Posted on 07/01/2010 10:51:22 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Lionel Messi has vowed to do everything he can to help Argentina defeat Germany for the sake of his favourite band Oasis.
Oasis' home nation England were dumped out of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in humiliating fashion after being thrashed by old rivals Germany 4-1 in the second round.
However, the Barcelona star is determined to put a smile back on the band members' faces this Saturday.
"If they (Oasis) love England as much as they do Manchester City, you can tell them from me I will do everything I can to defeat the team who knocked their beloved England out of the Cup," Messi said, according to The Sun.
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Germany is frickin’ toast
Sorry, I'm one of those blinkered monolingual Americans, so you're on your own for translating the exact German and Spanish dialogue in this video. But thankfully someone has done the work for us and pointed out that Argentina coach Diego Maradona back in March at this post-game press conference following a 1-0 win in a friendly over Germany, initially thought that 20-year-old German striker Thomas Mueller was a ballboy and jokingly refused to share the stage with him until he left
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"It doesn't worry me what he says about penalties and that we don't know how to lose. It doesn't interest us. A different game is played every match and this is going to be different because we are coming out to attack them and play in their faces. This is what has made them nervous.''
...But for Maradona, just one belief does not seem to be enough; he has a chain of them, from the kind of cloth he wears on match days, to the one he wears to the stadium and that he actually takes to the pitch for the match – and this is not to mention where he does his pre-match press briefings. For him all must follow a well-put-together transmission line. And he has been respecting this ritual since the beginning of South Africa 2010 and winning his matches.
But last weekend, he found to his chagrin that one in the line of the ritual – the part of this ritual that he does not have full control over – had been brooked and would now be broken; the routine of where he holds his pre-match press briefings.
Since the beginning of the World Cup Finals, no matter how far away the matches have been, Maradona had always insisted on holding his day-before match news conferences at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria. But the stadium closed for the World Cup after Tuesday’s match between Paraguay and Japan.
So when he got there yesterday to book for his next press conference – which should come up tomorrow – towards Friday’s clash with Germany and he was told the stadium has officially closed to all World Cup activities, he was forced to ask about the media center and the bitter answer for him was that the section too was a ‘no go’ area.
PARAGUAY'S lingerie-model fan Larissa Riquelme has trumped Argentina coach Diego Maradona in the "World Cup-winning dare" department.
Maradona had promised to run naked around the streets of Buenos Aires if he led Argentina to glory at the World Cup.
Now, Paraguay's most-famous fan has vowed to meet the pledge in its capital, Asunscion, if her country can defy the odds and lift the trophy on July 11, reported The Daily Mail.
Some of you might have noticed that Diego Maradona never goes anywhere without a couple of nice gentleman who look like they run a casino when they're not attempting to scare other teams into losing football matches.
One of them in particular - the one with the slick hair - has the demeanour of a man who would kindly offer you for a lift home, then drive to the wrong house, shiv you in the neck, and bury you in the desert.
But don't be fooled by the whole Sopranos thing they've got happening, these men actually happen to have some footballing pedigree.
I thought Oasis broke up.
ARGENTINA coach Diego Maradona added another bizarre episode to his World Cup campaign - by putting on a German accent to taunt his quarter-final opponents.
It’s nearly to bad that the brasilians will not be allowed to send that monkey (and personal friend of Fidel) home - it would just cause more joy in this world.
Revenge for Oasis..... this is stuff for Southpark.
Team Blur ping!
LOL !
Well I guess these three where playing in the tour bus when Diego went home with his socialistic millionairs club.
Argentina are a bunch of bad losers.
I wouldn't be concerned that Messi did not find the back of the net (neither did Rooney) given that he created opportunities for Huggein & Tevez.
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