Who are you Supporting in the FIFA World Cup 2006?
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limerickman said:
Nope, that was the Cosmos of the North American Soccer League (also Chinaglia)... known as the best team money could buy. The Rowdies, Sounders, Whitecaps were other teams in the NASL which essentially disappeared in the mid '80s - later to be reborn as Major League Soccer which still isn't doing too well. Soccer's popular but not as a professional sport... there just aren't enough people willing to pay professional sport ticket prices to see it.
I'm an ex-Seattle Sounder fan... we were lucky to get 3,000 people in the Kingdome.
DiabloScott said:
He was good for you guys in the last world cup. 8 years is a long time - maybe he's a little stale. You've still got plenty of good (although some ageing) players.
Its amazing what a good coach can do if he's got something to work with. Hiddinck has shown that with most teams he is involved with.
DiabloScott said:
Cosmos - you're correct.
(I got my teams confused).
George Best, Pele etc went over to the USA to play.
Tampa Bay I think hired the likes of Rodney Marsh (ex England and Manchester City).
Perhaps that was who I had in mind.
But thanks for the correction.
the dive was though, Lippi knew if time was running out and there was no score it was time to dig out the wet suit and flippers...mitosis said:
Man, I must have been drinking !lwedge said:How do you Lucky in Italian.
Almost say a perfectly executed bicycle kick into the net against the Italian team.
Anyway,
Fortunato is lucky in Italiano
I could only watch bits and pieces of the Italy vs Aus match but I did an almost perfectly executed bicycle kick for goal by the Australian team that Totti would not have been able to defend. If that kick would have gone in, you would have heard Sydney erupt all the way up in Sitka.
lw
caught most of the games in the "last 16 round".
Argentina/Mexico was a very good game : Mexico palyed really well and almost managed to get a result.
England/Ecuador : England too their chances.
Hollan/Portugal : a disgraceful match. The ref lost complete control : Figo's conduct was disgraceful.
Italy/Australia : I thought the Aussies deserved a draw at least. Grosso got the penalty and Totti took it well but I think on the balance of play, Australia deserved to bring the game in to extra time.
France/Spain tonight : good game of football. I have to say i was surprised at how weel France played. I thought that they weren't too impressive in the earlier rounds.
Germany/Sweden : Wurm's prediction was correct. Germany deserved to win.
Argentina/Mexico was a very good game : Mexico palyed really well and almost managed to get a result.
England/Ecuador : England too their chances.
Hollan/Portugal : a disgraceful match. The ref lost complete control : Figo's conduct was disgraceful.
Italy/Australia : I thought the Aussies deserved a draw at least. Grosso got the penalty and Totti took it well but I think on the balance of play, Australia deserved to bring the game in to extra time.
France/Spain tonight : good game of football. I have to say i was surprised at how weel France played. I thought that they weren't too impressive in the earlier rounds.
Germany/Sweden : Wurm's prediction was correct. Germany deserved to win.
...thoughts on saturday's match between germany & argentina? i'm thinking argentina in a tight match with germany returning to a tight defensive game in the second half (even though they've promised to keep it up tempo) hoping to take it to p.k.'s.
Is it a FIFA regulation that Spain are never allowed to fulfil any potential at the World Cup. Heres hoping Portugal win on Saturday.
Italy are my shout for winners but they've not been very convincing so far. Ghana have been my favourite team to watch. Adriano was blatantly offside for that 2nd goal.
Italy are my shout for winners but they've not been very convincing so far. Ghana have been my favourite team to watch. Adriano was blatantly offside for that 2nd goal.
slovakguy said:
this is a tough one. deciding which team i dislike most was hard.
but alas, for the first time in my life im going to support the germans!
the argies have been good and play more attractive football, but they are argies. they beat my second team, Mexico, only narrowly and arguably should have had 10 men on the field for much of the game. barstewards.
german, for once are playing decent football and i will just have to support them against the far greater evil that is Argentina.
Deutschland Uber Alles! (except england)
i dont know who support, all my teams are out...dandaman said:but alas, for the first time in my life im going to support the germans!
i would like to support Argentina but its a bit of a cop-out as they are a great team..
i am going to go for Germany too..
