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2006 WORLD CUP - Round of 16 - BRAZIL-GHANA/FRANCE-SPAIN
FIFAworldcup.com ^ | 6-27-06 | FIFAworldcup.com

Posted on 06/27/2006 7:06:16 AM PDT by soccer_maniac

Defending champs Brazil encounter surprise Group E second place finishers Ghana (10:55 a.m. ET ESPN). Then, at 2:55 p.m. (ESPN), European powehouses Spain and France meet.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: 2006; 3rdworldsleepaid; borders; brazil; fifa; football; footballnot; futbol; futebol; germany; illegals; mexico; soccer; worldcup
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To: Michael81Dus; Eurotwit

Oops...... spoke too soon. 2-0


61 posted on 06/27/2006 8:46:19 AM PDT by bwteim (bwteim = Begin With The End In Mind. Save your finger - Oct 5, 2001)
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To: bwteim

Obvious offsids. Adriano was running behind the defender the entire run.


62 posted on 06/27/2006 8:47:08 AM PDT by laissez- faire
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To: laissez- faire

Looked like it.


63 posted on 06/27/2006 8:47:46 AM PDT by bwteim (bwteim = Begin With The End In Mind. Save your finger - Oct 5, 2001)
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To: Michael81Dus
'I hope that Spain will defeat Brazil in the quarter final. :)'

Me too. England could do with another easy match. However, the darkhorse Frogs will defeat the Spanish today.

64 posted on 06/27/2006 8:49:14 AM PDT by jjbrouwer (Two World Wars and one World Cup (soon to be two World Cups))
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To: bwteim

*Sigh* and I gather it's another incorrect offside decision.

When will there be a correct call?

Is this World Cup going to result in video technology being used?


65 posted on 06/27/2006 8:49:18 AM PDT by FostersExport
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To: bwteim

Yep, it was offsides. Brazil has the luck of the dummies. But their soccer play has-been good. They don´t perform like the "artists of soccer" they pretend to be.


66 posted on 06/27/2006 8:50:50 AM PDT by Michael81Dus (1954, 1974, 1990, 2006)
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To: kjo
Hang in there the NFL season begins soon.

Can't get here soon enough.

Go Pack! :)

67 posted on 06/27/2006 8:51:16 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: bwteim

From the Guardian:

44 mins: Brazil 2-0 Ghana Injustice! Lucio charged forward and fed Cafu down the right. He centred to Adriano, who tapped it home from a clearly offside position! Another scandalous decision in this increasingly farcical World Cup

From BBC:

45 mins: GOAL Brazil 2-0 Ghana Adriano doubles Brazil's lead, tapping in a cross from Cafu after a sweeping end-to-end move - but it was clearly off-side. Immediately before, Sulley Muntari almost tip-toed his way through the flaky Brazil defence at the other end.

From the Times:

45 mins: GOAL! Vintage Brazil. Ghana are attacking, 15 seconds later the ball is in their net. Lucio picks it up in the middle of his half, gallops forward, feeds Kaka, then Cafu on the right in the blink of an eye. His cross is deep, where Adriano has been quick enough not just to get up the pitch, but also to be offside. However, the richochet is enough, it goes in and the linesman is harrangued. Still, that's 2-0.


68 posted on 06/27/2006 8:51:25 AM PDT by Eurotwit (WI)
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To: FostersExport

After all these calls, probably sooner.

Speaking of incorrect calls, I should ask the mods to remove all of my soccer predictions.... I am batting zero;)


69 posted on 06/27/2006 8:51:58 AM PDT by bwteim (bwteim = Begin With The End In Mind. Save your finger - Oct 5, 2001)
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To: cardinal4
Ghana, Germany and Argentina Fans:

Is Ronaldo still a Fat pig/cow?

70 posted on 06/27/2006 8:52:01 AM PDT by chris_ab
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To: chris_ab
Is Ronaldo still a Fat pig/cow?

I never said he was..

71 posted on 06/27/2006 8:53:44 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Allah is the opium pipedream of a desert pedophile...Freeper Ax)
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To: chris_ab

He hasn't got any thinner.


72 posted on 06/27/2006 8:55:48 AM PDT by jjbrouwer (Two World Wars and one World Cup (soon to be two World Cups))
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To: romanesq

Running away from your queer references too? That's wise.


73 posted on 06/27/2006 8:56:30 AM PDT by Petronski (I just love that woman.)
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To: MotleyGirl70

I am a soccer fan, but talk about frustrating. "Soccer Countries" get the calls (or no calls) and "non-soccer" countries don't get them.

As you said, football is on it's way, but I prefer college "Go Irish"


74 posted on 06/27/2006 8:57:50 AM PDT by laissez- faire (Play Like A Champion Today)
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To: Eurotwit
Did Ronaldo not score first... what is this about off sides on the second score from Adriano?

Games are won by a 1 to 0 Score... Give Ronaldo credit.

Catch me if you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ronaldo to FreeRepublic:

"Get over it, all we have in Brazil is soccer - we don't even have food... that is why we are so good at soccer and that is, also, why you should not call me a Fat Cow."

75 posted on 06/27/2006 8:58:30 AM PDT by chris_ab
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To: laissez- faire

Argentina should have had a goal right at the end of the Mexico game but it was incorrectly ruled offside. Mind you, they should also have had a player sent off at the end of the first half.

The offside calls don’t seem to favour the big teams, they just seem to favour the wrong decision!

I’ve never seen such consistently poor judgment.


76 posted on 06/27/2006 9:00:39 AM PDT by FostersExport
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To: chris_ab

Credit to Ronaldo for breaking Muller's record.

History was made today.

Ghana needs to finish better.

They even looked good at times against Italy, but their finishing was terrible. Looks slightly better this time, and they are unlucky to be two goals down.


77 posted on 06/27/2006 9:01:20 AM PDT by Eurotwit (WI)
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To: Eurotwit

But, it was offsides.


78 posted on 06/27/2006 9:01:37 AM PDT by Eurotwit (WI)
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To: chris_ab

"Is Ronaldo still a Fat pig/cow?"

He's still fat, for a footballer.

Doesn't mean the great lump can't score goals.


79 posted on 06/27/2006 9:03:12 AM PDT by FostersExport
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To: Eurotwit
Okay, I'm patient.. Let us see Brazil score 2 more times... so that your argument is meaningless.

I'm sure if Ronaldinho was an attacker the score would be inflated. Who here agrees with me?

80 posted on 06/27/2006 9:03:49 AM PDT by chris_ab
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