what, in the hell, is that under it's arm??? looks like a large rodent...
Posted on 07/13/2014 3:10:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
RIO DE JANEIRO – Mario Goetze volleyed in the winning goal in extra time to give Germany its fourth World Cup title with a 1-0 victory over Argentina on Sunday.
Goetze controlled the ball with his chest and then shot past Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Romero in the 113th minute.
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After what happened to Neymar, the heart of the Brazilian machine was eviscerated.
I felt sad for them because they are capable of a high level of play and they played like rank amateurs and not the best in the world.
You cannot take life for granted. That’s the lesson here.
That was the strategy, apparently.
When he went down, they had no plan and no nerve, and probably more psychological pressure than any team has ever had.
They were not mentally tough and came apart.
A thrown game ends 3-1 or 2-0, not 7-1.
If your highest scorer gets nearly paralyzed, that’s a huge blow. I don’t think they recovered from it and the team was just a shell.
That was picked apart in dramatic fashion by the Germans.
But Brazil looked like an amateur club for those six minutes, it really was hard to believe...Germany took advantage, to their credit, but that was more about Brazil completely falling apart than the Germans playing brilliantly.
what, in the hell, is that under it's arm??? looks like a large rodent...
Interesting thing is, defense in NCAA football hasn’t changed. If anything, the defenders’ skill has remarkably improved. Yet the NCAA (or football, in general), keeps changing the rules in order to make it easier to score. It’s not too hard to figure out what’s driving it . . . .
Little kids write sentences better than you do.
It takes discipline to refrain from using one's hands, obviously.
One has to be an excellent athlete to play soccer well.
You couldn't hack it.
To me it is
3 were gimmes that came largely from Brazilian panic - and I mean goals 3,4, and 5.
The Netherlands match sort of proves that.
The concussion/injury obsession: no more horse collar tackles,no more helmet to helmet contact, basically a bunch of rule changes that force defenders to think twice about committing to a play-ending move.
And, of course, anything that runs up the scoreboard sells tickets.
Looking at the French starting 11, I’ll bet we’ll see some interesting new citizens - like our German-Americans.
They don’t just run around the field kicking a ball (with the feet I might point out), the purpose is to kick the ball into the opponents net for a goal. The opponents purpose is to prevent the other team from getting the ball into the net, That is why the scores are low
BTTT
Actually the US played longer then they did four years ago and since they are relatively new to the sport you can not expect them to become champions in a short time
To be fair, no human being alive or dead can watch baseball or American “football” (aka rugby for babies that need to wear armor).
The only thing people remember from American “football” games is the commercials. Who has time to watch a bunch of illiterate future rapists stand around the field.
Not a trillion. Easily a billion though. And yes it was a nail biter.
If you don't get soccer that's OK, you could always turn to baseball and watch guys stand around for three hours.
LOL, maybe every goal should be given 10 points , and have many times out, hell even have two or three different teams for going forward of defending.
sarc
"The report was put together by researchers at Berlin’s Humboldt University on behalf of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, with Giselher Spitzer as the project leader. It was completed in April, but has yet to be published because of privacy concerns and legal issues over naming athletes, doctors and politicians."
Germany's own Olympic Sports Confederation's report says this.
It also states that an unspecified number of footballers in the 1954 World Cup-winning team received injections of the methamphetamine Pervitin, commonly known today as speed, according to the newspaper.
Sounds like the evidence is above.
That was before anti-doping regulations became commonplace.
I don’t think it widespread enough, if it really happened, to effect the outcome.
I should add the MLS is popular, well-attended and profitable.
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