the fifa world cup thread - Italy won, but Zidane had the best headbutt ever.
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qube said:I have a question though. What constitutes an off-sides penalty? Is it when the attackers are near the goalbox before the defensive players are?
Sorry for the stupid question...but I can't seem to understand what exactly an offsides is
Generally, there must be two defending players between the attacking player and the goal before the ball is passed to the attacking player. It's usually the goalie and a defender. The rule discourages the attacking player "cherry picking" right in front of the goal.
There are some recent modifications to the rule as far as whether the player in the "offside position" is participating in the play or some other crap that I haven't kept up with.
Pretty much the guy can't camp out in front of the goal with the goalie and wait to receive the ball. The infraction doesn't actually occur until the ball is played to the attacking player who is in the offside position.
It is not a silly question, but I think I might have just confused you even more...
I think you could even google it for video examples and interpretations.
two thumps up for germany, the last goal was soo impressive. even though, they had some holes in the defense, but they were good.
Poland, suck allll the way, they deserve the lose. very slow, i was expecting a lot from them, but they disappointed me so much.
England and Argentina, play tommorow, we will see how it goes.
so ready up
Poland, suck allll the way, they deserve the lose. very slow, i was expecting a lot from them, but they disappointed me so much.
England and Argentina, play tommorow, we will see how it goes.
so ready up
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sameh903 said:England and Argentina, play tommorow, we will see how it goes.
so ready up
will we see
- the hands of GOD- in this match
when ever i see egland and argintina in the same sentence ..i keep seeing that scene in my mind
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WTF - Bullsh!t, I never knew some players werent even born in the country they play for what the hell is up with this crap. I made a very short list of two, one is a German and the other an Ivory Coast player. I cant believe this, can one say I want to play for another country because my roots were from there, lol? This made me disappointed I wouldnt want any player who aint from the US to play on the US team same goes for any other country like Argentina.
From fifaworldcup.com -
Germany - 11 KLOSE Miroslav - Born in Oppeln in Poland
Ivory Coast - 20 DEMEL Guy - French,born
From fifaworldcup.com -
Germany - 11 KLOSE Miroslav - Born in Oppeln in Poland
Ivory Coast - 20 DEMEL Guy - French,born
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qube said:
That's the thing, most matches are not as scoring-intensive as this one. It was the opening match with the most goals in the history of the world cup, that should tell you something.
Football has become more offensive and faster over the past 20 years, it was a lot more technical back in the 1970s and 80s, and many teams (including the German team) still played a very defensive game in the 90s, this makes for not-so-hot matches to watch but if you grew up with football like me, you see these things with different eyes.
It's probably the same situation with me and American Football, I watched several matches and occasionally check out Super Bowl on TV (well, if I can find coverage of it on German TV that is...),but even tho I know the rules by now and got the general picture of the US leagues and all that jazz, I still have absolutely no clue about players, teams, all that background which basically makes the sport. That's because we live in different "mass sports hemispheres", you have full daily coverage of Football, Baseball and Basketball while on Euro TV, all you see is football, racing sports and athletics.
Ah well... yeah, Frings's goal as AMAZING, a very precise and unstoppable upper-right bomb.
The match itself was so-so, as mentioned by others, our defense was very weak and badly coordinated, and that's not because Ballack didn't play, it's a consequence of coach Klinsmann's overly offensive style. I mean, scoring is good and all but if you can't keep your box clean you won't stand a chance against better teams than Costa Rica.
Perhaps they should bring back Oliver Kahn, he wasn't as good in the last matches as he was before but he knew how to keep the defensive players together and on their toes, that's something Lehmann is not very good at.
yeah...
On thursday next week England will play vs.Trinidad-Tobago in my hometown Nürnberg! I have no tickets but will be there, there's a huge open-air screen where they show the game during a match party, will be great I guess... looking forward to meet some fans from abroad at the fan party... see you at the "house of 20 beers"!
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A word on Miroslav Klose, yeah, he was born in Oppeln but his parents and grandparents where Germans, they lived in Schlesien/Ostpreussen which was part of Germany before WW2, so technically he's a German with Polish roots. "Oppeln" is the old German name of the now Polish city Opole, btw.
complexs6 said:
It's very common for people to play for countries other than the ones they were born and/or raised in.
A lot of the dutch players from previous world cups were from former Dutch territories like Kluivert and Seedorf, I think. There are a couple of Brazillians who play for countries other than Brazil. The French have a lot of players from former territories as well.
Prior to this world cup, especially in 94 and 98, the US had a lot of imports such as Earnie Stewart, Thomas Dooley and some other people I can't remember. It's only recently that we have enough home grown talent that we don't rely on the loose rules for national team affiliations. There are certain restrictions on playing for different national teams after a certain age though.
Ryan Giggs played youth international soccer for England, but now plays for Wales. There was some big deal about a player attempting to become a naturalized Dutch citizen in order to play for the Dutch in the world cup.
I don't think it's that big a deal. Espceially since the US is founded and made up by transplants.
If you were a soccer player and you had a choice to play for the US or Argentina, would it be that easy a decision for you?
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Disgusting first half from Paraguay - diving, cheating, dirty degenerates.
The referee's comical too: absurd fouls called against Crouchie, no yellow for Paredes in that challenge on Stevie G.
Fuck this Paraguay team, I hope they get steamrolled.
The referee's comical too: absurd fouls called against Crouchie, no yellow for Paredes in that challenge on Stevie G.
Fuck this Paraguay team, I hope they get steamrolled.
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gmw said:
lol
that's not the Gavin that I know. Chill out man
to be honest, England played one of the worst matches of the last...umm...4 years
yeah they can do better, but without Rooney I really dont know how can they even score a goal.
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for the same reason why they still have the fucking Queen
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Takumaji said:
The sad truth of it might is that england probably won't play much better in their other games. They didn't look good at all. They just took advantage of a couple of mistakes in the firs thalf by paraguay and in the second half they spent most of their time on their back foot trying to defend.
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Takumaji Makes me wonder why they pay Beckham so much money said:it's all hype
anyway i just won some money cause england can't win by 3 goals
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racecar said:it's a upset in the making( even if it's a draw)
ok on the side note.. are those pollens or paper or bug's in the air in the stadium??
Thats very true. If sweden don't win it's their own fault. They had a lot of great chances.
I was wondering about that stuff floating around too. Looks a little like ash but there aren't any fireworks or flares going anywhere.
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Takumaji said:Wow, Trinidad+Tobago vs. Sweden 0:0... I'm mildly amazed by Trinidad to be honest.
Look out England, they won't give you an easy match!
Oh yeah that just makes the tournament for them. T&T deserved that win. That goalie was phenominal too considering he found out he was playing just 10 minutes before the game. Sweden has a lot of improving too do because if they play that way that paraguay and england will just have their way with them.
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I was terribly disappointed in the Sweden team.
Even with 10 players on the Trinidad team they could not muster a single goal.
Even with 10 players on the Trinidad team they could not muster a single goal.