World Cup Thread

[Island Son]

Watching the match, Tommasi did look offside. I still think he was, I haven't seen any replays to prove otherwise.

It's pretty funny.... England and Brazil are scared of each other, trying out against "shadow teams" in each other's formations and practicing penalty kicks. Brazil papers are complaining about the lack of midfield, and English papers are panicked about Owen's health.

My prediction: England vs Spain for the final. I'm surprised they've lasted this long though.

Korea deserved the win as much as anyone else. The Italians were too busy trying to dribble around the last 1 or 2 defenders to make it look pretty instead of challenging the goalie. I was cheering.

England 3-2 over Brazil, golden goal (just dreaming... probably 1-0).

 

[robby]

problem of italy was maybe that there's no "head" in the team
who can vary the game. like already have been said, there
were players like baresi or baggio who gave the squadra a face.
totti could be in the future, but actually there's no one who could
play this part. it's typically for a team without such a player that
they receive goals in the last minutes.

 

[fallenangel]

England have a starting midfielder who is canadian??!! no they have a starting midfielder who is canandain when players like gerrard, dyer etc are unfit and as for england not developing good players owen, gerrard, beckham, scholes, ferdinand need i go on.

On another note perugia sacking the korean just for scoring against the azzuri is a disgrace, as is there lack of sportsman ship they were poor on the day and that is that

 

[robby]

England have a starting midfielder who is canadian??!! no they have a starting midfielder who is canandain when players like gerrard, dyer etc are unfit and as for england not developing good players owen, gerrard, beckham, scholes, ferdinand need i go on.

On another note perugia sacking the korean just for scoring against the azzuri is a disgrace, as is there lack of sportsman ship they were poor on the day and that is that

yeah, thats a very poor decision from the president of perugia.
that's a lack of class imo. i'm looking forward to england brazil,
best defense vs best strikers. i see a little advantage for england.
but i like brazil, too!!! can't make any decision between those
two teams. can't we change the matches like:
brasil-germany
england-turkey
??????????????????

 

[cure]

England have a starting midfielder who is canadian??!! no they have a starting midfielder who is canandain when players like gerrard, dyer etc are unfit and as for england not developing good players owen, gerrard, beckham, scholes, ferdinand need i go on.

Beckham and Scholes are world class. I agree. Owen needs to be given space to actually accomplish something, i don't think he is anywhere near the quality of a Vieri, Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Trezeguet, Henry, Batistuta..etc..Gerrard, Ferdinand are "good" English players but not world class players. They are average world class players at best.

Hargreaves is a Canadian. Born and raised. Played youth soccer in Calgary and then joined Bayern Munich in their youth system. Now if the english were so high on talent why would they choose to go after Hargreaves who's father was born in England but who's mother was born in Wales. This proves to me the lack of talent England has. The guy is 21 and has been playing professional football for maybe 2 years. I would think that maybe they'd have other players of his talent and age in England? or maybe not. He started, whether it be because of injury or sheer talent yet out of 40 million brits they chose a canadian...a guy who was still living here 4 years ago!

 

[robby]

damn cure, you are the man, you knwo EVERYTHING about
soccer, thats impressive. are you in this sport? cure alias
trappatoni?

 

[fallenangel]

nah Ferdinand has been the defender of the world cup, incidentally whats wrong with us playing Hargreaves, France play Zidane (algerian) Lizarazu (spanish) viera (senegalese)

Anyway personally i think Hargreaves is reasonable but not the same class as Gerrard.

 

[manny78]

nah Ferdinand has been the defender of the world cup, incidentally whats wrong with us playing Hargreaves, France play Zidane (algerian) Lizarazu (spanish) viera (senegalese)

Anyway personally i think Hargreaves is reasonable but not the same class as Gerrard.

Zidane was born in France, Lizarazu born in near the spanish border. As for Viera you're right on. But France aint the only team to do that. Look at Poland they had a black guy from some african country.

 

[robby]

or look at germany, striker neuveville was born in switzerland.
a lot of european countries have players like that.

 

[cure]

robby - i've played football since i was 4. Played my youth soccer in Italy for AC Fondi just outside Rome. Then came to Canada and played on the provincial and university level and i still play senior soccer now but the level of competition is nothing compared to Europe. Manny you must of heard of the indoor World Cup at the sportsplex in Laval? I still play in that every winter and in the summer play in some bar leagues where there is fights all the time. 90% fighting, 10% football.

Fallenangel - 1 WC does not make you World Class. Also, Viera lives in France and played his soccer in France. Hargreaves has never lived in England and has never played his football in England.

Manny - Emmanuel Olisadebe was born in Nigeria but the reason he didn't play for Nigeria was because he was never called up. He waited and waited but was never asked to join their National program. He married a Polish woman, got his citizenship and the Polish soccer team asked him to play for them. this is totally different than the other cases since i'm sure Zidane could have played for Algeria, Hargreaves for Canada, Viera for Senegal.