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Postby ManoWAR » Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:26 pm

Do you think it is right to call the Cyprus Football Team "National" or not? and why?
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Postby Piratis » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:44 am

Are you sure that this belongs to the "sports" section?

It seems political to me.
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Postby ManoWAR » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:05 pm

Piratis wrote:Are you sure that this belongs to the "sports" section?

It seems political to me.


I think it belongs to both sports and political sections... (If the same question appeared in the political section someone could argue that it belongs to the sports section).

So Piatis, what is your opinion on this?
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Postby Bananiot » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:54 pm

The question could easily go in the Jokes and Enigmas section of the forum. In other words, it depends on how far beyond his nose a person sees ...
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Postby ManoWAR » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:16 pm

Bananiot wrote:The question could easily go in the Jokes and Enigmas section of the forum. In other words, it depends on how far beyond his nose a person sees ...


How far can you see Bananiot? :roll:
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Postby Sotos » Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:23 pm

Do you think it is right to call the Cyprus Football Team "National" or not? and why?

All countries have national teams. If we didn't call it national what would we call it :?: :?
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Postby ManoWAR » Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:57 pm

Sotos wrote:
Do you think it is right to call the Cyprus Football Team "National" or not? and why?

All countries have national teams. If we didn't call it national what would we call it :?: :?


State Team perhaps? Or just Cyprus Team?
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Postby Bananiot » Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:22 am

Are you saying that the RoC is a pseudo nation?
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Postby ManoWAR » Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:03 am

Bananiot wrote:Are you saying that the RoC is a pseudo nation?


Ofcouse not! What I am saying is that RoC is not a nation!
Republic of Cyprus is a State, a democratic counrty member of the UN the EU, the FIFA, etc., but it´s citicens belong to Greek and Turkish nation.

So I guess it is better to call the "Football National Team of Cyprus" as "Cyprus Team" (I remaind you that in the past, when turkish cypriots were members of this team, we used to call it "Mikti Kyprou")
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Postby Bananiot » Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:38 pm

As far as I know, Cyprus does not have just one National Team (that of football) but about 35 (this is the number of different KOA affiliated Federations). Are you suggesting that we should do away with the term "National" for all of them? This will be a god-sent gift to the pseudo state who will jump onto the opportunity to make the term theirs. What is wrong with using the term? It sounds good to me ...
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