FIFA World Cup 2014

[gooner]

IS not the only one,a lot of his former teammates are in the hotel thing Hagi,Popescu etc looks like the best place to invest some money

I was reading an article last month in World Soccer mag on Romanian football and isn't Popescu in jail?

 

[MBotero]

I was reading an article last month in World Soccer mag on Romanian football and isn't Popescu in jail?

Yes he's on jail for 3 years 1month and 10 days for some tax evasion tricks.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

The pitch in Manaus where Italy v England are playing, is shocking.

lol, so new 70K capacity stadium, but they can't get the pitch right.

Clowns are running this sport.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Quite embarrassing when I grew up, `who do you support then?', followed by disbelief when I explained I didn't like football.

Had some kind of those experiences in Germany. "Why you play baseball now, such a boring game?". Said: "Well, the boring game is soccer as I realized too late, but that´s one of the reasons I changed". I got disbelief too. Well, baseball is boring too, but not that much.
But my true love was going to be football as soon as someone took me to my first game.
Had the same prejudices as everybody else (22 fat men on a bundle fighting for a egg. What is that nonsense.). Later I found out who wrong I was.

I wanted to play that game as soon as I crasped the rules (the basics took me less than a week). I couldn´t because I´d have not survived one game. Too light (always between 63-72 kg), so I pitched... and in the off season we had some great backyard football games. It was magical. Never felt like that with soccer. Exhausted, satisfied, full of adrenaline (OFC we played without pads, but that didn´t prevented us from playing tackle football. Not the pu$$y version of flag football some guys preferred ).

Anyway, now I was the one who took someone to his first game. He once told me "How can you watch mostly Americans playing that game in Germany?". "How can you identify with it?".
I just told my political correct friend: "And you?". How can you identify with "your" team?". "A bunch of 11 foreigners running 90 minutes up and down?". That made him quiet.

Back to the story: After his first game in the stadium, he got infected too. Went with me to the States, watching a bunch of baseball games (got him into that too), since it was impossible to get NFL tickets...
He became a San Diego Chargers & Padres fan. Just like that.

After all; soccer isn´t everything. People should just be open to new things, otherwise they miss a lot.

Not that soccer is that bad. But I have to repeat: As long as the game is ruled by corrupt neanderthals with neanderthals rules, a whole lot of potential goes wasted.

 

[Jagartrott]

I just wanted to interrupt and say:

Frak Sep Blatter
Frak FIFA

UCI is the epitome of competance and morality in comparison.

Last week tonight on FIFA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I

 

[MBotero]

I just wanted to interrupt and say:

Frak Sep Blatter
Frak FIFA

UCI is the epitome of competance and morality in comparison.

Funny thing is that Blat in romanian means arrangement,so his name is appropriate with his actions.

 

[The Hitch]

Switch onto ITV and one of their panelists is someone who was filmed doping on camera 15 years ago.

 

[TANK91]

Switch onto ITV and one of their panelists is someone who was filmed doping on camera 15 years ago.

Who is that Hitch. Man i cantstand Adrian Chiles lol, he is awful.

 

[del1962]

so tonight huh?so it begins...

i go with a 5-2 for brasil. i wanna see some goals....

uff i remember one of my first heros...at school i had the greatest shirt,croatia 1998. davor suker, _O_
even if he eliminated my own country

Loved the way he chipped Schmeichel

 

[del1962]

wasting his talent like most of the romanian football players. has a hotel now or something

Hagi was one of the best though

 

[The Hitch]

Who is that Hitch. Man i cantstand Adrian Chiles lol, he is awful.

So is Skip Baseless. But yes I agree with you on that, Chiles is awful beyond belief.

And I despise that tv presenters who have the easiest jobs in the entire world, get million dollar contracts and knighthoods. And get to be offensive like that sexist pig John Inverdale and sitll keep their jobs.

so tonight huh?so it begins...

i go with a 5-2 for brasil. i wanna see some goals....

uff i remember one of my first heros...at school i had the greatest shirt,croatia 1998. davor suker, _O_
even if he eliminated my own country

I remember after that World Cup are school had a football tournament. 5 players for 6 teams but there were 31 of us so one player was left out. So the organizers said whoever could answer the question - who got golden boot at the world cup, would get the player. All the other teams said Michael Owen, David Beckham and Alan Shearer. Me being a bit football obsessed since about a year before, knew the answer. We got the player, won the competitiion I got golden boot, all of which pleased the captain of our team which was a girl (at that age its all still mixed) I had a crush on.

Good times

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Zam Olas & Rechtsschreiber might complain...

Complain about what? I think I was the first in this forum to state the belief that this team is maybe the worst Brazilian team player wise in the last 3 or 4 decades. Bar the back four. But his reminds that I forgot to correct all the nonsense you wrote much earlier in the thread. I'll do that sometime these days, it's going to be a funny exercise.

I don''t know about the Game today, I guess Brazil will win with a one goal difference. My heart want's Croatia to win, their a good side.

**** it, I say Brazil-Croatia 1:2! Goals Fred, Olic, Perisic.

 

[The Hitch]

Forget FIFA corruption, some USA Hollywood pop crap being the official "anthem" of the Brazil world cup - Brazil.

Facepalm

 

[gooner]

Switch onto ITV and one of their panelists is someone who was filmed doping on camera 15 years ago.

Neoton wasn't banned.

That's still not defending Cannavaro as Parma have big suspicions on them back then after Almeyda's book came out a couple of years ago.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

lol, I do like Mertesacker, is he in the squad?

He's not only in the squad he's a sure starter. The only one together with Lahm, Müller and most likely Boateng.

 

[MBotero]

Forget FIFA corruption, some USA Hollywood pop crap being the official "anthem" of the Brazil world cup - Brazil.

Facepalm

They come a long way indeed from this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C532kGa7j1A WC 1990 to such a crap.

 

[gooner]

Croatia starting with two strikers, Olic and Jelavic.

Somewhat surprising.

 

[The Hitch]

Neoton wasn't banned.

That's still not defending Cannavaro as Parma have big suspicions on them back then after Almeyda's book came out a couple of years ago.

Well if that wasn't enough, another one of their panelists is someone who said that disabled people are paying the sins for being evil in a previous life, then boasted that since he's not disabled it proves he is a good person.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Croatia starting with two strikers, Olic and Jelavic.

Somewhat surprising.

Together up front, or will Olic play on the wing? Just looked it up myself. Olic will start as left winger.
I have never seen Brozovic play. Spielverlagerung says he's a classic box-to-box player. Is that true?

 

[gooner]

Together up front, or will Olic play on the wing?

Come to think of it, that's what will probably happen.

Modric, Rakitic and Kovacic in midfield with Perisic and Olic either side of Jelavic.

 

[gooner]

Well if that wasn't enough, another one of their panelists is someone who said that disabled people are paying the sins for being evil in a previous life, then boasted that since he's not disabled it proves he is a good person.

Well that was shocking and he deservedly got booted out of the England job after that.

Hoddle is a regular pundit throughout the years on Sky. ITV have just hired him for this.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Here we go then, Chinese takeaway ordered and beers in the fridge ready to be opened.

I'll go for a 3-1 Brazil win.

 

[gooner]

Together up front, or will Olic play on the wing? Just looked it up myself. Olic will start as left winger.
I have never seen Brozovic play. Spielverlagerung says he's a classic box-to-box player. Is that true?

Brozovic isn't playing. A journalist on twitter said his name wasn't on the FIFA team sheet. That has changed since.

I don't know the guy but World Soccer mag(have it in front of me) which profiles all the players this month said:

Boy wonder attacking midfielder or, second striker who has been shining brightly this season for Dinamo Zagreb and the Under 21s. Technically brilliant and very sharp in front of goal, he signed a seven-year contract at Dinamo.

Sounds good.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Come to think of it, that's what will probably happen.

Modric, Rakitic and Kovacic in midfield with Perisic and Olic either side of Jelavic.

Kovacic isn't starting as far as I know.

Damn it now it says he does. Kovacic, Rakitic, Modric. Wonderful, but I really don't know if that's such a smart Idea.

 

[gooner]

Kovacic isn't starting as far as I know.

There is a mistake on this, journalists are on about it on twitter.

Kovacic has been put up on Irish TV as starting.