Activate Another Lever and Still Lose to a Madrid Remontada - The Small Teams Thread

You are absolutely correct.

 

Not by the refs.

 

South American teams in general are known for their unsportasmanship. It was way worse in the 90s. But still happens.

I recall watching Copa America where Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina would play dirty it made Busquets' peak-a-boo look like a honorable act.

The word for what SA players do is "catimba". I'd describe it as a mix of violence and playacting. And the worst offenders have always been Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, in that order.

Libertadores used to be unwatchable. For decades, the refs would protect the Spanish-speaking teams. I heard that in the 60s, Brazilian teams preferred to play friendlies in NA than play the Libertadores. That's why Argentinian teams have so many titles.

I don't find all national teams terrible. Always had a soft spot for Italy, Norway, Germany, and Mexico. The 2002 Argentina squad was really awesome too. Aside from Ortega, they were respectable players overall.

 

Seems to me that you're the only one "crying" everytime a poster questions Argentina's WC victory.

Lol so just like racism in Spain, hating on Argentina is a cultural thing, too?

 

Don't act like brazilians don't do the same things, every time a brazilian team is losing starts with fouls only Pepe would do

 

CONMEBOL and copa America has become unwatchable

I love watching Colombia play but not in CONMEBOL. Even the more skilled teams like Brazil and Argentina reduce themselves to hacking, flopping, arguing with the refs, and fighting

just terrible

 

I must admit, it does worry me that Bellingham has to strap his knee like that at 19

 

Saka with a world class goal.

 

DJ Mariio.

Bro done the SIU at Camp Nou 😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/0fJK474Ze3

— WolfRMFC (@WolfRMFC) March 26, 2023

 

That SIU man... the run we had with Cristiano at his peak of powers was just amazing.

Crazy he should have won even more league titles.

 

Two ridiculous headers from Joao Felix and Bernardo Silva. Wouldn’t have expected that.

 

I know what I saw, so do many other people. Lots of issues in football but one particularly annoying one is the need to create the narrative by the federations to be historically relevant. The WC would be just fine with pushing Messi into a final.

 

Japan is one of the most likable, they respect the sport

 

How many tournaments do they need BTW to add to the narrative around a special player

 

Cristiano reborn

 

None of this makes racism ok, also who are the posters that believe all of the above, i personally can't think of any reading through the discussions i've seen on here, maybe you can enlighten me

 

"I am not saying it's okay I'm just explaining why it should be understood and tolerated silly!"

Rationalization and justification... yet we're the fools.

 

🚨⚪️ 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 | Antonio Conte has LEFT Tottenham Hotspur by mutual agreement. pic.twitter.com/0reQwMGpaq

— EuroFoot (@eurofootcom) March 26, 2023

 

Nah, Brazil has always been about dribbling and getting into the opponents' nerves. They never acted like the teams I mentioned, aside from Neymar.