To be fair, Cronaldo left England for Spain so that he would be "protected".
Drogba is "continental" sometimes in his approach but you would have to agree that you cant put him in the same category as the frail, weak spanish bastards...
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To be fair, Cronaldo left England for Spain so that he would be "protected".
Drogba is "continental" sometimes in his approach but you would have to agree that you cant put him in the same category as the frail, weak spanish bastards...
If Spain finish second and Brazil finish first in their respective groups they will face each other in the round of 16.
Protected, that punk got sent off twice.
I don't blame him though, a bunch of hacking goes on in the EPL.
Unbelievable... motherfuckers making monkey sound every time Herskey and Shawn Wright Phillips touched the ball.. and you have people complaining about Vuvuzelas..
That mean Ivory Coast won't have to play Spain...good fuck them..
Protected, that punk got sent off twice.
I don't blame him though, a bunch of hacking goes on in the EPL.
You seem to be mad that the fascista from Spain lost, why? Are you are fan on the mentality of Luis Arragones and Cani???
Why start Torres who is coming off an injury. He more than likely not 100% so they will just limit him to 20-30 mins. Kind of like what CIV did w/ Drogba.
I could give a shit about Spain. I'm just talking about the domestic leagues that someone else brought up...
You love putting words in others mouths.
Earlier in the thread you said Torres didn't impress you.
He is no Drogba, Ronaldo etc but he is the best they have... I like his efficiency when compared to Villa
I am the one who brought up the irritating flopping of Serge Aguero, AND many players in La Liga...
And I brought up that the EPL isn't innocent when it comes to diving either, am I missing something?
Yep. Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso both used to race for McClaren (F1) but because Lewis became the golden boy of the team, he got more preferential treatment over Alonso and thus the Spaniard left. These pea brained Spanish pieces of shit thought this warranted them to dress in black face during the Barcelona Grand Prix.
And don't get it twisted, there's alot of jealously here from certain sections of the British Community here. Some clowns calling him arrogant when he is very humble, others calling me unpatriotic because he doesn't pay tax (he lives in Switzerland ironically).
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It makes it better that it was Black Swiss player that did those racist fuckers in....
Now let the infighting in the Spanish camp begin...Catalans will blame everyone else especially Iker...
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It makes it better that it was Black Swiss player that did those racist fuckers in....
Now let the infighting in the Spanish camp begin...Catalans will blame everyone else especially Iker...
Thierry Henry and Eto'o need to send this brother 100 000 Euro each... He could not have stuck the knife better in those wannabe-psuedo Klansmen than by scoring that goal!
The only thing better would be for Honduras to defeat Spain 1-0 in the last minute of extra time...
The only thing better would be for Honduras to defeat Spain 1-0 in the last minute of extra time...
Exactly. I was just saying the game thing. They had one chance per minute in that second period and couldnt convert ONE.... the Spaniards are the very definition of choke artists.
They did not give them the opportunities... The motherfucking fascista have Iniesta and Xavi in that midfield, among others; opportunities will come. The Swiss battled bravely; their keeper played a stout game and stopped many point blank attacks. The best thing the Swiss did was to stretch the Spaniards with credible counter attack. That helped to lift the siege on their defence..The commando raids of Nkofu, Fernandez (number 16) and number 19 were very impressive in that they went with great mobility, precision and organisation. When they got there, they looked liked they good score...Under the circumstances, I doubt that many could have done better. I hate the Spaniards, but the motherfuckers have the best midfield..Pique is a great defender, but Puyol has always looked aged and creaky... However, when you have a tremendous midfield in front of you, you may only need to deal with small leaks, rather than huge bursts that Swizz defenders had seal time and time again... Villa missed at point blank range; Torres hit the upright.. I mean the Swiss goal keeper made incredible saves.. Again that midfield of Spain present opportunity to the forward, and protects it back 4...
If Villa had scored, as he should have in the first half, Switzerland would have been done for. The reason why their opportunity came was that Spain's first half futility, left the fascista no choice but to take chances..They pushed up their backline and got caught on a brilliant counter. Casillas did what he was supposed to do, but was one step too late. Number 19 got the ball past him, Pique rolled with the ball, was kicked in the face, but number 16 of Switzerland, brilliantly trailing the play as required, mopped up the mess and scored..
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Real talk. Del Bosque fucked this one all up. I understand bringing in Jesus Navas, and Pedrito, but speedy wingers does nothing when you're already living in the opponents box already. This is no counter match. You're there already, shoot! The Swiss fullbacks had no all out running to do on those wings and kept both Navas and Pedrito in check. All their shots were coming from distance, but nothing too threatening with respect to Xabi Alonso's dinger off the crossbar.
And it always fucks me up when Iniesta plays on the wing. Granted I understand how Barca and Spain operate, so it makes sense giving what these two teams do, but on counters, and playing the numbers game?
He was ineffective and looked spent.
Nzinga...they didnt counter attack the entire second period though. They just sat back on the defensive and hoped to sneak away with the win. Spain literally had one good scoring opportunity per minute in that second period.... The Swiss could have easily still loss that game but they got fortunate with a few lucky bounces and with the Spaniards not finishing... They didnt even try to stretch the Spaniards in the second period man...
That is my whole point...
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Italy's culture of racism exposed by fans' abuse of black football star
The songs are varied, offensive and, in at least one case, openly racist. "If you jump up and down, Balotelli dies" is a favourite with supporters of arguably the most famous Italian football club, Juventus.
"A negro cannot be Italian" is the chant that explains the vitriol. The target of the abuse is 19-year-old Mario Balotelli, a footballer with Italian champions Inter Milan and a rising star of Italy's Under-21 national team.
In England, Germany or France, Balotelli would be making headlines in the sports pages as one of the most exciting young prospects in the national sport. In Italy, his treatment at the hands of a minority of hostile football fans is turning him into a symbol of the country's seeming inability to embrace a multi-ethnic identity. Last Monday, Juventus were fined for anti-Balotelli chanting at a match for the second time this season.
Balotelli was born – and immediately abandoned by his Ghanaian parents – in the Sicilian capital, Palermo. He is an Italian passport holder and was brought up by adopted parents in Brescia from the age of two. He speaks with the accent of his region, but has received far more racist abuse than other black stars in Italian football because his Italian identity is seen by some as a provocation.
"The difference [from other black players] is Balotelli is totally black and totally Italian, and that has provoked a short circuit among fans," said Sandro Modeo, a correspondent for Corriere della Sera.
As Italy's immigrant total reaches 7%, the treatment of many of the "Balotelli generation" – the half-million children of immigrants born in Italy who qualify by law for Italian citizenship on their 18th birthday – is becoming an increasingly controversial issue in a country which still, overwhelmingly, considers itself white.
Yesterday, a black Italian writer, Pap Khouma, wrote an open letter to La Repubblica, headlined "Being a black Italian: my life as an obstacle course". In it, he described incidents of routine discrimination: regular requests to provide his permit to stay in Italy; being mistaken for a street-seller by his Milanese neighbours. On one occasion, running through Milan's streets late for work, Khouma was stopped by a policeman, asked for his papers and escorted to the local station as a non-EU "foreigner". "Have you any idea," Khouma asked the paper's readers, "what it means to be Italian and black in Italy in 2009?"
For Gian Antonio Stella, a columnist for Corriere della Sera, the racism is evident and ignoring it a national pastime. "Britain has reflected on its colonial past, Germany has done the same with Nazism, but Italians still believe the myth of the Good Italian, soft colonialism and insist the racial laws of the 1930s were passed by fascists, not Italians," he said.
Despite the difficulties, the Balotelli generation is beginning to make its presence felt. The Italian under-14 cricket team is largely made up of Asian-Italians and won a European tournament this summer. Lihao Zhang, an 11-year-old girl of Chinese extraction, living in Voghera, the Lombardy heartland of the xenophobic Northern League party, received glowing press reviews after winning a school competition this year for poetry written in local dialect.
"The offspring of immigrants are easing into Italian culture, meaning Italian traditions are not going to be lost," said Alessandro Campi, a professor of political science at the University of Perugia. "If anything, these children will have more problems with their own families' cultures than with their friends'."
As for Balotelli, a one-match ban for Juventus fans from their home stadium, follow-up fines of over €20,000 (£18,000) for the club and questions in parliament have failed to stop the chants, which are not limited to Turin, where the club is based. The coach of Ghana's national team, Milovan Rajevac, has publicly invited him to play for the country in next summer's World Cup. And the beginnings of a backlash against the abuse may be beginning. Some commentators are now calling for the 6ft 2in striker to be selected immediately for the Italian team.
"I am sorry for Balotelli, he should be left alone to play football, but right now he is symbol of a cultural shift in Italy and a yardstick for whether we can make that change," said Stella, the Corriere della Sera columnist.
Growing up in rich, industrial Brescia, the player became used to racial abuse during school matches, with parents pointing to his height and claiming "with these Africans you can never tell what age they really are".
"Mario always needed love and affection," his adoptive sister Cristina told the French newspaper L'Equipe. "He wouldn't go to sleep without his mother holding his hand."
On the pitch as a professional, he has sometimes been unable to ignore the hostility from the stands. Faced with Roma fans who reportedly threw bananas at him in a bar, he stuck his tongue out at an opposition defender after scoring against them. For that, claimed the Roma captain Francesco Totti, he "deserved a slap".
"It's a shame that everyone is more upset with me than with the people yelling at me," replied Balotelli.
If Balotelli is indeed picked by Italian national coach Marcello Lippi to play in the World Cup next summer, the selection may signal a new era for black Italians. And as more and more of their white compatriots realise that the country's ethnic make-up is changing, support is at least beginning to emerge across the political spectrum.
"Balotelli is stubborn, combative and can be a bit of a bully, but at the same time he is generous, brave and irreverent," said Fare Futuro, a think-tank run by the prominent centre right politician Gianfranco Fini. "He is pure talent. Genius and lack of restraint all in one. What else could be more Italian than that?"
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