Official World Cup 2010 Thread

[jfrost]

This sport could use a reboot:

I agree. Remove offsides and allow full body tackles.

Then allow the use of hands, right?

[jfrost]

[MrPopo]

If I could see this every game I'd start watching.

[jfrost]

If I could see this every game I'd start watching.

Forward to 1:05.

[Ivo]

Damn. Did that guy get a red card?

I was hoping Spain would win for 2 reasons:
1. They defeated Portugal.*
2. The Dutch have typically played a bit dirty in terms of physical aggression IMO. That clip certainly helps my opinion on that.

*The following remarks are partially humorous
a) In terms of "national pride" then Portugal can claim to have only been eliminated by the best team in the tournament as Spain won the whole thing; sort of like a fake 2nd place.
b) After Portugal got eliminated, I heard less vuvuzelas here.
c) The country is in economical crisis - we certainly don't need distractions that make a significant % of the population stop working altogether during over 90 minutes.

Ivo.

[ZeroAX]

The Netherlands lost my support by the end of that match. Really poor sportmanship (or lack of it).

Also didn't like spain as always. During the first half of over time I said they should just give a silver medal to each team and have them go home. Really really bad final game.

[Pulsar_t]

c) The country is in economical crisis - we certainly don't need distractions that make a significant % of the population stop working altogether during over 90 minutes.

Ivo.

Hey you certainly know your country better than I do, but the global crisis doesn't really boil down to lazy workers

[Incognito D]

Forward to 1:05.

What's the story behind that!?
They couldn't take him showing off so they decided to kick him and it turned into a mass brawl? What are the players that got interviewed saying?

[jfrost]

Forward to 1:05.

What's the story behind that!?
They couldn't take him showing off so they decided to kick him and it turned into a mass brawl? What are the players that got interviewed saying?

Yes, that was pretty much it.

It was the 2nd game of the 1999 Paulista finals between the most popular teams of São Paulo, Palmeiras and Corinthians, the ones with fiercest rivalry.

In the first game, Palmeiras didn't field its best players, since three days later it would play the finals to Libertadores (which, as you might know, is the most important tournament in the continent). Thus, Corinthians won easily 3-0. Palmeiras then had to win 2-0 at least to claim the championship (I don't know why, I don't remember the details of that particular tournament).

Anyway, even though it was Palmeiras that needed to win badly, it was Corinthians that scored first. Palmeiras scored two times, but Corinthians tied up the match again with 12 minutes left to the end. With the game won, Edílson started showing off, both to waste time and to tease Palmeiras' players.

They didn't like it very much and started the brawl. The referee called the end to the match and Corinthians was the champion.

As for what they said, let me try to translate.

Paulo Nunes, one of the Palmeiras players who started the fight, said:

Paulo Nunes: "It's not our fault they didn't win the Libertadores. It's not our fault!"
Reporter: "Was that disrespectful?"
Paulo Nunes: "They can keep this crap title, this is the title they deserve! There was no respect to the professionals!"

Edílson, the dude who started showing off, said he was actually just responding to the provocations he had gotten from Palmeiras all that week long. He said: "I just listened to their tease and teased back. If this is what happens when we do this kind of thing to Palmeiras, there's nothing I can do about it."

[fastbilly1]

Having watched the final several times now, I will say it was an ok game but I expect more from the final match of the World Cup.