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07/09/2006 07:07:52 PM · #76 |
Originally posted by petrakka:
I think anyone in my family could run 90 minutes for you if they needed...and we are no exception... |
I only wish that I could show you what I mean...
I only wish...
I am not putting anyone down, but reality is a lot different than what we think "we can do"... as majority
I think I will just stop here. no more arguments, if you have something else to say, I will listen... |
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07/09/2006 07:15:03 PM · #77 |
The biggest reason that soccer (and to some extent hockey) doesn't make it big in the USA is that 45-minute chunks of continuous coverage without commercial breaks does not fit the American broadcasting/advertising model. Baseball, football, and basketball are riddled with stoppages (including "mandatory TV timeouts") which allow the sponsors to get in their hyper-produced pitches, and hockey has been forced to introduce commercial stoppages.
PS: Penalty kicks -- BAH! Even a sudden-death goal is better than that ...
Message edited by author 2006-07-09 19:16:40. |
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07/09/2006 07:19:51 PM · #78 |
Originally posted by tapeworm_jimmy:
THIS WORLD CUP FUCKING KICKED ASS IMOH!!! If you live in Germany, you would not believe what it has done culturally! Good shit! Shame it ended with that unsportsmanlike move by zidane! Not a cool way to end your career! All in all, i think this world cup rocked! |
I totally agree! I watched almost every game... even the ones i had to wake up at 5:30 am for to watch live due to the time difference!! :o) the one thing i will say that was a bit of a negative element were the extremely high amounts of diving... faking fouls/injuries really takes away from the truly beautiful game. But... other than that... i thought it was a fantastic month of futbol! :oD rock oN!
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07/09/2006 07:22:42 PM · #79 |
Originally posted by shannylee13:
Originally posted by tapeworm_jimmy:
THIS WORLD CUP FUCKING KICKED ASS IMOH!!! If you live in Germany, you would not believe what it has done culturally! Good shit! Shame it ended with that unsportsmanlike move by zidane! Not a cool way to end your career! All in all, i think this world cup rocked! |
I totally agree! I watched almost every game... even the ones i had to wake up at 5:30 am for to watch live due to the time difference!! :o) the one thing i will say that was a bit of a negative element were the extremely high amounts of diving... faking fouls/injuries really takes away from the truly beautiful game. But... other than that... i thought it was a fantastic month of futbol! :oD rock oN! |
agree on all points, and the diving. even though after watching enough, you realize as do the players and refs (goodones) that the divers are a joke. funny after awhile..
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07/09/2006 07:24:33 PM · #80 |
about all the football games played (not only in world cup but even country leagues) kicks some serious butt.
Once you like soccer, it is kind of addictive, hard to forget the excitement... even scoreless games.
People who don't know about games played in winter should watch some of them which played in snow, white field with black lines :) |
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07/09/2006 07:36:05 PM · #81 |
| Zidane has been publicly humiliated before billions of people not for the violence, but for the most poorly aimed headbutt of all time. |
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07/09/2006 07:37:18 PM · #82 |
Originally posted by Imagineer:
Zidane has been publicly humiliated before billions of people not for the violence, but for the most poorly aimed headbutt of all time. |
yeah... and there is a big reason for that... he didn't want blood coming out. |
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07/09/2006 08:19:11 PM · #83 |
Originally posted by Imagineer:
Zidane has been publicly humiliated before billions of people not for the violence, but for the most poorly aimed headbutt of all time. |
It's not funny -- a sharp blow to the center of the chest like that can cause cardiac arrest. It would have been more than humiliating had the player died on the field ...
Hopefully FIFA will suspend him for the upcoming year so he can't collect on the last year of his contract. |
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07/09/2006 09:10:03 PM · #84 |
ok maybe the act in itself or the possible consequences may be not so funny but Imagineer's view om the case is a very funny to me
more than FIFA's 'almighty wisdom' and judgement what the punishment should be i'm dying to know what brought a topclass player like Zidane to this silly act and put a little shadow on such marbelous career
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Imagineer:
Zidane has been publicly humiliated before billions of people not for the violence, but for the most poorly aimed headbutt of all time. |
It's not funny -- a sharp blow to the center of the chest like that can cause cardiac arrest. It would have been more than humiliating had the player died on the field ...
Hopefully FIFA will suspend him for the upcoming year so he can't collect on the last year of his contract. |
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07/09/2006 09:27:14 PM · #85 |
Originally posted by messerschmitt:
ok maybe the act in itself or the possible consequences may be not so funny but Imagineer's view om the case is a very funny to me |
Do you think Letterman, Leno, Stewart or Saturday Night Live aren't working on "head-butt" right this moment? |
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07/10/2006 04:39:08 AM · #86 |
Originally posted by Imagineer:
Zidane has been publicly humiliated before billions of people not for the violence, but for the most poorly aimed headbutt of all time. |
France considered Algeria to be a part of France. Algeria didn't thinks so and they had themselves a little war of independence. Those Algerians who fought on the side of the French during the troubles thought they would be more welcome in France than Algeria when it was over, and that they were after all French citizens. As this coincided with les trente glorieuses - thirty years of industrial expansion after WWII - then a lot of Algerian did emigrate to France. They have been treated as second class citizens, with varying degrees of racism and nationalist zenophobia ever since. Zidane's parents are from Algeria and he was born (?) and brought up in Marseille where the concentration of immigrants from North Africa is pretty high. I would not argue with him about where to put his headbutt. |
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07/10/2006 03:15:32 PM · #87 |
Originally posted by focuspoint:
Originally posted by petrakka:
I think anyone in my family could run 90 minutes for you if they needed...and we are no exception... |
I only wish that I could show you what I mean...
I only wish...
I am not putting anyone down, but reality is a lot different than what we think "we can do"... as majority
I think I will just stop here. no more arguments, if you have something else to say, I will listen... |
I didn't say sprint like the soccer players....But...as someone who used to play soccer, and ultimate frisbee (which includes similar physical activity) I feel like I understand what you mean. Also, what we think we can do is often what we can do, if we are that intent on it. Mentality plays a huge part in such physical exertion. It's my mind more than my body that makes me go on a 12 mile run, I think.
my point was in saying I don't think everyone is so out of shape. Soccer does have a long way to go here, because we are so fervent about many sports not one, and Zidane is not the wisest man and this world cup was boring to me (because all the teams I was pulling for US mexico ecuador and australia..lost early) and I am done and looking forward to S.A 2010 =).
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07/11/2006 11:14:19 AM · #88 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Imagineer:
Zidane has been publicly humiliated before billions of people not for the violence, but for the most poorly aimed headbutt of all time. |
It's not funny -- a sharp blow to the center of the chest like that can cause cardiac arrest. It would have been more than humiliating had the player died on the field ...
Hopefully FIFA will suspend him for the upcoming year so he can't collect on the last year of his contract. |
For the record I don't think it's funny at all, but I do like to look at the funny sides in pretty much everything. I too thought that kind of blow to the solar plexus could do damage and I think he should be suspended, etc. Many impressionable youngsters watched that and he should explain himself although really the [non-physical] damage is done - if only to explain the provokation and to acknowledge he was wrong to react on an international stage like that. If he was provoked he should come clean and then both players sort it out in a press conference.
I was become extremely weary of divers, cheats and complainants in this World Cup. Time to bring on post-match bookings, suspensions and other deterrents. Other than that it was a feast of football from which I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. |
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