gutter_trash
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2014 FIFA World Cup |OT3| Saturday 21st: ARG v IRN // GER v GHA // NGA v BIH
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LOL for real, not same kid
Johnny Cage In The Shower
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Welp!... As long as the GIF thread is locked, you'll see lotta GIF begging in this thread then, which is a shame and waste of posts!
Nah, all jokes aside I was truly enjoying watching the Socceroos, wish they advanced , they aren't the most skilled but at least they play with pride and give all they got.. Dat Tim Cahill!!
That maradona stash
CraigerGamer
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When it was obvious he didn't why didn't they go with the guy with the trophies? I mean Torres? C'mon.
hey, don't diss Torres. The guy provides great entertainment.
though I'm quite glad he gave the best years of his career to Liverpool and has been pretty much a laughing stock ever since
GTP_Daverytimes
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Someone got a problem with the World Cup i would say, i don't see a reason to lock it.
ShinRPGamer
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Once you see it you can't not see it.
Hopefully Ochoa's World Cup won't end in a disappoint the same way How I Met Your Mother ended which is to say, a complete waste of my time.
More than likely they don't want to set a precedent and then have 15123459 WC threads pop up
GTP_Daverytimes
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The Gif thread should be the exception, we can't beg for people to post gifs when they can all be organised in one thread. We now have 3 OT's that have more than 40 thousand posts combined, no one is going to comb through that to find a couple of gifs.
Yep take them for what they are. Sure we are not the most skilled players and can't play as good or as textbook as the top nations, but you hit the nail on the head. We play with pride and passion in our jersey. Part of all out sporting culture is having a never give up attitude and these boys showed that the last 2 games. 2006 was brilliant for us. 2010 we had a lot of problems with our manager who I still believed screwed us over, and this year we are back on track. We have lost a lot of our best stars, but with that the A League is starting to really take off and Ange has had great success as a local manager and showed he has the goods with a young squad with not only injuries, but players that have as few as 3 caps. I honestly believe we will go well in the AFC next year and that 2018 we will be primed.
We knew.it was always going to be tough to progress, we got a real tough draw, one of the hardest and that's the sad part. Had we been drawn in a better group, we would have gone through as I honestly think we have played better than a lot of teams that will go through. But that's the breaks. To win you must beat the best. As a nation we are so proud of our boys and I cannot wait until next year and than 2018. Bring it on!
Ninjas edit: with a bit of luck hopefully Qutar do lose the 2022 and it gets 're voted and we.win that. That would be glorious. And if FIFA is serious about not only growing the game in other nations, but having a host where the tourists can actually have a fun party time, we are that nation,
That was a really great game, and Cahill's shot was ridiculous. As an American I want the WC to be in the USA (because duh) but yeah. I'd be more than happy if it went to the Aussies.
Shadow_FFVI
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México did score three goals against Camerun. They will manage against Croatia.
Johnny Cage In The Shower
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This exactly, honestly ( I am too lazy) but can someone please PM a mod and sort it out?
The World Cup only comes around once in four years and only lasts a month. Those Gifs which are intricately hand crafted and picked by the greats like SuniLegned and WoodenLung and among others; deserve a thread, a home where we can revisit them quickly and effortlessly in only few pages...
Many of those gifs bring smiles, laughter and joy to us... while they also celebrate crazy fans of different cultures from all over the world.. Why can't we have this? It's not much we ask for...
People were pretty hard on Pim Verbeek though, they only missed out on the knockout stage in 2010 on goal difference. They drew with Ghana playing the majority of the match with 10 men. The match against Germany was awful and he was rightfully criticised for his negative tactics in that match.
It is funny how things have swung around for Ange Postecoglou, everyone was calling for his head when he was coach of the Olympic team and he was eventually sacked. Only to come back to the A-League a few years later and dominate the competition with his side and get the Socceroos job. The interview between Ange and Craig Foster on The World Game back when he was the Olympic coach was one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
I PMed Cornballer. Hopefully he'll sort it out.
Yeah man Cahill is a true hero. Not only his shot and his skill but he really is a top bloke.
The US would be the other logical choice for a world cup, but I do still say Austrlia. Not only because i'm selfish, but because in order to grow the game here, in which it is starting, but because the US had in in 94, Japan had a shared one, still had one though in 02, and Qatar is well, you know. I just think it was our time.
I think with Pim it wasn't just that we didn't make.the round of 16, it was his style of play. Not only was it boring but it didn't fit our players. And it was like that the whole.way through qualifying. Look at the difference from than and now. And we arguably had a better squad than as well as an easier group stage.
Yeah Ange has come a long way. His play with the Brisbane Roar was amazing and he has.continued that with the national team. Big turn around, but I guess you can only get better with age haha.
Continuing my odyssey to learn more about football and the World Cup, I found this video counting down 50 of the "World Cup's Most Shocking Moments". From what I can tell, it originally aired before the 2010 WC, so it's not included (although they gave the 2010 WC it's own countdown afterward). Both were very...educational :lol
I think there is one thing almost everyone can agree on - fuck Qatar hosting the 2022 WC. Send it ANYWHERE else and I'll be happy.
Maybe it is kind of late, but I could not resist to post this video. This is how a city celebrates a goal (it was the 2 - 0). Chile <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN2WDeTONlo#t=26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN2WDeTONlo#t=26
<3 <3
a shame that the usual idiots thrashed the place after a while. Just like the idiots that tried to force their entry into the Maracana without tickets. Ugh.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Haha this is true. They have.to take.it from them especially if it is found corrupt, which I think it was. I mean, really the shit with Syria and now Iraq must have some impact on that choice, as well as the heat and that their will probably be no stadiums with air cons. Not to mention the fact that alcohol is banned and a lot of the stuff that people.go to a world cup for would be frowned upon for them. Hearing the ISIS and there anti western ways, why the he'll in this climate would you bring one of the world's biggest sporting events full of western tourists straight to them? I mean forget that it was bribed and it still makes no logical sense.
johnny_park
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It's a good thing I don't see it.
Once you see it you can't not see it.
Beautiful
The place seems beautiful too.
Johnny Cage In The Shower
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Thanks for posting this, I am watching it now, it's frikin hilarious! lovin it!
Thanks Dartastic
jamesinclair
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If I were Brazil id send out the training staff to play next week, and bench every good player.
Cameroon might just go out to injure Brazilian players out of spite at this point.
criesofthepast
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That is my big peeve about Chile sometimes. A lot of morons who ruin the peace for everyone else. Whether it be the school protests or celebrating a win in futbol. I mean in a loss I can kind of understand (not really) but we won!!! Why you gotta trash your city like that? Destroy public transportation and shit? Every city has a few anarchists looking to cause trouble in big gatherings but there seems to be more of them here.
Also I'm trying to figure out where that video was taken because it looks like the top my my building on the Azotea hahah. Santiago centro represent!
It is lovely. I'm here on vacation and I don't think I'm leaving lol
they're morons. It's a shame because there are lots of good, honest, hardworking people who have to put with this nonsense from those dipshits. And don't even get me started on those who begin to rampage during the protests - they usually end up discrediting the protesters' position with their actions. I mean, I support the protests. I've been in some of them myself. I just can't understand why some of these idiots would want to burn everything down.
Back to the football. This is for spanish-speaking GAF. Here are the 2 chilean goals brought to you by Claudio Palma, one of Chile's most famous play-by-play commentators. He's incredibly passional in his style, sometimes even grating, but today... I think it was all justified. He was great.
Just saw some vines of that... embarrassing, and brainless (what where they expecting?)
Anyways, flawless match by Chile today. Hopefully tomorrow Colombia can do the same with their match against Ivory Coast.
criesofthepast
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I live right beside Moneda/Universidad Central/ and parque almagro so I see first hand the destruction after the protests. But yah agreed!
Anyways I'm not even Chilean and I got pretty emotional during the call today by Claudio.
But this reminds me of a problem I have with digital cable. First, the HD channels lag a bit behind the SD channels. About 15 seconds. So I switched over to SD Canal 13 yet I was still about 5 seconds behind everyone else on my street. I don't know if Movistar is slow and everyone else is on VTR or watching over the air transmissions but it sucked because everyone would be screaming and I'd know a goal was coming before I even saw it on TV lol.
Anyways I'm not even Chilean and I got pretty emotional during the call today by Claudio.
But this reminds me of a problem I have with digital cable. First, the HD channels lag a bit behind the SD channels. About 15 seconds. So I switched over to SD Canal 13 yet I was still about 5 seconds behind everyone else on my street. I don't know if Movistar is slow and everyone else is on VTR or watching over the air transmissions but it sucked because everyone would be screaming and I'd know a goal was coming before I even saw it on TV lol.
SargerusBR
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So GAF, realistically what are Uruguay's chances against England tomorrow?
dr3upmushroom
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GOL DE CHILE! GOL DE CHILE! GOL DE CHILE!
jamesinclair
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To be fair, at the last world cup, they let 200,000 people into Maracana.
Theyre artificially limiting it to 65,000 this year.
yeah, this is a somewhat widespread problem, and it's damn infurating when watching football. Everybody else just spoils the surprise for you
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL <3
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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Depends how often Rooney feels the urge to give a fan in the upper part of the stadium a ball.
Yeah these are good, I went through them last year... I wish the US had little soccer related shows like this.
WTF, by "last World Cup" you mean 1950... ever heard of Hillsboro or other stadium disasters?
if they play like they did against Costa Rica* [thanks Probity!], they're fucked. Even if Luisito plays - he can't carry an entire team of shit on his shoulders. They MUST step up if they want to remain alive in this WC.
As for England, I thought they played decent with some flashes of brilliance. The problem is Hodgson. Sterling, Sturridge and even Welbeck (!) had some great moments vs Italy, and I think they can exploit an aging, getting-slower-ever-day Uruguay defense.
Some entertaining games last night. I'm glad Holland won, but it was a difficult victory. The penalty shouldn't have been given though. Australia looked pretty good overall, except for some overly aggressive tackles. It's too bad they didn't make it out of the group stage.
And Spain... well, end of an era. Looking forward to seeing a completely new team with new tactics in four years. I think no one saw this coming before the world cup started.
And Spain... well, end of an era. Looking forward to seeing a completely new team with new tactics in four years. I think no one saw this coming before the world cup started.
criesofthepast
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I fully expect and am rooting for my commonwealth bros England to take 3 against Uruguay.
Anyone who has watched any La Liga or followed Spain in the last year or so probably saw it coming, really.
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