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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Guyana Game (11-Nov-11).
« on: November 11, 2011, 06:58:33 PM »
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Football / Re: Warriors in battle mode for confident Guyana
« on: November 11, 2011, 09:23:35 AM »
It really hard to believe how tense I am feeling coming up against Guyana tonight and it is not a T20 cricket match.
Full Support for Warriors Tonight. No negative vibes.
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Football / Re: Eve slams treatment of local coaches.
« on: November 11, 2011, 09:09:34 AM »
As a former national player, I would be interested to know Angus' feelings on being coached by a local coach versus being coached by a foreign coach. Most times the players are the ones with a problem with and show total disrespect to the local coaches.
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Football / Re: Jones: Guyana clash as big as Bahrain.
« on: November 09, 2011, 07:47:46 AM »
Only positive vibes from this point.
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Football / Re: Players Otto Pfister have not seen yet.
« on: October 20, 2011, 12:39:15 PM »
Russel Latapy.
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Football / Re: Jack Warner is caught on tape offering 'gifts’ of £25000 to Caribbean delegates
« on: October 12, 2011, 10:34:55 AM »
We must call a spade a spade. De man has acted deviously in the past regardless of intention. Again this shines a really bad light on us as Trinbagonians and the government by extension. I don't see him surviving this one since there are clearly some legal issues questions to be answered, but then it is Trinidad and Tobago we talking about. Jack can no longer claim ignorance to Bin Hanaman's bringing of gifts or the form of the gifts, since he directed him to bring gifts in the form of a currency equivalent.
As for being setup, that goes without saying. We must not forget that there are still British Colonies in the CFU. Their allegiance is to the Queen and Jack screwed the Queen hard with a little foreplay.
On this evidence there will be no tears shed for Jack by me.
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As for being setup, that goes without saying. We must not forget that there are still British Colonies in the CFU. Their allegiance is to the Queen and Jack screwed the Queen hard with a little foreplay.
On this evidence there will be no tears shed for Jack by me.
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Football / Re: 1/8 UCL 1st Leg • Arsenal FC vs FC Barcelona • 16 Feb 2011
« on: February 15, 2011, 12:03:13 PM »
This has the potential to be an open game with some excellent passing football on display. If that is the case, I am not sure that my beloved Arsenal could win against Barca. But then again that is why the game is played.
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Football / Re: TTFF begins talks with coaching candidates.
« on: February 09, 2011, 08:39:32 PM »
Koeman need to give his fellow country man Wim a call to get an understanding of what and who he will be dealing with.
Doh worry fellas, ah foreign coach will get paid. Sorry about the players or local coaches.
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Doh worry fellas, ah foreign coach will get paid. Sorry about the players or local coaches.
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Football / Re: Mario Balotelli
« on: January 20, 2011, 12:38:10 PM »
He will continue to play less because of the arrival of Edin Dzeko.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/sports/soccer/19iht-SOCCER19.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
January 18, 2011
For Manchester City, $43 Million Looks Like a Bargain
By ROB HUGHES
LONDON — The January sales are generally regarded as a gambler’s market.
Teams that buy in midseason are either paying above the odds to correct a fault in their lineup or taking some other club’s discards.
Manchester City’s purchase of Edin Dzeko looks like the exception.
The biggest-spending club in the world, already holding the contracts of eight forwards, all from different nations, has just spent £27 million, or $43 million, to buy the Bosnian striker from Wolfsburg in Germany.
Take his salary over a 41/2-year contract into account, and you more than double the price that City’s Abu Dhabi owner is willing to pay for just one element to the team.
First impressions are that it is not madness at all. Dzeko is a towering physical specimen with a presence about him that suggests he knows where he is going in life, and how to get there.
On the field, of course, we know his pedigree. Goals are not everything in his game, but he arrives from the Bundesliga, where he scored 66 goals in 111 appearances and where he ended up captaining Wolfsburg after it took a €4 million, or $5.4 million, chance on his raw potential in 2007.
“I had three and a half beautiful years with Wolfsburg,” he said, in near flawless English. “I was part of history there because Wolfsburg had never won the Bundesliga title before.
“Now, I am here. It’s something different. The fans are different, and the game is different. It’s more harder than in Germany, but I saw something else in Manchester City. They have a very big ambition, and I am ambitious also. Everybody says it’s the best league; we’ll see.”
Dzeko plays as he speaks. He has a calm assurance about him, a hint of control. It comes not from his looming 1.92-meter, or almost 6-foot-4, height, but the way that he moves. He has presence, and you see it the moment he walks into his new surroundings.
At the City training fields, he is first to walk forward, to offer his handshake. The City players are a multitude of nationalities, but armed with four languages — Bosnian, Czech, German and English — there is not much he cannot say to any of them.
His English is already more fluent than that of City’s coach, Roberto Mancini, or the team captain, Carlos Tévez. It is his fourth language in a career that has moved from Bosnia to the Czech Republic, to Germany and now England.
But it is the openness of Dzeko that stands apart. The news media ask him about his childhood. “I had a difficult growing up,” he replies. “What happened in my life happened because I work hard. I have no pressure because I know what I can do. Outside of football, my family is the most important, because I never had success without my family.” Unmarried, at 24, his family is his father, Midhat; mother, Belma; and sister, Merima. The Dzekos are Muslims from Doboj, in northern Bosnia. “I had a very sad childhood in the midst of the siege,” Dzeko said in City’s official program from his first game in the United Kingdom, last Saturday. “Our home was destroyed so we had to move in with our grandparents in Sarajevo.
“The whole family — maybe 15 people — were crammed into an apartment of 35 square meters. I was only young, and I cried often. Every day, you could hear guns firing. We lost friends and some relatives. The memory does not leave you.” When the war was over, Dzeko says, there was not much that could intimidate or frighten him.
There was, in this traumatized boy’s mind, a famous image. He adored Andriy Shevchenko, the Ukrainian striker of A.C. Milan.
The dream was there, the talent in Dzeko was not initially apparent. His father took him daily to the Sarajevo team FK Zeljenicar. But the growing lad played as a midfielder and seemed too tall, too awkward, in that role.
He laughs today at the memory of one Zeljenicar official boasting that the club had won the lottery the day that it received €25,000 from the Czech team Teplice for his transfer. From there, Felix Magath, the coach of Wolfsburg, took him to Germany.
Wolfsburg’s rise to the title was built on Bosniak and Brazilian lines.
Dzeko and Grafite scored the goals; Zvjezdan Misimovic and Josué fed them the passes.
Among the growing admirers, the respected coach Ivica Osim, a veteran and much travelled tactician, called Dzeko “a striker of the future.”
That future is taking shape now in Manchester. Dezko arrived without having played a game for 30 days because of the winter break in Germany, but he was pitched straight into the City lineup last Saturday.
He did not score, but he did lay on a goal with the deftest of passes for Yaya Touré. He did not excel, as Carlos Tévez did, with a fantastic solo goal as the Argentine slalomed his way past three Wolverhampton defenders inside the penalty box.
But Dzeko kept £109 million of surplus Manchester City talents on the bench, watching him play. His performance gave hints of the ability and awareness — and above all the presence — he has as a leader of the attack.
To emerge as the regular partner to the smart, industrious, diminutive Tévez, the new player will have to see off the challenges for that role.
They include Mario Balotelli, the volatile Italian favored by his coach, Mancini.
They include the tall Togo international Emmanuel Adebayor, the Brazilian Jo, and a trio of others already sent out on loan to play for other teams.
Manchester City’s ruthless recruitment, spending beyond the means of even Chelsea or Real Madrid or Manchester United, has its new attacking cornerstone.
Edin Dzeko, a child of war, a youngster discarded by his home club, looks and sounds the man to take on that mantle. A Unicef ambassador who visits children traumatized by conflict in his homeland, he has no fear for his future.
“If I can help, it’s something special,” he says of his Unicef mission. “If I can help, I’m there.” Millions of City’s fortune rides on him being the same man on the field.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/sports/soccer/19iht-SOCCER19.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
January 18, 2011
For Manchester City, $43 Million Looks Like a Bargain
By ROB HUGHES
LONDON — The January sales are generally regarded as a gambler’s market.
Teams that buy in midseason are either paying above the odds to correct a fault in their lineup or taking some other club’s discards.
Manchester City’s purchase of Edin Dzeko looks like the exception.
The biggest-spending club in the world, already holding the contracts of eight forwards, all from different nations, has just spent £27 million, or $43 million, to buy the Bosnian striker from Wolfsburg in Germany.
Take his salary over a 41/2-year contract into account, and you more than double the price that City’s Abu Dhabi owner is willing to pay for just one element to the team.
First impressions are that it is not madness at all. Dzeko is a towering physical specimen with a presence about him that suggests he knows where he is going in life, and how to get there.
On the field, of course, we know his pedigree. Goals are not everything in his game, but he arrives from the Bundesliga, where he scored 66 goals in 111 appearances and where he ended up captaining Wolfsburg after it took a €4 million, or $5.4 million, chance on his raw potential in 2007.
“I had three and a half beautiful years with Wolfsburg,” he said, in near flawless English. “I was part of history there because Wolfsburg had never won the Bundesliga title before.
“Now, I am here. It’s something different. The fans are different, and the game is different. It’s more harder than in Germany, but I saw something else in Manchester City. They have a very big ambition, and I am ambitious also. Everybody says it’s the best league; we’ll see.”
Dzeko plays as he speaks. He has a calm assurance about him, a hint of control. It comes not from his looming 1.92-meter, or almost 6-foot-4, height, but the way that he moves. He has presence, and you see it the moment he walks into his new surroundings.
At the City training fields, he is first to walk forward, to offer his handshake. The City players are a multitude of nationalities, but armed with four languages — Bosnian, Czech, German and English — there is not much he cannot say to any of them.
His English is already more fluent than that of City’s coach, Roberto Mancini, or the team captain, Carlos Tévez. It is his fourth language in a career that has moved from Bosnia to the Czech Republic, to Germany and now England.
But it is the openness of Dzeko that stands apart. The news media ask him about his childhood. “I had a difficult growing up,” he replies. “What happened in my life happened because I work hard. I have no pressure because I know what I can do. Outside of football, my family is the most important, because I never had success without my family.” Unmarried, at 24, his family is his father, Midhat; mother, Belma; and sister, Merima. The Dzekos are Muslims from Doboj, in northern Bosnia. “I had a very sad childhood in the midst of the siege,” Dzeko said in City’s official program from his first game in the United Kingdom, last Saturday. “Our home was destroyed so we had to move in with our grandparents in Sarajevo.
“The whole family — maybe 15 people — were crammed into an apartment of 35 square meters. I was only young, and I cried often. Every day, you could hear guns firing. We lost friends and some relatives. The memory does not leave you.” When the war was over, Dzeko says, there was not much that could intimidate or frighten him.
There was, in this traumatized boy’s mind, a famous image. He adored Andriy Shevchenko, the Ukrainian striker of A.C. Milan.
The dream was there, the talent in Dzeko was not initially apparent. His father took him daily to the Sarajevo team FK Zeljenicar. But the growing lad played as a midfielder and seemed too tall, too awkward, in that role.
He laughs today at the memory of one Zeljenicar official boasting that the club had won the lottery the day that it received €25,000 from the Czech team Teplice for his transfer. From there, Felix Magath, the coach of Wolfsburg, took him to Germany.
Wolfsburg’s rise to the title was built on Bosniak and Brazilian lines.
Dzeko and Grafite scored the goals; Zvjezdan Misimovic and Josué fed them the passes.
Among the growing admirers, the respected coach Ivica Osim, a veteran and much travelled tactician, called Dzeko “a striker of the future.”
That future is taking shape now in Manchester. Dezko arrived without having played a game for 30 days because of the winter break in Germany, but he was pitched straight into the City lineup last Saturday.
He did not score, but he did lay on a goal with the deftest of passes for Yaya Touré. He did not excel, as Carlos Tévez did, with a fantastic solo goal as the Argentine slalomed his way past three Wolverhampton defenders inside the penalty box.
But Dzeko kept £109 million of surplus Manchester City talents on the bench, watching him play. His performance gave hints of the ability and awareness — and above all the presence — he has as a leader of the attack.
To emerge as the regular partner to the smart, industrious, diminutive Tévez, the new player will have to see off the challenges for that role.
They include Mario Balotelli, the volatile Italian favored by his coach, Mancini.
They include the tall Togo international Emmanuel Adebayor, the Brazilian Jo, and a trio of others already sent out on loan to play for other teams.
Manchester City’s ruthless recruitment, spending beyond the means of even Chelsea or Real Madrid or Manchester United, has its new attacking cornerstone.
Edin Dzeko, a child of war, a youngster discarded by his home club, looks and sounds the man to take on that mantle. A Unicef ambassador who visits children traumatized by conflict in his homeland, he has no fear for his future.
“If I can help, it’s something special,” he says of his Unicef mission. “If I can help, I’m there.” Millions of City’s fortune rides on him being the same man on the field.
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Football / Re: Baptiste set to quit Joe Public
« on: January 20, 2011, 12:19:47 PM »
At age 29, he will most times not be viewed as a good long term prospect and past his prime as a debutant in a foreign Pro-League, but Kerry is still a force in local football.
Best of luck Kerry, I believe you were held back for far too long early in your career.
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Best of luck Kerry, I believe you were held back for far too long early in your career.
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Football / CONCACAF Wants An Extra Place At 2014 World Cup By REUTERS
« on: January 16, 2011, 08:55:56 PM »
Published: January 16, 2011 Filed at 7:59 p.m. ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CONCACAF wants FIFA to award them an extra place at the next World Cup, giving the region four guaranteed places for the 2014 tournament in Brazil.
Under the previous qualifying format used for the 2006 and 2010 World Cups, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football was awarded three automatic places while a fourth team was promoted to a playoff.
But CONCACAF President Jack Warner said on Sunday the region would press FIFA to give them four guaranteed places instead of the current 3.5.
"We believe that CONCACAF deserves another full place at the World Cup finals due to the performances of our teams on the field and the actions of our confederation off it," Warner said in a statement.
"We are unified in our efforts to make this happen."
FIFA has yet to announce the qualifying format for 2014 but Warner said a decision on their request was expected by March.
(Reporting by Julian Linden; Editing by Steve Ginsburg)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CONCACAF wants FIFA to award them an extra place at the next World Cup, giving the region four guaranteed places for the 2014 tournament in Brazil.
Under the previous qualifying format used for the 2006 and 2010 World Cups, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football was awarded three automatic places while a fourth team was promoted to a playoff.
But CONCACAF President Jack Warner said on Sunday the region would press FIFA to give them four guaranteed places instead of the current 3.5.
"We believe that CONCACAF deserves another full place at the World Cup finals due to the performances of our teams on the field and the actions of our confederation off it," Warner said in a statement.
"We are unified in our efforts to make this happen."
FIFA has yet to announce the qualifying format for 2014 but Warner said a decision on their request was expected by March.
(Reporting by Julian Linden; Editing by Steve Ginsburg)
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Football / Re: Dallas Cup 2011. Is it worth it?
« on: January 04, 2011, 11:22:30 AM »Let them go and collect some licks and gauge properly their progress level.
Agreed, there is a victory of sorts when losing to better competition.
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Football / Re: TTFF eyeing Tigana, Gullit as ‘Warriors’ coach.
« on: December 07, 2010, 12:18:53 PM »
A foreign coach by the name of "Nobody" will be taking over from Latapy shortly. He will get us games against "No One", in a venue "No Where".
Man here aint tired of jumping at headlines.
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Football / Re: Fire Russell Latapy Thread.
« on: November 29, 2010, 12:12:05 PM »
Latapy was never going to be the solution as the head coach. Most of the die hard football fans on this site knew that. It is truly a Sad ending to a great Trinbago football career.
I constantly read man posting about the coaching and the administration and quite rightfully. What continues to get under my skin, which I am tired of hearing about "is all this great football talent in Trinbago" that makes it a travesty to loose to the likes of Grenada and Cuba. No one questions the players ability in a loss. Plain talk bad manners (and I have been saying this since World Cup 2006): The players are not as talented as most of you would like to believe, and forget it when it comes to "having heart" or playing with pride.
Having seen the game versus Jamaica in the Marvin Lee stadium before the Girsl World Cup, I was surprised as to how piss poor we were technically, not to mention lacking creativity. This is not a recent development under Latapy. Latapy inability to mould this group into unit made these deficiencies that more glaring (to the point of blinding). Although many might talk down the MLS, has anyone asked the question why more of our players are not playing in the MLS (geographically closer and a level below the European leagues)?
I hear men clamouring for a new coach but without the infusion of the foreign base players, the simple fact is that the local players (Trinbago B team) is no longer a force in the caribbean.
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I constantly read man posting about the coaching and the administration and quite rightfully. What continues to get under my skin, which I am tired of hearing about "is all this great football talent in Trinbago" that makes it a travesty to loose to the likes of Grenada and Cuba. No one questions the players ability in a loss. Plain talk bad manners (and I have been saying this since World Cup 2006): The players are not as talented as most of you would like to believe, and forget it when it comes to "having heart" or playing with pride.
Having seen the game versus Jamaica in the Marvin Lee stadium before the Girsl World Cup, I was surprised as to how piss poor we were technically, not to mention lacking creativity. This is not a recent development under Latapy. Latapy inability to mould this group into unit made these deficiencies that more glaring (to the point of blinding). Although many might talk down the MLS, has anyone asked the question why more of our players are not playing in the MLS (geographically closer and a level below the European leagues)?
I hear men clamouring for a new coach but without the infusion of the foreign base players, the simple fact is that the local players (Trinbago B team) is no longer a force in the caribbean.
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Football / Re: Van der Vaart could fit in wid we
« on: November 17, 2010, 12:51:59 PM »
Tactics?? Who needs Tactics? So what if there is nothing written on the board! Just go out and play street football. It is more important that we gel as a team and have fun. Harry for Trinbago Coach.
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Football / Re: 5 years ago....RIGHT NOW.....what were you doing?
« on: November 16, 2010, 10:27:18 AM »
Called in sick. Did not know of a place close to work to watch the game, plus no one else in the office except for a splattering of West Indians knew what was going on that day. So no vibes at work. Sat by myself at home taking in the game. Returned to work on Monday.
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Football / Re: Latapy must GO!!!
« on: September 12, 2010, 10:19:56 AM »
Latapy is out of his league when it comes to coaching the National Team. Having been fortunate (or unfortunate depending how you view it) to watch the Jamaica game, we are a piss poor team with nothing to show. No formation, no discipline in play, no creativity, and no fight. The reality of loosing this many games to lower ranked opponents could have a totaly devastating impact on our overall development (with players not being able to secure foreign work). Having seen what Wim was able to accomplish, I no longer put the blame squarely on the local players (although they are no of ahigh standard).
Latapy has gotten a bligh and will continue to get a bligh regardless of the results because he is a National Hero, with no one wanting to see him fail. The reality is that he is not prepared for the task at hand and he is sending us back big time.
Change is needed now.
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Latapy has gotten a bligh and will continue to get a bligh regardless of the results because he is a National Hero, with no one wanting to see him fail. The reality is that he is not prepared for the task at hand and he is sending us back big time.
Change is needed now.
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Football / Re: Maturana versus Latapy add Wim to the mix
« on: August 10, 2010, 11:05:02 AM »
Wim should not be lumped with Latas (at least not at this stage of his coaching career) or Maturana when talking about Trinbago head football coaches. We were a better unit minus the blacklisted players under Wim. Plain talk, bad manners.
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Football / Re: Anil: No more 100 percent funding for sports
« on: August 10, 2010, 11:00:34 AM »
Well at least, we have a criteria for funding, right? It is performance driven. Who measures or determines "performance?" Will it be measured on an international, regional or local scale. Bye, Bye, Trinidad and Tobago bobsled team, yachting team, football team, etc. Cricket alone will get the money. All the rest perform poorly. This sounds like a good government savings plan.
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Football / Re: Thread for the Club Santos Laguna vs San Juan Jabloteh game (04-Aug-2010)
« on: August 04, 2010, 09:50:43 PM »
5-0, and counting in the 83rd minuto. This is so one-sided. No Defense, No Midfield, No Strikers. Ten men and a keeper.
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Re: Biggest Disappointment?
« on: June 29, 2010, 02:54:12 PM »
CRY BABY RONALDO! 
Rooney a close second.
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Rooney a close second.
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Re: Like other wc tournaments 2010 world cup will not end without controversy
« on: June 28, 2010, 06:55:51 AM »So here goes (yet again), was Tevez offside or not?
We continue to misunderstand the rule. The rule is very simple, a player is in an offside position if he is in his opponents' half of the pitch and is closer to his opponents' goal line than both the ball and all but zero or one of his opponents at the time the ball is played. It has nothing to do with the keeper's position. There could be two defenders on the line and the keeper at half line and the player will not be offside.
Sadly in this case, Tevez was clearly offside. A game changer but the better team won.
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Football / Re: Dennis exclusive SWO interview.
« on: June 28, 2010, 06:42:06 AM »
I was/am a lil confused after reading the interview since I thought Dennis was one of the main men leading the initial charge against the football federation. Well, whatever...
Dennis meh boy respect still for that header in Bahrain, made my dream of attending a World Cup with my home country present a reality.
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Dennis meh boy respect still for that header in Bahrain, made my dream of attending a World Cup with my home country present a reality.
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Re: WC 2010 - Match 51 - Round of 16 - England vs Germany
« on: June 27, 2010, 08:40:31 AM »
GAME ON. Send more Brits! Oh gosh this could be the game of the tournament. Poetic justice for the English.
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Re: WC 2010 - Match 51 - Round of 16 - England vs Germany
« on: June 27, 2010, 08:27:54 AM »
It have Trini in de stadium. There is a Trini flag on the ground level to the left behind James goal. LOL WE representing.
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Football / Re: The Two Escobars
« on: June 22, 2010, 08:13:02 PM »
The best Quote yet is from Maturana our former National Coach: "When Don Corleone invites you, what do you do, you show up." He was referring to Pablo Escobar inviting the Colombian National team to have lunch and play football match with him while he was in prison. I guess he also looked at Jack Warner as Don Corleone. 
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Re: WC 2010 - Match 35 - Group B: Nigeria vs South Korea
« on: June 22, 2010, 04:04:55 PM »
Have to admit that Yakubu looked good missing. Such confidence.
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Re: WC 2010 - Match 19 - Group B: Greece vs Nigeria
« on: June 17, 2010, 11:04:57 AM »Nigeria eh show no football to deserve a 2nd round spot. I wouldn't lose sleep over their exit.
Ivory Coast so far is the only African team running like a well-prepared unit. Ghana showed flashes.
Agreed that Nigeria has not shown anything but I think today's performance could be chalked up to the 10 man team with injuries to the two players in defense. As a result the most dangerous Nigerian player never made it onto the pitch, Obafemi Martins. Reminds me of Germany 2006 with our Socawarriors going down to ten men losiing a defender and not being able to send on Latapy. Could not help but include the Socawarriors in a World Cup 2010 discussion.
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Re: This hen Ronaldo again
« on: June 17, 2010, 10:57:32 AM »
I thought there was a precedent to a player wearing a cast in the World Cup. IF I remember clearly, it was a dutch player back in the 1978 Finals. Portugal coach needs to also get some balls. No need to dog Drogba, it is a soft cast, there is little damage he can do to another player, more to himself.
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Re: Really poor football on display so far in this World Cup
« on: June 17, 2010, 10:51:40 AM ».. heavy traffic of South American players to Europe, the stars are made in the Champions League, not the World Cup.
Some friends of mine were discussing the early games and we all agreed the World Cup games are not the same in many regards. We all looked forward to the clash of the South american styles to the European style in the 70s - 80s, but that is dead. There is no difference in style and the familiarity of the players has taken away a lot from the International games.
Mourinho made the comment recently that the best football is played and coaching done in the Champions League.
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