odessasteps Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Pirlo should star in some kind of Diabolik Italian spy movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 You'd think after like 12 years Japan could find one guy to play striker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReiseReise Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 My personal oddest World Cup experience:I fell asleep at around the 50th minute with Ivory Coast looking like shit, Japan being up by a goal and sitting back not doing much while basically controlling the game.I woke up around the 70th minute with Japan looking like shit, Ivory Coast being up by one goal and sitting back not doing much while basically controlling the game. That Honda goal was awesome, aswell as Drogba going into more 1-on-1´s in half an hour than any other Ivory Coast player. I really can´t see Ivory Coast going out in that group after defeating Japan, but who knows if Greece have bounce-back qualities like they had in the 2012 Euros. There was such a huge difference between Ivory Coast with Drogba and Ivory Coast without Drogba, if they indeed play him in the other two matches they will be incredibly hard to handle. The Japanese site looked like they should progress in the first half, they seemed to have the potential to go far. Great combinations of quick passing, good ideas and dribbling, threatening finishing abilities and a really good physical game, aswell in the speed as in the strength department. In the last twenty minutes I saw they looked as if they didn´t even belong in the Cup, they seemed unable to do anything and a lot of heads dropped down. Maybe they just overpaced and ran out of steam, but that was such a shocking drop in quality.On a personal note, I´m very happy to never watch a footie match around 3 in the morning again, and never shall I watch four soccer matches in succession within 11 hours. I love footie, but that was way too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zheroen Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Nice corner kick, Rooney. http://zippy.gfycat.com/ForthrightLongBlueshark.webm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyWhioux Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Nice corner kick, Rooney. http://zippy.gfycat.com/ForthrightLongBlueshark.webm Already being compared to 50 Cent's ceremonial first pitch a couple weeks back. Hilarious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReiseReise Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Any US-boys supporters...is it true that Klinsmann saying the title is unrealistic caused a big commotion in social network and media? And if so, is your sports media really that delusional?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 It's something that everyone realizes but over here we do not like anything that is perceived as weak. We like Any Given Sunday speeches. It's looked at as a defeatist attitude. And really, the team has enough talent to get out of the group so we should have expectations and Klinsmann should be held accountable if they stink up Brazil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Any US-boys supporters...is it true that Klinsmann saying the title is unrealistic caused a big commotion in social network and media? And if so, is your sports media really that delusional?! AMERICA NOT WEAK AMERICA STRONG SMASH THINGS That's basically what this boils down to, at heart. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHFP Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 People were upset with the "We cannot win this World Cup" statement. Reasonable people understand that we have very very low chances of winning and low chances of advancing past the group. But to definitively say that we cannot win, when in 2002 the USA outplayed Germany in the quarterfinal were Torsten Frings uncalled handball away from tying, is a bit upsetting especially from the manager. I don't think this would be a big deal of he had said it would be improbable to win this World Cup. Of course then there's some people who are just upset that he's not showing the "never give up, anything is possible" coach mentality and that he is instilling a loosers mentality onto the team which is unreasonable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Harms Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I wanted to ask the Americans on this board how they felt about the World Cup before the tournament and it's been pretty well summed up for me there. That German has a defeatist attitude! He doesn't have the American will to win the World Cup. Do they know who Jurgen Klinsmann is? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Missed the first half here. Ecuador leading eh? This appears to be the world cup that makes the case that whatever gap there is between most of the teams, it's the thinnest stuff now. Obviously with a small number of exceptions. ... And Switzerland score almost right off the bat in the second half. Okay, cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReiseReise Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Maybe it´s just that I have different perceptions. It´s incredibly, incredibly hard to win a World Cup, even when you are Spain, Brazil, Germany or the like. It would have been smarter to say "Our goal is to make it past the group stage". Winning and doing well are two different things. What he said was what any credible coach would have said. EDIT: Any credible coach in football and in his situation I should add.Switzerland look really dodgy in the first half and took only the blink of an eye to get the equalizer in the second. I feel stupid for taking too long to switch back to the game.EDIT 2: Odd, a half of laughable set pieces and now the Swiss equalizer came from a corner. Whatever Hitzfeld told his team, it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Bottom line, he shouldn't have said it the way he did but I don't really care about it myself. However, it's his job to get this squad out of the group stage. Anything less than that is going to be looked at as a failure and it should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 If his name was Joe Smith from Nebraska this is never a thing. It's like when Klitchko retired on his stool in a boxing match in the US that one time years ago and a bunch of nationalist blowhards were all SEE DEM YUROPEANS ARE SOFT. Sure he could have phrased it differently, I guess. It's not as if people don't blatantly lie to the sports media and have it accepted as truth every day. So it would have passed inspection if he had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReiseReise Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 To get back to actual footie, looked like the Swiss got robbed of a goal. That was no offside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Americans are so...one dimensional it's funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Best World Cup ever. Americans are so...one dimensional it's funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 Well that it one way to end a game 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 And THAT'S why I watch all the World Cup games I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zheroen Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Madness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Clearly Bosnia will beat Argentina 3-2 based on how this tournament is going. Clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubbymark Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 The Swiss deserved that win. And kudos to the ref for not calling the foul and letting the Swiss play with the advantage on that last run to set up the game winning goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 As someone who was going to gain a game on everyone in my pool because I was the only one who picked a tie, Ecuador's defense can all go fuck themselves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Bottom line, he shouldn't have said it the way he did but I don't really care about it myself. However, it's his job to get this squad out of the group stage. Anything less than that is going to be looked at as a failure and it should be. Have you not seen their group? There's really no shame in finishing fourth in that group. Unless you're Germany. Or Portugal. Or maybe Ghana. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 The US will be fortunate to get a point in three games, but Klinsmann has lived in the US long enough to know peopele always want hope, even in a situation where winning is unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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