QuoteIt's like Pele's much-vaunted goal in the 58 final, just much, much better.
Take on the chest, swivel, shoot, score.
One of greatest goals in World Cup history, we'll be seeing that one for years!
I vote that we cancel all club football and keep this World Cup going forever!
Its really not that complicated!!!
It's like Pele's much-vaunted goal in the 58 final, just much, much better.
Take on the chest, swivel, shoot, score.
I slept through the Brazil-Chile game.
Only caught the missed penalty.
I'll have to watch the highlights later I'll take it.
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Not a great game really. Second half and extra time were very scrappy, free kick riddled affairs.
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This guy's something else.
I can see him being too much for Brazil.
Hopefully. Another great goal.
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So, he's scored the best individual goal and best team goal of the tournament tonight.
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Hopefully a real football club will come in for him after this
Its really not that complicated!!!
Better than Tim Cahill's goal though?
Apparently right wing neo con commentator Ann Coulter is complaining about the moral decay that foot all's new found popularity is bringing into America. I thought it'd be the usual tosh about diving and stuff but her gripe was that football espouses the team over the individual, a metaphor for communism's ethos over that of capitalism. Well, sorry Ann, explain how Columbia score a stunning individual goal and a stunning team goal and both are things of absolute beauty.
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I thought Brazil v Chile was gripping from start to finish myself. The context and tension was everything and made up for a lack of artistry.
I really enjoyed the Chile v Brazil game for the tension if nothing else. Great stuff. Felt the pain of the Chilean fans but they were doomed when Mr D of RTE fame tipped them earlier in the week to win and go on and win the tournament.
I've loved this Uruguay side.
But I'm in love with Colombia. They're just class.
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Yeah, he's going nowhere in the Monaco league.
Uruguay doing their level best to get a man sent off here, some really lethal looking challenges flying in.
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A really common thing I've found in reading and in person in America is this label of football being a "communist" sport. I think maybe it was just a natural thing to call it during the Cold War, where anything the States wasn't good at was to be scorned and derided. Preferably as the work of the "enemy".Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
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Wont be their fault though
Its really not that complicated!!!
Saw this frustratingly true ringing statement on The Guardian live blog:
"Colombia are so utterly going to finish third, aren't they?" writes Craig Smaaskjaer, staring into his crystal ball. "They are Sweden 1994. They are Croatia 1998. They are the plucky buccaneers, helmed by a balls mad and twinkly eyed genius bent on nothing but national glory and the acquisition of partaaay opportunities."
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Just another passenger on the republican clown bus. These conservatives over here are the most idiotic people I've had the misfortune of coming across.
Did you ever notice that in every painting of Adam & Eve, they have belly buttons. Think about that...take as long as you want.
Hopefully not
But if they're gonna finish third at least that means they've beaten Brazil.
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Hon Colombia!
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That little corner trick by the Colombians in the first half where Zúńiga took it without anyone in the stadium realising, bar James Rodríguez, was great. Rodríguez dandered over to collect it from where Zúńiga had stealthily tapped it to, just outside the corner quadrant, before dribbling it without challenge towards the unprepared Uruguayan box only to be called back by the ref for a re-take. What was actually illegitimate about the manner in which the corner was taken? Weren't they free to go ahead and take it? Too inventive for even refs to keep up, it seems. They tried it against Ivory Coast too, but had it similarly pulled up by Howard Webb. If there's one thing I'd hold against Webb this tournament, it'd have to be that!
They play the game with such a creative spirit in Brazil/South America. They seem unrestricted by convention; even in the way they comfortably use all parts of the foot to control and kick the ball. The influence of freestyle, beach and street football probably helps.
Remember Kerlon's seal dribble?:
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