World Cup 2014

[HangryHippo]

5-1 now. Spain is being crushed.

[Pete]

5-1 final now.

I love the Dutch style of play, which has always been based on great passing and flowing attacks.

They are fun to watch.

[AP]

van Persie's header was beautiful.

[HangryHippo]

van Persie's header was beautiful.

As was the feed to him for the goal. Spain looked very poor in the second half.

[bradh]

CONCACAF! What a showing by the Ticos

[dankrutka]

WARNING: LANGUAGE

Wow. That video is really damning. For those more knowledgeable on the topic, how much does John Oliver get right/wrong in this video?

[Teo9969]

The most important article you'll read on the world cup:

World Cup Teams To Watch | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

[Teo9969]

It's really cool once you know people from a ton of these countries and after having spent a significant amount of time in some of these countries, because your rooting interests are far more complex than "USA and I don't care about the rest". My order of teams:

1. USA
2. Argentina
3. Germany
4. Chile

[Pete]

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Right! Plus, following a club like Arsenal means they have players on about 8 different teams.

In addition to the U.S., I am pulling for Holland, England, and Switzerland.

Plus, there will likely be a Cinderella team like the Ivory Coast that will be fun to pull for.


I've really enjoyed all the matches thus far.

[BlackmoreRulz]

Great finish by the Swiss with the late goal, great call by the ref to play on through the foul.

[Dennis Heaton]

I realize some of these teams are in the same Group, but, I like...

USA
Costa Rica
Iran
Ivory Coast

P.S. I suggested to my Iranian neighbors that they ought to design a Football Jersey with a map of Iran or the flag of Iran with the phrase, "Football Comes Natural to Us, in I Ran." I know, I know...never said I was a creative genius.

[bradh]

Great finish by the Swiss with the late goal, great call by the ref to play on through the foul.

may have blown the offside no call though, looked like the swiss goal scorer was offside

[BlackmoreRulz]

Dunno, looking at the replays it looks like he was even when the ball was passed.

[BlackmoreRulz]

USA
Netherlands
Mexico
Germany

[dankrutka]

I loved watching Ivory Coast get the win over Japan. I'm riding with them unless they face the US.

[DavidD_NorthOKC]

5-1 final now.

I love the Dutch style of play, which has always been based on great passing and flowing attacks.

They are fun to watch.

I thought that would be a good match and even thought Spain might lose to the Netherlands. But 5-1?!?!?! Did not see that one coming. But fortunately for Spain maybe, they also lost their group play opener in 2010 and still won it all.

[AP]

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[RadicalModerate]

The most important article you'll read on the world cup:

World Cup Teams To Watch | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

That Post/Link deserves its own World Cup. =)
(to protect its balls from possible kicking)

George Carlin once did a routine comparing Football (the real version) with Baseball.
Did he ever make any observations about Soccer/Futbal? =)

Someone needs to invent a new sport involving all the elements of golf, bowling, cricket, hockey, badminton, bridge, croquet and slot machines.
Soccer seems to lack . . . a reason . . . for playing.

(but I've been wrong before. in fact, more times than I can count.
for sure way more times than all the final scores of every soccer match ever played combined.)

[HangryHippo]

My god Germany looked good today. Just excellent execution all around. That's a really, really good team.

[Pete]

^

Germany thrashing Portugal helps the U.S. immensely, as goal difference is the first tie breaker in the groups.


We were almost shockingly bad in our match tonight, but got all three points anyway! Amazing.

Our early goal really caused us to go into a shell and it was only a matter of time before they equalized. We were very, very lucky to get that late winner.


But onward and upward! If we at least draw in our next match with Portugal, we'll probably be in good shape to advance even if we lose to Germany.

[Laramie]

Thriller as USA defeats Ghana.

John Brooks' exciting header!

[Teo9969]

Just happy to get out of there with 3 points.

Really sucks about Altidore…

Gotta make something big happen against Portugal or Germany.

[Dennis Heaton]

Todays (Tuesday) winners...

Belgium
Brazil
ROK

[AP]

Todays (Tuesday) winners...

Belgium
Brazil
ROK

I really want to see Eden Hazard do well. He's a bright spot for Chelsea.

[Pete]

Looks like they had a huge crowd at Skinny's yesterday. For the next match I bet it will be much bigger, as many have just learned about the watch party: