Posted on 07/13/2014 3:10:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
I like high school soccer, both men and women.Better then the NBA.
There will always be football haters.
But they are a minority. :)
THAT the West German World Cup winning team of 1954 beat Hungary in the Final enhanced by drugs is something we have known for a long time. Indeed it was pretty plain soon after the Final itself with tales – not least from an enraged Ferenc Puskas – of German players vomiting in their dressing room.
When more than half that team succumbed to jaundice and were out for months it was plainer than ever that their remarkable second half rally against the Hungarians had a chemical basis. Just a few years ago, a dressing room worker revealed that he had found syringes below the floorboards.
Now, a shocking study by Berlin’s Humboldt University gives us chapter and verse in 800 pages not only of this conspiracy but of a government supported programme of enormous cost which began in the 1940s and went on for years. In Berne in that 1954 Final the spurious line was that the German players were being injected with vitamin C. In fact, this study discloses, it was pervitin an amphetamine. This drugging policy was as widespread and ruthless as that of the much discredited East Germans who pumped their pumped up girl swimmers full of drugs and ruined the lives of their massive female shot-putters.
It's really no big deal, unfortunately some of America's best athletes especially track from past Olympics have been caught or are highly suspect as well.
If people dock Mark McGwire, Alex Rodriguez because of steroid use, this is just the same thing.
But at least 1 star doesn't appear to belong. There's a lot more that can be written on all this.
BTW I understand Putin and Argentine Ms. El Presidente called for a one world order today, like some in the U.S. have done.
Even Germany is now bumping belly's with Putin, after they discovered the US government hacked Merkel's computers and telephones...
The World Order Cup!
Someday even America will get on board.
It was hard to tell which team had the players with the most German blood. ;-)
OK, I did watch some of it, but soccer is screwy. What is the deal with the pretend injuries? And it is so frustrating to think the game is about over and you know who won, when, “bam” extra time. At the end of the game today, it certainly seemed as if the refs were holding out and trying to give Argentina another shot.
I think the refs have way too much power over the game. They alone decide on whether a foul is real or not and how bad it is, they control the time, and when they hand out penalty kicks, that can win or lose the game for a team.
At least the crowds weren’t doing thost stupid chants, blowing horns, and making lot of other annoying noises during these matches.
I did enjoy the British announcers. They call things as they see them and are not namby-pamby like US announcers.
The end of the World Cup was mass confusion. No body could figure out why the game was still going on. Too much power in the hands of the officials. Too much whinning and faking injuries from the players. I will give the players this though, they’re in damn good shape. And I like the way the clock is not stopped every other play.
People who don’t like the “beautiful game” haven’t seen the Seattle-Portland game tonight.
Seattle won 2-0.
That disproves the lie its not fast-paced or high scoring. American stadiums are packed full.
We’re not crazy about it like in Brazil but we have home-grown talent and millions of appreciative fans.
And we’ll be ready for Russia in 2018 and we’ll be there.
It’s OK, it’s just got screwy rules. :-)
Injuries are real enough. The referee decides how long the game goes on. Its a more exciting experience for the fans.
Play goes right through the very end. What we saw in the past month in Brazil was pure unadulterated football.
Some of these soccer players flop more than the Duke basketball team.
No, that is not true. Duke flops more.
Yeah, exactly. It’s the ultimate in chauvinism.
It would have been fun if that Galaxy / Manchester United game had been a few years back, huh?
lol
Several decades ago, I worked as the guy who called TV timeouts for NFL games. We tried to hide them in natural pauses, but sometimes we just needed to stop the game to get a commercial in. The refs stopped the clock for us. Not a lot of that going on in soccer.
Back in the day, if there was no winner after 120 minutes, there would be a replay a couple of days later. I’d favor a golden goal after 120 minutes; the way God intended.
If Germany was doping in 1954, you can be pretty sure a number of other teams were also doping.
I see what you did there.
One of the best moves the MLS has made was purpose built down-sized stadiums. Get the crowd down around 30,000 and everybody feels like part of the show.
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