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Lol what's this retarded post? If you want to talk about Ibra write something about him, dont loving copy Wikipedia paragraphs! Also, Ibra is such a big loving oval office and an amazing player. Hands down the best striker in the Ligue 1, a real driving force for PSG and an rear end in a top hat that makes defenders lose their poo poo. I love him and hate him at the same time.
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its weird how Ibra has been one of the best strikers in the world for over a decade but is only now getting the media coverage and plaudits that he deserves, its probably just an english media thing who would relentlessly call him out every time he played an english team in the champions league
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Jul 13, 2014 10:44
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I really want Ibra to move to the BPL.
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Jul 13, 2014 10:49
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It would be nice if he could get a champion's league trophy before he retires.
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Jul 13, 2014 11:45
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just being zlatan is the greatest achievment anyone can hope to accomplish in their life
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With all the previous criticism that Brasil was playing bullying football with no flair or beauty, could the Brasil-Germany game be interpreted as a disastrous attempt to change that? With no defense and no discipline in the mid, it looked like a 10-year-old set up an imaginative and attacking game. Forget defense, just attack spontaneously, go all out, be yourselves  !
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Doctor Malaver posted:With all the previous criticism that Brasil was playing bullying football with no flair or beauty, could the Brasil-Germany game be interpreted as a disastrous attempt to change that? With no defense and no discipline in the mid, it looked like a 10-year-old set up an imaginative and attacking game. Forget defense, just attack spontaneously, go all out, be yourselves not even close. 11 players went out there and had no idea how to do anything. they couldn't defend, they had no idea in attack, the midfield may as well have stayed in the hotel. the reason brazil have had a legacy of flowing, attacking football with great style is because they've always had a team full of players who can play like that. this brazil team had one flair player in neymar, and the rest of them (silva aside) are clueless idiots. edit: they didnt have an 'attack spontaneously' attitude to the game, they had a 'wtf? where am i? what do?!!?' attitude
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1. Why is the iconic ball the black-and-white icosahedron even though it was only used for a few years in the early 1970s? Or is that soccer ball iconic only in the non-football-watching USA? 2. When(ish) did soccer players go from the hotpants-style shorts (also 1970s) to the knee-length seen now?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:1. Why is the iconic ball the black-and-white icosahedron even though it was only used for a few years in the early 1970s? Or is that soccer ball iconic only in the non-football-watching USA? i think that's the iconic ball because it was the most reproduced ball. through the 80s that style of ball was the most often used ball on fields and parks in the uk that i can remember. and it was easy to reproduce in video game format, idk how relevant that might be. shorts got baggier in the 90s, but they'll go back to slightly tighter then much tighter eventually.
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Jul 13, 2014 19:13
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Remember when Milan had both Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, and then they sold them.
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Just an FYI for american fans based on Kramer in the final: concussions are cool and totally legal in the world's game.
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Volkerball posted:Remember when Milan had both Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, and then they sold them. And Ronaldinho And Pirlo And Seedorf
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OK, so now that the World Cup is officially over ( ), what's the next big football tournament/match? I heard the Libertadores final is in a couple of days, is there anything else coming up?
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:OK, so now that the World Cup is officially over ( follow club football, then theres an important match or 10 every week. internationally the euros are in two years with qualification games starting ina couple of months, idk about in the americas.
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:OK, so now that the World Cup is officially over ( 30 days of hurt and then the Premier League.
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Jul 13, 2014 22:52
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Womens World cup next summer. its not the same, but still fun
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:OK, so now that the World Cup is officially over ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315_UEFA_Champions_League
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:OK, so now that the World Cup is officially over ( The big European leagues are as big as it gets, but an actual tournament is the Champions League which lasts the whole season. The next big international tournament is the Euro in 2 years
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There's also the Copa América next year. All the South American teams play. And in 2016 (in the US!) because the president of CONMEBOL loves money.
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I really enjoyed watching this World Cup, and even though I have seen matches in the past, I feel this is the first year that I actually "got it", like I fully understood what was happening and why. I know a lot of people have asked about upcoming matches and I know that this sport is incredibly complicated in the sense that their are various leagues, levels of competition, and rules about players transfers etc. I know I would be interested in a thread similar to this in TFF: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3324645 Basically, it would be nice if someone put together an effort post explaining all the basics of the various leagues and such. Is the Ray Parlour large enough to undertake that sort of project with the chance of succeeding?
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swickles posted:I really enjoyed watching this World Cup, and even though I have seen matches in the past, I feel this is the first year that I actually "got it", like I fully understood what was happening and why. Yeah but it's like really not terribly complicated and 99% of possibly mentioned leagues you will never even begin to watch There's a league pyramid in pretty much every European country, most have around 20 teams per level, usually three go down to a league below at the end of a season and three from belo go up. Most every European country has a knockout tournament inside the country for a cup Also the top teams of each country go to play in a European league either the champions league or the Europa cup for a different trophy That covers almost all of what you'd need to know
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swickles posted:I really enjoyed watching this World Cup, and even though I have seen matches in the past, I feel this is the first year that I actually "got it", like I fully understood what was happening and why. no because we dont really want or need any new posters, that poo poo looks like way too much loving work to get a bunch of tff'ers here whining about concussions or casual racisms
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Step 1: go to whoscored.com and see what's on today. Pick some matches. Step 2: go to rojadirecta.me or wiziwig.tv and find some streams Step 3: watch the foot, all the foot.
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swickles posted:I really enjoyed watching this World Cup, and even though I have seen matches in the past, I feel this is the first year that I actually "got it", like I fully understood what was happening and why. All of the countries with big leagues do their own threads at the start of the season, the Premier League one is usually very thorough and probably the closes thing to your example. Don't be afraid to post rule questions in this thread, I also think that a lot of everyday tactical and terminology questions have been answered here as well.
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Drogadon posted:Step 1: go to whoscored.com and see what's on today. Pick some matches. Am I the only one that still Uses atdhe
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Anyone else who has Dish Network: Is there a package that covers Premier League? Or are streams my only hope?
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Jose Pointero posted:Anyone else who has Dish Network: Is there a package that covers Premier League? Or are streams my only hope? Whatever package has NBC sports, if you get the channel you get all of the legal streams.
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Gigi Galli posted:Whatever package has NBC sports, if you get the channel you get all of the legal streams.
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tbp posted:Uses atdhe i use atdhe tbp, but a lot of people ditched the site after those like three weeks or whatever when it got taken down and moved url like a year ago
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Spain, England, and Germany have far and away the best quality domestic leagues, with Portugal, France, and Italy behind those, and then it drops off a cliff. There's no salary cap, so the rich teams just buy players from the poor ones from any league they want, which means every league has a handful of teams that wreck poo poo every year for decades, and then a bunch of garbageman teams. This happens in the lovely leagues too. For instance, Celtic is a Scottish team that can contend to make it into the knockout rounds of the Champions League every year, but literally every other team in that league is absolute trash ever since Rangers went broke. The Champions League is far and away the biggest club competition in the world, and matches up all the best teams in all of Europe, so if you're interested in getting into the Euro scene, that's the best place to start. Group stages start in September. It's the FBS to the Europa leagues FCS. It's the exact same format as the world cup, but in the group stages, teams play each other two times instead of just once. And instead of just playing one game in the knockout stages, they play two legs, with the aggregate score between the two games determining who moves forward. The final is just one game though, which is the last game played after all the domestic seasons end in late May, signaling the end of the European football year. Last years had 300+ million viewers worldwide. Offseason is short as gently caress. Think friendlies start in July in all leagues, with league games beginning in August.
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tbp posted:Am I the only one that still I still use it.
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Volkerball posted:Spain, England, and Germany have far and away the best quality domestic leagues, with Portugal, France, and Italy behind those, and then it drops off a cliff. Naaaah. I wouldn't say Portugal is a stronger league than Russia, Turkey or Netherlands. Then maybe Ukraine. Then the cliff.
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jyrka posted:Naaaah. I wouldn't say Portugal is a stronger league than Russia, Turkey or Netherlands. Then maybe Ukraine. Then the cliff. I don't know about Turkey, but Netherlands doesn't seem that good. Ajax never does anything in the Champions league, and Feyenoord and PSV aren't any better. I put Portugal up there because Porto and Benfica are pretty good teams, but outside of that I'm sure it's poo poo. And yeah, I forgot all about Russia. They also have the best logo in football. 
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jyrka posted:Naaaah. I wouldn't say Portugal is a stronger league than Russia, Turkey or Netherlands. Then maybe Ukraine. Then the cliff. The Portuguese league actually surpassed Serie A and is now 3rd in the rankings, tho I would put it more on France's current level since the dropoff after the first 4 teams is pretty severe. Even so there's a reason Portuguese teams are always in the EL final and sometimes get far in the knockout rounds of the CL (and have won the CL this decade as many times as Germany). It's def better than Russia/Turkey/Holland, those are garbage leagues.
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Serie A might have slipped down in the rankings lately but it's always fun because of the crazy drama and antics that happen. Also Roma are building up great team so it will probably be harder for Juve to run away with the Scudetto again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuUKUDBxZtc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWkojrNjgIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I4Np-8thOs tbp posted:Am I the only one that still I thought it had died, bookmarking it again Simone Poodoin fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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swickles posted:I really enjoyed watching this World Cup, and even though I have seen matches in the past, I feel this is the first year that I actually "got it", like I fully understood what was happening and why. You should follow (a) one (1) of the big leagues, e.g. England, Italy, Germany, and Spain, and (b) the Champions League. Since you're American, the EPL will probably be the easiest for you. Watching one league will be enough to take up your time, and watching the Champions League will be enough to fill you in on what's going on in the other leagues that mean anything. As you go, you'll figure out games from other leagues that you care about.
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Mean Bean Machine posted:The Portuguese league actually surpassed Serie A and is now 3rd in the rankings Surpassing Italy would make them 4th in the rankings, somewhere far behind the top 3.
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What happened to the Italian league anyway, Inter winning the CL wasn't that long ago...
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Fag Boy Jim posted:What happened to the Italian league anyway, Inter winning the CL wasn't that long ago... The country is poor and all the money isn't siphoned off to two clubs.
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