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Post by irimi on Dec 1, 2022 14:09:48 GMT -8
Did anybody else watch Japan control the ball for just 16 minutes to beat Spain 2-1? Spain was loaded with talent, including Real Madrid midfielders. Spain continues on as the second place finisher in the group, though.
Samurai Blue end up defeating both Germany and Spain to win the group. Never thought I would see anything like that.
There has been some interesting matchups and pretty decent refereeing this tournament. Too bad we are supposed to be hating on FIFA and Qatar....
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Post by kersting13 on Dec 1, 2022 15:09:02 GMT -8
All I know is that US is going to play Netherlands, and those guys wear orange, so I know who I'm rooting for (even though I won't be watching it).
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Post by irimi on Dec 1, 2022 15:28:43 GMT -8
All I know is that US is going to play Netherlands, and those guys wear orange, so I know who I'm rooting for (even though I won't be watching it). You’ll probably be rooting for the winning team. |
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Post by speakthetruth on Dec 1, 2022 15:47:04 GMT -8
I just hope no one gets their shin kicked and rolls around in pain as if they had a compound fracture. That's my wish.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Dec 1, 2022 22:20:46 GMT -8
All I know is that US is going to play Netherlands, and those guys wear orange, so I know who I'm rooting for (even though I won't be watching it). The Netherlands wears RGB (255, 155, 0). Oregon State wears RGB: (220, 68, 5). Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much green in Netherlands "orange" for it to actually be orange. In contrast, Old Glory Red is RGB (179, 25, 66) and Old Glory Blue is (10, 49, 97). The less green the better. Go Team USA! |
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Post by spudbeaver on Dec 2, 2022 0:06:07 GMT -8
I just hope no one gets their shin kicked and rolls around in pain as if they had a compound fracture. That's my wish. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Dec 2, 2022 0:27:49 GMT -8
I just hope no one gets their shin kicked and rolls around in pain as if they had a compound fracture. That's my wish. Because it never happens in other sports?  |
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Post by irimi on Dec 2, 2022 6:34:23 GMT -8
I just hope no one gets their shin kicked and rolls around in pain as if they had a compound fracture. That's my wish. I haven’t watched a lot of the games, just a smattering, but in the matches I’ve watched, the refs have been very good. It is still going to happen. Players in all sports learn to go down with light contact when things aren’t in their favor. A lot of pass interference calls are exactly that—the player knows he can’t get the ball so he creates contact and falls dramatically. In baseball, players act like they got hit by the pitch. It’s a bad part of every sport. |
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Post by sessbeav on Dec 2, 2022 17:42:41 GMT -8
I just hope no one gets their shin kicked and rolls around in pain as if they had a compound fracture. That's my wish. I approve of this message. |
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Post by TheGlove on Dec 18, 2022 10:00:58 GMT -8
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Post by messi on Dec 18, 2022 10:05:45 GMT -8
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Post by messi on Dec 18, 2022 10:55:12 GMT -8
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Dec 18, 2022 11:17:32 GMT -8
Great game.
For me, it was kind of like watching a New Mexico State-Utah State FB game. With the US and England out, I didn't have a dog in the hunt, so I had to manufacture reasons to cheer for one side or the other.
France was our ally and we would not have won the Revolutionary War without her help. Argentina harbored Nazi war criminals.
So, boo!
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Dec 20, 2022 12:47:04 GMT -8
Great game. For me, it was kind of like watching a New Mexico State-Utah State FB game. With the US and England out, I didn't have a dog in the hunt, so I had to manufacture reasons to cheer for one side or the other.
France was our ally and we would not have won the Revolutionary War without her help. Argentina harbored Nazi war criminals.
So, boo! Quasi-War? France captured or sank 6% of the American commercial fleet in the 1790s. Then, the XYZ Affair, until Napoleon became First Consul and negotiated his way out of it. Argentina was not a country during the Revolutionary War, but based their first Constitution on the United States Constitution. They have amended it several times since, but it basically started as an almost exact copy of the American Constitution in 1853. France used the Civil War as cover to invade Mexico, in part, to trade with the Confederacy, which they did until the Union Army reestablished control of Texas after after the Union Army entered Austin on June 25, 1865. They supplied the Confederacy with cannons and attacked Union troops in Texas. Prince Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac (his grandmother was one of Marie Antoinette's best friends and his cousins still rule Monaco), Prince of the Second Empire was a General in the Confederate army. I am not aware of any Argentines participating. After the Civil War, Argentina, like the United States, was a huge trading partner of the United Kingdom. However, most of the military of Argentina were trained by Germany and Italy. Argentina stayed neutral in World War I, in order to continue supplying products to the United Kingdom, during the War. (The Germans subjected all nations they deemed belligerents to unrestricted submarine warfare.) In World War II, Argentina was in negotiations with the United Kingdom and then the United States to enter the War on the Allied side before their military staged a coup to overthrow a fraudulently-elected pro-American President. Argentina set up an Italian-style fascist government, which Juan Peron ended up taking over the following year from prison after he had tried to liberalize the government. Peron ruled until 1955, his popularity wavering with the death of his wife, Evita, in 1952. The military then staged a coup to replace Peron. Because of Argentina's fascist government at the time, a lot of the German and Italian ratlines ran to Argentina. Several Germans and Italians emigrated to Argentina. But Argentina moved closer to the Untied States after Peron was deposed, joining the OAS. In the same time period, with the election of the insufferable Charles de Gaulle, France moved away from the United States. Unlike Argentina, Vichy France worked with the Nazis. Vichy French soldiers killed my granduncle during the Liberation of Algiers in 1942. History, as they say, is messy. Argentina is currently a larger trading partner than France. I was rooting for Argentina and am happy for Messi. |
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Post by irimi on Dec 20, 2022 13:08:43 GMT -8
Great game. For me, it was kind of like watching a New Mexico State-Utah State FB game. With the US and England out, I didn't have a dog in the hunt, so I had to manufacture reasons to cheer for one side or the other.
France was our ally and we would not have won the Revolutionary War without her help. Argentina harbored Nazi war criminals.
So, boo! Quasi-War? France captured or sank 6% of the American commercial fleet in the 1790s. Then, the XYZ Affair, until Napoleon became First Consul and negotiated his way out of it. Argentina was not a country during the Revolutionary War, but based their first Constitution on the United States Constitution. They have amended it several times since, but it basically started as an almost exact copy of the American Constitution in 1853. France used the Civil War as cover to invade Mexico, in part, to trade with the Confederacy, which they did until the Union Army reestablished control of Texas after after the Union Army entered Austin on June 25, 1865. They supplied the Confederacy with cannons and attacked Union troops in Texas. Prince Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac (his grandmother was one of Marie Antoinette's best friends and his cousins still rule Monaco), Prince of the Second Empire was a General in the Confederate army. I am not aware of any Argentines participating. After the Civil War, Argentina, like the United States, was a huge trading partner of the United Kingdom. However, most of the military of Argentina were trained by Germany and Italy. Argentina stayed neutral in World War I, in order to continue supplying products to the United Kingdom, during the War. (The Germans subjected all nations they deemed belligerents to unrestricted submarine warfare.) In World War II, Argentina was in negotiations with the United Kingdom and then the United States to enter the War on the Allied side before their military staged a coup to overthrow a fraudulently-elected pro-American President. Argentina set up an Italian-style fascist government, which Juan Peron ended up taking over the following year from prison after he had tried to liberalize the government. Peron ruled until 1955, his popularity wavering with the death of his wife, Evita, in 1952. The military then staged a coup to replace Peron. Because of Argentina's fascist government at the time, a lot of the German and Italian ratlines ran to Argentina. Several Germans and Italians emigrated to Argentina. But Argentina moved closer to the Untied States after Peron was deposed, joining the OAS. In the same time period, with the election of the insufferable Charles de Gaulle, France moved away from the United States. Unlike Argentina, Vichy France worked with the Nazis. Vichy French soldiers killed my granduncle during the Liberation of Algiers in 1942. History, as they say, is messy. Argentina is currently a larger trading partner than France. I was rooting for Argentina and am happy for Messi. Luckily, the value of a country doesn’t have to be determined by its past actions. I worked with a lot of men from Argentina studying to be priests. Great guys. Boy, did they celebrate when the Pope was elected! So I was pulling for Argentina to win, but that was a fantastic match! Too bad FIFA is so corrupt….. |
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