Official World Cup 2010 Thread

[dsheinem]

I've caught 75% of the matches or so thus far, but I think my mind is going numb from the god damn vuvuzelas. I really do hope they ban them in subsequent rounds...

For those complaining about the lack of scoring...To me, the low scoring is what makes the matches fun to watch. It is always close, always tense, and you never know when the game could swing. A 2-0, 3-0, 4-2 etc. game is just not as suspenseful (especially if one team jumps a few goals ahead early). Granted, something like 6-5 might be fun, but the level of play would probably be shit.

I also prefer a pitcher's duel in baseball. Give me a 1-0 game and I'm in heaven.

[dsheinem]

Also, the goaltender for Cameroon looks like he would fuck your shit up.

[Pulsar_t]

[Riqz85]

You can actually eliminate the sound of the vuvuzelas by running sound through an Equalizer or your computer and eliminating 233 Hz, 466 Hz, 932 Hz, and 1864 Hz.


http://gizmodo.com/5563522/simple-softw ... broadcasts

[ZeroAX]

I don't want to be mean, but do they really think that the vuvuzelas are something cool, or part of a cultural heritage?

Hey New Yorkers honk your horns when stuck in a traffic jam to recreate the most important cultural event you have created. Fuck Broadway

[Riqz85]

hahah i love this quote from Wikipedia for Vuvuzelas:

"Vuvuzelas have also been blamed for drowning the sound and atmosphere of football games.[9][10] Commentators have described the sound as "annoying" and "satanic"[11] and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants",[12] "a deafening swarm of locusts",[13] "a goat on the way to slaughter",[14] and "a giant hive full of very angry bees".[15]"

[jfrost]

The vuvuzelas and the new ball are killing the WC.

The so called Jabulani prevents the players of getting right any passes. Really, I've never seen something like this.

[fastbilly1]

Ill probably not watch Brasil vs North Korea, it is going to be like Germany vs Australia but worse.

[Luke]

Wow. Fuck.

Somali Soccer Fans Executed By Islamic Militants For Watching World Cup Match


Gunmen believed to be from a radical Islamic group in northeast Mogadishu, Somalia, shot two people dead during an impromptu raid on a house where people were watching a World Cup match Saturday night, Reuters reports.

A witness told reporters that masked militants "stormed into the house" and open fired at the World Cup viewers, killing two instantly. The militants rounded up about 10 other fans, but left the bodies in the home, the witness said.

The incident came on the heels of a national ban on viewing "un-Islamic" World Cup games made by the local militia group al Shabaab, which controls much of south and central Somalia by force. By al Shabaab's logic, the championship interferes with the group's plan to overthrow the government, because Somali citizens are too preoccupied with the games to fight on their behalf.

Other militant groups have also professed their disapproval of the World Cup.

"Football is an inheritance from the primitive infidels, and we can never accept people to watch it and we are directing a final warning to those who want to watch it," said Sheikh Mohamed Abdi Aros, a spokesman for Hizbul Islam, a group which has reportedly raided homes and detained at least 30 other World Cup fans in Afgoye, about 18 miles south of Mogadishu. He did not specify how the group -- which has also routinely banned music and dancing along with other sports -- intended to enforce the ban.

Thus far, neither of the two groups has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Despite the prohibitions, Somali soccer fans remained undeterred, and residents say they will continue to seek out various ways to skirt the ban, including the use of makeshift satellite dishes. As one Somali told the BBC, "I have one eye on the TV and other on the door, and the sound turned down."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/1 ... 11576.html

[Pulsar_t]

N.Korea could only fend off the Brazilians for so long. Better luck to S.Korea then. I hope an Asian or African team reaches the semi-finals at the very least.