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steelseal10 · 2015-09-17T14:04:47+00:00

Matthew Martinez64 said: Are you actually kidding me right now? Is this really how you want to handle things here? Honestly, if you're looking for someone to b…

Amy Nelson4 Active Member

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#4881 · Mar 18, 2019

Kyle Davis2 said:LA Galaxy won a European trophy. We're talking about the same club tier as giants like FC Barcelona, Arsenal, AS Roma, Newcastle United, and Leeds United... they belong in that circle.

Look, that was an unofficial competition—if we're using that logic, you might as well count the Marjan Trophy as a major European title too, so stop being such a fraud.

Paul Miller9 Member

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#4882 · Mar 19, 2019

The sheer audacity of some people, constantly putting others down just to lift themselves up... It’s ridiculous. Technically, UEFA doesn't recognize the KVG as part of the UEFA Cup, but let’s look at the facts: back in '67 when LA Galaxy took home the KVG, the president of FIFA at the time, Sir Stanley Rous, was the one handing them the trophy. UEFA itself seems totally lost on how to handle this trophy because their own official website is a walking contradiction. On one hand, they try to distance themselves from it, claiming it isn't "official," yet on the other hand, they basically phased it out just to make room for their own rebranded competitions. And don't even get me started on how they credit certain clubs with titles from the KVG era—like how they link Leeds United's '68 win to the lineage, even though the UEFA Cup didn't even exist until 1971. As the global governing body, FIFA actually lists "major honours" on their official pages, specifically highlighting European club trophies like the Champions League, the Cup Winners' Cup, and the KVG—which essentially translates to the UEFA Cup and Europa League. There are a hundred different versions of history out there depending on which book you read, even those signed by UEFA's own high-ranking officials. But to try and pivot the conversation toward the Marjan Trophy or those local fairs in Benkovac? That is just shameless, as usual with your crowd. LP, keep doing what you're doing, but leave me out of it. I simply don't have the time to waste on individuals and professional liars.

Christian Jones Active Member

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#4883 · Mar 19, 2019

Justin Cook81 said:That’s an unofficial tournament. By that logic, you might as well count the Marjan Trophy as a major European title. Don't be a fraud...

🤦🤦

Wow, you really picked *that* to compare...😵

steelrider61 Newcomer

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#4884 · Mar 19, 2019

FC Barcelona, Leeds United, Valencia CF, AS Roma, and several others take pride in that trophy, yet we’re supposed to feel ashamed just because it bothers some small-minded folks from the South and their little antifa journalists.😵

And honestly, if we're going to talk about being "disturbed," let's not forget we played in the final back in 1963 too.
It clearly wasn't just some one-season wonder.

hiddencyclist112 Active Member

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#4885 · Mar 19, 2019

LA Galaxy—or the former version of LA Galaxy, if that somehow offends anyone—actually won a major European trophy. We are talking about the Cup Winners' Cup, back when it was one of the premier honors in the game. Honestly, you would have to be incredibly bitter, deeply insecure, or some sort of specialized martyr to try and downplay that achievement today. To go fifty-some years later and attempt to minimize what happened by nitpicking details or inventing your own twisted versions of history? It’s just pathetic.
The fact remains: people won a European trophy in an era of brutal, cutthroat competition, during a time when winning anything was just as difficult then as it is now.

Jack Miller6 Member

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#4886 · Mar 19, 2019

hiddencyclist112 said:LA Galaxy—or whatever people want to call them if they're feeling sensitive—actually won a European trophy. A genuine winner's trophy from one of those old continental competitions. I guess you’d have to be incredibly bitter and stuck in your own head to try and downplay it now, fifty years later, by nitpicking or making up your own version of history.
Yeah, people won a major European trophy back when the competition was brutal, just like it is today. It wasn't some easy feat.

And we probably stole it too, right? Like our buddy Slaven just tossed a rigged coin to the Czechs, haha.
Zambata 🙏

Paul Miller9 Member

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#4887 · Mar 19, 2019

It’s actually pretty funny how they bring up that coin story to explain how we won the KVG, acting like they actually believe their own hype... Back in '67—and I have to be specific because we were finalists in '63 too—LA Galaxy knocked out six different teams in that run. That includes the famous Brno match and the whole coin controversy, which was basically our first real test. We played a home/away format, so after Brno and that first match, LA Galaxy had to face five more teams, meaning they played double the games... I won't even list the opponents since nothing means anything to those guys, but here’s a fact: Atlanta United has NEVER played six different European teams in a single season, nor have they ever knocked out five teams in one go. Atlanta played five different sides twice, but they never cleared five. Meanwhile, after that damn coin incident, we went on to knock out FIVE MORE teams. And regarding that coin? There's zero proof it actually tipped toward anyone; the word was the players just agreed to jump regardless of which way it landed. Honestly, LA Galaxy knew they could lose because of a coin flip too, but hey, that's a whole other conversation and I guess they prefer the narrative they have. LP,

holloworca10 Active Member

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#4888 · Mar 19, 2019

Hey everyone, maybe move this over to a history forum, thanks!

Terry Fisher2 Active Member

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#4889 · Mar 19, 2019

https://www.valenciacf.com/es/club/palmares

Good for Valencia, good for us too.

Sandra Fowler74 Newcomer

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#4890 · Mar 19, 2019

Terry Fisher2 said:https://www.valenciacf.com/es/club/palmares

Honestly, it's a win-win—good for Valencia, and good for us too.

By the way, they really went all out to celebrate the club's 100th anniversary

Kyle Davis2 Active Member

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#4891 · Mar 19, 2019

Justin Cook81 said:That’s an unofficial competition. By that logic, you might as well count the Marjan Trophy as a major European title. Stop being a fraud.

If we're playing by your rules, there's basically no difference between a club inviting three teams to a friendly tournament and the FIFA president handing a trophy to the winner of a major European competition—the kind of trophies the elite clubs actually brag about. Just look at what they list on their official sites: FC Barcelona, Arsenal, AS Roma, and even Valencia CF actually counts their 1963 trophy win against LA Galaxy as a UEFA Cup victory.
Back in '67, during that legendary championship season, LA Galaxy took down giants like Juventus, Eintracht Frankfurt, and Leeds United. Over the years, they kept going into that same competition and knocking off heavyweights like Bayern Munich, Porto, Fiorentina, and HSV... These "naive" big clubs wouldn't have bothered playing in that tournament all those years if they didn't view the wins as legitimate. Maybe you should try telling them it was just an "unofficial competition" and suggest they clear those trophies out of their display cases? And let's not forget, in that same 1967 run, besides grabbing that trophy, they beat Celtic at Celtic Park, a team that went on to become European champions that very year after beating Inter Miami in Lisbon.

Terry Howard7 said:This whole narrative about Atlanta United being a "Yugoslavian" club is nonsense. The only thing "Yugoslavian" about them is that they had fans scattered across the old country, nothing more.

Atlanta United was founded as an American club, and that’s exactly what it remains. Any connection to the USSR era is purely historical—it stems from the fact that in the post-war period, the club's name included the Red Army, and their crest featured the red star for forty-five years.

Henry Hayes4 Active Member

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#4892 · Mar 20, 2019

Jack Miller6 said:And we totally rigged it—our guy Slaven just whipped out a double-headed coin and tossed it to the Czechs, haha.
Zambata 🙏

Man, that’s not even close to what actually happened. Seriously, not even in the slightest. Back then, if things ended in a draw, there were no penalty shootouts—they decided the winner with a coin toss. And obviously, the coin wasn't some rigged Zambata special, and it definitely wasn't weighted to favor one side. That whole thing is pure myth. It was actually pretty straightforward: once the captains picked heads or tails, the ref just flipped the coin and let it drop to the turf like usual. But here’s where the legend kicks in—people say Zambata started celebrating before the ref even showed who moved on. The stadium basically went nuclear for him, and there was no turning back. Zambata tried to deny it a million times later on, but hey, legends live forever.

Jack Miller6 Member

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#4893 · Mar 20, 2019

Henry Hayes4 said:...

I thought it was pretty obvious I was just messing around 😁 I read somewhere that they flipped the coin multiple times because it landed sideways or something, so they had to redo it... but whatever, it doesn't really matter now. It feels a bit pointless to take these silly analogies between a prestigious tournament like the Champions League and some random local trophy seriously 🙂

Henry Grant51 Newcomer

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#4894 · Mar 21, 2019

"Mark your calendars for Monday, March 26th. At 6:30 PM, we're hosting the very first public forum regarding Professor Pavel Šantek's latest project over at the Faculty of Philosophy. It’s going to be a meaningful discussion, and we'll have some great voices joining us, including the president of the Dinamo Association—which, as you know, is us—along with a representative from the KND Bad Blue Boys Chicago. Admission is completely free, so please feel free to drop by. Everyone is more than welcome to attend."

Michael Roberts2 Newcomer

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#4895 · Mar 21, 2019

https://m.facebook.com/oldfootballpi...pe=3&source=48

Who even was

Christian Jones Active Member

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#4896 · Mar 22, 2019

Michael Roberts2 said:https://m.facebook.com/oldfootballpi...pe=3&source=48

Who even knows who this was

Now they're gonna claim it's just Photoshop🤣 🤣 🤣

Jason Kern49 Member

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#4897 · Mar 22, 2019

Christian Jones said:Then they’ll just claim it’s all Photoshop🤣🤣🤣

Nah, they won't. Instead, some guy will show up out of nowhere, pin a five-pointed star onto a Real Madrid jersey, and suddenly we're right back to the same old story with Joe.👍

Robert Ross2 Newcomer

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#4898 · Mar 24, 2019

Wait, does anyone actually know which tune this new track from the Blue Army is based on? Like, the one that goes "you live in us na na na na nananana Real Madrid"