The Soccer Thread

[Chrispy]

Who won the LA vs Real Madrid game?

Who do u think won?

 

[Chrispy]

http://vimeo.com/26285485

 

[mgoblue2290]

Soccer fight in the Paraguay v Brazil match. Lucas Leiva and a Paraguay player were sent off in extra time.

 

[FirstTimer]

 

[Senser81]

 

[killgod]

More in line with the recent flood/tsunami...

 

[Senser81]

A very odd game. The US kind of blew the game a few different times. They should have had a couple goals in the first half considering how many chances they had. Japan's first goal was slop, and almost entirely the product of the US's frantic defending. I didn't think Japan played all that well, but they got the win. The US had two instances of defending for 7 minutes and winning the game, and they failed both times. My confidence that the US would win in penalty kicks was zero.

 

[Chrispy]

Chris Mortensen - Observation from an NFL man on World Cup: "This is like having 500 yards in total offense and losing to a team with 200 yards."

 

[FirstTimer]

I won't say Japan is the better team. They aren't. The US didn't capitalize early and let a scrappy team hang around.

Wambach's unlucky strike off the bar not withstanding the US had enough chances inside the 8 yard area that they should have been up 2 or 3-nil at the half.

The US defense was awful. The Japanese, when they wanted to, dialed up lots of pressure and you saw that when they got down. The US couldn't hold leads. I don't know who taught them to try and clear balls back across the front of the net. It cost them one goal and nearly cost them another.

Then at a critical point they let Japan's best player in Sawa get a free run across the face of the goal on a corner. Can't let that stuff happen. The US lost focus at critical times in the match and played dumb soccer at times too.

Morgan, Wambach, Rapinoe, and O'Reilly played great. Heath played badly when she came in and turned it over too much. Lloyd was turning the ball over way to much as well.

I still say PKs are a terrible way to decide a match(It's like a basketball game being decided by a FT contest) but those are the rules so what can you do?

 

[killgod]

If it wasn't official already, seems to be now.

Tevez headed back to Corinthians

http://www.tsn.ca/soccer/story/?id=371946

LONDON -- Carlos Tevez appears set to return to Brazilian club Corinthians after five years in England, with Manchester City saying a deal has been reached to sell the striker.

Despite being under contract to City for another three years, the Argentina striker said earlier this month that he wanted to leave the Premier League club after two seasons to be closer to his family.

City had been reluctant to sell Tevez and had reportedly been holding out for a 50-million-pound ($81 million) bid from Corinthians, but now a breakthrough has been reached.

"We have an agreement with Corinthians," City manager Roberto Mancini told Britain's Sky Sports TV on the Vancouver stop of City's North America tour. "But Carlos now is still a City player."

Asked whether Tevez would now be discussing personal terms with Corinthians, Mancini responded: "I don't know this. I repeat: at the moment, Carlos is still a City player."

Corinthians president Andres Sanchez responded on the club website by saying "nothing concrete" has been agreed.

Sanchez said City has sent a counter offer in which "the Premier League club asks for changes in the manner of payment and the total value of the transfer."

The statement said City is asking that Tevez give up an undisclosed sum owed to him by the club.

The 27-year-old Tevez spent two years with Corinthians, becoming the first non-Brazilian to win the league's player of the season award for 29 years, before moving to London in 2006.

After spending the season at West Ham, he joined Manchester United and won the Premier League twice before defecting to crosstown rival City.

As the Premier League's joint-top scorer last season, Tevez helped City finish third and qualify for the Champions League for the first time. He also captained the side in the FA Cup final when City won its first major title since 1976.

 

[NAHSTE]

If it wasn't official already, seems to be now.

Tevez headed back to Corinthians

http://www.tsn.ca/soccer/story/?id=371946

:crying:

 

[wr50l]

Damn Brazilians and their internet money.

 

[Rudi]

Fucking shit water.

 

[NAHSTE]

I know Rudi and I are the only ones who care, but it's gonna suck not seeing Carlito in Champion's League next year. Gonna be interesting to see what things look like next season, I suspect Dzeko and Mario will need to learn how to play simultaneously.

Or City will just have to go and buy 5 replacements. Such a tough club to follow. :shifty:

 

[Rudi]

Mario just pisses me off so much. Unless he gets his shit together I don't wanna see him on the pitch. David Silva gunna need to step up.

Im pumped to watch them play on ESPN2 tonight against Vancouver. Been a while since I see a Citeh game

 

[Fappin Raptor]

ذياب عوانه على منتخب لبنان

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKW-yVTSrM[/ame]

 

[Chrispy]

Was just watching that, but

The United Arab Emirates crushed Lebanon 6-2 in a friendly on Sunday. So perhaps in an effort to make things interesting and perhaps because he simply does not conform to acceptable standards of penalty kicks, the U.A.E.'s Awana Diab decided to attempt an absolutely ridiculous penalty kick. And it worked.

Diab's setup seemed like any other for a penalty, but as he ran up to the ball, he stopped, turned around and backheeled the ball toward the goal. Stunned by the audacity, madness and nerve it takes to try and score a penalty with your back to the goal, the keeper just stood and watched as the ball trickled into the net.

Acrobatics aside, the back-flip penalty kick has nothing on this.
U.A.E. manager Srecko Katanec did not appreciate Diab's creativity, though. He immediately substituted the player out of the match and after the game said that he would be disciplined for the "disrespectful act."

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USA-Japan match ranks as sixth most-viewed soccer telecast ever in the United States

 

[killgod]

ذياب عوانه على منتخب لبنان

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKW-yVTSrM

EDIT: Don't know why it's not showing teh video player.

cause you need to remove all the crap after the end of your link.

Basically once you spot the '&' delete that and everything after it.

 

[Chrispy]

I love stats

USA-Japan (13.4m) 2nd most-watched daytime telecast (6 am-6 pm) in cable history, behind 2011 Rose Bowl on ESPN (20.5)

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Hope Solo is known by 21% of US consumers and her appeal is ranked at #253 (of nearly 2900 celebs in the DBI). That’s on par with Hannah Teter, Drew Brees, Bill Gates, Matthew Broderick, and Emmitt Smith. Of those who know her, 93 percent say that they like her to some degree (Like, Like a Little, Like a Lot).

Abby Wambach is known by 20.89% of all US consumers, about as many as who know/recognize Lisa Leslie, Johnny Damon, Kirk Herbstreit, and JJ Barea. Her appeal is #121, which is among Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Willie Mays, Mark Wahlberg.

 

[killgod]

Don't worry. In about a month everyone will forget about women's soccer.

Well, I guess women's soccer fans will always have the MLS. :smug:

Heels, Heels,
you're a cunt,
you're a cunt,
and you'll always be a cunt,
you'll always be a cunt!