All starts tomorrow! Woohoo!!!!
Who will you be supporting?? For me - its England :rolleyes: and Ivory Coast :D
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All starts tomorrow! Woohoo!!!!
Who will you be supporting?? For me - its England :rolleyes: and Ivory Coast :D
I don't know who I will support! I will just watch and see.
*Gets up and claps hands*
ENG-UH-LAND, ENG-UH-LAND!!!
"It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
Three lions on my shirt...."
LOL, everyone in the north are complete football HOOLIGANS, most are anyway.:p I'm not one of those exceptions, as you can tell!:D Football madness runs in the family for me;)
GO ARGENTINA!! :D:D:D
Everybody is like football crazy here, and it's so contagious!
PS: Argentina plays againt Ivory Coast this Saturday :p
Forza ARGENTINA!!! Forza Maradona! :D
Forza ITALIA!
As one of about 100 Americans who enjoy soccer....
GO USA!! :)
LOL :D Italy is one of my favourites for the World Cup too!Quote:
Originally Posted by beeniesmom
Hmmm,Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss Z
And all this time I thought it was a Victoria's Secret bra! :confused: ;) :eek:
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Stupid question time?
Are there names for the teams besides the country names?
OMGAWDS are these the only soccer fans we have here?? LOL. Sorry, America, but I have and always will be rooting for... BRAZIL!! :D
Disappointing match between Germany and Costa Rica. I won't talk about, though, because I don't think everybody watched it yet. Needless to say, I was upset with the CR offense.
Ecuador VS Poland in about 3 minutes. I'm sooo excited. Out of these two, I'll be rooting for Ecuador, but I can't WAIT until Brazil plays Croatia. I hear America's team is supposed to be the best in this generation after a humiliating defeat against Germany a couple years ago, so I guess I'll be looking forward to their match as well (wow, what a run-on sentence). I love soccer :D
Edit: Ack, I mixed up the teams LOL.
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
Well not polite ones anyway.
Go USA! (not very far, but, go all the same).
World Cup 6/9/06 results below:
Poland VS Ecuador (0-2) - All I have to say is that I was pleasantly surprised by the Ecuadorian defense. :D
I agree! The ecuadorians did it really well!Quote:
Originally Posted by GISELLE
Now have to wait until tomorrow, Argentina vs Ivory Coast... I'm a bit nervous about it, it seems like Ivory Coast has a really good team!
well as we did not make the cut, i will support the next best thing , the good ole Aussies of course.
My Son Loves Football... Or As We Yanks Call It, Soccer. His Favorite Team Is "liverpool"???
I Myself, As Is With Most Americans Can't Get Into It. Honestly, No Disrespect - But I Find Soccer Incredibly Boring. Now Before You Get All Insulted, You Should Know That I Find Hockey To Be Equally Uninteresting. Yawwhhhn!!!
Not Enough Scoring. A Lot Of Cheering - Hard To Understand What All The Cheering And Fuss Is For - Nothing Really Happening And Definitely No Scoring. Same With Hockey - They Cheer When Players "merely Shoot The Puck".
Sooo... My Son Mick Will Be All About The World Cup. And When I See Him Again, I'll Ask One Of America's Few Real Soccer Fanatics Who's Going To Bring It Home!!!
Now I can't agree with you there. I'm an American and I *adore* soccer, as do millions of youth and college soccer players across America. I think we went overboard with the "trying-to-be-different/distinguish-ourselves" thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by BOBS DAD
On that same note, I CAN NOT stand baseball or football. They bore me to death! Superbowl weekend only amuses me because of all the good food, LOL.
Good stuff Giselle!!! I am 47 years old and when I was 10 years old a fella came to our school and organized a Soccer match between our grade school and several other local ones. He said that soccer was the "world's sport" and that we Americans were just catching the craze, but before "we all graduated from High School", Soccer would be EVEN BIGGER than the Super Bowl.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giselle
Well Giselle, I guess you probably already know the end to that story! LOL!!! It ends about the same way as the "everything will be metric" by the year 1980! If Soccer were simply "naturally" exciting and one couldn't help catch the fever, it would have flourished in the U.S. by now, despite any resistance or "trying to be different" efforts on anyone's part. I guess I am just one of the 249 Million in America who do enjoy baseball (Yes, we baseball lovers agree that it is a slow game - but from one who played it their entire life - from LL through College - we know that there are a lot more psychological games being played than what the camera captures), football and basketball.
I think the last 3o years have shown us that Soccer will not take root and that Hockey will only be a secondary distraction!!! Just poking yer soccer bone!
OK... here's a standard Soccer game in our house. Mick is glued to the tube and all the girls are doing something. I am watching the game to start with, cause me and Mick - generally speaking, like all sports. But as usual, no one is scoring and the anouncers are going on endlessly about nothing and nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
So I get up and go to the bathroom (we don't freeze the game cause we don't have any real concern that I will miss anything). I come back in and the score is still 0-0. No surprise. Mick is real interested in rewinding the game to show me a "pass" that I missed.
I am trying to get interested but I remember the grass needs cutting. And watching the grass grow is infinitely more interesting than the current game. So I cut the grass, get a shower and come back in. Mick is all mad about some calls and missed opportunities. Score ends up 0-0 in OT - or EXTRA TIME - what's that all about?????
Oh my!
What beautiful goals by the Germans.
In a nutshell.
Take a ball, kick it from 10 meters away and put it into the tiniest corner of a
HUGE net.
While you have people trying to stomp, kick and break your knees. ;)
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"Football" is ice hockey on grass. Basketball with no hands and American football with no pads, except shin guards and a high tolerance for getting kicked in the head. :confused:
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KK,
Why did your response make me laugh? ;)
I'm supporting Germany, of course, and it's exciting that the soccer World Cup is in my country. http://www.world-of-smilies.com/html...4special_7.gif
People here were very happy with the 4:2 result yesterday; and the goals were truly beautiful. There were huge World Cup parties here everywhere, and this was just the beginning.
I will watch England : Paraguay this afternoon.
BTW, I heard that Victoria Beckham arrived in Germany now, and here's a joke going around these days:
Q:: Why do the Germans hope that England will stay in the tournament as long as possible?
A.: Because Victoria Beckham will boost the German economy by going shopping here! :D
Kirsten
:D :D Poor Posh.
I have been in London yesterday and missed the game completely. I had to stand quite some stuff by my co-workers in London :rolleyes:
My German boss called me and asked when I'll be back. I said at 8 p.m. He said "BUT YOU KNOW WHAT'S ON THEN??????" And I said "Yes- but I didn't know it was in my contract to have to watch it :D "
I'm a nerd- I would love a team from a very small and unknown country to win- but I have no idea who that could be :D :D :D
Too funny!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BOBS DAD
I LOVE soccer, LOVE IT! When I am playing, that is. Yes, I am 30 years old and still play soccer year round (2 outdoor seasons, 3 indoor sessions). I just can't get into it on TV.
It is the same with Baseball. I LOVE to play (softball). Haven't missed a season in 22 years!! Can't stand to watch it on TV.
Yet I love to watch 43 guys drive circle after circle on a Sunday afternoon :confused: I can't explain it! Go Tony!
England VS Paraguay is starting! :D
EDIT: On the 3rd minute of the match, England:1- Paraguay: 0 :eek:
I wondered how you would get on travelling yesterday, Barbara. :D You're lucky England weren't playing yesterday, or you may not have got to the airport. It wouldn't be the first time that no trains were running, because none of the drivers have turned up for work. Actually come to think on it, that's in Scotland. Maybe England is different.
Football is hard to avoid here. Are you SURE it is not in your contract that you have to watch it????? Have you checked?
There are horns sounding outside as I type this, and chants of Three Lions, EN-GUH-LAND and many demonstrations of the robot dance.:p
Even though we technically didn't score (as it was an own goal)....
YYYYEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH ENGLAND!!!
That's one match done and won now anyway:D
Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss Z
Congrats! :) I missed the match this afternoon, I visited my mom earlier and stayed longer than I had planned. But I just heard that England won with the help of an own goal in the third minute.
Barbara, you were NOT in Munich when the Germans had their match there?! Wow, that's too bad! LOL
Kirsten
YYYYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH !!!! England won!!!!
Well, I find it kind of sad that none of the "surprise teams" of previous World Cups or European Championships - like Turkey, Greece, or Denmark - has made it to the tournament. They were so much fun to watch. I wonder which team from a so-called "small" country will surprise us this year: maybe Trinidad & Tobago, or Ivory Coast? We'll see. :)Quote:
I'm a nerd- I would love a team from a very small and unknown country to win- but I have no idea who that could be
Kirsten
I, like Amy, think soccer/futball is more fun to play than watch. And I am a bad player, and haven't played in many years. I don't like "American football" either.
Baseball any day! Go Red Sox! Basketball used to be fun to watch, when I was a kid and the Celtics had a great team ... And hockey is cool - I mean, most people couldn't skate and handle a stick at the same time, what hockey players manage, at high speed on sktes without toe picks, is simply amazing!
I wanted Paraguay to win, but I knew it was imposible, since their team isn't very good. England didn't do it very well, though... They will need to play MUCH better if they want to take the cup home!
Has anyone here watched Trinidad & Tobago : Sweden?
No goals, but an exciting match!
Anita, will you watch Argentina : Ivory Coast tonight? It will start in an hour... :)
Kirsten
The Cup Of Life (The Official Song of the World Cup, France '98)
The cup of life
This is the one
Now is the time
Don't ever stop
Push it along
Gotta be strong
Push it along
Right to the top
Como Cain y Abel
Es un partido cruel
Tienes que pelear
Por una estrella
Consigue con honor
La copa del amor
Para sobrevivir y luchar por ella
Luchar por ella (YEAH)
Do you really want it... (YEAH)
(Like Cain and Abel
It's a cruel game
You have to fight
For that star
Get it with honor
The cup of love
To survive and fight for her
Fight for her!)
CHORUS 1:
Here we go! Allez, allez, allez!
Go, go go! Allez, allez, allez!
Arriba va! El mundo esta de pie
Go, Go, Gol!! Allez, allez, allez!
La vida es
Competicion
Hay que sonar
Ser campeon
La copa es
La bendicion
La ganaras
Go, Go, Go!
(life is a competition
You have to dream
Of being a champion
The cup is the goal
You'll win it, Go GO, GO!)
And when you feel the heat
The world is at your feet
No one can hold you down
If you really want it
Just steal your destiny
Right from the hands of fate
Reach for the cup of life
'Cause your name is on it
Do you really want it...(YEAH)
Do you really want it...(YEAH)
CHORUS 2:
Tu y yo! Allez, allez, allez!
Go, go ,go! Allez, allez, allez!
Tonight's the night we're
gonna celebrate
The cup of life!!! Allez, allez, allez!
Not a Ricky Martin Fan but I thought this song was really neat.
congrats argentina just won. Just finished watching it! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Anita Cholaine
yeah I watched it. It was exciting!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
:D:D:D
Argentina won, 2-1!!!! It was a really good match...
I'm really happy about the Trinidad & Tobago-Sweden result too!
Quote:
Originally Posted by BOBS DAD
Bob's Dad...uh, what rock are you living under? I am 40, began playing at 5, played at college, for a nationally ranked (NAIA, at the time) college, and I am here to tell you- soccer is and has been the most growing sports we have. You seem to forget that baseball and football have been around forEVER, and in comparison, soccer is much more ahead of the game then you might think. Football and baseball have an advantage- lots of old people attend/support the game, and our country is a bit elder heavy at the moment. :D
Seriously, I would just tell you, like others have told me when I state how boring football is, "Its just because you can't understand the game that you don't find it interesting. No, really. You just don't understand." :D :D
ROCK??? ROCK??? I don't live under no stinkin' rock!!! In vernacular my Uncle Nick used to use. Everything was "stinkin". LOL!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cataholic
40 - yer just a pup! Soccer and Soccer fans like yourself have been saying that for 50 years, but yet soccer continues to be relegated to a tertiary sport. Soccer leagues are comprised of a few good athletes (like yourself), kids who can't play anything else, those that need exercise and sissy boys!!! Soccer is for Soccer Moms and much like Ice Cream - it's most enjoyed by women and small children!
Go Argentina! Go Sweden - get yer thick heads together, guys, and remember the goal is to score next time! (But I am (secretly) happy that the game was a tie, just because T&T is such an underdog and played well.)