Official World Cup 2010 Thread

[jfrost]

By the way, Grant Wahl, the soccer guy from Sports Illustrated, has put out a very well written piece on the World Cup finals: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/ ... /index.htm

[Pulsar_t]

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Anyone else finds those junk food commercials to be disgusting? Yea let Messi try a diet of KFC for a month and watch him drop like a fat turd

[ZeroAX]

FINALLY

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8801981.stm

[swiftzx]

Well, it appears that Spain won. Since my family is Hispanic, we were all thrilled when Spain made the goal.(Iniesta, who made the goal, plays for my favorite soccer team FC Barcelona)

[jfrost]

I didn't like Spain's victory, but then again, the game was not very good. Yesterday's match was much better. Too many fouls today. I would've preferred the Netherlands to win, but based on today's performance, they didn't actually deserve it.

[Pulsar_t]

Ditto, and to make a point I left after the 2nd half ended. Can't say this tournament has re-ignited my interest in soccer.

[jfrost]

Pick a club to root for. There's where most of the world's fanaticism is born

[alienjesus]

I don't follow football much, but based on the netherlands attitude in this game, and their seeming lack of sportsmanship, I'm glad spain won.

[Pulsar_t]

This sport could use a reboot: Sacking top FIFA execs, routing corruption, scaling back player compensation and just plain getting back to basics.

Btw Casillas deserved to hold the cup more than the entire team. For a world star he doesn't seem to be arrogant (from a few personal accounts from people who met him)

[MrPopo]

This sport could use a reboot:

I agree. Remove offsides and allow full body tackles.