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Seems like everything that is going on is just for show at this point.
I've already gone through the 5 stages of grief with Modric so if he stays it's going to be a weird emotional hangover. I find it hard to imagine he's a Spurs player in September.
Didn't we kind of feel that way last year as well, though?
On holiday, but I'm back now.
I might be a bit disappointed in Rondon going to freeze his balls off in Kazan, but at least he'll be going to a consistent European contender whose cheques don't bounce. That's a victory, isn't it.
- Elise Bussaglia might be the most underrated player in women's football. She's really good at those Xabi-Alonso-style diagonal balls and her field vision is excellent. I actually really like that comp, because I've used Mesut Ozil-Louisa Necib before :p
- Miyama vs Bompastor has been really fun to watch. Right now the French left back is winning.
- That was an awful error. Every time they showed a replay it just seemed worse.
- Gaetane Thiney is doing pretty much nothing on the left side. I'd love a substitution of Le Sommer for her, but I doubt Bruno Bini is going to bring on another fast, attacking striker, especially given that Elodie Thomis hasn't been particularly good either.
- Sakaguchi and Sawa are controlling the pace of the game, but the Japanese wingers (particularly Miyama) need to get involved a lot more. There's a lot of "pass through Bussaglia-Soubeyrand line, player surrounded by French defenders, no width or support" and if Kawasumi and Miyama can provide either/both of those, you'd get a lot more pressure on the French goal.
I think there are a couple more goals in this one, but only if France score the next one. Japan are really, really disciplined at the back.
Game's really opened up and Japan is really shaky.
I'm a genius!
No. No, I'm not.
Time to see if I can sneak-watch USA-Canada or instead have to settle for the replay!
Kelley O'Hara, the starting left back, is actually a winger/attacking midfielder/wide striker by trade, who has been forced progressively further and further back due to competition for the attacking midfield positions. She's currently playing as a center back. That's pretty much all that needs to be said.
yeah, it's like they're playing a four-back, but given that they subbed their right back, there's nothing there.
I'm still a piker with soccer, but I've never seen that indirect free kick given like that. To be fair, this referee has been pretty bad all game.
Brandi Chastain is a terrible announcer.
Can we get any random English lady to replace Chastain?
shut up brandi
He does the MLS games for NBC. Chastain invoked Roger Bannister for some odd reason.
“I’m almost speechless.” Please be.
Amazing game. I feel for Canada too - they were the better side for 90 minutes, and the equalizer was doubly gifted to the US by the ref. Once it got to extra time, though, the Canadians obviously had nothing left, and they nearly managed to get it to penalties anyway.
Megan Rapinoe is a lot of fun to watch on the ball.
Sure, especially in the countries that are in it. The difference with the women's game is that all the best players are here. None of this U-23 ghettoization of the tournament and because there's no real club tradition, the national teams are THE action for the women's game.
They're full national teams. This is the second-most prestigious women's tournament besides the world cup.
Still can't believe that happened, I love this team.
That is correct.
Traitor.
What. Shouldn't one root for one's continental federation? Do it for the pride of CONCACAF, I say! Screw COMNEBOL and UEFA!
Heck of a finish...
I checked a soccer message board of hard core soccer fans and none of them has seen an indirect free kick given for that. They all thought Canada was robbed on that one. It did look like a handball off the kick--twice actually--but the rewarding of the kick seems to be universally considered a bizarre decision.
The women in this tournament have been hard as nails. No flopping around like fish when they're tackled and when they do go down the replay almost always shows some hard contact caused it. I wish the men were this straightforward.
If any of you guys with much more experience want to chime in on the indirect kick, I would love more insight on it. I'm guessing that may be technically a correct call, but like the phantom tag at second base on a double play, it's never called like that?
Traitor.
You sound like the mouth breathers that chant "SEC! SEC!"
I'd be shocked if anyone can find an instance of that call being made. Really unfortunate for Canada.
I actually really appreciate this aspect of women's soccer vis a vis some of the men. Those dudes need to grow some ####### ovaries and just play.
For what it's worth, the Mexican fans I've talked to didn't much like Marquez either (although I think their reasons were quite different from ours).
I have mixed feelings about the Mexican team. I went to the 2009 world cup qualifying game in Mexico City, and it was easily the most memorable sporting experience of my life. It's a hell of a rivalry. I love Mexico as a country, and I've had almost nothing but good experiences with the people there. The players are often dickish primadonnas, but they're also talented and exciting. I generally root for Mexico whenever they're playing a big name European team, and could go either way when they play south american teams.
I'd like to see Brazil/Mexico in the finals, but that's mainly because I know those teams better than Japan/S. Korea.
Well, there aren't any UEFA teams left in the tournament, so there's that.
And more practically, a fear that FIFA would use a British team as an excuse to do away with the Home Nations.
To expound on what Swedish Chef said:
It's all about the International Football Association Board, the board that decides the rules of the game. To quote wiki:
In other words, there are eight countries on the board at any time - the four countries of the UK, and four countries for the rest of the world. This gives the British federations an amazing amount of power. Since any changes to the Laws of the Game must be approved by six of the eight members, the British voting as a block can veto anything they don't want.
The fear is that a unified Great Britain team, as seen in these games, will weaken the individual football associations of the four individual countries, and lead to a slippery slope that ends in the four British Federations losing their permanant seats on the board. That's why the Scottish and Northern Irish fderations let none of their players play for Team GB. They felt that any consolidations of the Home Counties' teams could have consequences in the future.
As a referee, I've made that call myself. Granted I was 13 years old and in retrospect it was very silly of me and I deserve all the hostility from the fans for making the decision. But that 8 year old keeper had the ball for almost a minute and refused to do anything with it!
In other news...PSG are blowing everyone out of the water for Lucas Moura for some reason. They could get any number of bona fide stars at the peak of their talent for 45 million Euros so I have no idea what they're doing here. Insane.
Man City keep pushing for De Rossi from Roma but I can't see how Roma can sell him without causing riots.
And in news that makes me very happy, Leandro Damiao's agent is making news about a move to Spurs for his client. He'd be the perfect #9 for Spurs and they've been after him for almost 2 years, so I'm hoping this is true and that Chelsea don't come to their senses and realize he's a perfect replacement for Drogba.
Still can't get over that USA-Canada game yesterday. I didn't think there could be nuttier games than the ones we had during the Women's World Cup last summer.
It can't be any worse than Ochocinco with Sporting KC, he at least has some experience:
I doubt he's any good, but Bolt is 6'5", imagine him at centerback chasing down an attacker.
I remember giving up a PK as a stopper in house league when I was 12 for this exact reason. Is that not the rule? I always thought it was unfair. Stupid ref.
Maybe. I haven't been able to find an English language story about what's going on there in a mainstream outlet. This article employs the sheik was only using Malaga as a means to getting a larger real estate deal done and when that deal was rejected he cut off the cash to Malaga. If true, they could be in a lot of financial trouble.
I remember giving up a PK as a stopper in house league when I was 12 for this exact reason. Is that not the rule? I always thought it was unfair. Stupid ref.
On the replay it looked like it hit the outstretched hand of one defender before it hit the elbow of the defender trying to protect her face. I actually don't have a problem with the handball call, but the indirect free kick remains baffling to me. Also, thinking more about the game, Tancredi was really allowed to get away with murder all game and should probably have been sent off so, while I do think Canada deserved better, I'm not going to cry for them as much as I might have yesterday in the heat of the moment. The ref was terrible all game and made baffling decisions that benefited and hurt both teams.
Until there's a picture of this guy posing alongside Villas-Boas in a Tottenham shirt, I am going to stick to my default interpretation that this is just another round of Lucy van Pelt and the handegg.
The dream of Leandro is like the dream of finishing above Arsenal...it seems realistic enough to hope for, but alas. Less that 2 weeks until Newcastle and I guess it will be Defoe leading the line. Blargh!
I would love to see Usain Bolt's tryout for Man U. Speed kills but these instances of sprinters trying their hand at other sports often doesn't work out. I wonder if he has any technical skill at all.
Sam Graddy was awesome in Tecmo Bowl.
I'm actually kind of bummed that GB didn't win the olympics gold. That really might have been a wakeup moment for the FA that maybe this idea isn't so bad after all/
I really don't like Sundhage's tactics, but the team does work incredibly hard and never gives up. I hope they have enough left for Japan.
Can we start a FireBrandiChastain website?
You crazy WJ. I'll give you 20 bucks to go to a pub in Wales and try that logic out on them!
Wales actually has a good team for the next WC cycle led by Ramsey, Allen, Bale and Bellamy. They are dark horses to qualify and are better than Scotland right now.
Wales actually has a good team for the next WC cycle led by Ramsey, Allen, Bale and Bellamy. They are dark horses to qualify and are better than Scotland right now.
Maybe they just need to get used to the idea, is what I'm saying. I get that the Scots hate the English....but do the Welsh and the Northern Irish? Hell, the Northern Irish are actually actively pro-English as a political reality, if I understand things correctly. I think my point was that if at least other home nation fans got to see Team GBR win a major international trophy they might warm to the idea a bit. I figure most English fans don't really know the difference anyway, and would love to have some of those Welsh and Scottish players come World Cup time.
He and Bale will be ####### adorable!
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