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Socceroos vs Turkey 2026 World Cup match thread 🇦🇺🇹🇷

socceroosmad said:
You literally made me lol. "And now please stand if you are able for the national anthen of Australia-aye". Good strategy. The Turks will know we're taking the piss. Red cards everywhere!
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If we want to elicit a bunch of red cards we could try an even more inflamatory name "Please rise for the national anthem of Constantinople belongs to the Greeks"
 
grazorblade said:
If we want to elicit a bunch of red cards we could try an even more inflamatory name "Please rise for the national anthem of Constantinople belongs to the Greeks"
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We could get way off topic here but seriously want to say that actually there is a strong connection between "Johnny Turk" and the Anzacs which is pretty weird given they were trying to shoot each other's brains out. Last point to close the thread - that's the magic of the World Cup- all these amazingly different cultures and countries, all together for the love of the game
 
Pasquali said:
My Matchday XI for Australia vs TĂĽrkiye

Formation: 3-2-4-1

GK: Mathew Ryan
CB: Harry Souttar
CB: Alessandro Circati
CB: Lucas Herrington
DM: Jackson Irvine
DM: Paul Okon-Engstler
LWB: Jordan Bos
AM: Nestory Irankunda
AM: Cristian Volpato
RWB: Jacob Italiano
ST: Mohamed Touré
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Such a strong lineup! I’d start Cam Devlin though.
 
socceroosmad said:
Turkish govt have asked the world to respect the change in their country's name. As Tom Jones sang, it's not unusual. Burma --> Myanmar;
Ceylon-- - > Sri Lanka; New Zealand --> Aotearoa (I wish)
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Except those names (other than Aotearoa / New Zealand) had historical reasoning though (and those aren't the only examples either). They changed because of the end of British colonialism and even Myanmar’s change was controversial as an unelected military junta did it (plus the demonym, ethnic group and language are still called “Burmese”).

Turkey’s name was recognised for a very long time and is well-established. More comparable would be “Cabo Verde” for Cape Verde and “Côte d’Ivoire” for Ivory Coast.
 
My Matchday XI for Australia vs TĂĽrkiye

Formation: 3-2-4-1

GK: Mathew Ryan
CB: Harry Souttar
CB: Alessandro Circati
CB: Lucas Herrington
DM: Jackson Irvine
DM: Cameron Devlin
LWB: Jordan Bos
AM: Nestory Irankunda
AM: Cristian Volpato
RWB: Jacob Italiano
ST: Mohamed Touré
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Except those names (other than Aotearoa / New Zealand) had historical reasoning though (and those aren't the only examples either). They changed because of the end of British colonialism and even Myanmar’s change was controversial as an unelected military junta did it (plus the demonym, ethnic group and language are still called “Burmese”).

Turkey’s name was recognised for a very long time and is well-established. More comparable would be “Cabo Verde” for Cape Verde and “Côte d’Ivoire” for Ivory Coast.
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Call me pretentious but I love the names Cabo Verde and Cote d'Ivoire :love: And Burmese food
 
JS96 said:
How's the Australian Turkish community going to go with this?

All Turkish games are not on German FTA rather exclusively on Telekom (26 games exclusively) yet they all said they'll be watching Turkish channels anyway.

Apparently YouTube will be showing games too which should dent Telekoms pay TV package.

SBS still works with vpn while NOS from the Netherlands has clamped down. There'll be plenty of sources.
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My bet is that the Australian Turkish community will be happy if Turkey win (sorry Erdo) but if they have to lose they'd rather lose to Australia than anyone else. But how would I know I'm Scottish Australian
 
socceroosmad said:
Call me pretentious but I love the names Cabo Verde and Cote d'Ivoire :love: And Burmese food
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They make sense but also don’t at the same time:
  • Cabo Verde kinda makes sense because then it’s two Portuguese words (Cabo Verde = Green Cape), but while Portuguese is the country’s official language, the main language is actually Cape Verdean Creole (in which the country is called Kabu Verdi).
  • Similarly, while French is the country’s official language, most Ivorians speak it as a second language (though to be fair it’s an interethnic lingua franca there).
  • In East Timor, Timor-Leste is the official name but most Timorese speak Tetum and most cannot speak Portuguese fluently. East Timor’s at a linguistic crossroads as most only speak Tetum (and many also speak an indigenous language). It was a Portuguese colony, then part of Indonesia, then became an independent state in 2002 and reverted from Indonesian back to Portuguese, but now English is preferred due to proximity with Australia and globalisation. Only half the country can speak Portuguese; the younger generations speak English and Portuguese but the older ones speak Indonesian unless they’re really old and still know Portuguese.
Love Burmese food though!
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Except those names (other than Aotearoa / New Zealand) had historical reasoning though (and those aren't the only examples either). They changed because of the end of British colonialism and even Myanmar’s change was controversial as an unelected military junta did it (plus the demonym, ethnic group and language are still called “Burmese”).

Turkey’s name was recognised for a very long time and is well-established. More comparable would be “Cabo Verde” for Cape Verde and “Côte d’Ivoire” for Ivory Coast.
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I still call them Burma, I can't expunge it from my brain, to much history in that area.
 
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