World Cup Football 2010 (South Africa)

[MoP]

I don't pay attention to soccer until World Cup games start airing on television, so I picked Brazil. The world's hottest women and some talented players. Well, hot women at least. *shrugs*

It's called football, barbarian.

Those of us in the civilized world call it soccer, Frenchman.

Only Canada, Samoa and the United States use soccer. All other English speaking countries (42) use football.

Now, tell me which of those countries is civilized? The Russian province/buffer? The one where people only wear straw skirts? Or the one where 58.5% of population spends at least one year in poverty?

[asoc]

Only Canada, Samoa and the United States use soccer. All other English speaking countries (42) use football.

Now, tell me which of those countries is civilized? The Russian province/buffer? The one where people only wear straw skirts? Or the one where 58.5% of population spends at least one year in poverty?

Erm, in many places where association football is not the dominant form of football, Soccer is used.
See this link for example.
http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/why.html
And the wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_ ... n_football

[MoP]

Hey, my source is teh Wiki too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football

Of the 45 national FIFA affiliates in which English is an official or primary language, 42 use football in their organizations official name (only Canada, Samoa and the United States use soccer)

It's about the official name, not what is commonly used.

[owly]

There's probably more dead bodies

[MoP]

There's probably more dead bodies

Again, I really need whatever you're using.

[Bogumil]

I had a response ready for you MoP until I read owly's post. I'm just curious now.

[Nagash]

there is always these swedish girls / footie pics each world cup. Would be nice to think there crowds look like that...hell, i'd become a Sweden supporter myself

I think it's the same old picture which keeps surfacing every time there is an EC or WC (i.e. every two years). Those girls must be ancient by now.

[asoc]

I keep posting the pic, lmfao.
Here is a new one.

Bethany Dempsey, wife of Clint Dempsey.

[asoc]

Hey, is anyone playing EA SPORTS FIFA Superstars on facebook?
None of my friends are playing atm, i could use some people to play against:-p

[Maverick]

USA USA!

Hard to be confident about the Us chances when some teams are better than them at every position.

Id say Spain and Brazil are the favorites, Argentina could be interesting.

[owly]

i love your sig Mav

[Gili]

At work, each department has been randomly assigned a team to support. If our team wins, we get a free night out "somewhere" doing "something" ...to be confirmed by CEO. Fortunately we got Italy...that could have gone a lot worse.

So for the world cup I'm an Italian fan ( unless they meet England of course ).

In regards to todays matches. I don't think anyone played particularly well...the group looks pretty poor really. Although i guess given South Africa's world ranking they did well. Their goal was particularly sweet!

Bring on the US

[Gili]

1-1, didn't seem to unfair. We did play a lot better than our run up friendlies, so if we improve on that performance to match our qualification form then we should have a good run. Not sure why we suffer with so many goalkeeper cock ups, i know our press are a lot to blame for ruining these people when they do make a cock up...but still...i don't see other countries letting in similar goals

[MoP]

[MoP]

Also:
Bodypainted pornstars play Germany - Australia

[Bogumil]

You wish the Belgian team were that good.

If all soccer were like your second post I would be a much bigger fan of the game.

[Nagash]

In the first round of play only Germany impressed.

Today Argentina was pretty good at certain moments too.

But the best things happening so far are:
1. Switzerland kicking Spanish ass
2. Me discoverting that Nigel de Jong resembles Kratos of the God of War games.

[MoP]

In the first round of play only Germany impressed.

Today Argentina was pretty good at certain moments too.

But the best things happening so far are:
1. Switzerland kicking Spanish ass
2. Me discoverting that Nigel de Jong resembles Kratos of the God of War games.

You forgot

3. France getting what they deserve. They shouldn't have made it this far in the first place.

[Nagash]

Yeah, the Mexicans gave them a sound beating. Shoulda been Ireland though.

[Gili]

As a seasoned English fan...i thought i had endured enough of our antics of making everything difficult. but i presumed that was over after the US game. Wow...Algeria, wtf has happened.

The main point that sticks to me...is we change coaches semi-often, and apparently they all come in with their own ideas. But they keep playing the same old shit...each and every time.

Why do we keep playing Heskey...the guy is useless. Fuck him off, and lets have someone who can actually score goals. Wtf is it with the long ball game as well...i think we have enough technical players that we can play keeping the ball and see what we can work. But no...its always booted.

In summary...booo...hiss!

The US were unlucky today...they were robbed of their 3rd goal. If anything pretty much every US player in the box was being grapplied by slovenians. bastages!