Posted on 07/13/2014 3:10:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
RIO DE JANEIRO – Mario Goetze volleyed in the winning goal in extra time to give Germany its fourth World Cup title with a 1-0 victory over Argentina on Sunday.
Goetze controlled the ball with his chest and then shot past Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Romero in the 113th minute.
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Great Game.
Actually you described American Football, sort of anyway
In a regular soccer game, which normally lasts 90 minutes if there is a tie, the two teams have to play again a week later.
Yeah, Goetze's goal was pretty athletic & smooth.
I did. Forty years ago I used to watch (American) football games back to back. Then after a very large number of boring, low-scoring, run-run-pass-punt games in a row, I asked myself why I watched them. I stopped watching most football games.
After being a fanatic in my youth, I now see maybe four or five games a year. Don't miss it all. It's true, if they eliminated fgs and only gave one point for tds, the average score would be about 3-2. Maybe not even that. Not much more exciting than soccer.
I can hardly contain my excite(yawn)ment.
Isn't that Bernie's job?
I'm not a huge fan, but watch it from time to time. I do like American football better for sure, but international football is interesting sometimes.
I watched the first half of this game, then caught the last 5 minutes of the second half and the two overtime periods.
As a typical impatient American, I have to say I did get pretty bored in the first half watching Germany pass the ball around at mid field for very long periods of time, presumably "setting up" their offense. IMHO, soccer would seriously benefit from a new rule similar to the "shot clock" in basketball to liven things up significantly (constructive criticism). Force the offense to at least TRY to score in a reasonable period of time, vs. put all the fans to sleep passing for minutes on end. Not that this goes on in all games, but it did in this one.
None of them apparently made the finals.
Im so excited i forgot to care.
Soccer is a sport for little kids who don’t know how to uses their hands and cripples that don’t have hands to uses. I don’t understand why anyone over the age of 10 watches people run around on a field kicking a ball.
If I go to a baseball game that is scoreless after nine innings everyone talks about it being a pitcher's duel.
In soccer, it's about 90 minutes of play in about 100 minutes of time and less than two hours of TV time.
And guess what? You may not know much about American football, but American football officials can take time off the clock or put more time on the clock if they decide to.
I told you Germany would win. (yes, I’m bragging)
I’ve kept quiet on his soccer hatred for weeks, but you are absolutely ridiculous. We get it; you don’t like soccer and nothing, absolutely nothing you and other Freepers, who don’t like soccer, will make soccer less appealing to those Freepers who do.
You obviously have a lot of free time on your hand to come on THIS soccer related thread as a troll. I know it pisses you off that other conservatives could enjoy a game like soccer because it doesn’t compote with your ideal sports and you (including other soccer haters) come on these threads to tell us how much you don’t like it...well, no one compelled you to click on this thread link.
There are many sports I love watching. I love watching my ‘skins and Capitols, but can’t stand golf or the NBA. But i don’t go on a golf or basketball thread to whine and complain, ad naseum, about how terribly unexciting those sport are...
And I don’t hear anyone complaining about 2-1 or 1-0 hockey games.
Your impression is correct. There are about 1.5 touchdowns per every TV hour of football and 1.4 goals scored per every TV hour of soccer.
I obviously listed the last two and next two Third World Cups. The US holds the all-time attendance record (despite playing fewer games), but FIFA would rather take bribes than give the US the World Cup back.
I am not intersested in "sport" thats allow a cartel of crooks to stage the game in Qatar instead of the USA.
Qualifying for the 2018 World Cup starts in mid- to late-2015, doesn’t it? If you do create a ping list, please add me.
No, but the politics behind who hosts is run by a bunch of corrupt third-world nations that are easily bribed. And countries like the Ivory Coast and Costa Rica get teams.
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