***Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Thread***

ok someone explain the hand ball rule to me

i thought u were only carded for deliberate touches
 
I think the card was harsh... Slovakia were not getting an advantage from the play and there was another Dutch defender was behind Robben.. what possible benefit could he derive from handling the ball on the side line away from the goal... They need to be enforcing these sorts of penalties on known cheaters like the Argentines, Spanish, Italians, etc, who seek to attempt to influence the rythm of the game by flopping, pulling and palming...they need to focus on stamping out that sort of shit, rather than penalising people who play honest football.
 
ok someone explain the hand ball rule to me

i thought u were only carded for deliberate touches

if u move your hand (whole arm) towards the ball its handball.
if someone was to chip the ball up quickly onto ur hand, then its ball to hand. simple.
 
ok someone explain the hand ball rule to me

i thought u were only carded for deliberate touches


The ref thought Robben put out his hand and stopped the ball, which would be a hand ball... In that case, it could have been accidental contact... I would give them a free kick but would not issue a card.
 
I swear I have a new respect for soccer (well on an international level, MLS is kinda ehh). its crazy watching the skill and team work involved in setting up good strikes @ the goal.
 
I swear I have a new respect for soccer (well on an international level, MLS is kinda ehh). its crazy watching the skill and team work involved in setting up good strikes @ the goal.

:yes::yes:

This is granddaddy of tournaments for us, but don't forget to keep up with the international game following the world cup with the link in my siggy.

There's a large footballing community here on BGOL, so the passion for the game around here never stops.
 
I keep looking at the wonderful stadiums South Africa has built and renovated, and ask how it can do this for $4.6 billion (including security and improvements to other infrastructure) and ask how Jerry Jones can claim that the cost of his one stadium is $1.6 billion.
 
Sickest first touch I have ever seen in my life. I catch people off guard with this in the park. :yes:

[FLASH]http://www.youtube.com/v/pSarLt2hSzo&hl=en_US&fs=1&[/FLASH]
 
I keep looking at the wonderful stadiums South Africa has built and renovated, and ask how it can do this for $4.6 billion (including security and improvements to other infrastructure and ask how Jerry Jones can claim that the cost of his one stadium is $1.6 billion)

Jerryland is a whole different monster. The amenities within that stadium are to this very moment in time, unrivaled in the world.

The stadium houses the world's largest tv screen costing $40 million alone. :smh:
 
I wish he was wrong :smh:

Why the World Cup will not be won by an African team

Published: 25 June 2010 | Updated: 28 June 2010
Declan Hill, an investigative journalist passionate about football, paints an uncompromising portrait of the massively popular sport.

The following commentary was authored by Declan Hill.

"It is a wonderful thing that FIFA gave the World Cup to Africa. They should be congratulated for their courageous stance. But it is very, very unlikely that an African team will win the World Cup. This is because there are two, largely unnamed phenomena that stifle the development of African football: racism and corruption.

During the last World Cup in Germany, I sat with two officials from the Ghanaian delegation, Sam Arday and Cecil Jones Attuquayefio. They were immensely successful coaches both domestically and internationally. They had won an Under-17 Africa Cup, an Under-17 World Cup, and an Olympic medal.

However, the coach of the Ghana team was Serbian. The Serbian national team had been a disaster at the tournament, even losing one match 6-0. The coach of the Serbian team had just announced his retirement. I told Arday and Jones that they should fax in their resumes to the Serbian Football Association. They laughed.


But there was a painful side to their laughter. It is considered a joke that an African coach should submit his resume to a European team even when they have the credentials and medals of an Arday or Attuquayefio. The current, but unstated assumption, in world soccer is that: 'Yes, there is a generation of fantastic African players. Yes, they are blessed with abundant natural talent. But really their talent is not developed properly until they meet the wise, practiced care of a serious, white coach'.

In this Barbar-the-Elephant world view, the question of how so many good young players could have developed is sidestepped. It is this racism that still afflicts the sport in Africa. It is part of the reason why all the sub-Saharan African teams at this World Cup have coaches from outside the continent.

There is a second, also largely unspoken problem that inflicts African football: corruption. It is genuinely difficult to overstate how corrupt the sport is in Africa. The great Cameroonian goalkeeper Joseph-Antoine Bell once said, 'in French football you might expect 10% of the money to disappear – in Africa 90% disappears'. Just about everything that can go on, does go on in African football: rampant match-fixing, corruption in transfers, rigged national football elections…

Many players, even at the top of the game, have two different ages: their real age and their 'football age', which is several years younger.

When I was in Kenya, several national football executives had been beaten up, allegedly, by thugs hired by their rival football executives. Three other officials were on trial for stealing 55 million KS from the association. Kenya is not alone in this kind of problem. It stretches across the continent.

In Tanzania and South Africa football referees have been investigated by the police for bribery.

The Cameroon Football Association has been suspended several times by FIFA. The list could go on and on. Corruption is, in the words of George Weah, 'a cancer that eats away at the sport'. Until this essential problem is solved then unfortunately we will not see an African team lift the trophy."

http://www.euractiv.com/en/sports/why-world-cup-will-not-be-won-african-team-analysis-495639
 
Issa Hayatou, the Cameroonian, has been president of CAF for more than 30 years... The bugger became president of CAF through the most corrupt election imaginable where money freely changed hands...


Again the same Bosnian friend who told me about the flopping drills they used practise told me about how refs were routinely being bought in Europe. The experience Mr Moggi, would corroborate the existence of corruption in European football.
 
damn, idk now :smh:

I know they may not match up on the bracket but do yall think Ghana could be Netherlands?

GHANA STILL HAST TO BEAT URAGUAY AND THE NETHERLAND BRAZIL TILL THEN I DONT WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT:lol::dance:
 
GHANA STILL HAST TO BEAT URAGUAY AND THE NETHERLAND BRAZIL TILL THEN I DONT WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT:lol::dance:

from what I have seen in the world cup so far I think Ghana can handle Uraguay.. Brazil and Netherland should be good. The last Brazil match was kinda boring.
 
Jerryland is a whole different monster. The amenities within that stadium are to this very moment in time, unrivaled in the world.

The stadium houses the world's largest tv screen costing $40 million alone. :smh:

Living in Dallas, I saw the sucker from when it was built to when it was finished. Of course I have never been inside... Certainly, the City of Dallas, does to this day lament the missed opportunity to have the thing built in Dallas, oh well..
 
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