This is a topic on football, not soccer. First of all: excuse me for my bad English. Ok, let's go on.
This is a post on the greatest game in the world. A story yet to be written. But 'we' are on the right track. haha
Netherlands-Spain 5-1... Did anyone see this match? 4years ago, we dutchies, lost from Spain in a rather dirty match the worldcupfinals.Yesterday, revenge was sweet. This is going to be a great Tournament, may the best team win!
Amazing header!
United States has to play against Ghana in there first match... What is it going to be? Hmmm i see 'you' are also in a group with Germany and Portugal... (If you knew what that meant you would shit in your pants right now) Germany and Portugal, damn, you can really use all the help you can get. Seriously... Therefore i will answer all sorts of questions on it, if you would have any.
To crack up things a bit on the matter, here is a nice video on soccer , eeeuh football...
Kick in at 16:04
Good luck, you yanks... :-)
Greets!
The US should get extra points for all the plane travel they will be doing to get to the field venues during this Tournament--more than any other team. They are a fine team!
@Justwords : Why is that? I dont understand. Let me check.You play in Natal, Manaus and Recife. Not that much different as the Dutch Team. We play in Salvador, Porto Alegre and Sao Paulo. No extra points for the US, nice try though.
Does United States have a player who can make a difference, 'cos i seriously think you need one. 'one' who has 'the magic'...
I just heard a reporter on dutch radio saying that Germany is going to play against portugal Ronaldo. Interesting. Ronaldo is considered to be one of the best players in the world.
I personally dont like Portugal as a team. They play hard not elegant, Ronaldo is the exception. We, the Netherlands, consider Portugal as an 'Angstgegner'. A german word, common in dutch football language. It means they scare us.
Also Portugal kicked Sweden out in the Qualifiers. That is really sad, cos now the best player of the world, i.m.h.o., Ibrahimovic, will not 'shine' in this tournament of tournaments.
Here you see 'Ibra' in action:
Damn, dont forget to watch out for those Italians too! Balotelli is one 'freaky fucker'. If he has his day, his playfull creativity skills can make opponents completly mad.
Again, good luck!
So...
Those australian socceroes are 'downunder' again... The discussion in the Netherlands right now, is NOT about that 'we' won against Australia but that 'our' play wasn't really elegant. Just terrible.
I really hope no one is reacting is this discussion 'cos of my bad english language skills, that would be understandable.
Is there no american on this forum who wants to cheer up the US-team by posting something positive about them in this 'discussion'? ..... Ai.......
I partially watched the Ghana - US match a few days ago. I thought Ghana was better. Lucky USA!
You should have taken Ghana by strength not by luck. 'Cos luck is what you'll need against Portugal. Ronaldo is waiting for you.... and he is hungry..... haha.
Good luck!
Only game I've seen was the SUI vs ECU. Me no have ESPN.
I like watching Netherlands play. I was hoping they'd win over the Spanish team last world cup. The US team surprised me with their win over Ghana. I'm hoping they beat Portugal this Sunday and advance with Germany. It's a surprise about Spain, England, and maybe Italy being out in the first round.
I wouldn't say England was a surprise. As soon as the groups were announced there was widespread pessimism. The big surprise has been the abject performances of Spain. It's nice to see teams like Costa Rica doing well. They were in a group with three previous World Cup champions, and have a very good chance of beating all three.
I had expected the USA to get out of their group. Germany were always going to be top, but Portugal are a one man team (and that one man is a cretin), and Ghana have been looking beatable. A potential tie against Belgium looks good to me, though it'll be a tough match.
I don't get why people are always going on about "previous winners" - Uruguay won in 1930 and 1950, and England was in, what, 1966...?
So, having awesome soccer players 50 years ago should indicate anything about the country's current players...? - don't think so...
I mentioned it because few teams have beaten two former champions in a world cup. I don't think any teams have beaten three. Regardless though, if you had a bet down for Costa Rica to triumph over both Uruguay and Italy (both very good teams, despite the time since Uruguay's last win), you'd be getting a nice amount of cash back.
@Alma
Everything counts... Also your 'lucky' win in 92.
@Adam
What went wrong dude? England out... What happened...? It all went too fast... I mean... come on... Rooney... Wtf.. I dont understand... please explain to me... :-)
What went wrong? Lack of world class players. Look at the squad - Rooney is over-rated, and has never performed well in an international tournament. Gerrard, much as I love him, isn't as good as he used to be. He covered more distance than any other player against Uruguay, just like he used to do with Liverpool, because he just doesn't have faith in those around him. His dropping deeper to help the defence is what led to the second goal. Jagielka was coming back from injury and you could see he wasn't fully fit, but we have no depth in defence to replace him. We have some great youth coming through - Sterling & Barkley in particular excite me, but they need a lot more games under their belt before they can leap from potential to world class.
The weird thing is that England have performed better at this tournament than in any since 1996, especially against Italy. Uruguay has just 2 shots on target all match - Suarez made all the difference.
Despite England (or maybe because) crashing out early, this is my favourite World Cup since 1990. There is a feeling that almost anything can happen. Netherlands set the tone with that victory over Spain, but there have been a lot of odd and unexpected results. I'm still expecting one of Brazil or Argentina to win it, but there could be a winner from leftfield. There could be an equivalent of Denmark's win in the European Championship in 92, or Greece in 04.
Bye bye Italy... "Bella ciao, bella ciao. bella ciao ciao ciao"
Furthermore:
Go team USA! Everything is still possible. 'The american dream', it can be done. From rags to riches, something like that. Now go and beat the Germans!
And Adam said: "Suarez made all the difference.", Yeps. And Rooney being overrated as you say, maybe that is, indeed, the truth which you are speaking.
Maybe England was 'afraid' of Suarez?
The Netherlands are ready to take Uruguay out. Just like 4 years ago.... But first Mexico. Unknown opponent. 'File incomplete'. Must prepare.... changing from defcon3 to defcon2. I predict that it will be a difficult hard match. Hope for the best.
See ya laterz
There is a way to beat Uruguay, if it would be necessary.
Of course we were scared of suarez, no one wants to get eaten alive.
Cool to see Algeria go through. I happened to be watching during their 3-goals-in-12' against Korea. Some good handling and energy.
Robben should consider an acting career after his topyears will be over.
It's just lame. Sorry Mexico...
Greets, bye.
I'm bummed USA lost.They have played well though I think. I hope the enthusiasm for soccer stays high now.
Incredible match yesterday. USA-Belgium. I watched it and enjoyed it very much. The 'neutral' spectator would have loved this match. This is what football is about, Did you feel the excitement? I did.
Lukaku! Great Player. He fucking did it.
Team USA has a great goalie, no doubt about that, but defense could not handle all the 'attackwaves' from Belgium.
You had the chance of making 2-2. The 'alternative' freekick you had in the end was very well executed, if it would have been goal, if would have been goal of the tournament I think.
Ok, enough analysis.
Lets compare national symbols ( US-Belgium ) (lol)
The almighty statue of liberty lost from a naked pissing dwarf from Bruxelles...
That's it. Nothing more.
Greets!
Tim Howard for President!! Yay Team USA!!!
Strange match yesterday, to bad Colombia has left the tournament.
@justwords
Oooo, Birmingham-Alabama not Birmingham-England. Aaaaaa
We're you 'born and raised' there? Hard to believe, hihihi. But if so or not, tell me: Is or was the WC14 a special thing in your city? I mean, in my country The Netherlands everything i repeat everything is fu***** ORANGE. Kind of bizarre, really. Complete neighbourhouds have turned orange. Not really my cup of tea though.
Tip: because starplayer and captain Brian Ruiz of CostaRica plays in Dutch leaguecompetition, he is well informed about the dutch team. I just hope he will be 'man of the match' instead of Robben. We'll see.
May the best team win.
Greets
Robben....dive dive dive....should have been a submarine captain
Argentina pushed the Netherlands aside in a match of equals. Robben and Messi were kind of 'invinsible'. A though match. Both teams played on defense (boring!), so penalties had to make the outcome.
I hope Argentina will win the 'grande finale' but Germany kicked Brazil out with 7-1 so the odds are against them. Nevertheless, time for Messi to let the world show why he is such a great player if not the greatest.
We, the Netherlands, came very far in this 'tournament of tournaments'. To bad some of dutch players played lame or aggresive. Next time i hope to see more 4-3-3, more tikki takki.
@Old Dave, .... yes combined with 'false alarm' ... Terrible it is.
SeeYa
@Species84: Yes, I was born and raised in Birmingham, AL. Soccer here hasn't been as big as it is in Europe, but this year everyone was pumped about the WC14. Every bar, club, restaurant w/a TV was tuned in, and people painted their faces and really followed the action. Americans are great fans of almost any sport (curling not so much down South :), and there really has been a lot of enthusiasm. We do have a lot people from many different countries here, due to our medical center. I think people would be surprised what my city and suburbs are now; they usually keep the old stereotypes from past about Birmingham and the South in general. I usually don't talk very much in other cities or countries, as my Southern accent is pretty noticeable and people make negative comments many times: yes, we wear shoes! yes, we have indoor plumbing! yes, I can read and write! It's really weird the generalizations people make about my area of the US.
I was shocked that Brazil lost so badly to Germany; not sure who I'm pulling for in the game for the team to play Germany, but I hope it's a good game!
Cheers!
@Species84: Congrats on your victory tonight!
Thank you justwords for your kind words. Thank you for the inside of how things went in your city Birmingham. Good to know football is popular, nice.
3rd place for Netherlands is good. :-)
But situation in the Netherlands got 'out of hand' because of the fact that 2 famous televionfootball critics got completly bezerk at eachother while every day they had a -prime time- live tv program. A very negative pulse of some kind that was. (...and also dutch coach Van Gaal is kind of a madman! Seriously.)
Thank you all for reading and participating in this discussion. Let us end this thread with a famous quote from a well known english footballplayer.
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
Gary Lineker
Bye bye! See ya Laterz
Thanks for playing, Species84---- Slainte - as my Irish grandmother would say!
