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** 2014 World Cup Thread **
Final: Germany vs Argentina
3rd Place: Brazil vs Netherlands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/standings/ Last edited by |Zach|; 07-12-2014 at 12:36 PM.. |
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07-15-2014, 08:40 AM | #2147 |
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Golfs my fave sport both to play and watch, but I can see why others find it boring. I'm not a defensive soccer fan who blows up at the mere hint that a 0-0 or 1-0 game sucked for a lot of people to watch. Besides I think they're full of feces anyway, they just don't want to admit that it did suck.
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Stanzi homers never quit, do they?
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07-15-2014, 11:23 AM | #2149 |
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07-15-2014, 11:32 AM | #2150 |
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If you're going to say a goalie can score goals then you'd have to include running backs and anyone else that can handle the ball as a possible touchdown thrower.
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07-15-2014, 11:42 AM | #2151 |
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I said they potentially can, but if you notice, I left them out in the next comparison.
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07-15-2014, 06:04 PM | #2153 |
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It is true that there are too many commercials during football. But they do afford you a chance to get food, take a shit, etc.
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07-15-2014, 07:49 PM | #2154 | |
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07-16-2014, 06:19 AM | #2155 | |
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A bit more on Messi
For those of us, . . . ahem, . . . who live and die by statistical analysis, 538 has penned an article on the premise that, although it is IMPOSSIBLE for one player to dominate as many aspects of the games as Messi does, the analysis establishes that he does and has for a good chunk of time. MoF, if Messi were two distinct players, each taking a share of his dominant traits, they'd be the two most dominant players in the world. Quote:
Second focuses on dribbling. It's a comparison of Messi to the dominant player of the prior generation, Maradona. Note; How close he keeps the ball How swift he remains while controlling the ball The angle of his cuts The abruptness of his cuts His outlets when he's finally drawn max attention Further, at 6:05 are, back to back, the consensus two greatest individual effort goals of the past 50 years. One by Messi, the other by Maradona. Both of them have styles very distinct from the Ronaldos and Ronaldinhos of the world, who treasure a little more flash [think back to Ronaldo's 4-5 heel kick escape from caging at midfield against USMNT] No embedding http://youtu.be/vpjXpBLImyk
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A good cross section focusing on Messi's top goals scored in the past 10 years, ranked
No embedding http://youtu.be/wEhniGlFDtA
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