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:::[Official]World Cup South Africa 2010 Thread:::
- Thread in 'Sports & Training' Thread starter Started by niketalker23,
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What an idiot...son didn't realize he put the corner in play
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Great corner, Robben !
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Did that really just happen?
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Nah, he knew what he was doing. Man U did this last year and scored, but the goal was disallowed. You tap the ball into play, act like someone else is gonna take the corner kick, then that second person takes the ball and dribbles into the box. They were trying to be slick and catch the Brazilian defense sleeping.Originally Posted by TheGift23
What an idiot...son didn't realize he put the corner in play
But Man U was way more slick about it.
Watch at :38 of this video.
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Originally Posted by TheGift23
What an idiot...son didn't realize he put the corner in play
he knew what he was doing.. he just didn't disguise it well
edit: ^^ beat me to it
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Dunga looks like he's about to cry like hell
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I can't tell if the Dutch can't stop Kaka so they keep putting him to the ground or if they're trying to provoke him into a yellow
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Ah, I see.
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As an Argentina fan I hate Brazil but man I forget how good those brazilians are. Brazil is making the dutch look like Australia and N.Korea. So far the Dutch aint Mutch.
Anyway for those Argentina haters here is a National article on Argentina...Vamos Vamos Argentina Vamos Vamos a Ganar!!!
Before the start of the World Cup, I broadcast my rooting interest with the obnoxious insistence of a nuclear-powered vuvuzela: Argentina all the way. I wanted Argentina to win because their style of soccer speaks to the full potential of the beautiful game. I wanted Argentina to win because few people in the US could pick Lionel Messi out of a lineup, and he might be the most electrifying athlete on earth. I wanted Argentina to win because their coach, the walking, talking telenovela, Diego Maradona, is just too entertaining to see pushed off the stage
As Dan Wetzel of yahoo sports described Coach Maradona ,
He screams and cheers. He complains and cajoles. He smiles. He prays. He blesses himself. He hugs. Actually, he hugs a lot. He even kisses his players. Pushing 50 yet wearing earrings and a salt-and-pepper goatee, he remains the biggest presence in the building – and that includes his megastar players such as Lionel Messi and Tevez.
In his playing days, Maradona made people reconsider the sacred idea that Pele was surely the greatest player to ever patrol the pitch. He went from soccer superstar to Argentine folk hero during the 1986 World Cup, when he "avenged" the 1982 British defeat of Argentina in the Falklands War by defeating England in the quarterfinals, with a little help from the "Hand of God."
Maradona's brilliance inspired Eduardo Galeano to write,
No one can predict the devilish tricks this inventor of surprises will dream up for the simple joy of throwing the computers off track, tricks he never repeats. He's not quick, more like a short-legged bull, but he carries the ball sewn to his foot and he's got eyes all over his body. His acrobatics light up the field....In the frigid soccer of the end of the century, which detests defeat and forbids all fun, that man was one of the few who proved that fantasy can be efficient.
Efficient fantasy is the best way to describe Argentina's current run to the quarterfinals. In a modern world of robotic soccer stratagems, they play with the wicked grace of decades past. Given that success breeds imitators, I would argue that it is in the best interests of international soccer to see Argentina take it all the way.
For those experiencing this World Cup in the throes of neutrality, there are political reasons to support Argentina as well. This has received next to no media coverage either in their native Argentina or around the world, but the team has fully embraced the courageous group of grandmothers known as Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. This organization is devoted to finding out the truth about the fate of Argentina's desaparecidos — the people forever imprisoned or disappeared by the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla — during Argentina's Dirty War of 1976-1983.
At a training session in South Africa, the entire Argentine team unfurled a banner that read, "We Support the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo for the Nobel Peace Prize." The group has in fact been officially nominated for the prize and Abuelas president Estela de Carlotto, is in South Africa, meeting with Nelson Mandela and other world leaders. She has also been publicly — and literally — embraced by Maradona. The critical work that Abuelas has done will only receive a greater spotlight if Argentina continues to advance. This makes all those connected with Argentina's dirty war, who still hold tremendous power in the country, increasingly, and deliciously, apprehensive.
I can certainly understand, and have heard from numerous people, that these kinds of political concerns shouldn't play into our rooting interests when it comes to the World Cup. It should just be about the game. But this is like wishing a double cheeseburger didn't have cholesterol. There is simply no sporting event on earth more entangled in politics than this brilliantly bombastic tournament. Anytime you have half the earth tuned in — as colonies play their former colonizers and dictatorships challenge democracies — politics follow like rainbows after rain. As long as politics are part of the mix, we might as well support a team that in addition to epitomizing "the beautiful game" stands with a beautiful cause. Viva Argentina!
Anyway for those Argentina haters here is a National article on Argentina...Vamos Vamos Argentina Vamos Vamos a Ganar!!!
Before the start of the World Cup, I broadcast my rooting interest with the obnoxious insistence of a nuclear-powered vuvuzela: Argentina all the way. I wanted Argentina to win because their style of soccer speaks to the full potential of the beautiful game. I wanted Argentina to win because few people in the US could pick Lionel Messi out of a lineup, and he might be the most electrifying athlete on earth. I wanted Argentina to win because their coach, the walking, talking telenovela, Diego Maradona, is just too entertaining to see pushed off the stage
As Dan Wetzel of yahoo sports described Coach Maradona ,
He screams and cheers. He complains and cajoles. He smiles. He prays. He blesses himself. He hugs. Actually, he hugs a lot. He even kisses his players. Pushing 50 yet wearing earrings and a salt-and-pepper goatee, he remains the biggest presence in the building – and that includes his megastar players such as Lionel Messi and Tevez.
In his playing days, Maradona made people reconsider the sacred idea that Pele was surely the greatest player to ever patrol the pitch. He went from soccer superstar to Argentine folk hero during the 1986 World Cup, when he "avenged" the 1982 British defeat of Argentina in the Falklands War by defeating England in the quarterfinals, with a little help from the "Hand of God."
Maradona's brilliance inspired Eduardo Galeano to write,
No one can predict the devilish tricks this inventor of surprises will dream up for the simple joy of throwing the computers off track, tricks he never repeats. He's not quick, more like a short-legged bull, but he carries the ball sewn to his foot and he's got eyes all over his body. His acrobatics light up the field....In the frigid soccer of the end of the century, which detests defeat and forbids all fun, that man was one of the few who proved that fantasy can be efficient.
Efficient fantasy is the best way to describe Argentina's current run to the quarterfinals. In a modern world of robotic soccer stratagems, they play with the wicked grace of decades past. Given that success breeds imitators, I would argue that it is in the best interests of international soccer to see Argentina take it all the way.
For those experiencing this World Cup in the throes of neutrality, there are political reasons to support Argentina as well. This has received next to no media coverage either in their native Argentina or around the world, but the team has fully embraced the courageous group of grandmothers known as Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. This organization is devoted to finding out the truth about the fate of Argentina's desaparecidos — the people forever imprisoned or disappeared by the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla — during Argentina's Dirty War of 1976-1983.
At a training session in South Africa, the entire Argentine team unfurled a banner that read, "We Support the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo for the Nobel Peace Prize." The group has in fact been officially nominated for the prize and Abuelas president Estela de Carlotto, is in South Africa, meeting with Nelson Mandela and other world leaders. She has also been publicly — and literally — embraced by Maradona. The critical work that Abuelas has done will only receive a greater spotlight if Argentina continues to advance. This makes all those connected with Argentina's dirty war, who still hold tremendous power in the country, increasingly, and deliciously, apprehensive.
I can certainly understand, and have heard from numerous people, that these kinds of political concerns shouldn't play into our rooting interests when it comes to the World Cup. It should just be about the game. But this is like wishing a double cheeseburger didn't have cholesterol. There is simply no sporting event on earth more entangled in politics than this brilliantly bombastic tournament. Anytime you have half the earth tuned in — as colonies play their former colonizers and dictatorships challenge democracies — politics follow like rainbows after rain. As long as politics are part of the mix, we might as well support a team that in addition to epitomizing "the beautiful game" stands with a beautiful cause. Viva Argentina!
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That was a terrible execution of that corner kick trick play by Robben. Was extremely obvious that he kicked the ball into play and overall it didn't look smooth at all.
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someone needs to tell robben that he has two feet, everytime he gets the ball to the right of the goal, everyone knows where and what he's about to do
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In due time Elia will have to enter this match..
Robben seriusly !! Quit It ..
GOL!
Robben seriusly !! Quit It ..
GOL!
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YES!!!
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that was nice
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Well, they all count the same I guess. Terrible goal though.
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robben didnt even get touched and he's rolling around holding his leg like he got shot...few seconds later off the free kick, goal...smh
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Would like to see Holland put on Elia soon.
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He's flopped on nearly every play.. He's trying to exaggerate the foul so Bastos Could get a red card and get sent off..
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As much as I like Robben, he's playing selfish soccer right now, as he's prone to do. Every single time he tries to dribble at a defender, cut in and take a shot. No imagination, no attempts to cross.
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^ tru
they need to clean up the flopping in soccer. if i was a ref and saw clearly robben dove n flopped like that..yellow to warn him, then red if he does it again. no one would do it if theres a chance theyd get sent off the field for diving
they need to clean up the flopping in soccer. if i was a ref and saw clearly robben dove n flopped like that..yellow to warn him, then red if he does it again. no one would do it if theres a chance theyd get sent off the field for diving