**Official 2014 FIFA World Cup Thread**
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His club stat might be better than maradona but he is not a better club player.
When messi can carry a team like napoli and play in the roughness tournament and win a championship then yes, he will be better.
He play for Barca, a team loaded with stars.
Messi actually got shut out in the two last games .
Love his game, especially he is a Barca but he is no Diego.
Maradona '86>>>>> any messi.
thats what im saying i have seen him play without iniesta and xavi and he struggles. he is my one of the best player maybe the best current time but thats it.
Barco is loaded with stars but he's delivering like no other and he's not the first player playing on a loaded team.
He doesn't need to score a game in every match. In the last match, he didn't score but he created the goal with the assist to Di Maria. Essentially, Messi was directly involved (with goals or assists) in every win except this scoreless one today.
If he delivers the World Cup to Argentina, he'll have the world cup win to match Maradona and his club stats all trump Maradona's. If he actually has a great performance on Sunday, it's a wrap.. for Argentines at least... delivering a cup IN BRAZIL is the greatest achievement of all time
I used to make the same argument about Messi and the super-stacked Barca teams too so you're preaching to the choir.
Damn,that all....imagine a Ray Rice or Darron Sproles playing this sport all their lives.
We would run this shit....
I can understand...they get their self esteem from a sporting event,while we really don't give a fuck.
Maybe that's why the bad person in me finds all the crying faces funny...
It's still just a game folks...
Brazilians,and every other country that hosts these events should be mad...at spending millions building these stadiums,that will go to rot after the games....while so many live in poverty
I can understand...they get their self esteem from a sporting event,while we really don't give a fuck.
Maybe that's why the bad person in me finds all the crying faces funny...
It's still just a game folks...
Brazilians,and every other country that hosts these events should be mad...at spending millions building these stadiums,that will go to rot after the games....while so many live in poverty
A lot of people were mad.. but they're mad now for real .... billions spend and an all-time ass whooping on top of it...
I understand it because I've spent so many years down here but I was laughing too.. it's just not that serious... but it is here... for instance, people who date from rival teams (brazilian soccer teams) have real family disputes over what they will raise the team as (fan of which team) and it can get serious man...
WOW, IT'S GOING TO BE ARGENTINA VS GERMANY, HOW IRONIC......one country used to produce nazi's and the other hides nazi's in their country.
Imagine a guy like Barry Sanders
WOW, IT'S GOING TO BE ARGENTINA VS GERMANY, HOW IRONIC......one country used to produce nazi's and the other hides nazi's in their country.
WOW, IT'S GOING TO BE ARGENTINA VS GERMANY, HOW IRONIC......one country used to produce nazi's and the other hides nazi's in their country.
thats why i didnt want either of them in finales smh
Imagine a guy like Barry Sanders
Come on now... that shit wouldn't even be fair. Have everybody get red cards n it don't matter bc Barry cracking ankles lmao
football aint about that tho
damn.. crazy low center of gravity
they are truly one with the ball
Keone is the perfect height then at 5"3'
if it wasn't for the street life he probably would have gotten Ghana over the top
or germany
or the netherlands
or argentina
or brazil
since he's from everywhere
hate you forgot to put japan
I'm ameuraiafrican stop hating
North and South Negroean ass
He seek asylum after he rob drug lords and shit
Keone stay in a child size choppa suit runnin thangs on dem streetz
I guess soccer is catching on in the US..
Man accused of punching soccer referee now facing second-degree murder charge
A Dearborn man accused of assault a soccer referee, who later died from his injuries, is now facing a murder charge.
Basel Abdul-Amir Saad, 36, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 44-year-old John Bieniewicz, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office announced today. According to the office, the original charge Saad was facing of assault with intent to do great bodily harm will be dismissed.
Saad allegedly punched Bieniewicz in the head on June 29 after he became upset that he was going to be ejected from a soccer game in Livonia, the prosecutor’s office said.
Bieniewicz, of Westland, was taken to a local hospital, but later died.
According to the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office, Bieniewicz died from blunt force trauma to the neck.
“The entire soccer world mourns with the family upon the death of John Bieniewicz. This is especially tragic because it happened as the World Cup dominates our television screens,” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement released today. “The alleged actions of this defendant cannot be tolerated and there must be action taken in our legislature to make sure that there are stronger penalties when a referee is the victim during organized sport.”
Saad is expected to be arraigned on the amended charge Thursday in Livonia’s 16th District Court, according to the prosecutor’s office.
http://www.freep.com/article/20140709/NEWS/307090137/soccer-referee-john-bieniewicz-livonia
Man accused of punching soccer referee now facing second-degree murder charge
A Dearborn man accused of assault a soccer referee, who later died from his injuries, is now facing a murder charge.
Basel Abdul-Amir Saad, 36, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 44-year-old John Bieniewicz, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office announced today. According to the office, the original charge Saad was facing of assault with intent to do great bodily harm will be dismissed.
Saad allegedly punched Bieniewicz in the head on June 29 after he became upset that he was going to be ejected from a soccer game in Livonia, the prosecutor’s office said.
Bieniewicz, of Westland, was taken to a local hospital, but later died.
According to the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office, Bieniewicz died from blunt force trauma to the neck.
“The entire soccer world mourns with the family upon the death of John Bieniewicz. This is especially tragic because it happened as the World Cup dominates our television screens,” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement released today. “The alleged actions of this defendant cannot be tolerated and there must be action taken in our legislature to make sure that there are stronger penalties when a referee is the victim during organized sport.”
Saad is expected to be arraigned on the amended charge Thursday in Livonia’s 16th District Court, according to the prosecutor’s office.
http://www.freep.com/article/20140709/NEWS/307090137/soccer-referee-john-bieniewicz-livonia
Barco is loaded with stars but he's delivering like no other and he's not the first player playing on a loaded team.
He doesn't need to score a game in every match. In the last match, he didn't score but he created the goal with the assist to Di Maria. Essentially, Messi was directly involved (with goals or assists) in every win except this scoreless one today.
If he delivers the World Cup to Argentina, he'll have the world cup win to match Maradona and his club stats all trump Maradona's. If he actually has a great performance on Sunday, it's a wrap.. for Argentines at least... delivering a cup IN BRAZIL is the greatest achievement of all time
I used to make the same argument about Messi and the super-stacked Barca teams too so you're preaching to the choir.
Definitely not the first to play with a loaded team but we are talking about him and maradona not him and other players. He didn't create the goal in that match against Belgium. Di Maria was passing the ball on the right wing and it deflected and went to Higuain. Argentina got lucky on that one.
Stats in football can be misleading. You can't just look at it and try to compare players. Christiano club stat trumps Pele, is he a better player than Pele?
Maradona is not even the leading goal scorer for Argentina.
Messi have major problems in this WC dealing with double-marking something Maradona perfected.
I think argentineans just want to replace maradona because of his tainted legacy (drugs, ped, handball).
Actually Maradona cemented his legacy against Germany, let's see if messi can do the same.
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Van Gaal is a beast.
Down with Van Gaal
Have to agree with all this here.
If Messi raises that trophy Sunday, the torch will have been passed.
If that happens Messi can retire and live the rest of his life in glory like Jordan, Brady, Jeter, and Federer all wrapped into one person
You already know what it is
I don't know about that, but I will say that the debate between him and christiano will quickly end. It won't even be a debate anymore.
I told this to a friend today.
I can't stand Real Madrid fans and their yapping about who is better.
I don't even know why ppl compare the two.
They are two different type of players.
I agree that they are 2 different types but still think Messi is the better player....bias and all. But not trying to start that debate here right now.
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