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FIFA World Cup Brasil 2014

Kagawa great goal today:
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I am still amazed at how all those "witch doctors" or "spiritual doctors" are still not the richest people on the world. Someone would think that if that s*it works everyone would be going to them and paying them lots of money to cure them off cancer or any other disease.
 
what is casillas doing lol? is he attempting to do some push-ups?
 
guys, maybe this will help someone.. it´s in Slovak, but i guess it doesn´t matter realy.. the time of the matches is set for Central European Time (CET)

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i want to watch all the matches this world cup :D if possible..

that´s my personal challenge i will gladly accept :D
 
three bad misses in group stages for me: ENG v ITA, ARG v BIH, USA v POR. oh, sleep is too sweet...
 
We're 48 hours from it now. I don't mean to put anyone off the World Cup and all, but I have to post this video here, it's a must watch:

YouTube - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): FIFA and the World Cup

Tells you a thing or two about FIFA, although it covers up some shit which is the socialist Brazilian government's fault such as the Manaus and Cuiabá arenas - places where there's no significant club football activity, yet those host cities were included at the insistence of that knucklehead we had for president.
 
Thanks for the reminder: I meant to ask bout Manaus, are they really not going to ever use that Stadium after the WC?
 
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amineken22 said:
Thanks for the reminder: I meant to ask bout Manaus, are they going to ever use that Stadium after the WC?
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Nope. Manaus has no clubs in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd division (I have to check, maybe there's one in the 3rd division). In any case, there's no chances of using a FIFA-standard 60,000 seater stadium in Manaus. It's nonsense!

The same applies for Cuiabá. A 40,000 seater there will probably have 5,000 people at best watching the local clubs fight their way through the 3rd division.

This is all the government's fault, not FIFA in this case. You can easily make a World Cup happen with 8 host cities. With 10 cities, it would have been already too much (1 or 2 cities with little tradition for football). But they went for 12 cities! Unbelievable.

Therefore, a political decision makes the national teams travel insane distances and, as chance would have it, European nations such as Italy and England will battle in the heat of the jungle! :LOL:

This is the most classic example of suits ruining the game.

By the way, can players get ill from differences in temperature? I'm a bit concerned, because Brazil has a crazy weather difference - now it is winter, but in the Amazon forest there's no winter (almost 40 degress and lots of humidity), and the northeast has temperatures of around 30 to 35 degrees. While to the south of the country there is proper winter (Curitiba and Porto Alegre are around 0ºC now).
 
Not really, the same goes for Brasilia stadium. But there will probably be a couple of big brasileirão games there. Clubs like Flamengo and Corinthians have fans pretty much everywhere. But I might piss off their local fans, so its a tough situation really.

I've shared that video too, its hilarious and the ending is brilliant. Football fans are indeed stupid fanatics.
 
WOW. Thanks for the info. That has to be one of the worst investment ever. One can only wonder about their intentions when they decided to accept such a deal.
 
It´s terrible thing. A World Cup with lots of guilt on it´s shoulders.
Are you going to the matches Rentboy?
 
Why didn't they build new stadiums for Sao Paulo for example? And they could've easily used the new Gremio stadium too. Although I suppose what they wanted to do is spread the World Cup over the whole country. I guess one could say Manaus finally gets to watch some top football.
 
Rentboy said:
....European nations such as Italy and England will battle in the heat of the jungle! :LOL:
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it won't be much of a battle imo. when the temperature gets above 32 degrees, italians just stop functioning (biologically). we played against japan in recife last year, and they pretty much raped us... i can't even imagine what england is gonna do to us in manaus, but it's not gonna be pretty. our players will either melt on the pitch or run back to the dressing room and never come out again.
come to think of it, i'm starting to believe montolivo was onto something! :P

thanks for posting the video rentboy. and yes, like sauce said, we really are a bunch of fools for supporting this circus.

on a lighter note, i gotta admit i kinda like blatter's idea to have women playing in skimpier outfits. :D
yeah, i know, i'm disgusting :COAT:
 
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this whole climate thing is a bit over thinked imo....90% of the players of the South American teams play in Europe for years and years now. with that being said than around 25-30 team will melt on the pitch and Mexico, Japan, Iran and Honduras will be the top contenders :P
 
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Ernesto Lee said:
It´s terrible thing. A World Cup with lots of guilt on it´s shoulders.
Are you going to the matches Rentboy?
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Yes, I have tickets for all Brasilia fixtures (except 3rd and 4th place match, which I couldn't be bothered).
I almost feel guilty giving my money to FIFA, but it's a once in a lifetime thing, so what the hell... :P
What about you, going to matches in Rio?

Damjan said:
Why didn't they build new stadiums for Sao Paulo for example? And they could've easily used the new Gremio stadium too. Although I suppose what they wanted to do is spread the World Cup over the whole country. I guess one could say Manaus finally gets to watch some top football.
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They did build a stadium from scratch in São Paulo. It's the new arena for Corinthians. The problem was how the funds for this stadium were raised with public money and it will end up in the end as a property of Corinthians. Very f*cked up stuff, if you ask me.

As for Porto Alegre, they refurbished the Internacional stadium, which is bigger than the Gremio stadium. But yes, the Gremio stadium looks fine, it could have been either of them.

Basically the idea is that they use only 1 stadium in each host city, which makes sense if you think how the hotel and transport infrastructure wouldn't cope with a twice bigger number of fans.

Infrastructure in many cities is still insufficient as it is anyway.


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it won't be much of a battle imo. when the temperature gets above 32 degrees, italians just stop functioning (biologically). we played against japan in recife last year, and they pretty much raped us... i can't even imagine what england is gonna do to us in manaus, but it's not gonna be pretty. our players will either melt on the pitch or run back to the dressing room and never come out again.
come to think of it, i'm starting to believe montolivo was onto something! :P

thanks for posting the video rentboy. and yes, like sauce said, we really are a bunch of fools for supporting this circus.

on a lighter note, i gotta admit i kinda like blatter's idea to have women playing in skimpier outfits. :D
yeah, i know, i'm disgusting :COAT:
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England will be in a very similar situation than you. If not worse! England has a much colder weather than Italy I think, isn't it?
If I were Prandelli I'd start players mainly from southern Italy (e.g. Napoli) cause they can cope better with the heat :D
 
And why not organize the World Cup in countries with good infrastructure and only there ?
All in all we are perhaps talking about countries, but who cares ?

Can the ordinary Brazilian football fan watch the games at the stadium ? I sincerely doubt it. I think the ordinary Brazilian fan wil watch the World Cup on television. So what is the difference then ?

I've read studies about the possible economic benefits of a world cup (or Olympic games) organized in Belgium and Holland. The economic benefits for both countries were zero. Not even secondary benefits.

The World Cup is not about the fans. I remember the 1990 World Cup in THE football country in the World (Italy). Stadiums were half empty because sponsors got a large part of the tickets instead of football fans and those people who were invited by sponsors never showed up.

I like football, i will follow the World Cup, but i'm not blind for all the negative things about it. Stadiums in Manaus, Brasilia and Curitiba is crazy...
 
ummm it helps to develop the infrastructure, if it means there are no actual benifits at least there are phisycal benifits to it. and if the the balance is 0 thats a big win for the country. just think about it, you got a country reconstruction for free in a nutshell. okay not a country but its free reconstruction. thats why so many countries are after the WC and/or EC.

its like investing in a bar where you'll get as many customers in a short time that the income would cover at least the costs FOR SURE
 
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England will be in a very similar situation than you. If not worse! England has a much colder weather than Italy I think, isn't it?
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yep, in theory england should have much bigger problems than us adapting to the heat and humidity. but the thing is, when it comes to hot weather, italians are the biggest pussies in the world. whenever we play under heat or humidity, the other team always "man up" eventually and dismantles us, while we stroll around the pitch like zombies.

i actually experience this every summer in palermo. sicily's weather is very "south american" and during summer palermo is invaded by tourists from northern europe (especially english and germans). i watch them strolling around the city, happy as clams and fresh as daisies, whereas i (like my fellow sicilians) feel like stripping the skin off my body.
who knows, perhaps we're just genetically inferior. :P
rentboy said:
They did build a stadium from scratch in São Paulo. It's the new arena for Corinthians. The problem was how the funds for this stadium were raised with public money and it will end up in the end as a property of Corinthians. Very f*cked up stuff, if you ask me.
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wow, that's crazy. i can see why brasilians are so pissed off.
 
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