Sign-ups for Issue 3!

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Welcome to the sign-up post for Issue 3 of cornerflag! In this special issue, the editorial team is setting aside their club colours: unlike previous issues, which focused on club football, the theme for Issue 3 will be uncommon intra-national team pairings/twosomes.

Writings on any national team in any tournament or competition are welcome, from the 1974 World Cup to the 2008 Olympics, from the women's senior team to the men's U-21s -- to name just some examples. This issue will still follow the rules and guidelines of previous issues, with a few modifications:

• "Intra-national team" basically means the players/managers in your story must from the same national team -- including women's and youth teams. Stories concerning former teammates will be considered, as long as the story is set within a time when they're called up to the national team at the same time (allowing for time between one tournament and the next international match). Managers are okay.
• We realise that "uncommon" is open to interpretation. However, for the purpose of this webzine, a common pairing is defined as one that has significant fandom presence on communities such as footballslash and/or has its own LJ communities. Therefore, intra-team pairings that will not be considered would include Terry/Lampard, Ballack/Frings, Podolski/Schweinsteiger, Klose/Podolski, Ramos/Torres, Silva/Villa. Also, even if all 1,000,000 stories of a pairing was written by the same person, it would still be considered as having a significant fandom presence. (Please also note Rule #6.)
• Each national team is limited to two stories of any genre, plus an extra slot to be made available for a gen fic. Another extra slot will also be given to a story featuring footballers from the women's national team.

To sign up, please leave a comment with the following information:

1. the team and characters/pairings you intend write for,
2. whether it's gen or slash (both m/m and f/f) or het,
3. and a pseudonym, if wanted. Please indicate as such if that's the case -- your comment will be duly screened.

This post will be updated with a list of writers sorted by countries, so you can see if all the slots for a particular team are taken up.

Argentina
1. stickmarionette: Sergio Aguero/Leo Messi, slash

Czech Republic
1. laskalezi: Pavel Nedvěd/Zdeněk Grygera, slash
2. saint_kat: Petr Čech & Daniel Zítka, gen

Denmark
1. finnygan: Preben Elkjær & Michael Laudrup, gen

France
1. janierotten: Samir Nasri/Karim Benzema
2. roadtoharmony: Sébastien Frey/Philippe Mexes, gen

Germany
1. 4or5paragraphs: Lukas Podolski/David Odonkor, slash

Italy
1. applefic: Paolo Rossi/Antonio Cabrini, slash
2. rose_of_rouen: Andrea Pirlo/Antonio Cassano, slash
+ baki_neko: Andrea Pirlo & Roberto Baggio, gen

Netherlands
1. pints: Ibrahim Afellay/Ruud van Nistelrooy, slash
2. thepianopoet: Edwin van der Sar/Ruud van Nistelrooy, slash

Portugal
1. nahco3: Cristiano Ronaldo/Deco, slash

Romania
1. great_whatsit: Adrian Mutu/Gheorghe Hagi
2. cheryl_bites: Victor Piţurcă/Cristian Chivu

Spain
1. labyrinthically: Iker Casillas/Xavi Hernández, slash

Sweden
1. s3cr3tscanki11: Zlatan Ibrahimović/Freddie Ljungberg, slash

Issue 3 is scheduled to be out on 16 August, in time for the opening fixtures for the 2008/2009 Bundesliga and Premier League. The deadline for submitting your story is 8 August 2008, 11:59pm GMT. This sign-up post will stay open up to a week before the stories are due.