U.S. team itches to get its World Cup started, already gets lesson

latimes.com ^ | June 14, 2014 | Kevin Baxter

[Berlin_Freeper]

The U.S. soccer team gathered in a meeting room at the team hotel here Thursday afternoon to watch the opening game of a World Cup it won't officially become part of until Monday, when it meets Ghana in the northeastern coastal city of Natal.

And while the Brazil-Croatia opener kept most Brazilians on the edge of their seats, it put American goalkeeper Tim Howard to sleep.

"I dozed off," said Howard,

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Robin van Persie goal becomes viral sensation, as fans copy Holland striker's flying header in back gardens
'Planking' was forced to sit on the back burner, as 'Persieing' took over Twitter.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Art of War

[dfwgator]

Are there any “Swiss” on the Swiss team? Saw a lot of Albanian and Serbo-Croatian names on their jerseys.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Fifa investigating France’s claims that a drone spied on training
“Apparently drones are used more and more,” said Deschamps, who intimated that he had not been doing anything particularly secretive at the time. “It’s not up to me. Fifa handles this and has been carrying out an inquiry; we don’t want any intrusion into our privacy. It’s very hard to fight this these days.”

[Berlin_Freeper]

Ottmar Hitzfeld :)

[Geronimo]

I love this kid Sterling, what a refreshing sight to see an English forward dribble the ball around and through defenders with such ease and confidence, fantastic speed too.

I was watching the game with a Haitian friend and his nine-year-old son corrected me that Sterling’s hairstyle is not a mohawk but in fact, a ‘frohawk!’ You learn something new everyday.

If Rooney does’t score against Uruguay next Thursday and we lose it will be all over for England for another four years. Rooney will go down as one of the biggest World Cup chokers, disappointments and wankers in English football if you ask me.

[Berlin_Freeper]

For the first time in 80 years, since 1934, there are NO DRAWS in the first NINE matches. #worldcup #WC2014— Infostrada Sports (@InfostradaLive) June 15, 2014

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▶ Spanje Nederland WK 2014 inclusief commentaar van Jack van Gelder - YouTube

[dfwgator]

Rooney did make a great pass for that England goal.

I think Italy could now be the team to beat, if Pirlo and Balotelli are “dialed in” as they were yesterday.

[dfwgator]

Van Gelder is the same guy who gave the classic “DENNIS BERGKAMP.....DENNIS BERGKAMP....DENNIS BERGKAMP...AAAAAAAAAH!” call.

Here it is if you haven’t heard it before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgYqlNCQKoo

[Berlin_Freeper]

Vidal is slide tackled by a ghost

[Berlin_Freeper]

Unfortunately, this video is not available in your country because it could contain music from SME, for which we could not agree on conditions of use with GEMA.

[dfwgator]

Hmm they must block it there. I know there are several other videos out there of it.

Just try entering “Bergkamp Argentina 1998” and it should come up.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Used to be a message blaming Germany but the Germans sued and the message was changed to “for which we could not agree on conditions of use with GEMA.”

Same result...

[Berlin_Freeper]

Messi to take centre stage at Rio's Maracana
The four-times world player of the year will lead the Argentinian attack on Sunday

[dfwgator]

Another OG, gives the Argies the early lead.

[cartan]

Merkel doesn’t control the whole internet yet.

http://www.proxfree.com/

[Berlin_Freeper]

Zzz

[dfwgator]

Argentina has been unimpressive....Not really fair for Bosnia to be trailing.

The OG was ridiculous though, was the Bosnian defender daydreaming or what?

[dfwgator]

Messi makes it 2-0.