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2014 FIFA World Cup |OT6| The beautiful game in all its thrilling glory
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Germany already finding excuses for Friday, I see.
Any sport would want its best player to shine and lead his team through to a title. It creates legend of mythological proportions. I was little when Maradona led Argentina to the '86 Cup, and in my mind, he still put us on his shoulders and won it by himself.
By the same token, this is also an opportunity for someone to grasp that opportunity and overcome all odds and win the Cup in a tournament with Messi in it. Think about what would become of James Rodriguez, Neymar or Muller if they lifted the Cup in a tournament with an in-prime Ronaldo and Messi, injuries notwithstanding. FIFA would have a story for the ages if Colombia got through with James leading the way. I'd argue he's become their poster boy much more than Messi.
Thanks for the swift reply guys! My sister has calm down now, and I decided to call it a day early.
It actually starts 13h/1PM Brazilian time.
Yep my bad. Google told me american (atlantic coast) time , while I live in France, weird.
Where were you in? Rio?
Here in São Paulo we've been dealing with a pretty bad dengue outbreak, but no one close to me has got it so far.
Manaus and Recife. Felt fine in Manaus though!
Lovely.
Well, then it's probably just regular tropical flu!
Innit? We have one every few years. The government simply cannot make people understand that still water at home is a bad thing.
Mind games.
Haunted Tank
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Just got back from Brazil too, feeling kind of shiBRRRAAAIINSSSS
Zizou <3 I rewatched the final last day, I shouldn't do, now I'm nostalgic of half of our team
Alligatorjandro
Banned
Go Germany
Maninthemirror
Banned
Must be Messi over Neymar
Alx
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I hope they won't play too close to French players and contaminate them, they need to be in shape to beat Brazil in the semis.
Argentina is winning on the historic BR-ARG matchup
Alex_Mexico
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Sorry if this was already discussed but, hey, Ann Coulter is back!
Let me paste her idiotic ramblings here so we dont give her more clicks:
SOCCER: PART DEUX
PARIS -- Soccer fans have decided to prove me wrong about soccer being a fruity sport by spending the last week throwing hissy fits. This, in defense of a "sport" where the losing players cry on camera.
The massive and hysterical response to my jovial sports piece proves how right I was. Nothing explains the uniform, Borg-like caterwauling, but that soccer is a game for beret-wearers. Most of the articles attacking me are verbless strings of obscenities, their subject matter identified only in the title.
Consequently, I've decided to emulate The New York Times, which runs the exact same column, year after year, "Soccer Catches On, Take 27," by re-running mine on how excruciatingly boring soccer is.
This past week has allowed me to add several new items to my list of grievances.
Further proof that soccer is a game for girls: Since my column came out, a guy from the Paraguay team (Uruguay? Who cares?) was caught biting an opponent in a match. Not punching. Not a cross-body block. BITING! How long can it be until we see hair-pulling in soccer?
I was in Paris the night Algeria played Russia, prompting hordes of drunken Algerians to riot on the Champs Elysees, hanging out of cars, yelling and honking all night. V-Day was not celebrated with as much enthusiasm.
This was for a game that ended in a tie. Yes, a TIE -- an exhilarating 1-1 final score. I don't speak Arabic, but I assume they were shouting something like, "WE TIED! WE TIED! WE TIED!"
So in a 100-minute game, something happened two times and nothing happened 98 times.
As with Algeria's glorious 1-1 tie game against Russia, Team USA tied Portugal and lost to Germany -- and then advanced. How did the U.S. fail to win in two straight games, but advance in this apparently interminable tournament? I believe we are witnessing the implementation of that favorite rule of soccer moms: "Everybody's a winner!!!"
The reason there are so many fights among spectators at soccer games is to compensate for the tedium. Fans feel like they're watching a sport, so there ought to be excitement someplace. Even the players would rather watch the action in the stands than what's happening on the field.
Being in France does expose me to a way of life that illustrates why foreigners like soccer so much. The BBC News network proves that Europeans are incapable of being bored.
You can never tell how much time is left in soccer, which only adds to the agony. The refs keep extending the game like snippy hall monitors with their little red cards and yellow cards.
Another crucial role of the refs is to stop the games for a "heat rest." Tell that to NFL players in New Orleans or Miami, where regular-season games have reached temperatures of over 100 degrees. Two Super Bowls hit temperatures above 80 degrees -- and football players are wearing about 100 pounds of gear, not the airy frocks of soccer players.
NFL players have died of heat stroke. The only risk of death in a soccer game is when some Third World peasant goes on a murderous rampage after a bad call.
Among the least obscenity-laced attacks on my soccer column was one written by two twits who work for the Huffington Post, Nick Wing and Paige Lavender. They denounce me for my ignorance of soccer, after scouring Wikipedia for several amazing facts about the game.
I say that soccer is mind-numbing because all they do is run up and down the field? Why, Wing and Lavender are just chock-full of little statistics: Did you know that all players on a team run an average of 62 miles per game?
Now that really makes soccer interesting! Watching people run 62 miles by circumnavigating a big field all day with no scoring!
Catherine Thompson sniped in Talking Points Memo: "It's worth noting that aside from the Olympics, the World Cup is really the only occasion when an American audience gets a chance to cheer on a national -- rather than a regional -- sports team. But apparently that doesn't jibe with Coulter's vision of patriotism."
Aside from the Olympics? Yes, and aside from ABBA, Fiendens musik is the biggest Swedish rock band. Aside from that gigantic "aside from," it's still not true. Has Thompson ever heard of the Ryder Cup, the Davis Cup or the America's Cup? Apparently, those competitions don't jibe with Thompson's vision of patriotism.
Unless they're trying to impress a boy, most girls don't especially like football. Vice versa for men and ballet. I've never known either sex to care at all -- much less obsessively browbeat the opposite sex about it. Why must soccer fans get in such a snit about people who hate soccer?
Another denunciation of me came from The Washington Post's sports reporter, Mike Wise. To fully appreciate his critique of my soccer column, you must look up his photo right now.
Done? OK, in addition to calling soccer "futbol," Wise writes, "I like to think we are now deeper, more internationally sophisticated" -- which he demonstrates by squealing at me, "Get off my pitch, lady." Why, precisely, is it so vitally important that we join "an international sports community"? Doesn't this guy have something better to do than make-believe he likes soccer? Like practice his hair-pulling?
What do you think? I'd never thought I'd see the day where I'd meet a woman who's mysoginistic!
Let me paste her idiotic ramblings here so we dont give her more clicks:
SOCCER: PART DEUX
PARIS -- Soccer fans have decided to prove me wrong about soccer being a fruity sport by spending the last week throwing hissy fits. This, in defense of a "sport" where the losing players cry on camera.
The massive and hysterical response to my jovial sports piece proves how right I was. Nothing explains the uniform, Borg-like caterwauling, but that soccer is a game for beret-wearers. Most of the articles attacking me are verbless strings of obscenities, their subject matter identified only in the title.
Consequently, I've decided to emulate The New York Times, which runs the exact same column, year after year, "Soccer Catches On, Take 27," by re-running mine on how excruciatingly boring soccer is.
This past week has allowed me to add several new items to my list of grievances.
Further proof that soccer is a game for girls: Since my column came out, a guy from the Paraguay team (Uruguay? Who cares?) was caught biting an opponent in a match. Not punching. Not a cross-body block. BITING! How long can it be until we see hair-pulling in soccer?
I was in Paris the night Algeria played Russia, prompting hordes of drunken Algerians to riot on the Champs Elysees, hanging out of cars, yelling and honking all night. V-Day was not celebrated with as much enthusiasm.
This was for a game that ended in a tie. Yes, a TIE -- an exhilarating 1-1 final score. I don't speak Arabic, but I assume they were shouting something like, "WE TIED! WE TIED! WE TIED!"
So in a 100-minute game, something happened two times and nothing happened 98 times.
As with Algeria's glorious 1-1 tie game against Russia, Team USA tied Portugal and lost to Germany -- and then advanced. How did the U.S. fail to win in two straight games, but advance in this apparently interminable tournament? I believe we are witnessing the implementation of that favorite rule of soccer moms: "Everybody's a winner!!!"
The reason there are so many fights among spectators at soccer games is to compensate for the tedium. Fans feel like they're watching a sport, so there ought to be excitement someplace. Even the players would rather watch the action in the stands than what's happening on the field.
Being in France does expose me to a way of life that illustrates why foreigners like soccer so much. The BBC News network proves that Europeans are incapable of being bored.
You can never tell how much time is left in soccer, which only adds to the agony. The refs keep extending the game like snippy hall monitors with their little red cards and yellow cards.
Another crucial role of the refs is to stop the games for a "heat rest." Tell that to NFL players in New Orleans or Miami, where regular-season games have reached temperatures of over 100 degrees. Two Super Bowls hit temperatures above 80 degrees -- and football players are wearing about 100 pounds of gear, not the airy frocks of soccer players.
NFL players have died of heat stroke. The only risk of death in a soccer game is when some Third World peasant goes on a murderous rampage after a bad call.
Among the least obscenity-laced attacks on my soccer column was one written by two twits who work for the Huffington Post, Nick Wing and Paige Lavender. They denounce me for my ignorance of soccer, after scouring Wikipedia for several amazing facts about the game.
I say that soccer is mind-numbing because all they do is run up and down the field? Why, Wing and Lavender are just chock-full of little statistics: Did you know that all players on a team run an average of 62 miles per game?
Now that really makes soccer interesting! Watching people run 62 miles by circumnavigating a big field all day with no scoring!
Catherine Thompson sniped in Talking Points Memo: "It's worth noting that aside from the Olympics, the World Cup is really the only occasion when an American audience gets a chance to cheer on a national -- rather than a regional -- sports team. But apparently that doesn't jibe with Coulter's vision of patriotism."
Aside from the Olympics? Yes, and aside from ABBA, Fiendens musik is the biggest Swedish rock band. Aside from that gigantic "aside from," it's still not true. Has Thompson ever heard of the Ryder Cup, the Davis Cup or the America's Cup? Apparently, those competitions don't jibe with Thompson's vision of patriotism.
Unless they're trying to impress a boy, most girls don't especially like football. Vice versa for men and ballet. I've never known either sex to care at all -- much less obsessively browbeat the opposite sex about it. Why must soccer fans get in such a snit about people who hate soccer?
Another denunciation of me came from The Washington Post's sports reporter, Mike Wise. To fully appreciate his critique of my soccer column, you must look up his photo right now.
Done? OK, in addition to calling soccer "futbol," Wise writes, "I like to think we are now deeper, more internationally sophisticated" -- which he demonstrates by squealing at me, "Get off my pitch, lady." Why, precisely, is it so vitally important that we join "an international sports community"? Doesn't this guy have something better to do than make-believe he likes soccer? Like practice his hair-pulling?
What do you think? I'd never thought I'd see the day where I'd meet a woman who's mysoginistic!
CMojicaAce
Member
I keep seeing posts on my Facebook wall about it not being a penalty. :/ Time to move on, folks.
Was this seriously written by an actual human being?
I don't even want someone like this to like football.
lmao
Alex_Mexico
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Have you read her first soccer-hating column? It's even worse. I didnt know who Ann Coulter was before all this debacle and I swear when I began reading her first column, which was sent to me by a friend, I swore I was reading the product of a satirist who used to work for The Onion or of a comedian. A damn good one at that. It horrified me to learn it was done for real and completely serious. And yet this excuse for a human being get's screen time on national tv!
gutter_trash
Banned
should have stayed away from them call girls
gutter_trash
Banned
Howard Webb did not get the memo when he Yellow carded Hulk for his ''handball'' call and disallowed the goal
I've heard her name once or twice, and it seems to always be connected to this kind of vitriol. It hurts my brain to think that some actually read this stuff and agree with her.
Don't forget when he missed that obvious penalty on Hulk. Man, thank God that we bought this World Cup.
gutter_trash
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Coulter is an act, just like Beck is an act and O'Riley is 50% an act. They are like heels in Pro-Wrestling, put up a persona and sell merchandise.
speculawyer
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/socce...e-chuck-hagel-calls-tim-howard-221659498.html
Launch airstrike if already posted.
Alex_Mexico
Member
Would your brain hurt even more if I showed you a recognized news anchor on tv publicly saying he agrees with her? Christ, he even could read quotes from her column without grinning or laughing! These guys are professional idiots!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whByBLIwsY0
go until 1:30 and then come back to 5:00 for the public "I agree with you". Holy hell.
The_Hitcher89
Member
Did somebody actually pay her to write that?
speculawyer
Member
They are not just 'an act'. An even if you assume they are, that makes absolutely no difference because their audiences really believe the shit they spew.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/socce...e-chuck-hagel-calls-tim-howard-221659498.html
Launch airstrike if already posted.
:lol at the ball. American politics and their theatrical inclinations.
Christ.
gutter_trash
Banned
their audience are a lost cause, irreversible, it's best to accept every country has a base of 30% looney bin nuts. And it's just best to pretend that they are crazy and ignore them
Alex_Mexico
Member
I updated my post with a new link that has a longer video. You need to watch the ending.
WonkyPanda
Member
Aguero practiced this morning. Still no mention if he'll be ready for Saturday.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
the way he has been playing, i don't think it makes much difference is he ready or not. should start at the bench.
Alx
Member
That's hilarious actually...
You can tell whatever you want, I won't believe she's serious. She's brilliant. She's Andy Kaufman in disguise. Is she in France right now ? I must find her, buy her a drink and have a chat with one of the best satirists of this century, who's able to troll multiple continents simultaneously...
The_Hitcher89
Member
Problem is, Higuain's been dreadful too
7 games between them so far, neither of them has come close to scoring iirc
Aguero
Higuain
Lavezzi
Di Maria
Such attacking talent, and they've looked League 1 standard at the World Cup. If Messi can drag them to the WC, I think it really would be the clearest case of 1 player winning the WC for his country of all time. People dismiss Maradona's teammates, but they must have been better than those 4 have been so far
The_Hitcher89
Member
I genuinely didn't think he was capable of playing as badly as he did against Switzerland
Danny Mills is of his head
CMojicaAce
Member
Are you saying this is real?
Yep. I've seen many of my Mexican friends share that picture :/ Pretty sure they're serious, too.
Chuckie
Member
The whole country has koopavond on Friday...accept Den Haag for some weird reason,
I don't know where you live, mate, but Amsterdam and Utrecht also have koopavond on Thursday. Rotterdam is the only exception of the big five. Well, and Eindhoven but who gives a shit about Eindhoven?
Not only are they having a terrible wc, but the the mid is incapable of giving them a useful pass. Messi and Rojo are the only ones playing remotely decent, and Rojo is not playing on saturday.
WAR recon zero
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His Majesty
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No one cares about your koopavonden.
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