The drama and the excitement of the World Cup! I tell ya. I will slash my wrists if Paraguay doesn't make it to the second round. The France Uruguay game was scintillating!

Do you think the women's w.c. would be more interesting to watch?

obviously, a sock puppet with eyes made from buttons cannot see anything !

to then say everything is boring,









is a complete cop - out !

Hey guys, whats wrong with the World Cup? Some find it boring others not. I guess this is normal and its not necessary to call each other with abusing names.

If this is the way how you guys have fun where you come from, please make it visible ( ), so that others understand your jokes.

i am saying it is NOT boring

just look at the french, for a start......

many canadians support the french

Nice to see, that not everybody think its boring.

Most Canadian support the French? Thats new to me. I thought the prever to ignore this event. But okay, if they support a team which, I heard, will not play and prefers to strike against the coach. I am fine with that.

Now that the United States of America has made it to the second round, this W.C. is very exciting. This Extra Stellar Canadian Expatriate loved it when they scored that dramatic goal against Algeria, an ex-French Colony.

I see that Paraguay really outplayed the Kiwis, or was it the Aussies. I always get those two countries mixed-up.

Most Canadians I know don't cheer for Frenchmen unless they happen to play for their favorite team in the National Hockey League. To say that they do is a blood libel.

BTW, if you are excited about the Ghana Football team, does that mean you have Ghana-ria?

just give them a clap

That was a incredible match Germany vs England 4:1.

We beat England and they got the revenge for 1966, with the goal to the 2:2, which was not given. Now we are equal.

But even with this goal given the final result still would be 4:2.

What was this talk about Germany - England 1:5 in Munich 2001. I had a reserach and guess, the very first match Germany also lost by 1:5. But that is history yesterday the Germany declassified the English Motherland of Football.

not boring

z

z = nice comment

At least the US team made it in the 2nd Round. Even that they are not Canadian, we could asume they were representing the North American Continent. That football, or soccer how they call it, is not the most popular sport there, I think its quite a achivement to be under the 16 best teams.

Boring it cannot be, if you understand football. Even if your team loose, it can be very interesting.

Lets see, where the new World Champion will be. May the best team win.

(sings) "it is greatly to his credit,
that he remains an Englishman!".

Alas, no, they have, in company with so many others,
dissipated themselves upon the fields.
Deutschland sent them home ignominiously!

I thought the Japan team worthy of merit (such ball-eloquence!
such artisans!), but they too,
have fallen-out.

And so,

hmmm........


Who do you root for now?

P.S. > Gorzo:-

o

sock puppets, muppets and similar low life cannot pro create, multiply or duplicate

so a root is definitely out of the question !

harry1aus wrote:


I thought the Japan team worthy of merit (such ball-eloquence!
such artisans!), but they too,
have fallen-out.

And so,

hmmm........


Who do you root for now?

P.S. > Gorzo:-

o

Ah! To root or not to root? That is the question. I watched the Japan Paraguay match. I started cheering for Japan but at the 60th minute when I should have put the family fortune on the game being decided by penalty kicks, I just wanted someone to score a goal.

Alas, now I pin my hopes on Uruguay, Ghana, or Paraguay. But it looks like two of the usual suspects will make it to the final.

zzzzzzzzzzzz

Now that the president of FIFA has apologized to England for officiating mistakes made in their match against Germany, England has something better than a World Cup, they have VICTIM STATUS. In the age we live in, to be able to be classified as a victim is money in the bank.

All the English F.A. has to do is to blame the officiating mistakes on a cabal of Halliburton, the C.I.A., Mossad, George Bush operatives (Yes! Bush is responsible for all bad things that ever was and ever will be), Paul Wolfowitz, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, and the Conservative member of the Ramones, and Obama will unhestitatingly give them reparations -- a thousand bob a hooligan.

Bravo England!

And since Mexico was also given victim status by FIFA, how long will it be before America is flooded by loads of illegal English immigrants?

BTW, this day (July 1) has been the most exciting day of the W.C. to date! Although it is much harder for me to get to sleep.

Since Kaka is out, I say let's go dutch in the men's w.c.!

Let the dutch come to the final.

They kicked Brazil out in a World Cup once before in the Quaterfinals. That was in 1974 and we know what happend. Germany won 2:1 and became World Champion. 2010 I did not believe that our team will make it out of the first round, but see now:


Incredibly, that is hard to put into words! The football god kissing Germany - we beat Argentina 4-0, we are in the semifinals of the World Cup. And the most beautiful football we play all over the world!

Thanks, guys, thank you, Jogi, for this beautiful 90 minutes. On this third July 2010 have written their football history. And the World Cup is still not too late ...

It was a football demonstration, which was the German national team yesterday in Cape Town. What was before the game everything written about Diego Maradona, this myth. We Diego kleingemacht in these 90 minutes, not only no, we have divided it.

Without a word, Maradona was on the sidelines, arms folded, tears in his eyes. He had to see how his team of eleven German hero was dismantled normal.

Voices of the World Press:

The DFB-Elf gets her runaway victory for world respect: Germany had beaten Diego, says an English paper, an Austrian writes of the "DFB-Express". The Argentine media complaining about the humiliation suffered.

ARGENTINA

Clarin: "The humiliated Selección adopted by the World Cup."

Olé: "Diego, the boy called Müller (...) sweat and tears. Argentina crashed in the German resistance and has been adopted as four years ago in the quarter. This time it was worse - because of the beatings. The gate miller after two minutes hit us considerably, Diego found no answers, and Klose was on the bag. "

La Nación: "A painful resignation of Germany has revealed weaknesses in Argentina and robbed the World Cup."

BRAZIL:

Terra: "Germany has not taken note of Maradona's Argentina and now secured with a 4-0 massacre in Cape Town his qualification for the World Cup semi-final."

O Globo: "Germany humiliates Argentina 4-0. Under the command of Schweinsteiger wins the German selection and sends the Hermanos home. Maradona, Germany, the team thrashed by the fastest goal of the World Cup. Seleção The German won with authority and Argentina again eliminated in the quarterfinals. "

Lance! "You can go home, Argentina. Germany in the semifinals. Germany is not playing as before. It's fast, determined and flexible. Germany is in the semifinals as the biggest favorite for the title."

Estado de São Paulo: "Germany has destroyed the dream of Argentina's four goals."

Folha de São Paulo: "The most efficient football World Cup Germany beats Argentina, goes into the semi-finals."

ENGLAND

Mirror: "Klose tütet a two more, Messi and Maradona thrown out"

Guardian: "Diego Maradona's team was mercilessly thrown out of the competition"

Sun: "Germany destroyed Diego Maradona's Argentina larded with stars and marched into the World Cup semi-final"

Independent: "Germany destroyed Argentina and move into the semi-final one"

Daily Mail: "Diego beat dance. Fabulous German semi-finals"

SWITZERLAND

View: "Germany ballert it all away"

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, "Germany wins the World Cup quarter-final against a 'dusty' Argentina '

AUSTRIA

Standard: "Schland in seventh heaven"

Krone Zeitung: "DFB-Express also overwhelmed Argentina 4-0"

Kate Connolly in Berlin guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 13 July 2010 18.32 BST


German football was engulfed in controversy today over remarks by the agent of a top footballer, who allegedly referred to a "bunch of gays" in the national team.

Michael Becker, who has been the agent of German national football captain Michael Ballack for more than a decade, is reported to have made the comment in the latest edition of the news magazine Der Spiegel.

In an essay entitled New German Men, Aleksander Osang recounts an interview he had with Becker prior to the World Cup in which the agent allegedly told him which of the players in the team were gay. He later said that a former national player was ready to reveal the "bunch of gays" in the German team, according to Osang. Asked about the sexuality of one of the newer players, Becker, who is a lawyer by profession, referred to him as being "half gay".

Osang went on to say that Becker put the new adroit, lighter and elegant style of play that has become a trademark of trainer Joachim Löw's players down to their homosexuality, in contrast to the typically more aggressive and offensive German style of past years, but suggested they played too delicately to assure themselves a place in the final.

According to Der Spiegel, when Becker made his remarks about the "bunch of gays" he expected the ears of fellow journalists present to "prick up". "But they only nodded placidly," said Osang. "All sports journalists seemed to already know the alleged homosexual conspiracies enveloping Löw's team. The rumours accompanied our team to South Africa and evidently belong to the team."

Germany came third in the World Cup, going further than expected, after an excellent run that included wins over England and Argentina.

The team were particularly celebrated for being the youngest in 76 years and more ethnically diverse than any team in Germany football history.

Ballack, who was injured just before the World Cup, spent the tournament watching his team from the VIP stands. Philipp Lahm filled in as temporary captain. The sidelined player could only stand by and watch as the newer, younger players won over the hearts of the nation, as well as winning many fans beyond Germany.

Becker's remarks, which have been picked up across the German press, have attracted sharp reactions from the football world. A spokesman for Bayer Leverkusen, the club where Ballack began his career and to which he will return after his departure from Chelsea FC, said it was shocked by the remarks. "At Bayer Leverkusen we have absolutely no resentment towards homosexuals," it said in a statement. The German Football Federation, which is the sporting association with the largest membership in the world, refused to comment, while Löw said he "would not stoop so low" as to react.

But the comments have raised concerns that homosexuality remains one of the major taboos in the footballing world. The only German footballer to have outed himself as gay is the former regional league player for Erfurt Marcus Urban, and that was only after his professional career was over. Experts estimate that around 10 per cent of all Bundesliga professionals are gay.

Becker has neither denied nor confirmed that he made the comments, but has since said he was "misunderstood" and that the interview was not "authorised", a common journalistic practice in Germany whereby the interviewee has the right to change his remarks after the interview.

Osang said he stood by his article, saying that Becker had told him "unbelievable stories that I took down in my notebook and Becker didn't seem to have anything against me doing so".