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FIFA World Cup 2011 Final Japan vs USA |OT| - JAPAN WINS

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lush

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Man, I hate ESPN coverage of just about everything. At least they have Darke commentating. This pregame crap is awful though.
 
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vas_a_morir said:
Soccer is a relatively new sport in the mainstream American consciousness. So, if there are a lot of fans, they are obviously just jumping on the bandwagon. I think it's great.
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Relative to Europe's history with the game, maybe.

But most kids in the USA born from 1970 on had soccer around them as a little league sport. Many, many Americans played the game at some point in their lives. In the USA, if you are 45 years old or younger, white, hispanic, or asian, there's a really really good chance you've played the game in an organized way, or have a family member that has.

It's just not a major men's sport past the youth level in the United States, that's all.

In the USA, at the collegiate level (which is the level where most of the focus of money and training facilities resides in women's athletics) soccer is probably the third most-popular women's team sport.
 
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You know, I'm rooting for USA, but if Japan wins I wouldn't be mad at all. It would be a bright light in the middle of the despair for their country right now.

Unless the ref is just as fucking inept as the one in that Brazil game
 
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SamuraiX- said:
You know, I'm rooting for USA, but if Japan wins I wouldn't be mad at all. It would be a bright light in the middle of the despair for their country right now.

Unless the ref is just as fucking inept as the one in that Brazil game
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I think we can all hope that, no matter what the result is, we hardly notice the officiating at all.
 
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SamuraiX- said:
You know, I'm rooting for USA, but if Japan wins I wouldn't be mad at all. It would be a bright light in the middle of the despair for their country right now.

Unless the ref is just as fucking inept as the one in that Brazil game
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New Yorker here, but I feel the same way.
 
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Keio

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Here's hoping for a good game. It's been an exciting tournament.

And sorry USA fans, but I'm rooting for Japan after the France game.
 
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painey

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the illusive man

"these are teams you can only root for, not against"

guess the yanks don't know how the rest of the world really feels about them!
 
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SamuraiX- said:
You know, I'm rooting for USA, but if Japan wins I wouldn't be mad at all. It would be a bright light in the middle of the despair for their country right now.

Unless the ref is just as fucking inept as the one in that Brazil game
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the ref should be fine, bibiana steinhaus is germanys first female referee in mens professional football. she's refeering games in the "2. bundesliga" (second division), so she should be better than the other inexperienced refs at this world cup. btw. last year there was a funny "boob-touching" incident with her in a game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-K4p8D940
 
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fuenf said:
the ref should be fine, bibiana steinhaus is germanys first female referee in mens professional football. she's refeering games in the "2. bundesliga" (second division), so she should be better than the other inexperienced refs at this world cup. btw. last year there was a funny "boob-touching" incident with her in a game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-K4p8D940
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She eye fucked the shit outta him.
 
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