2014 World Cup: General Thoughts Thread [R]

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I am saying Mexico, why? Por que se vale soñar.

 

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http://soccerly.com/article/joselopezsports/pele-mexico-brazil-will-advance
Shit, it's the Pelé curse.

 

Curse died
Picked Spain to win 2010

 

[josé mamón]But we're not Spain.[\josé mamón]

 

lol @ anyone not voting for Bosnia-Herzegovina

Dem boys gud

 

Brazil will face Croatia without Mandzukic due to a one game ban.

 

Negged for having cheech representing mexico, should be Peralta tbh

 

Gio imo

 

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Thought I would make a thread for news and thoughts not relating to Mexico.

I think this will be a very competitive WC. Looking at the groups from the past two WCs or so I think there are much less easy groups. I attribute it to the emerging of some dark horse teams (Switzerland/Colombia/Belgium.) They may not deliver in the end but it will be fun to watch.

 

I'll join just bc @Otaku said so

 

They are cutting it close with the stadiums. Taken from Skyscrapercity







Brazilian officials are giving up on some unfinished World Cup projects

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...e52c2c-d17e-11e3-937f-d3026234b51c_story.html

 

What a waste all that Money could have been used to support the weak,the unprivileged the millions of Kids???

Weak sauce .....

 

The 2nd leg of that WC qualifier between Sweden and Portugal from last year was on ESPN2(?) today.. CR7 truly sliced Sweden's defense in the 2nd half of that match. Dude was brilliant. That said, I think people truly underestimate how good this current Portugal side is. Sure, CR7 scored the hat trick but he was given some great passes, which led to those goals. I think that I'm just as excited for the Portugal- Germany match as I am Ghana's opening match. Actually, I wish that the matches were reversed and that Portugal played the US first; so they can go ahead and knock the US out of the group with 4 or 5 goals....

 

Isn't that the case with every big international sports tournament, though?

I mean, I get that the situation in Brazil is not perfect to say the least, but the arguments that are being used to be against this World Cup are mostly cliches and problems that are expected in every big city/country.

No mames.

 

Ghana and Portugal wins in the first group game would be ideal

Portugal, Ghana, Ecuador are the 3 outside of mex teams I hope do really well

 

No Mario Gomez for Germany

 

Hes too old, Germany has way too much young talent to be wasted on a guy whos past it

 

CR7 is gonna have a field day against that soft nads defense. Germany vs Portugal is gonna be a close one, but gotta give the advantage to ze germans. Their midfield > Portugal's midfield.
That Ghana first game though, Gyan hat trick