That football game though · 10:24am Jul 9th, 2014
Hello folks,
I am not here to do the entire "U NEWBS! WE PWND 2R A$$!" Thing, that pretty much everyone in Germany is doing right now.
More to look at the game itself. To start I am not regular football watcher, nor an expert on tactics or similar, the most contact I have with it is playing FIFA everynow and then or kicking with cousins, but otherwise outside of World Cups or EU Cups, not much at all.
Though I know enough to entirely see the reason to why Brazil was destroyed so hard and it all comes down to this (and putting into gamers terms for you all): Their medic wasn't there.
Or naming the player Thiago Silva. This person was the brazilian defense to such a amount that without him, the entire team came into the game completely demotivated and that plus the first goal through goalkeeper mistake (Caesar admitted it after the game, that the first goal was his mistake in judgement.) lead to a broken teams which had no motivation at all, compared to the german unity, which was missing until now. (Seriously Germany vs US was just a plain mess.)
But during the second half Brazil pulled their act together and started to play foorball and holy fuck if it weren't for our god damn goalkeeper (descended from the heaven's above) Manuel Neuer, our asses wouldn't be much safer from Brazil's big strong black... and white football shots.
It was the second half of the game where we could see two world class teams play against eachother and mostly for the reason that Brazil just didn't want to lose even harder. In the end they did 7:1, but they really had to go up against Neuer, who's just a fucking machine in the goal. No wonder Bayern München is always doing so well...
The most amazing part of this game is actually Oliver Kahn, our former goal keeper and now football reporter, actually said that this was most likely going to happen before the game. It does show how much experience has he, still is a dick in a way or two, though he knows his football.
Now I hope that Argentina wins, because I want to see another worldclass game like the second half. World Rang 2 vs World Rang 5 sounds much more entertaining then World Rang 2 vs World Rang 15...
Till Sunday, where Germany is taking over the world again.. well in one way. (or maybe more than one. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 
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Tripl3M
P.S.: Switzerland is World Rang 6. How the fuck did they lose against World Rang 17 France?
P.P.S.: O.o USA is World Rang 1 in the female division?! and has the most time on the top place?!! Well it atleast shows who is warrying the pants there. *cue bad joke drumrolls*
ill fite u...
2268925 While this saddens me to do...
Shut it, Australia. get pasted the second round first then we can talk....
My pride as a former Australian is now hurting.
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>tfw Australia got nowhere near the World Cup Finals.
>tfw I don't even like soccer and I was still saddened when I learned Australia was out of the competition.
2268930 Australia was so close to the quarter finals in 2006... but those assholes of Italy got won by one...
WHYYYY?
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fuckin Italians.
The United States: where soccer is for women and children.
Men play FOOTBALL
, whichever sport that happens to be in that country.
Serious answer: The US has one of the strongest women's and girl's sports cultures I've seen: in most places, the idea of female athletes is not well-recieved, as being an athlete is not 'feminine.' [1] So by the time girls get out of secondary school or so, they aren't supposed to play sports any more. It's just not done.
[1] except tennis, because skirts.
2269018 True, but the fact of USA standing at the top of the international football ranking in the female division is still surprising, considering how god awful the men are.
And Germany's women team as second in the world ranking, like the male one and they're both excellent teams.
2269170 It's mostly that in the US, soccer is pretty much the premier sport for women (or second after tennis) whereas for men it comes in... sixth? at most? So our top male athlete tend to play other, more lucrative, sports.
The only reasons the US men's team is doing "decently" are 1) we're big enough that a small portion of our country is bigger than most countries (38 million Spanish speakers in the US; as opposed to 47 million in Spain. 38 million is about 12% of the US population) and 2) we
stolehired one of your coaches.2271612 True that Football (it's football not soccer. American Football isn't even played entirely with the foot. Most of the time they carry the egg anyway. Where's the logic in that?) isn't the most popular, though that doesn't mean they shouldn't try their hardest to be the best. Australia is doing a better job at it and those guys love their brutal rugby.
Also on the topic of Jürgen Klinsman, we gave him to you. We pitied your performance at the 2006 World Cup so we decided we could at least give you a chance for the future. Doesn't change the fact of bad player, but at least the coach is good.
2271649 on Herr Klinsman: whatever, we'll take him.
On the term football: it's called football because it's played on foot, by footmen. Not on horseback by horsemen. Ergo Rugby Football, which has an actual egg-shaped ball, is a type of football. And in most of the English-speaking world, when we say 'football' we mean some form of rugby.
In every Anglophone country but Britain, the word 'football' refers not to association football (shortened, by the English, to 'soccer') but local-rules football or nothing in particular without modifiers: in the US, football means American rules football (a rugby football variant). In Ireland, it means Irish rules football (a rugby football variant). In Australia, it refers to Australian rules football (a rugby football variant).
In South Africa, New Zealand, and Canada just saying "football" without a modifier doesn't have an assumption: you need to be more specific or people will be confused. E.g. in Canada, they often say 'American football' or 'Canadian football' (a rugby football variant) in conversation if it isn't understood from context which game they're talking about already.
No one complains when Americans say 'truck,' 'elevator,' 'sweater,' or any other American variant. I also don't remember that many people complaining about the world cup finals being played in Soccer City Stadium in SA. Because that's what the sport is called in South Africa: soccer. Being annoyed that Americans don't use a Britain-specific dialect is like being annoyed that Austrians don't talk like Berliners.
2271674 taking your argument in perspectiv that would make nearly any ball based sport a variant of football, since most ball based sports involve well being on foot.
The reason for football being called football is that it is solely played with the foot, like handba is play with hand and baseball is played with a bat.. Ok baseball and basketball don't exactly fit the concept.
Rugby on the other hand is played on foot, but played with hand and foot depending on what is happening, though for the most part the ball is being carried or throw. Both movements which don't involve the usage of the feet other than walking/running.
This is my personal beef with the soccer and football terms. I myself have no problem with the american variants of words, some even make more sense than the original english variants, but Rugby is not a foot based game therefore it should be called football unlike what you call soccer. You can't not deny that.