2026 Boys' 16U World Championships

General
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Are they playing 6 minute quarters? I see one goalie didn’t play while the other logged 24 minutes which leads me to wonder.

I would think they’d be playing 7 minute quarters

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6 minute quarters. I was surprised to see that as well. Maybe in classification games they’ll get to play 7 minutes?

That said, to score 34 goals (as MNE did against ZIM, who scored twice)), you’re looking at pulling the ball out of the cage every 40 seconds on average.

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Any link to past game? Vs australie

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Is there a link to the stream though?

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Grayson was impressive there in the 4th. 3 scores to put USA on top.

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Yes if he did not get called for an offensive (due to his size mostly) he was unstopable.

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“I must break you,” said Ivan Drago. Go USA!!!

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Team Stats:

Teams Goals Shots Shooting% Assists Steals Blocks Majors 5M Goals 5M Shots Adj Shooting %
CRO 103 172 60% 42 49 22 62 18 19 56%
ESP 99 172 58% 36 66 17 66 7 10 57%
MNE 111 202 55% 44 70 16 66 6 10 55%
SRB 107 199 54% 40 52 13 76 19 20 49%
USA 94 176 53% 41 45 20 53 12 19 52%
ITA 107 205 52% 42 61 11 75 14 16 49%
GER 94 181 52% 17 66 14 66 12 18 50%
SGP 72 139 52% 20 48 5 43 5 7 51%
HUN 95 202 47% 25 52 20 83 11 13 44%
NED 84 179 47% 28 44 18 63 5 8 46%
GRE 86 185 46% 25 59 24 70 14 22 44%
NZL 78 174 45% 22 55 15 57 13 16 41%
EGY 87 195 45% 35 45 11 58 15 19 41%
MEX 62 147 42% 15 57 14 62 7 9 40%
GEO 61 146 42% 14 46 10 89 4 7 41%
RUS 76 184 41% 15 47 19 78 6 10 40%
BRA 74 180 41% 31 50 23 62 7 10 39%
UKR 71 173 41% 34 36 15 69 11 15 38%
POR 68 168 40% 14 48 12 61 10 18 39%
CHN 56 139 40% 16 32 11 51 11 12 35%
ROU 64 160 40% 18 31 13 67 13 18 36%
MLT 62 155 40% 28 36 27 70 5 6 38%
TUR 68 171 40% 16 44 22 54 11 13 36%
KAZ 70 179 39% 14 54 13 74 17 22 34%
MAS 48 124 39% 11 30 4 40 8 13 36%
RSA 51 132 39% 5 39 13 58 14 17 32%
SLO 72 189 38% 21 47 14 49 12 14 34%
ISR 56 152 37% 19 28 26 75 6 11 35%
CAN 62 183 34% 27 45 9 55 5 7 32%
PUR 36 111 32% 1 18 11 100 3 5 31%
URU 34 106 32% 4 25 18 62 8 13 28%
CZE 32 102 31% 11 37 7 59 2 5 31%
POL 48 153 31% 11 20 17 55 5 7 29%
AUS 47 159 30% 15 38 12 64 3 8 29%
PER 38 133 29% 17 36 20 63 7 10 25%
ZIM 20 91 22% 6 33 7 101 5 7 18%
Grand Total 2,493 5,818 43% 780 1,589 543 2,356 331 454 40%
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Interesting stats for USA today. Took 8 less shots than Russia and limited ourselves to a single action shot, yet put more shots on goal than Russia (USA had 6 field blocks to 1 for Russia).

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The announcer referring to them as the “Blue team” and “White team” was annoying for what it was and why it’s happening.

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The announcer in general was quite annoying and rude. It was the same one for the girls games

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The rumor…is that Croatia has an issue with Russia being there at all for geopolitical reasons and doesn’t want the Russian flag or any Russian recognition at all so maybe just using dark and white caps allows for sterile announcing and not saying “Russia” over and over.

Source is a Euro WP IG site that I came across one night (and had to translate) while googling why they are using pixels instead of flags for the Countries on the WA website.

Who knows…but agree…annoying.

Get Wes on a plane!

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I thought World Aquatics had decided flags and anthems were to be improved by untested mathematical algorithm this year.

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Claude found me a European IG page that required translation as a source…but couldn’t point me to this article…

:man_facepalming:

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For those with a VPN that gets you a European IP Address, our boys are warming up for the start:

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I can’t believe USA managed to lose that game vs Spain? You know that Spain was down 3 goals vs Italy day before and came back to win. Not great management- I’m sorry! :man_shrugging:t3: