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World Cup - Two-goal Neymar fires Brazil to controversial opening win
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| June 13, 2014
| Eurosport
Posted on 06/13/2014 1:58:16 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Croatia's 24th player
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Nervy, unconvincing and fortuitous -- but Brazil could scarcely care less.What do you do when youre a world class footballer who has just won his country victory at the opening game of the World Cup?
Oh yes, hang out with your girlfriend in a closet.
Croatian press slam 'shameful' penalty
"Injustice!'' "Shame!'' and "Referee shamelessly broke the Fiery Ones (Vatreni - the team;s nickname)!'' read the leading dailies frontpage headlines as they lamented over an "invented penalty.''
The press gave great play too to Croat coach Niko Kovac's comments to Croatian state-run HRT television that: "If that was a penalty then we should not play football anymore!''
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Referee Yuichi Nishimura, right, from Japan, issues a yellow card to Dejan Lovren, left, after calling a penalty during the group A World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Croatia, the opening game of the tournament, in the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, June 12, 2014. Brazil's Neymar scored on a penalty kick following the yellow card.
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Brazil's Neymar celebrates his goal against Croatia during their 2014 World Cup opening match at the Corinthians arena in Sao Paulo June 12, 2014.
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Goodness!
Why do I see Jerry Lewis, with dental inserts, saying...”Me so solly!”
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06/13/2014 2:47:08 AM PDT
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Cletus.D.Yokel
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Police have fired stun grenades and tear gas to break up a protest in Sao Paulo just hours before the opening game of the World Cup.
Officers also used rubber bullets as anger at the money being spent to host the competition spilled over.
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I can see how the referee called the penalty in the box. It’s not like soccer players ever flop...
(insert Asian eye joke here)
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06/13/2014 3:10:07 AM PDT
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EEGator
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Both of the defender's arms came up and made contact. In particular, the left hand and arm dragged over the Brazilian's shoulder. The ref could easily have thought the Brazilian was pulled down from behind. The contact looked more incidental on replays, but as we all know, refs don't have the benefit of replays.
While I have come to enjoy soccer late in life, I continue to think the game needs a bit more scoring. Not because I want cheap goals -- the travesty that basketball has become should cure anyone of that -- but because bad or questionable calls, fluke goals, and shootouts loom far too large in soccer. Bad calls happen in all sports. Can't be avoided. But in most sports you can say, "let's get it back," and mean it. In high level soccer, scoring is so difficult that getting it back requires a bit of a miracle.
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06/13/2014 3:40:48 AM PDT
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