Posted on 07/03/2014 12:04:29 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The more than 22 million watching on Tuesday beat the number of viewers - some 19 million - who tuned in to see the Boston Red Sox win the World Series last year.
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I’ve come across two Frenchmen just off-the-street and seen them play in casual games; both of them were very skilled and that is from a country that is often looked at as being more of a Rugby nation. One was a typical mustachioed type from Tours, pear-shaped, the other was a young buck who actually could have passed for a German per his appearance. I’ve come across others from European nations as well who knew their stuff but these two in that were actually pretty amazing and clearly above average.
The eight remaining finals teams are all from Europe and Latin America, four each.
That does not surprise me. While all the world plays soccer, not all play it so well.
The good news, we finished ahead of Spain, England, Italy and Portugal.
The bad news, we finished behind Greece, Algeria and Costa Rica.
2016, USA hosts the Copa America, Century edition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Copa_America
1st one to be held outside of the USA. In 2 years.
A significantly high finish is really needed for this.
Edit: That should read this will be the first Copa America ever held outside of South America.
http://us.soccerway.com/news/2014/July/04/scolari-brazil-have-one-hand-on-world-cup-trophy/n347993/
“Brazil have one on the WC Trophy”-Scolari
Klinsi needs to get his roster set early....I thought there was still too much tinkering with the roster up to the end.
We really need to have the core of our 2018 WCQ and WC squad ready to go for the Copa America.
Really pretty slick except the result. I guess one keeps this for an urgent situation.
USA should do well at the Copa, should we have a poor one, a definite reevaluation would be needed.
I still wish somehow, someone set up a competing competition and a competing world Federation, something since FIFA lacks a lot to be desired out of a sport organizations. The Olympic Committee ultimately nowadays at least seems to have more integrity.
This is a great World Cup but why the lack of cards in the Brazil/Colombia match? Why not instant replay?
Tim Howard had his goalkeeping record performance against this team.
All the underdogs left, the biggest Underdog plays in the next match.
Semi-Finals! Argentina
You can’t compare games in a way but Belgium did similar to Iran, Nigeria and Switzerland. Argentina probably has gotten progressively better.
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