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Again, what an awful game from England. What the hack was wrong with Lampard? Was it a dumb clone of him that was on the pitch today? :confused: I bet that on 10 men, but without Lampard, England could have played better. The only good thing that comes to my mind right now is that Germany played in the same manner 4 years ago and they made it to the final.
While I was listening to the fans singing God Save the Queen over and over again, I was thinking that perhaps they should tailor it for this championship to God Same the Team. They surely need God's help with this.
The Mexico Argentina game was fantastic. Just no sure why Argentina waited
so long to bring Messi on.
I am very torn on the Germany-Argentina game. I don't know which team I
want to win.
Argentina has such a great team, that I would love to see them go all the way,
but I am German.
Yep, that sounds like a tough decision. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by souldog
Well, the Netherlands vs. Portugal match was rather a corrida than a football match. There were 12 yellow cards and 4 reds (if I correctly numbered them). But I think Ivanov's prestation was so lame. He should have eliminate Figo for kicking in the face a Dutch with his head (a shot taken from street fightings) and also Deco should have been booked with a red card for the fault that booked him the first yellow.
The good news is that Protugal will play without two importand players against England. And it's now known at this point whether Ronaldo will be able to play also.
The Netherlands deserved to loose that one just on the basis of poor sportsmanship.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
On a side note: I have gotten all fired about "soccer" again.
It is the only team sport I ever played. (I spent most of my youth as
a skateboarder. Actually used to ride for Gullwing and Dogtown and my older
brother is a well known professional skateboarder from the late 80's and 90's)
I have not played soccer since I was twelve, but decided to go play a game
in a parking lot with some Mexican guys. Unfortunately I can't run for more
than fifteen minutes without getting worn out. Guess I am getting old and it is time to quit smoking. :)
Anybody else getting back on the field?
The problem with USA "soccer" is AYSO and the fact that most professional
players come out of colleges. Kids go into AYSO (american youth soccer organization). The teams are couched by parents which 90% of the time
have no idea what they are doing. Even in the MLS here the games are played
at an entirely different pace than in other countries. I think that this style of
play is entrenched in the colleges. Two things need to happen for the USA to ever be able to compete on an international level.
1. Fire all the current couches.
2. The number of immigrants into this country finally makes "soccer" the
main sport in the country. This has already happened in Los Angeles.
This will result in money going into the sport, so the really telented
athletes in this country will go into soccer instead of American Football or basketball.
Things are so bad here that I finish watching a game on the channel ESPN
and then during the next show a bunch of idiot sports commentators come
on and start making fun of "soccer"
Almost prefer to watch the game on Spanish channels where it is taken seriously, even though I can't understand it.
Until "soccer" stops being a kids game here, the USA will never succeed.
Finally a prediction.
Brazil is going to win this thing again.
The game just isn't that popular here. I don't think the US will really compete in the sport until that changes.
So portugal were able to win the war against Holland. :blush: I guess it was a war rather than a Wolrd Cup Match.
Anyways so I we have Germany, England, Portugal and Argentine in quarter Finals. I see England playing in Semi-Fnals also because Portugal will be playing without three important players.
This fan was quite funny. :D
Italy was lucky
The penalty was debatable, wasn't it?
Souldog's hierarchy has been valid till now. Hope it will be till the final. Argentina should win the cup :)
That was robbery on daylight. Shame, shame, shame to Cantaleho. :thumbd: After ruining the last match between Real Madrid and Barcelona he did it again. First, the red card for the italian player should have been only a yellow, and the penalty... What penalty for god's sake?! The prestation of the referrees at this world cup is at least as worse as at the previous ones. Where the hack do they find these referrees?Quote:
The penalty was debatable, wasn't it?
After the huge scandal in Italy with Juventul, Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina buying referrees and fixing matches in connection with the mafia of betting companies, matches both from Il Calcio and Champions League, I wouldn't be surprized to hear they bought the spanish referree for this match. :(
Soccer is gaining in popluarity in the US. Now, it's played a lot more in schools, and there are lots of local teams around here. I have nieces and nephews that play soccer. They are 8, 10 (twins), and 12.
I've been watching it lately. I think it's more like ice hockey than football, but, that is just my impression.
I'm reproducing figures from the latest edition of the National Geographic Magazine.Quote:
Originally Posted by dglienna
North America (not just USA), has 29,040,900 football (the sport you call soccer) players. 56% adult men, 27.6% adult women, 10.5% under 18 boys and 5.9 % under 18 girls.
South America has 15,235,800 players, 85.3% adult men, 13.9% under 18 boys and under 1% women and girls.
Europe has 35,783,000 football players, of whom, 71.5% are adult men, 3.5% adult women, 23.8% under 18 boys, and 1.2% under 18 girls.
Asia has 34,708,100 football players, out of whom 95.7% are adult men, 3.8% are under 18 boys, less of 1% are women and girls.
Africa has 6,984,500 players, 89% adult men, 1.8% adult women, 8.9% under 18 boys and under 1% young girls.
Australia and Ocenia has 628,300 players (no distribution given).
The Ukraine vs. Switzerland is so awful that I cannot watch the extra time, so I'll go to sleep. Pitty that teams like Netherlands or the Czech Rep. or even Australia are out and one of these two will go futher. ;) Whoever it will be, Italy will have no problem progressing to the semis.
Well. It seemed like a game of equals. Both Swiss and Ukrained played equally awful :thumbd: