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The_Captain

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If that report is true it's scandalous!

I don't know what's worse - the fact that SIX of the Dutch team failed the test or the attitude of FIFA.

It's just wrong on so many levels, that the only logical explanation is that it's 1st April. Or it's some elaborate s****. Surely?


EDIT: It seems that the story is a hoax afterall.
 
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Good column by Juliet Macur on FIFA's testing at the World Cup and how they deal with the issue in the game.

Particularly liked the closing paragraphs. Hit the nail on the head.

But none of that, and none of the retired soccer players who have said they received unidentified injections from team doctors, should ruin anyone’s view of soccer at this World Cup.

Don’t let it ruin this moment. No one ever tests positive at the World Cup. Just do what FIFA has done in the past: Close your eyes and pretend that doping in soccer does not exist.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/s...l?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid==tw-nytsports&_r=0
 
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Anyone got any numbers on meters ran etc on the Italy vs Costa Rica match?

My impression was that Italy seemed quite dead while the Costa Ricans had lots of energy throughout the whole match. Somewhat like Spain vs Chile.
 
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MrRoboto said:
Anyone got any numbers on meters ran etc on the Italy vs Costa Rica match?

My impression was that Italy seemed quite dead while the Costa Ricans had lots of energy throughout the whole match. Somewhat like Spain vs Chile.
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latin american countries have always had very robust, agressive, and technically skillful players.
with increased fitness/stamina, they become lethal.

brazil fear chile more than they fear holland. rightly so.

costa rica is a country of less than 5 million inhabitants. go figure.
 
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the sceptic

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Shock results are part and parcel of football
Wouldn't read to much into it.
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So is doping. The logistics to dope is easier for those that dont have to fly all the way from europe surely?
 
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the sceptic said:
So is doping. The logistics to dope is easier for those that dont have to fly all the way from europe surely?
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When played in Europe or South America the winner on all but one occasion (1958) has come from the home continent

Maybe naïve, but I would have thought organised team wide doping would be more prevalent in club football than international.
 
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Tyler in Sydney

It's possible that players from Italy and Uruguay stopped doping at the World Cup in the manner of Tyler at Sydney in 2000. CR use a different script. Certainly an interview given by Tiago Motta after the game implied that they were more used to the condtions even though most of the CR players play in Europe. Martin O'Neil faced CR in a warm up with the Irish and admits to being baffled by their performance. Both Italy and Uruguay looked completely cooked by half time. Even the Italian bench wilted.

Edit: Tyler won in Athens in 2004.
 
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buckle said:
It's possible that players from Italy and Uruguay stopped doping at the World Cup in the manner of Tyler at Sydney in 2000. CR use a different script. Certainly an interview given by Tiago Motta after the game implied that they were more used to the condtions even though most of the CR players play in Europe. Martin O'Neil faced CR in a warm up with the Irish and admits to being baffled by their performance. Both Italy and Uruguay looked completely cooked by half time. Even the Italian bench wilted.
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They were the better team against Ireland in the warm up game even though they had 10 men for most of the game.
 
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Costa Rica aren't happy with the 7 players tested and Maradona has spoken out against it.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/21/costa-rica-fifa-drug-test-italy-world-cup

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Costa Rican newspapers named the seven players sent for drugs testing as Bryan Ruiz, Michael Barrantes, Keylor Navas, Celso Borges, Christian Bolanos, Marco Urena and Diego Calvo.

Newspaper El Dia said the tests showed that FIFA had doubts about the Costa Rican side after their victories over Uruguay and Italy.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/wo...ta-Rica-players-drug-tests-beating-Italy.html
 
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buckle

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Alessio Cerci

Cerci, who is being tracked by Manchester City, came on at '69 and I saw him tripled team by Costa Rican defenders - this is not normal. How can fresh legs (Cerci is quick) be taken out by three players? CR was similarly strong in the second half in the first game. The strategy is to absorb pressure then attack and against Uruguay this worked to dramatic effect. Perhaps FIFA is simply trying to intimidate CR into some sort of normality by the seven man test rather than rigorously pursue a fail.
 
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buckle said:
It's possible that players from Italy and Uruguay stopped doping at the World Cup in the manner of Tyler at Sydney in 2000. CR use a different script. Certainly an interview given by Tiago Motta after the game implied that they were more used to the condtions even though most of the CR players play in Europe. Martin O'Neil faced CR in a warm up with the Irish and admits to being baffled by their performance. Both Italy and Uruguay looked completely cooked by half time. Even the Italian bench wilted.
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it thought the tt was eki, then the CSC and Sky guy, the guy who got on the podium in 1998, bobby julich.

tyler was the 2004 athens gold i think. we talking the chrono?
 
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buckle

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it thought the tt was eki, then the CSC and Sky guy, the guy who got on the podium in 1998, bobby julich.

tyler was the 2004 athens gold i think. we talking the chrono?
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Probably right - thanks. I shall correct. My point is that TH went cold turkey for the games.
 
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blackcat

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Probably right - thanks. I shall correct. My point is that TH went cold turkey for the games.
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yeah nah yeah

cold turkey, but ofcourse, the doping was done well before athens. and they reckon that roids can have an effect for years after it stops. it was cofidis too i think, he podium in that banner year for the Tour in 98. i think
 
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sniper said:
latin american countries have always had very robust, agressive, and technically skillful players.
with increased fitness/stamina, they become lethal.

brazil fear chile more than they fear holland. rightly so.

costa rica is a country of less than 5 million inhabitants. go figure.
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Figure what? .....another one of your lowlanders cant climb style theory? ..not saying costa ricans are not doping, i have doubt about them myself but what has population got to do with it? india has 1.237 bil and china has 1.351 billion
 
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