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Bayern are full of cheats and dislikeable people. Van Bommel, Ribery, Robben, just horrible people generally. Just look at how Ribery tried to get Rafa sent off.
Man U lack a Alpha Male without Rooney. They crumbled under pressure, which is not like us recently. But its like we cant cope when Roon is not on the pitch.
BTW
Weve signed Javier Hernandez from Chivas in the mexican league. He looks very promising striker.
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Originally Posted by wera
the cross for the corner is the easy part of that goal my friend. hitting a ball to a general area from a dead ball is relatively easy for me, for a professional footballer its almost automatic.
robbens goal was just fantastic. to strike a ball cleanly like that out of mid air coming from such distance and height is phenomenal. one of the hardest things to do in football.
yeah but Robben was all alone. and I've seen a lot of bad corners this season, especially from Ribbery ;) yeah, to score a goal like that is pretty hard....
The cross was easy but Robbens shot was world class. He snapped his ankle through it and everything. It was a briliantly hit shot. Thats one of the hardest things to do and he hit it low which makes it even harder but to actually pull it off in a CL QF game like that as the winning goal is amazing.
Its one of the goals of the season for how he hit it. Because he didnt just "connect" but he followed through all the way and really put his own power on it. Its so hard. And like I said he even snapped through with his ankle, taking the difficulty up 10x when most people wouldve been just happt to connect and get it somewhere on target, he hit it like it was a dead ball.
Robbens goal was dope.
cant really say much about that game, the red card was justified you cant argue against it. Bayern won, they been awfully lucky this season. but a wins a win. i think Lyon can take Bayern though.
el classico coming up. big fucking game.
u know c.ron is mad jealous of the shine messi is getting right now. hes just that kinda dude. hes mad misses a pk and his teammate scores the rebound, dude doesnt even celebrate with the team. thats just the kind of guy he is. hope its a barn barner.
I expect Barca to crush Real without breaking a sweat. Fuck Real.
Real got fucked at home. Barca toyed with them, should have been 4-0 but Cassilas made some good saves to stop it from being a total rout.
Barca play absolutely beautiful football, they are a joy to watch. you rarely see a defender make a panic clearance, they work the ball forward effortlessly. one touch quick passing football, every player has the technical ability to make something happen with the ball. it aint just about Messi, Xavi is the brains of this team.
fuck me dead Floccari! 2nd time Lazio screwed us out of a scudetto! 1-0 up with a penalty, not to mention Totti & De Rossi off, all he has to do is convert but nooooooooo!!! Now Roma are winning 2-1 ma scassare la minchia!!
fuck you too Rocchi you bold fuck
ohhh shit Inter 3 - 1 Barcelona. that long coach trip to Milan must have took something out of Barca, cause they got outdone by Inter. should would an interesting return leg.
Dont blame the trip my friend. We are coming to Madrid
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my bro was at the game said the shit was wild.
i said if anyone was going to stop barca it would be inter. messi was invisible. this is my problem with him. 4 goals against arsenal. then 1 half way decent shot against inter, thats it.
you cant be the best palyer in the world and get shut down like that.
Bayern where all over Lyon the entire game. even when they were a man down they jus dominated. shame bout Ribery, shit cant get any worse for him, prostitution investigation and now a red card. on top of all that Robben is now clearly top dog at Bayern.
they missed alot of chances they, fucking Mario Gomez sucks balls, if Bayern can find a propa goal scorer like the gawd Elber from years back they can be more dominant in Europe.
they shoulda kept luca. hes been scoring at roma.
they need somebody young, like Džeko, Balotelli, Pato, .... but of course, they don't have the money. Műller is okay, but still. I expect Altintop to score in Lyon, you'll see.
Otherwise, Madrid, here we come. Barca was strange against Espanyol too.
it depends if they can get robben and ribbery to stay. if they cant keep one then i dont see why one of those young stars would want to come. i cant really see mario or pato going. possibly dzeko because hes already in germany.
i really hope mario goes to milan. how sick would that be, pato and mario killing nigs. mario already says hes an AC fan. the inter fans jeer him. he would be embraced at milan, and not the first player to switch to the other side of the city (and become a better player mind you!!).
anyone think 'pool will beat Athletico tonight?... without Torres.
Ribery's just wishing he didn't fuck that underage whore right now. He didn't seem very focused against Lyon last night.
lol
maybe. athletico is inconsistent as fuck. they have like 15 losses in la liga this year and are in 10th place or so. they have lots to plenty worse teams then pool. pool still have good players, they just arent a world class club at the moment. they can still get it done.Quote:
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Whitey, u can have Balotelli. But I doubt Burlesconi will pay 20 million euros.
Inter killing it, Barcelona too, ManU back on top...this season really is crazy
ffs, that Inter defense is stuborn as fuck, let barca through for once
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comon inter. 5 more mins
fuck barzaaaaaaaaa
inter is just too beast. held the most lethal offensive football team in some time with 10 men for 84 minutes and still ends up getting the job done in the end.
i dont think bayern stand a chance.
bayern and inter in the finals, cant complain. ill put my money on the germans
ribery is suspended for the final.
Samuel and Lucio i tell you what defenders dont get more badass than them to.
Barca jus run out of luck, but credit to Inter they defended really well and didnt give up. Mourihno at the end of the game was jokes.
should be a good final, you got 2 really good teams who deserve to be there. to close to call really.
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Fuck Bousqets, fuck Alves, fuck Messi [for bringing Maicon down again =/] and I would especially like to thank Mourinho, and Barca for buying Ibra.
This could be the best final in years.
Bousqets reaction reminded me of a certain Rivaldo.
players like that are scum, look at him looking at the ref. Motta's reaction after by attempting to choke him was fully justified.
must say Pique's finish was brilliant, better than a majority of strikers in the world.
Pique and Ibra should trade places.
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im rooting for inter just so italy keeps that coeficient up over germany.
i just hold it together thinking ac milan has been to more european cup finals in my lifeitme, and probably everyone elses that checks this thread, than any other club in europe. soooo i got that going for me.
forza serie A.
If Inter does not win the game after 90 minutes, germany will have 4 spots, and Italy 3.
Player gets yellow card for fatal heart attack during match
By Brooks Peck
Diving has long been the scourge of the world's game -- a festering boil cursed by fans and mocked by all. But now the distrust that its prevalence has ingrained in the game has caused a dying man one final injustice.
According to the Croatian Times and Eurosport, a 32-year-old Croatian defender named Goran Tunjic suffered a heart attack in the 35th minute of a county-level league match and collapsed on the pitch. Thinking the player was merely taking a dive to draw a foul, the referee showed him a yellow card before realizing that something was seriously wrong and called for medical attention. Tunjic was rushed to a local hospital but could not be saved. He reportedly had no previous health problems.
Said a spokesman for Tunjic's club, Mladost FC:
"Doctors tried to help him but there was nothing they could do.
"He just fell dead on the spot."
It's a shame that a relatively young man's death during a game is being reported because it was mistaken as an attempt to cheat, but maybe now a few actual divers will rethink the practice. Or not.
diving is gay. if it takes a nigga dying to learn a motha fucka, so be it.
lol at Sevilla:Barca, and Real:Athletic Bilbao game
anything could happen, and Barca & Real still won :D
valladolid in first division dats what i hpe
Panathinaikos uber alles
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--American soccer's million-dollar baby saw his World Cup dream extinguished on Tuesday, a full month before the sport's greatest showpiece has even begun.
Based on how Freddy Adu's career has faltered in recent years, it was no shock that he was left off the United States' preliminary World Cup roster, ensuring him a summer spent in front of a television screen instead of packed stadiums in South Africa.
Yet given the outlandish projections made for Adu in 2003 – when, as a 13-year-old, he was handed a million-dollar endorsement deal with Nike and touted as the future of the national team – the decline has been both sad and dramatic.
By now, according to the experts, Adu was supposed to be one of the best players in the world – the first American to become a global star. Instead, he is floundering in the lowly regarded Greek league, and Tuesday's announcement means U.S. head coach Bob Bradley does not even rate him among this country's 30 best players.
Adu's backstory used to resemble the first few chapters of a fairy tale but is now little more than a cautionary tale against overhyping young phenomena. He emigrated to the States from Ghana as an 8-year-old after his mother won the Green Card lottery, and was quickly spotted in the junior ranks in Maryland.
Observers could barely believe their eyes when witnessing such skills in one so young, and the soccer world soon caught on. Giant Italian club Inter Milan offered him a contract as a 10-year-old. US Soccer chiefs positively salivated at the prospect of a future superstar.
In 2004, Adu made U.S. sports history by becoming the top overall pick in the Major League Soccer draft and making his debut for D.C. United at age 14. In hindsight, such acceleration into the senior ranks smacks of madness. Back then, it was seen as merely the first stepping stone on the path to greatness.
Growing up in the spotlight didn't do Adu much good, with the big contract, big expectations and constant scrutiny weighing heavily on his shoulders.
Since 2006, he has resembled a soccer nomad, bouncing from D.C. to Real Salt Lake and then Benfica, the Portuguese club that retains his rights but has now farmed him out on loan to three separate clubs in three years. Some positive performances for the national team in age-restricted events were interspersed, in the Under 20 World Cup in 2007 and the Beijing Olympics (where most players must be 23 or younger) the following year.
The regular spot on the senior team never came, a decision effectively taken out of the hands of Bradley by Adu's failure to lock down regular playing time for his European clubs.
Back when the draw for the World Cup was made in December, Adu still retained some hope of being selected for Bradley's squad.
"I'm gonna say something right now," he wrote on his Twitter account. "I have never wanted to be a part of something as bad as I wanna be in this World Cup. Work and prayer."
This year's World Cup was earmarked as Adu's time to stamp his mark on the world game. From that time years earlier, when Nike hurled cash in his direction and his future looked golden, there was always an eye on 2010.
The 2006 World Cup was seen as too soon. This one, on the African continent of his birth, was perfect.
In the end, it just wasn't to be. The culmination of that plan did not take place in Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, where the United States will meet England on June 12. It was instead in Adu's club apartment in Thessaloniki, with the announcement of a roster that didn't feature his name. Back to the drawing board.
So where did it all go wrong for Adu? Were the hype and expectations too much to handle? Or was he just never destined for stardom?
"It is difficult when young players do not have enough time to develop, when too much is asked too soon," said Hector Cuper, a well-respected Argentinean coach now in charge of Adu's Greek team, Aris. "Extra time allows for a more well-rounded game. He has ability, we can all see that."
Yet if Adu is ever to ascend to the heights he still dreams of, it will be a grind through the ranks and a constant battle to overturn perception of him as a bust. European soccer is a cutthroat world, and there won't be anything easy about it.
"I want to be one of the best players to play this sport one day," Adu said in a recent interview with Sports Illustrated. "I still have the chance to do that, and I want to work hard to get there."
"Getting there" is no longer a given. Recent signs have been reasonable, with some solid performances for Aris taking him to the brink of the 30-man U.S. squad after he was barely in contention months earlier. However, there is still a long and uncertain way to go.
"Freddy is still young and he will tell you there are things along the way he did right and things he did wrong," Bradley said. "Now he has to take all those things to the situation he is in and show he is continuing to grow."
Adu's Twitter account was silent early Tuesday, perhaps a reflection of the bitter disappointment he must have seen coming.
Freddy Adu is 20 years old and he feels like yesterday's man. Maybe his time will still come, but it won't be this summer.
freds a bum. better than the kids because of athletics and speed. but when hes with the big boys he cant do it.
which is the major argument to americans thinking their best athletes can just immediately be better than everyone at soccer if they choose. theres much more to the game than that.