FIFA 2014 World Cup - Official Discussion Thread

[politicus]

Well, all this Italian biting has at least settled my mind on what I'm going to eat for lunch.

Any chance of a better picture/video than we saw here?

Here's a different angle, at least

I can't see anything. Seriously.

Love makes blind.

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7 of the 10 New World nations have qualified. Possible to get to 9/10 if Ecuador and US get in (Honduras is still technically alive, but it would take a miracle). Also it is possible that only 4 of the 16 qualified teams will be from Europe. Wouldn't that be something!

Not unrealistic to see 6 of 8 from Americas.

Its 10 American teams.

[politicus]

Yeah, obviously things became very hard for us the moment we got this ridiculous red card. That's a wound pretty hard to forgive. Still I think we could have done a far better job in the first 60 minutes. Too little precision, too little energy.

It was well deserved.

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The Red Card for Italy was clearly way too hard for this action.

A yellow would have been ok as well.

Marchisio had full control  after evading a challenge and then he goes right over the ball and draggs his studs down the defender's leg. That's red if you follow the rules.

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Everyone read Ann Coulter's take on Soccer in America? Of course, she goes on about how it's a LIBURUL sport and "proof of moral decay." Hahaha.

"Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer." !!!! LOL

She also claims that proper sport includes risk of major personal injury (because, ya know, its supplemented warfare...) and that soccer doesn't! Which proves she hasn't seen many (or any?) actual soccer matches.

Even if she doesn't think the actual play is violent enough, she should at least give soccer hooligans credit for being far more violent than the supporters of any major American spectator sport.

 

[politicus]

Yeah, should be some great quarterfinal matchups: Brazil/Colombia, France/Germany, Argentina/USA Belgium, Netherlands-Costa Rica.

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The Algerian fans seem really to hate Samedov. Dislike for converts to Christianity?

Likely.

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Colombia is an exciting team to watch. So glad to see them finish off Uruguay.

Would be even nicer to see them finish off Brazil.

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At this point I have France and Germany winning, Brazil and France winning, and Brazil winning from the first half; Netherlands and Costa Rica, Argentina and USA, then Netherlands and Argentina, and then the Netherlands winning from the second half.

Why would a team with as weak a defence as the Netherlands be able to beat Argentina?