The Official Football/Soccer Thread: 2017-2018 Season
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by the way I think Mick Jagger brought bad luck to England he did the same to U.S and Argentine.
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Ammar:
by the way I think Mick Jagger brought bad luck to England he did the same to U.S and Argentine.
then if he's on the Germany-Spain match.... who'll be the unlucky team?
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In case there was still doubt, yesterday it was proven that the romance between the TV sports Journalist and Casillas doesn't distracts him at all. (Maybe she is the distracted one
, he seems to be thinking about the match). The thing is that they meet each other just after the end of every match and still "act professional". Maybe they won't after the final...
Maradona almost had a fight yesterday with German supporters, her daughter stepped in. Also he spent most of the match insulting the referees, and there was not even any controversy...
mmm.... well I think Maradona wanted Messi to become really 21st Century Maradona or so... kind of his exact impersonation and tried to play just like in Mexico 86, with Messi doing just the same role as he did. But Messi is not Diego, Messi can even be better than Maradona in some things but it's not him and it hasn't worked out at all.
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21st Century Paul:
Ammar:
by the way I think Mick Jagger brought bad luck to England he did the same to U.S and Argentine.
then if he's on the Germany-Spain match.... who'll be the unlucky team?
I think he supported Argentine cause Germany won England... if he goes on supporting every team against Germany then Germany will be world Champion
21st Century Paul:
mmm.... well I think Maradona wanted Messi to become really 21st Century Maradona or so... kind of his exact impersonation and tried to play just like in Mexico 86, with Messi doing just the same role as he did. But Messi is not Diego, Messi can even be better than Maradona in some things but it's not him and it hasn't worked out at all.
yes Maradona sees himself in Messi and loves him so much, but I dont think Messi will ever be better than him, they might have the same talent... but Maradona knew how to beat teams all by himself... his brain worked in a very effective way in bad times... Argentine had a very weak team in 1990, he managed to lead them to the final, beating the most strong team Brazil by doing one pass... one pass only in the whole match made the difference, the Brazilians was attacking the whole 90 minutes, they cut Maradona from his team but he did it . Messi may gain more experience and learn more for the next few years, be more mature... and can lead the team to get the world cup in 2014.
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Congratulations Holland
hope They will get the Cup this time
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Congratulations to our Dutch team. Yes...the Orange Lions where thirsty and just eat the Urugay team
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FINALS here we come!!! WEEEEEEEEEHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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1974 germany-holland 2-1 1974 argentina - holland 3-1 2010 spain/germany - holland ???? come on guys, do it please!
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http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/news/dutch-paint-the-town-orange--fbintl_dw-orange070610.html Dutch paint the town orange
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Ammar:
21st Century Paul:
Ammar:
by the way I think Mick Jagger brought bad luck to England he did the same to U.S and Argentine.
then if he's on the Germany-Spain match.... who'll be the unlucky team?
I think he supported Argentine cause Germany won England... if he goes on supporting every team against Germany then Germany will be world Champion
21st Century Paul:
mmm.... well I think Maradona wanted Messi to become really 21st Century Maradona or so... kind of his exact impersonation and tried to play just like in Mexico 86, with Messi doing just the same role as he did. But Messi is not Diego, Messi can even be better than Maradona in some things but it's not him and it hasn't worked out at all.
yes Maradona sees himself in Messi and loves him so much, but I dont think Messi will ever be better than him, they might have the same talent... but Maradona knew how to beat teams all by himself... his brain worked in a very effective way in bad times... Argentine had a very weak team in 1990, he managed to lead them to the final, beating the most strong team Brazil by doing one pass... one pass only in the whole match made the difference, the Brazilians was attacking the whole 90 minutes, they cut Maradona from his team but he did it . Messi may gain more experience and learn more for the next few years, be more mature... and can lead the team to get the world cup in 2014.
Well there's an octopus who seems to predict World Cup results... and it has nothing to do with Mick Jagger... actually the octopus name is PAUL.
here predicting the rest of Germany matcheshere is Paul the Octopus predicting Germany losing with Spain today
I'd like to be... under the sea... in a octopus garden... The thing is I don't know if Messi is better than Maradona or not cause I haven't seen Diego play much. But I see they were different, Messi can't drible straight to goal through the center of the field like Maradona, Messi needs more space so he goes to the wing...
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Congratulations Holland. I think the top 3 teams of the tournament are the one that now remain... Some think this is a strange World Cup because of the teams on semifinals... Well Holland is #3 in Fifa's ranking. Spain is #1 and I think Germany is #2... so the only surprise is Uruguay. And I think also Germany and Spain are the best teams and today is the virtual final match. Low said they are not going to play defensive against team... I'm not so sure, everyone does that... and I think they're right... Well, if they play a face to face thing, lots of goals expected... I'm with Paul the octopus.
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Standings of the Macca Board Fantasy Football World Cup with 2 rounds left 1 me 437 2 daniel 418 3 unclesox 358 Daniel trusted in Germany's players and it has payed off. It seems it's gonna be between Daniel and me. The final round can be very tricky because of the 3rd and 4th place match, that can have any XIs...
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Finally someone else proved that Germany was not a Giant like it appeared to be... Serbia did that earlier. Bad luck and play from England made Germany win...in another day they wont. Bad luck and play and Defense from Argentine made Germany win...in another day they wont... Germany was lost in front of Spain...I am not sure if they can get the 3rd place.
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"But it's been no bed of roses no pleasure cruise I consider it a challenge before the whole human race and I ain't gonna lose" well, I really think that Germany in the 2nd best team in the World Cup... and yes, in the end, they played very very defensive, pure catenaccio... but one of the differences between this Spain and the old Spain is patience. All those lots of crossings had no chance cause Villa had no chance against Mertesacker... this is the international press http://www.as.com/futbol/fotogaleria/ve-prensa-internacional-pase-espana/dasftb/20100708dasdasftb_1/Zes La Gazzetta dello Sport Spain you're Beautiful! The most beautiful one beats the boredom. http://www.as.com/recorte/20100708dasdasftb_9/LCO/Ies/ve_prensa_internacional_pase_Espana.jpg A Bola Spanish perfection and so on, I can't translate the German ones... L'Equipe The Winds of Change http://www.as.com/recorte/20100708dasdasftb_14/LCO/Ies/ve_prensa_internacional_pase_Espana.jpg http://www.as.com/recorte/20100707dasdasftb_80/LCO/Ies/Alemania-Espana_imagenes.jpg http://www.as.com/recorte/20100707dasdasftb_82/LCO/Ies/Alemania-Espana_imagenes.jpg http://www.as.com/recorte/20100707dasdasftb_78/LCO/Ies/Alemania-Espana_imagenes.jpg http://www.as.com/recorte/20100707dasdasftb_73/LCO/Ies/Alemania-Espana_imagenes.jpg
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Warning: Kind of philosophical post, not exactly about football and what's the fuss about this if it's only football? it's not only football... let me tell you about it before the final match Spain ("Spain's pain")... has traditionally been a country of "losers", with a loser's attitude, and lack of confidence... Here, if someone is confident is often seen as vain, wrong, crazy... but in places like the USA being confident is something that people encourages each other to be. That has been slowly fading away lately... but the change it's not really done... Sometimes it's hard to tell who is a "winner", but in sports is very easy... and lately Spain has generated some "winners" (Indurain, Nadal, Contador, Alonso, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid in Europe, Gasol and the basketball's World Champions...) but somehow everyone knew that the attitude would be proven to be changed the day Spain would win the World Cup Never! said some... "we'll never pass quarterfinals"... in spite of all the talent of the team... it seems Spanish's old attitude always spoiled any talent they could have. But not now.... again we have the best players... the best XI and substitutes, why are we not gonna win?... Bad luck? "eternal bad luck"? then is not "luck" really... Well, they say the World Cup's winner country increases his GDP in 0.7 % because of that... and the loser of the final decreases a 0.3 % So it's even about money now, not just football.
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Standings of "our world cup" before the last round 1 my team 531 (94 this round) 2 daniel's team 493 (75) 3 unclesox 428 (72) the thing is that the 3rd-4th place match can be a little crazy... so even with that 38 points anything can happen. I'm ranking in the top 1%, daniel's in the top 4% and unclesox in the top 16%
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feact:
Paul the Octopus (I can't help of thinking in Paul and Ringo when I write that)... has done it again. Live in Spanish TVs
. 3rd Germany and champion Spain. Paul needed only one minute to choose Spain. Well, he was wrong in one match in 2008, he's only human... well, he's only octopus...
Well, I'm not the octopus but I think it will be the same match again. Netherlands defending in catenaccio style, and Spain scoring "I don't know how" and 1-0
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I was saying today I have a feeling Spain will win it. I like Holland too, but I don't know...it seems to be Spain's time, perhaps.