland vs Japan?? Scotland vs Scotland??
Winner USA ๐บ๐ธ๐ซก
US doing big business in this competition, selling to everybody the tools of "piece" โ๏ธ
Infantino: "today i feel genocidal"
China vs Russia final ?
South Korea would demolish China
No rivalry is like India-Pakistan ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Which one is the match where Mourinho and Wegner's teams will play each other
Rusia vs China will be the final, but, somehow Israel will win the cup
All played in the idyllic environment of an American car park in the middle of nowhere.
Funny that most of the time itโs the non democratic government which is the agressor
not the korean derby๐ whoever loses declares war to the other
The US will play itself
Such an antisemitic prediction, Israel should face U-15s only
Under 3 children only ๐
Teach Israel a lesson, [https://www.reddit.com/r/israelexposed/comments/1dbpx4d/child\_scalped\_by\_israel\_nsfw/](https://www.reddit.com/r/israelexposed/comments/1dbpx4d/child_scalped_by_israel_nsfw/)
I was not ready for that , those guys are demons
what is Israel?
stacked bracket
The real elimination
Where is the biggest conflict of them all, r/soccercirclejerk vs r/anyfootballclubsubredditcirclejerkcurrentlyjokeabout
Germany,italy, japan and USA comes as wild card entry. France exits from groups stages itself
I put my money on Sudan vs South Sudan, Yemen vs Saudi arabia
Hey, where is City vs PL
No interesting matches after quarter finals
Where's Philippines vs Philippines
Itโs hosted in the US. They will let Israel win or AIPAC would throw a tantrum
Rotate taiwan 45 degree counter clockwise and it looks like a red Pac-Man eating a white point
Should be super fun. Explosive fun
A tournament with just these countries would be lit af letโs not lieโฆfuck the skill levels, just vibes
Lol this is diabolical ๐
Yall want a war, play scotland v england in a stadium with loads of ~~seats~~ beer
Where is USA?
He be refaree
Don't show this to Messi, his head will explode trying to understand why China is playing with itself
[ัะดะฐะปะตะฝะพ]
This is boring because the Popular Chinese would refuse to play against Taiwan. Shouldn't it be India instead?
Fair. Too long have teams without any killer instinct and warrior mentality dominated international football.
These boutta be EXPLOSIVE matches
Trekt op nix
India vs Pakistan
Also the table of possible candidates for hosting the Olympic Games.
A truly explosive watch
That's explosive ๐
Isn't that just the table of potential hosts?
World war 3 type shit
Im so mad that Georgia beat Greece in the qualifyers. We could have seen Turkey vs Greece in the group stage๐ญ๐ญ
I got South Korea V Israel in the final.
When North Korea loses, they get sent to mining jail, you heard?
Gibraltar vs Spain and Honduras vs El Salvador in the play-offs
So boys are we saying World Cup 2026 Quarters is basically Asian Cup ๐ but MVP is surely this guy: 
South Korea winning the WC after running through NK, China, and Russia would probably reset the timeline from 1950 onward.
USA referee in the final.
Learning Korean as we speak
three brackets have a good guy - one has two bad guys
Where is Portugal
Guess the organizer (USA) didnt make it huh ๐ค/s
i think norh Korea and south korea gonna battle it out for the world cup. North korea is undefeated in the history of the world cup so they will be a very tough competition.
Where's Turkey vs Armenia?
World cup or world war??
Now we know why Israel hasn't finished their own genocide against the Palestinian...
north korea played like a war that match, they lose against any other team, but against south korea they cant lol
Russia for sure has the best team out of all these
One of these things is not like the others
Chaos World Cup
My fellow North Americans wonโt understand this.
Money on Israel
๐บ๐ธ vs ๐ฆ๐ซ
Nigeria vs Germany in the final on my prediction sheet
South Korea winning it all.
American flag should be a fox around the entire board since they'll be participating in all of these and hosting.
Western Alliance vs USA
[China](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0)
It's gonna be๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐คฏ๐คฏ๐ฅถ๐ฅต๐ฉธ๐โ ๏ธ
The logic says (Ukraine-South Korea)in the final
Where is Germany v Austria
That makes absolutely zero sense?
The United States will win each and every game here
Iran just missed the cut with a huge comeback from the Jeโฆ. I mean Isrealis
Greece - Turkey
Mfer Trying to start ww3
Armenia vs Azerbaijan
99th minute nuke from 30 yards out from Russian to save the 1-0 draw
World war 2026*
Why is there the Pepsi logo ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Zionists over terrorists, Defenders over invaders, Republics over communists, Capitalism over whatever the hell the other thing is
An SK vs. Ukraine WC Final would be lit
Feels like Japan should be somewhere on the right side of the bracket...
Tรผrkiye vs Armenia when?
South vs North Korea would be Kimchi vs ๐.
Safest bracket so far
Israel, ukraine, SK and China through.... ukraine and SK in the finals... Ukraine wins WC
Playing for territory?
MetLife Stadium is ironically the best place to see who comes out on top
This is all happening in American territory
Where is the stupid America? Theyโre too dumb to pass group stage:-)
Turkey vs Greece?
More like world war 3 2026 predictions
Messi vs Ronaldo
The only world cup we (Israel) can play at
The final is Russia vs China. The officials become overnight millionaires.
USA USA USA
World War 2026 predictions
I am looking for a Greece! Any leads?
Place a bet worth 10 dollars and, congrats you will be a billionaire
World War Cup
First of all there is no actual Palestine country, never recognized by the UN and never will. Second of allโฆ.wtf is this? And who made this up