Posted on 07/08/2014 4:00:29 PM PDT by Cecily
The dreams of millions of Brazilian football fans have been left in tatters as Germany beat the host nation a 7-1 in the World Cup semi-final.
Spectators inside in The Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte were in tears as their side succumbed to the humiliating defeat, ending dreams of a title on home soil.
The side were booed off following the disappointing performance, the biggest defeat in a World Cup semi-final and Brazil's worst defeat in their history.
Four goals in the space of just seven first-half minutes silenced an entire nation and the shell-shocked hosts leaving them an almost impossible task to progress to the final.
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Yep. I’d put on a yellow t-shirt, and stay in my room.
My hero - Pele - must be very sad tonight.
The fans are in shock, but they boo their own team off the field for getting whooped. As if the athletes deserved not only to lose, but be hated.
Fan logic.
Makes me not give a damn about any of them.
Soccer is routinely low scoring.....this equates to a 75-3 football game
Maybe, just maybe...when you live in the low-to-middle portion of a third-world just-this-side-of-the-17th-century society, and you have nothing in your life that gives any indication that the future is ever going to get any better, then you live in the fantasy world that is presented to you, and it (in this case, "futebol") becomes your vicarious route to a sense of personal worth. Except that you have no control over it; when the team wins, you feel wonderful, and when the team loses, your "futebol" world is shattered.
In the US, you don't see it in sports so much, but you do see it in entertainment. (cf. "Whitney Houston," "Michael Jackson," "Elvis Presley," "Marilyn Monroe")
Neymar was useless against the Colombian team his teammates were shamelessly fouling for 70 minutes.
If you take 100 dives, someone will eventually wind up hurting you for real. No tears should be shed for Neymar.
If both Neymar and Thiago Silva had played, the result would likely have been the same.
Colombia were inexperienced, and playing against both Brazil and the referees, and they still almost won.
7 to 1?
Isn’t that something like about 6 games worth of points?
Sissies.
Man-up.
Brazil was trying to win on emotion but deep inside they didn’t believe. That’s why they were so unorganized, they didn’t believe in their structure. Germany countered it and destroyed it.
Wasn't able to catch the game. Just caught the second goal at 22 minutes and was shocked.
Did they lie down?
There was a column in the sports section this morning that after Brazil lost the final the first time they hosted the World Cup in 1950 to Uruguay 2-1 a number of fans committed suicide. Yeah it is way beyond rational down there.
I'm guessing that the Brazilians are more angry with their own team. If the German's had pulled a "hand of God" to win it, it would be a different story.
Historically already lots of Germans in Brazil.
Byline: Grantland Rice
"The weather was perfect. So were the Bears."
NFL championship. Final score: Bears 73, Redskins 0
Ahem, you were saying...?
I do.
I knew someone would bring up the broncos, but this is worse than anything the broncos have done. Denver never built a half dozen stadiums and then lost the súper bowl.
No doubt those are a great deal of the involved dynamics.
Nevertheless, loving when things go right and hating when things go wrong is animalistic. Human beings are here to rise above that, no matter what their conditions are. Collectivism under any excuse (i.e. even “fans”) urges “devo” behavior. This kind of thinking is unpopular, rejected, and mocked. Nevertheless, spiritual challenges don’t have to light up the sky in neon - simply not hating someone you would have loved a moment before because their best wasn’t good enough for world mastery is, I think, a reasonable start.
Unless we’re talking about Stevie Ray Vaughn. He’s different, and I don’t want to hear anyone dissing him.
I’m thinking the severe drubbing the Germans gave the Brazilians will encourage angry Brazilian fans to return the drubbing on the streets, especially to loud, boastful, partying Germans.
It happens all the time after football games here in the USA.
The opponent is always the enemy. Brazil will be looking for payback from now on. The Brazil/Germany rivalry has begun.
Sao Paulo burns tonight!
Yeah, that’s true. But when my Pats lost the Super Bowl to the Bears, 46-10, I was too depressed to beat up anyone 8-)
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