Get a real sport, world
Europeans are humans that didn’t leave the location they were living in 1,000,000 years ago, so they did not grow as big as other humans who left. So basically all you got was a bunch of tiny primates in an area. They took up a sport called soccer, and they played it alot.
Soccer is played by people that are less athletic than people in the USA. The athletes in soccer basically look like average guys. Now take a look at athletes in sports played in the USA. Even by looking at the physical differentiation of the players one can see that athletes in the USA are on the whole more athletic than people who play soccer in the world cup. Basketball players need to be extremely tall or ridiculously athletic if they are small.
Sports like football and basketball require athletes to pump steroids in their bodies to keep up with the level of play that is now being acheived. How many soccer players have been caught for steroids? Answer: NONE. That is because they suck. Get a real sport, world.
A few moderately talented athletes in the US took up the sport. Now I will not argue that soccer is an inferior sport in its design, but I will say that the athletes playing it are far inferior to athletes in the United States. If Lebron James began had played soccer his whole life instead of basketball, he would be the best player in the world. Fuck soccer.
Quarterfinal classic: Germany vs. Argentina
- Germany and Argentina have met twice in World Cup championship games, each winning once: Argentina 3-2 in the 1986 final and West Germany 1-0 in 1990. This will be their fifth game in all World Cup play, and Germany has won two, draw one and lost one.
- Argentina coach Jose Pekerman and Klinsmann, both widely criticized, have proven the skeptics wrong. Both have gone with relatively young teams.
- It will be Germany’s size against the relatively small and much quicker South Americans.
- Both teams feed off two topflight midfielders, Argentina’s Juan Roman Riquelme and Germany’s Ballack.
Zidane’s key free kick, goal lead Frenchmen to 3-1 victory
French fans had not celebrated with such abandon in a World Cup stadium since 1998. Then again, Zinedine Zidane had not played a game like this one in eight years.
They’re not ready to throw his retirement party just yet.
The French captain set up the deciding goal on Tuesday night, then scored one of his own minutes later to lead France to a 3-1 win over hard-luck Spain.
Ronaldo sets record as Brazil rips Ghana
Ronaldo broke free early, flashed past Ghana’s flailing goalkeeper and poked the ball into the net.
With one swift move in the fifth minute Tuesday, the superstar striker overtook German Gerd Mueller as the greatest scorer in World Cup history, spoiled Ghana’s scrappy debut and put defending champion Brazil into its fourth straight quarterfinals.
“I want to continue to increase the record,” Ronaldo said, “but without forgetting that the main goal in the World Cup is winning the title.”
Police patrol German city to disuade English revelers
STUTTGART, Germany — Fears of fan violence fizzled Sunday as tens of thousands of raucous English supporters peacefully celebrated their team’s advance to the World Cup quarterfinals under a heavy police presence.
Beer, expletives and patriotic songs flowed freely — but an evening downpour and victory helped restrain the crowds.
It was a contrast to Saturday, when riot police arrested more than 500 English who hurled bottles and plastic chairs in separate outbursts.
In the free open-air viewing area Sunday, middle-aged couples and families with children — some carrying the German flag — mingled with fans clad in flags or walking around shirtless to bare patriotic tattoos.
“It’s a party. We’re here to have fun,” whooped Kevin Penfold as he swapped his red England shirt for an Ecuadorean one worn by Ana Cecilia Pinos Flores, who struggled to put on her sweat-soaked acquisition.
Nearby, an English fan with his chest hairs dyed ginger and shaved in the shape of a cross grinned benignly in an alcoholic daze as his friends covered him in a flag. Others bellowed songs about downing German bombers in World War II.
Beckham leads Britain into Quarters
David Beckham bent the ball over the wall and squeezed England into the World Cup quarterfinals.
Beckham curled a trademark 25-yard free kick just inside the post in the 60th minute, giving England an ugly 1-0 victory over Ecuador on Sunday and a berth against the Netherlands or Portugal.
The England captain, whose free kicks inspired the 2003 movie title “Bend it Like Beckham,” hooked the ball ever so carefully over a defensive wall of four Ecuadoreans in bright yellow shirts.
Struck with expert touch, the ball dipped toward the corner, where goalkeeper Cristian Mora dived to his right and caught a piece of it with his fingertips. But he couldn’t stop it from shaving the post and squirting into the net.
Beckham ran wildly toward the center of the field, hooking an arm around Ashley Cole. Victoria Adams, his pop star wife formerly known as Posh Spice, jumped up in the stands.
Nazi vs. Nazi
World War 2 had just ended and Nazi war criminals were fleeing Germany. So where did they go? Well some went to the United States and became meatcutters in the Midwest. But for most, and the most nortorious ones, ended up in Argentina. Adolph Eichmann, the man in charge of the death camps, ended up living in a poor barrio of Buenos Aires.
So it is only fitting that these two will play each other in the quarterfinals of the World Cup next Friday.
Scoring takes on new meaning with the latest World Cup merchandise
Of course, the world’s corporations wanted a piece of the most popular sporting event on the planet, the World Cup of soccer, now being contested in Germany. Big name sponsors like Philips, MasterCard and Budweiser are there and you can buy all kinds of licensed products like colorful hats and scarves — the Euro-version of our big foam “Number 1” hand.
One endorsement deal, however, didn’t make the news a few weeks ago. It seems the German sex shop chain, Beate Uhse came out with Ollie K and Michael B vibrators and a David B dildo. To anyone who knows soccer, it appeared as if stars Oliver Khan, Michael Ballack and David Beckham had lent their names to a line of sex toys.
They hadn’t. After a minor blitz of publicity and a threat of a lawsuit, Beate Uhse dropped the names.
But fear not! The World Cup has still generated a new phenomenon in sports — one we’ll probably see linked to every major international event from now on — the sex product tie-in. And why not? If Viagra can sponsor a NASCAR team, why can’t, say, Manchester United sign off on love balls?
The love balls, used for vaginal stimulation, are out there, shaped like little soccer balls and available from a variety of European and Latin American sex shops. You can buy them for 60 reals in Brazil, and about 5 euros in Italy, Holland, the UK and Germany.
Ousted African stars cheer on Ghana against United States
By DEREK GATOPOULOS
NUREMBERG, Germany (AP) -Ghana’s African rivals are counting on the Black Stars to carry the mantle into the second round for the continent’s other World Cup newcomers.
Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba has urged Ghana captain Stephen Appiah to beat the United States on Thursday to clinch a spot in the second round of the World Cup. Appiah said he has also heard from Togo players Emmanuel Adebayor and Mohamed Kader about the upcoming game in Nuremberg.
“They said: ‘Guys we are behind you people, we couldn’t make it so you have to represent Africa,”’ Appiah said. “I was very happy when I heard such a thing from my friends … We are prepared very well and it will be a crucial game but as far as we are determined to win, I think we can make it.'’
The Black Stars lost their opening game 2-0 to Italy but rebounded with a shocking 2-0 defeat of the Czech Republic. Ghana can assure advancement with a win, or a draw and an Italy win over the Czech Republic. Ghana can also advance with a draw and an Italy loss by at least two goals.
Ghana is one of four African newcomers in Germany, but Ivory Coast, Togo and Angola have already been eliminated. Tunisia, which is playing in its fourth World Cup, still has a chance to advance from Group H.
“People didn’t expect us to play the way we played. All Ghanaians are happy not only for Ghana but for the whole continent as well,'’ Appiah said. “We are cool and we are ready. Most important, we are ready to meet the U.S. tomorrow.'’
Ghana will play the United States without suspended striker Asamoah Gyan and midfielder Sulley Muntari, who both scored against the Czechs.
Mexico loses to Portugal but advances
GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany - Portugal fielded its ‘’B” team and still won.
Mexico also won, in a way. Its 2-1 loss to the Portuguese didn’t hurt when Angola couldn’t beat Iran on Wednesday, allowing the Mexicans to advance to the second round of the World Cup.
Portugal won all three first-round games in Group D. It got goals by Maniche and Simao Sabrosa in the first 25 minutes, and Mexico’s Omar Bravo missed a chance to tie on a second-half penalty kick that soared over the net.