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FIFA World Cup Brasil 2014

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Imagine the situation: your biggest dream come true, at the cost of one eye and your career. Sad, sad news. Hope he recovers.
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Doesn't mean end of career, a guy called Mattia Maggio played sometimes for Hamburg this bundesliga season, who has only 10% of his eyesight in his left eye.

Anyway I hope that von Bergen recovers too.
 
Can't believe Giroud didn't get a red card for that assault. Clearly he didn't intend for it to happen as he was looking in the wrong direction, which makes it completely irresponsible and dangerous to kick his foot so high while jumping.

It's one of those situations where you have to accept that you're a danger to the players around you if you can't control your actions better than that. "I went for the ball, I'm sorry" doesn't really cut it. If you crash your plane into the hut on the mountain top the couple inside doesn't care whether it was on purpose or not, you did wrong and must pay the price regardless.
 
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Dempsey got kicked as well. No card was given both players jump and one manage to kick the other`s face in mid air

Dempsey played w/ a fractured nose

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bebo said:
Dempsey got kicked as well. No card was given both players jump and one manage to kick the other`s face in mid air

Dempsey played w/ a fractured nose

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It's a nasty situation there as well. I was under the impression that the guy fell and kicked his leg out but it might be a red card situation here as well.

I also thought the red card for Nani in CL (the flying kick) was completely correct due to dangerous play, so I'm not just trying to start a fire here. I honestly believe that each player is responsible for their actions and that red cards should be given in these situation. A player who is "too fired up" to be able to consider the ramifications of his actions is a potential career breaker on the pitch.
 
I take that story with a huge pinch of salt. Don't make me think that there's only one person who could "heal Suarez" and if he actually halted cancer treatment it's either not a very dangerous cancer or it was halted due to other reasons.
 
That video of Dempsey reminds me when De Rossi decided to snidely elbow McBride in the face, and it barely phased him despite breaking his cheek.

Gotta give Americans this: they're usually tougher than your average footballer.
 
I'm Always a big USA fan when the World Cup is played...

Yes, i'm a Football Weekly listener...

Argentina proves that it is very difficult to play a team that parks the bus.
And i could have been worse: a penalty on Dejagah wasn't given...

Very bad day at the office for Zabaleta. That is unusual for him.
 
Great goal from Messi, Argentina very lucky. Should have conceded a pen and possible red card, but refs aren't giving those at this WC unless you're Brazil ;)

I don't understand 'added time' anymore. Ref says it'll be 4 minutes. Agentina score, celebrate, then make the longest substitution in the history of man, with Di Maria walking the length of the pitch, pausing to pick upa water bottle and so forth,and only 20 extra seconds added.

If that's how 'added time' is going to work, we should get rid of it. Di Maria's substitution quite literally took twice as long as the additional time the ref added at the end. Stopwatches really wouldn't kill the sport.
 
OOooaaa...hope for Iran to get at least one point. :(

Well, that's the difference between a normal footballer and a superstar, invisible for 90+ minutes and still match deciding action.
 
beachryan said:
I don't understand 'added time' anymore. Ref says it'll be 4 minutes. Agentina score, celebrate, then make the longest substitution in the history of man, with Di Maria walking the length of the pitch, pausing to pick upa water bottle and so forth,and only 20 extra seconds added.

If that's how 'added time' is going to work, we should get rid of it. Di Maria's substitution quite literally took twice as long as the additional time the ref added at the end. Stopwatches really wouldn't kill the sport.
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Have to agree, even if added times at this WC often are really high(4-5 minutes are normal), maybe it's that long because of such situations.

But Iran did a great job today, sad they lost it at the end. Really great goal by Messi though, 90 minutes he isn't there, then a match deciding action.
Anyway no one has to be feared of Messi, Agüero, Higuain etc., without any ideas and also stamina seems to be not good.
 
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Messi's definitely not at his best, hope he grows into the tournament. Still, when you're that good, it's not a problem. Bit anonymous for most of the match.

I think Argentina will look a lot better against teams that don't sit so deep. Hard to create in football against that kind of defense.

My lesson from this world cup: football has become a lot 'tighter'. The best players aren't THAT much better than merely very good players, and now that all footballers are great athletes, sheer talent isn't as big a differentiator as it used to be.
 
beachryan said:
My lesson from this world cup: football has become a lot 'tighter'. The best players aren't THAT much better than merely very good players, and now that all footballers are great athletes, sheer talent isn't as big a differentiator as it used to be.
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You're right about it being tighter but it's not necessarily about talent.

The level of tactical organisation from the "minnows" has improved, IMO. Better team units like Costa Rica and Iran that are performing greater than the sum of their parts.

Chile's backline contained a two guys from relegated top divison sides and a full back released by Nottingham Forest, for example.
 
Jamezinho said:
Argentina look like they are out of ideas.
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Simple reason for this everyone wants to be a hero! Have a statue ! Replace Diego?! That's the most individual team in the tourney! Usually small players play big due to playing collectively as a team.
 
beachryan said:
I don't understand 'added time' anymore. Ref says it'll be 4 minutes. Agentina score, celebrate, then make the longest substitution in the history of man, with Di Maria walking the length of the pitch, pausing to pick upa water bottle and so forth,and only 20 extra seconds added.

If that's how 'added time' is going to work, we should get rid of it. Di Maria's substitution quite literally took twice as long as the additional time the ref added at the end. Stopwatches really wouldn't kill the sport.
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+1

Di María took about 1 minute to leave the pitch, the ref should've added one more...
Worst thing is that he didn't give them the penalty when Zabaleta charged against Dejagah.
 
lerp90 said:
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Di María took about 1 minute to leave the pitch, the ref should've added one more...
Worst thing is that he didn't give them the penalty when Zabaleta charged against Dejagah.
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+2. It really is unfortunate there are often so many reasons to hate (or at least get terribly annoyed with-) professional soccer.
 
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