Posted on 06/29/2010 3:19:32 AM PDT by Perdogg
FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa - Day 19 - Live Thread: Paraguay V Japan; Spain V Portugal.
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I hope that Honda is going to kick some ass today. Spain-Portugal is going to be interesting; I hope I can get home in time!
LET’S GO PARAGUAY!!!!!!!!
LET’S GO PORTUGAL!!!!!!!!
I’m on the Netherlands bandwagon.But,after watching Brazil
yesterday.I don’t know if anyone can beat them.
Saw on Univision’s soccer show “Primer Impacto: Edicion Mundial” a huge fistfight and overall fight that ensued after the Argentina-Mexico game, at the stadium, amongst family members of the Mexico team.
Apparently everyone was very drunk and a man from one of the players’ families said something nasty to the wife of the player they call ‘El Chicharrito’, and the melee ensued. South African Police came in and threw everyone out of the stadium. It was reported that once the wife gets to Mexico City, she will file suit (or something like that) against the aggressor.
For some unknown reason, when I think of the Netherlands this year, I think of Joran Van Der Sloot (the Dutch guy who killed the Peruvian girl and is involved in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway).... he's sitting in solitary confinement at Castro-Castro, one of the worse prisons in South America, but he is allowed to watch the matches when the Netherlands is playing, and that just pisses me off. TAKE AWAY THE TV!
Ah great. A few more corrupted officials on the field -- just what we need. FIFA's silence in regards to the Germany-England goal in question is deafening. They're acting like a super-secret organization and that's just wrong, wrong, wrong!
As they prepared for their encounter with Portugal, a fixture that carries the same level of intensity as an England-Germany match, Torres cut a diminished figure. As he did in the early rounds of Euro 2008, David Villa has carried the sharpest edge to his boots. His partner still seems troubled by the knee injury that cost him the last quarter of Liverpool's season of despair. His manager, Vicente del Bosque, may point out that Torres's mere presence has diverted defenders' attentions and created space for Villa. However, after training at Green Point Stadium last night, Villa remarked that goals were a centre-forward's only currency, in which case Torres has not a penny to his name. But he added that he expected Torres to start cashing in late just as he did in Austria and Switzerland.
The Spaniards have always maintained that the Portuguese territory is THEIRS and the Portuguese are always complaining that when TV programs or books show maps of Spain, they don’t distinguish the geographical lines separating both nations, and these shows and books make Spain look like it owns the entire peninsula, which makes any Portuguese national upset.
The Portuguese were better navigators than the Spaniards too, during the 15th & 16th Centuries, in my humble opinion.
I’M ROOTIN’ FOR GIBRALTAR! ;-)
The Basque country
Spain - Portugal should be the game-of-the-day. Japan - Paraguay? Oy......
Brazil looked very strong. But the Dutch are not Chile and can maybe negate the Brazilian rush. Plus, if you get ahead of them early, they tend to get a bit shaky.
It’s no act!
They are as about as clean as the UN running the oil for food program.
No but they DO get a free copy of James Michener’s book.
I don’t think we can know too much about either team so far. Neither has had to give any of its strategery away.
While I’m pulling for Holland, Brazil has Cesar in goal. That’s 50% of the game in Brazil’s favor.
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