Posted By
Patrick
on 2014-06-11
13:37:53
|  World Cup 2014
i know there are people from all over the world active here, but which country is going to win the cup?
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Posted By
SVS
on 2014-06-11
16:49:30
 | Re: World Cup 2014
Even if I'm not a soccer fan, I bet on Brasil for non sporty reasons.
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2014-06-11
20:10:26
| Re: World Cup 2014
Soccer? Who said anything about soccer? Could have been any World Cup he was talking about 
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Posted By
JamesC
on 2014-06-11
21:33:26
| Re: World Cup 2014
Um, yeah, about that. We're going to need you to call it "football" if you don't live in America. And TPS reports blah blah blah.
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Posted By
MIK
on 2014-06-12
01:32:10
 | Re: World Cup 2014
Home nation are always the best bet any way ha!
If Brazil don't then maybe Spain...
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Posted By
Chronos
on 2014-06-12
02:53:19
 | Re: World Cup 2014
HUNGARY!
lol 
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Posted By
George
on 2014-06-12
05:48:21
 | Re: World Cup 2014
Greece will NOT win, but i add it for common knowledge..
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Posted By
retroscener
on 2014-06-12
06:56:42
 | Re: World Cup 2014
I have no idea of this soccer, is it similar to gridiron? 
As for the football world cup, why England will win it of course ![](http://i57.tinypic.com/nzkqwl.gif") (but then I say that every tournament)
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Posted By
Jakec
on 2014-06-13
09:06:37
| Re: World Cup 2014
Maybe Germany?
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Posted By
kopsec
on 2014-06-13
15:32:06
| Re: World Cup 2014
Perhaps Spain ?
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Posted By
MMS
on 2014-06-13
18:17:30
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Maybe Hungary? hahahaha !!!!
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Posted By
Ati
on 2014-06-14
00:34:50
| Re: World Cup 2014
Hungary: Grosics Gyula died yesterday.  He was the Black Panther.
My secret favorite is Netherland on world cup.
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Posted By
George
on 2014-06-14
18:15:25
| Re: World Cup 2014
Costa Rica
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Posted By
retroscener
on 2014-06-14
20:50:07
| Re: World Cup 2014
I think I'd enjoy international tournaments a lot more if England never qualified for them ever again. Honestly, that was a blatant penalty on Gerrard and the ref ignored it. It should have been 2-2 
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Posted By
MIK
on 2014-06-15
03:00:57
| Re: World Cup 2014
As always though England's defense was poor. The first half Italy were passing until there was a lone man in a gap time and time again and that for them was working. England had lost the game right there if Italy continued on that path but no, they went for the long ball hoping. Things could of been worse for England than they might of been...
Yeah a shame with England having that amount of possession in the second half they never put anything away though and that's the annoying part. I wonder how many people wished David Beckham was there to take the free kicks and corners, I'm sure loads!!
Good win for Italy!
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Posted By
Patrick
on 2014-06-15
04:16:25
| Re: World Cup 2014
I think the premier leaque has too many foreign players. No room left for young English player. Soo the quality of the national team is slowly going down....HUP HOLAND HUP!
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Posted By
retroscener
on 2014-06-15
12:37:29
| Re: World Cup 2014
I totally agree there Patrick. Too much foreign talent in England's top league when more of our own should be nurtured for top flight international footie. This is why I feel England are going to be just mere group stagers in the future just there to make up the numbers.
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Posted By
MIK
on 2014-06-19
08:52:16
| Re: World Cup 2014
Biggest shocker so far, Spain going out!!!
All eyes on England tonight...
Will be hard to watch even if they get the lead, defense is not going to fix it's self over night.
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Posted By
Patrick
on 2014-06-19
16:52:51
| Re: World Cup 2014
bye bye England!!
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Posted By
retroscener
on 2014-06-19
17:53:07
| Re: World Cup 2014
Oh, go away.
But yeah our defence is shocking, this is the first time England are heading for an early first round WC exit since 1958. But we're not quite out yet, so long as Italy wins both their games and we thrash Costa Rica... erm ok, lol.
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Posted By
MIK
on 2014-06-25
07:46:43
| Re: World Cup 2014
Totally out of order when Luis Suarez stuck his teeth into Giorgio Chiellini last night in the Italy vs Uruguay game and was never sent off!
From what I could make out Giorgio previously stopped Suarez from scoring long before it all happened and maybe Suarez was pissed so waited to do it on the sly when the referee was not looking... 
Fifa are saying Suarez could be facing a lengthy ban so he should miss the last 16 for sure, not that will help with Italy going home from that game.
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Posted By
George
on 2014-06-25
09:06:12
| Re: World Cup 2014
Costa Rica vs Greece. Thats great!
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Posted By
Luca
on 2014-06-25
11:48:03
 | Re: World Cup 2014
Italian football's project for WC'14 has simply failed merely, and no refs or vampires can be waved to seek for a good reason for. After having scored no goal in two matches, the plane to home is well deserved.
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Posted By
Chronos
on 2014-06-25
14:02:42
| Re: World Cup 2014
overpriced, overpayed bunch of clowns.. thats my opinion about today's football players..
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Posted By
SVS
on 2014-06-27
02:17:48
| Re: World Cup 2014
I totally agree with Chronos.
Even if belonging to another sport, I report the words of Simon & Garfunkel: "where are you gone Joe di Maggio?"
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Posted By
MIK
on 2014-06-27
05:18:19
| Re: World Cup 2014
I don't mind the World Cup & European Cup when they come round as it brings people together and lifts the spirits of each nation for as long as the team is playing.
I can't stand club football though and have no interest in it. Rather watch the so called best of each country battling it out.
I used to be fan of F1 for a good number of years but after Ayrton Senna had died and then making do with Damon Hill & Michael Schumacher fighting it out which was not the same I started to get fed up with it. Sky winning the rights to show it live on TV in recent times is another reason not to watch it.
There is one sporting event I look forward to watching every year of which has to be the most demanding of all sports ever conceived and is such a joy to watch... That honor goes to the Tour de France. 
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Posted By
Patrick
on 2014-06-27
06:18:55
| Re: World Cup 2014
MIK what about darts?
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Posted By
MIK
on 2014-06-28
21:24:59
| Re: World Cup 2014
Darts was more demanding back in the day when beer and smokes were allowed in play, like wise Snooker haha!
But yeah I'll watch and enjoy a bit of Darts and Snooker now and then. These are trades I picked up from my dad.
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Posted By
Lavina
on 2014-06-30
03:24:29
 | Re: World Cup 2014
No interest in football.
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Posted By
MIK
on 2014-06-30
05:00:27
| Re: World Cup 2014
Are you sure?
I always thought your handle "Lavina" was taken from one of the teams in the World Cup.
Lavina vs Mexico
Has a nice ring to it.
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Posted By
JamesD
on 2014-06-30
11:48:25
| Re: World Cup 2014
Not a soccer fan.
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Posted By
retroscener
on 2014-06-30
19:18:56
| Re: World Cup 2014
You should get into footie at least temporarily just to cheer on your country, they're playing tomorrow. It's the biggest tournament in the world and the USA are doing really well and have a good chance of making the quarter finals. They last made the quarters in 2002, but what surprised me is that they actually reached the semi-final in 1930, the year the tournament was founded. Also between 1950/1990 they hadn't qualified at all, but since then they have been on the rise again, the sport really does seem to be taking off over there.
They're the country I'm now rooting for (as my fiancee is from Fort Collins herself, not far from you). The sport I like over there is Baseball, I've been to Coors Field to see the Rockies play (can't recall who against but the homies won it)
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Posted By
MIK
on 2014-07-01
05:42:23
| Re: World Cup 2014
Germany vs Algeria, what a game last night!
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Posted By
Patrick
on 2014-07-01
11:37:53
| Re: World Cup 2014
come on Belgium!!
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Posted By
retroscener
on 2014-07-01
16:18:59
| Re: World Cup 2014
Come on USA, lol.
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Posted By
Patrick
on 2014-07-06
05:32:24
| Re: World Cup 2014
yes...up to the next round!!! pffff, Argentina....
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Posted By
retroscener
on 2014-07-06
15:05:49
| Re: World Cup 2014
It's basically South America vs Northern Europe in the two semi finals now. And considering no European team has ever won the trophy in South America, it's really starting to get interesting.
I'd like to see Holland win it this year seeing as they are the only team left who hasn't yet won it (which is surprising), they were so close yet so far last time.
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Posted By
MIK
on 2014-07-09
02:14:05
| Re: World Cup 2014
Out of the 4 teams left I'd say Argentina on the whole are the best team. Brazil started really well the other night but they faded in the 2nd half... Holland and Germany haven't been that impressive either which leads me to believe the final might be all South American.
EDIT:
Brazil 1 - Germany 7
At 2-0 down you knew the 3rd was going in leading up to it, I even joked a 3rd would go in. 5-0 down I started wondering if I was dreaming, it made you feel sick and sorry for Brazil all at the same time and I'm sure even Germany were feeling sorry for them at the 5-0 point. If anyone was to blame I'd point the finger at HULK, his passing was a joke and the last player to touch the ball for Brazil when it was 0-0. ;-)
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2014-07-09
15:11:07
| Re: World Cup 2014
At one point in the game I was not knowing whether it's a replay of the previous goal, another goal or eventually a trailer of a new goal to come...
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Posted By
SVS
on 2014-07-09
16:06:00
| Re: World Cup 2014
Are you sure they were real Brazil players and not holographic images?
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2014-07-13
18:16:21
| Re: World Cup 2014
Congrats to Germany! Also to Jakec, who totally called it (in this thread)
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Posted By
Jakec
on 2014-07-14
00:47:53
| Re: World Cup 2014
I can only guess
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Posted By
Luca
on 2014-07-14
02:09:40
| Re: World Cup 2014
The worthy team in the whole tournament has won, congrats!
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Posted By
MIK
on 2014-07-14
06:03:58
| Re: World Cup 2014
Yeah I'm sure they couldn't wait to get a kiss off mummy, I mean Angela Merkel, (Chancellor of Germany).
Does anyone know if Vladimir Putin was the streaker on the pitch when the cameras turned away?
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Posted By
Patrick
on 2014-07-14
08:08:55
| Re: World Cup 2014
We became number 3. Nobody here in Holland expected that, so we are proud of what the players have done!!
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Posted By
retroscener
on 2014-07-14
08:27:42
| Re: World Cup 2014
Yay for Germany for beating the argie bargies and the first European team to win the FIFA World Cup on the American continent
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Posted By
George
on 2014-07-14
08:49:01
| Re: World Cup 2014
It was 50-50 game. Germany was the last 10 years under the best four. I live in Germany, I don't like when they win, but this team was really good and deserved the title.
Congrats to Germany.
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