The Soccer Thread

[Umbaka]

Which NT do u back WarGamez

[>War|Gamez<]

The qualification matches continue next month for the South american teams from the 5th august next month , while the North & South continue from the 12th of next month along with the European team matches.

[Oscar]

mexico won a against venzuela bout 2 days ago
i 4got the score

[Umbaka]

I've really been hearing alot of mourning form the Brazilian fans about Dunga. I didn't see the first half so I was shock when I saw the score line and thought that Brazil was playing like they did against South Africa.

[>War|Gamez<]

U can blame the USA and thier coach , they deserved to lose at the end, if they came out with the same attitude second half and not to pull more people back only 1 forward instead of 2 , they would of beaten brazil comfortably .

When they chose the wrong tactic for the second half , they payed for it as they let brazil attack agian and again while sitting back nad score against them.

If they did not sit back and the coach would of made changes earlier as the tired players were calling to come off, yet the coach did not sub , brazil would not have won this game.

This brazil or spanish or italian team can not win a world cup like the way they played this tournament.

If dunga gets fired then there is real hope for the classic brazil who can perform well and win shit.

Same with maradona instead of making his team go forward , he has made them into the worst argentinian team ever.

Next year hopes

Here is my predictions for world cup 2010 who will reach at least the quarter finals of 2010 , if they qualify for it. Holland already did.

Holland - France - Turkey - Russia - Denmark - Slovakia - Brazil - Paraguay

My top 5 supporting teams will be -Holland-Russia-Turkey-Paraguay-Brazil

[Bushi]

that was kinda cruel yeah, american hopes lasted 45 minutes

[mat_turbo]

2-0 so far for the USA.

lmao i kinda hope USA win

edit:lmao what a turn around they was just messin

[Umbaka]

Unbelievable if Brazil makes the US win the whole Football world is gonna forever hate them for it. It was better they let South Africa play in the final they may have played better.

[Vinnie P]

2-0 so far for the USA.

[Umbaka]

Darn I was watching the news and the broadcaster just bloated out the score of the Spain v SA game. I was pissed because I wanted to watch a delay broadcast the crappy thing about it is I would have to wait way until 6hours after to watch the final which would be all on the news.

[Vinnie P]

Well some kind of upsets can happen from time to time.

Anyway tomorrow should be good.

[>War|Gamez<]

Max did u watch the game carefully.

I watch every game very carefully , cause i have seen dogey shit in the past world cups since 98 and it just spoils the tournament like that.

They did not start well either.
Since 30 mins into the game till the end brazil were not in sync, most of the playes looked like they did not want to bother playing . Kaka and few players was like working hard to create chances and score a goal , but other players around him were acting like they did not give a shit, so he stayed pissed all game.

I knew some bullshit will happen with brazil.
It's either the ref or something else, this time it was something else.

Plus if your team is playing shit , they came out second half no changes, ramirez was playing shit tired out along with luis fabiano and robinho , so they just had to be subtituted, it was bringing the whole team down .
Don't forget the defence , 2 players were looking very tired and abused yet not even 1 of those were changed till the end of the game.

He had some top players on the bench , like pato , batista and alves who could instantly change the game and create good chances and score.

But the coach did not make a change till the game was about over and alves came on and scored in the 88th min.
Which coach in the world would not make changes especially in the semi when your team is playing rubbish and looked like they were more likely to lose.

No coach would do that is the answer, even the commentators were shocked , like what is goin on, why won't he sub players.

They were baffled and so was i, because i have never seen shit like this before.

Something was not right before the game started and it affected the whole team and coach acting dogey.

If brazil played thier natural game as they were playing before the semi and coach done subs , they would have comfortably beaten SA iam pretty confident about that.

Taking nothing away from SA , they played thier best game in the tournament and it is not that they did not let brazil play thier game , but it is brazil who were not trying them selves.

U are a world class team , u play all good games before and suddenly your up against the host SA and suddenly the whole team performance dies out,they don't feel like playing attitude and the coach don't want to make changes to the players till nearly the whistle blows.

I don't buy it.

Something was definitely not right

Reminds me of very similar shit that happend in the 98 world cup to brazil.

Next Usa vs Brazil.
I hope the final is clean & good, hopefully it wont be like this.

I hope both teams play at thier best and may the best team win.

[Vinnie P]

Man this is bs lol, look at santana's face he is about to cry. While watching the game i feared a late goal and thats what happened. I wanted SA to win.

Now Go Usa

[Umbaka]

The Brazilian goal
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[Vinnie P]

Watch the highlights ,then feedback plz max.

Well i cannot say much from the highlights, the usa had some great opportunities in the first minutes of the game. Great effort by Altidore to score the first goal. Casillas got a piece of it, but still the ball got in. Then Spain attacked, Howard and Usa's defence was tested, but both were solid. I expect more from Usa than they did vs. Brazil in their first encounter.

Speaking of Brazil, I wanted SA to win. I enjoyed the game until Alvez scored lol. At first SA were playing like amateurs, truly, but the more the game was advancing the more SA was taking control of the game at some point. The missed some great opportunities in the first half, especially the header from the capitain Mokoena i believe. Khune was solid, even if the shots wernt that dangerous. Right now SA dont have a team to compete with the best imo. they need a key player that will pull them throught. Pienaar, Tshabalala, Modise, Gaxa, they played well.

SA resisted long enought to keep brazil from scoring.

Cant wait for 2010, because this is a great preview of whats to come with more teams.