World Cup 2006
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pascal said:
Absolutely! Horrible fouls especially the first one for USA. Completely unneccesary, on the opponents side of the field, faced toward his own goal. Stupid stupid stupid. The second one was clumsy; If you have a yellow card don't cut someone down from behind.
I hope they send that fucktard Derossi back to Italy ASAP. Asswipe.
Heroic defending by the Americans. The last ten minutes had me really nervous.
Deepak said:Wasn't Italian goal an offside? And was the 2nd US goal dissallowed bec'se of offside?
No and yes.
The shooter wasn't offside but there's an American "in play" who is off side. Had he been two or maybe three meters away from the balls trajectory the refs might have let it pass. As it was he almost managed to touch the ball and he most certainly was in the way for Buffon to see the ball.
now this is ridiculous ....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5091154.stm
sponsoring a tournamet should mean that u get the tv spots alongside it, can mention it in ur advertising, put the tournament on ur product label, tie in promotions, have only ur prodect sold at the event, etc, etc ....
It should not mean the u can dictate to the fans what they can / cannot wear when attending a match they have payed to see! If that was me being to told to remove my clothing since they promoted a rival beer ... i would be outraged!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5091154.stm
sponsoring a tournamet should mean that u get the tv spots alongside it, can mention it in ur advertising, put the tournament on ur product label, tie in promotions, have only ur prodect sold at the event, etc, etc ....
It should not mean the u can dictate to the fans what they can / cannot wear when attending a match they have payed to see! If that was me being to told to remove my clothing since they promoted a rival beer ... i would be outraged!
epicstruggle said:
A flat footed tackle against the leg supporting the weight of the opponent is the kind of foul broken ankles are made of. The referees should have the guts to make that call more often (and against holding isnide the penalty box, but that's another story...).FIFA Guidlines said:
hupfinsgack said:
I agree completely. Way to many interuptions, eg. when the ball is played forward to a player in off-side position but ends up under the control of the defending team, then there is absolutely no reason to stop the game because of the off-side.
hupfinsgack said:The FIFA tries to solve that problem by indoctrinating the referees which somehow are not chosen by criteria "the best of the best" but by "I don't care as long as they're from all of the world"
Yeah, it's disastrous. Instead of picking the 2-3 top referee teams from each of Premier league, Serie A, Primera liga, Bundes liga and the south american leagues, they go with complete rookies from eg. Singapore. WTF?
Edit: The Italy-USA match is the first 5-star performance from a ref in the tournament, IMO
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Gubbi said:
Really? He missed some horrendous sweater pulls from the US defenders when Italy pushed forward the last 15 minutes. And quite frankly three red cards tell me that the ref didn't get the game under control from the beginning. The decisions were correct but the players became a bit too loose and started playing it rough. Exciting game as it was the US team must feel really shitty about their red cards. They had Italy down for the count, it was only a matter of time.... And they couldn't keep their cool. A shame really.
BTW is there anyone here who think Derossi would have elbowed Ronaldinho instead of a noname American? Such lack of respect for his opponent, it's appalling.
What about some old soccer comercials http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5705066252767037516
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5705066252767037516The US and now Australia too showed some good engagement and a few interestung scenes. Positively surprised, the quality has been going steadily upwards.
Italy on the other hand, wtf was that? Total lack of iniciative or passion, really lazy. Someone should give them a good a**kick.
Italy on the other hand, wtf was that? Total lack of iniciative or passion, really lazy. Someone should give them a good a**kick.
Unless Japan beat Brazil by 3 goals (no way!), Australia only need a draw. Agreed about Brazil. They've got great players, but doesn't look like a great team. I'm surprised they played Ronaldo again after hiss piss poor performance against Croatia. Granted, he was (a tiny bit) better today, but even if he continues to improve at this rate throughout the tournament, he'll be no better than mediocre by the final...Deepak said:
Not so much that the Aussies played well, but that brazil played like bums. For fcks sake what is ronaldo doing on the field? Let the younger players have a go at it, they are the ones scoring and making the plays.Deepak said:
epic
Fair play to the Aussies, they showed that a bit of organisation and persistence can be effective against even the most talented of prima donnas. I just hope the England team were watching and took note -- but I seriously doubt it. Honestly I think 2-0 wasn't really a fair result, and if Brazil don't start taking things seriously they'll be on the plane back to Spain and Italy very soon.
Ronaldo will play in the next match against Japan. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=371643&cc=3888
More here about Ronaldo: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=371201&cc=3888
More here about Ronaldo: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=371201&cc=3888
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