It's hard to understand NZ. They are a non-soccer country, trying to work on the popularity of the sport which is very secondary to rugby, there, so they go to an international tournament and play dirty under the eyes of the whole world? What are they trying to accomplish? Does soccer there have a reputation for being for the lesser macho men so they are trying to impress their domestic audience?
Good job almost done in the first half. Get Ronaldo, Bernardo and Quaresma out and bring in Gelson, Nani and maybe Pizzi around the 60-80 minute mark
There is something to this, many rugby players view football players as soft, which compared to rugby players they are, but to bring it to the game is only going to make you look bad or like a thug or both but not as in a bad thug (as in good), you understand
Maybe Fifa has to start looking at then closer and issue more cards. No need for this type of crap in the game.
Pepe with the yellow. Misses next game......... This one is on Santos. We didn't need Pepe vs New Zealand.
Stupid Pepe, why do something like this and miss the next match, when it's pretty clear that by now this game means little and Portugal will easily advance?