uhh this is the closest relevant thread...but atlante is currently beating barcelona 1-0 in the first half of the club world cup


its on FSC right now if anyone is interested

when did rafa marquz cut his hair?

[Edited on December 16, 2009 at 11:20 AM. Reason : f]

12/16/2009 11:14:58 AM

^Is it an A vs B squad?

12/16/2009 1:55:48 PM

Good news, I just had a long ♥ to ♥ conversation with my boy Sepp, and this song will be blared over all of the vuvuzelas at all times.

12/23/2009 1:02:10 AM

^The worst part is that Mexico has to play South Africa to open the World Cup. It's bad enough when one of those teams is playing alone.

12/23/2009 2:37:05 PM

bump for gaming.

http://games.espn.go.com/bpredictor/en-us/frontpage

join the group: TWW

password is "thewolfweb"

12/29/2009 9:23:17 PM

joined.

12/29/2009 9:23:38 PM

21 seconds....

12/29/2009 9:25:32 PM

in

Spain over England in the final

12/29/2009 9:37:54 PM

joined

is there a way to view others picks?

[Edited on December 29, 2009 at 9:42 PM. Reason : nvm, gotta wait til June 16]

12/29/2009 9:41:28 PM

in.

12/30/2009 4:01:34 AM

I'm in

12/30/2009 7:47:49 AM

In

12/30/2009 12:30:05 PM

in

12/30/2009 12:41:38 PM

anyone know how many brackets you can make? ill read it later if no one knows, but after i made one it looked like there were options to make more. im gonna want to wait til closer to the tourney to make another or more if i can. gotta play out the leagues and see what star players are injured for their respected countries

12/30/2009 1:59:42 PM

You can always just edit your current one before the tourney starts.

12/30/2009 3:31:11 PM

yeah i figured i might be able to do that. but i was wondering if it was like ncaa bracket stuff where you can make more than 1.

12/30/2009 3:34:20 PM

you can create up to 5 entries, standard ESPN model

12/30/2009 5:06:50 PM

word. i have a feeling there are gonna be a lot of ties at the end of this...usually 1 and 2 arent as tough to pick in soccer. then you dont have too many rounds to guide 16 teams from there. and the odds of picking the total number of goals varies on what team you have but i would say people would range their tiebreaker goals between 10-20...

12/31/2009 3:45:27 AM

I filled out mine. It's more of a "I hope this happens" than anything else.

12/31/2009 8:44:19 AM

I'm joining, but ESPN apparently doesn't want to validate my account.

12/31/2009 12:26:05 PM

It's almost 2010! The count down is on!

12/31/2009 12:41:30 PM

US WC opponent alert:

Algeria is currently getting spanked 3-0 to Malawi in the ANC

1/11/2010 9:59:04 AM

people are saying yeah right whatever to me, but im telling you...if we cant make it out of this group

1/11/2010 6:47:08 PM

Considering where we should be and the talent we have.... not getting out of this group would be worse than what happened at 98 imo

1/11/2010 9:30:54 PM

Not getting out of this group would be a disaster.

1/11/2010 9:37:09 PM

you all right

1/11/2010 10:01:12 PM

we better make it out of this group.

1/11/2010 10:04:54 PM

Quote :

"Algeria is currently getting spanked 3-0 to Malawi in the ANC"

Sweet! My HI 478/HI 479 professor is from Malawi.

1/12/2010 2:55:25 AM

^ Ask him about groundnuts.

1/12/2010 3:52:12 AM

Even better, ask him about deeznuts.

1/12/2010 10:25:45 AM

^^^
Is it Kalinga? I had his class, he's awesome.



[Edited on January 12, 2010 at 1:23 PM. Reason : sp]

1/12/2010 1:23:16 PM

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"^ Ask him about groundnuts."

LOL! Yes we learned about groundnuts being one of the important crops in Senegal.

Quote :

"Is it Kalinga? I had his class, he's awesome."

Yeh, that is where he is from. What class did you have him for? I had HI 479 in the spring of 2008 with him and HI 478 with him in the fall of 2009.

1/12/2010 1:57:47 PM

2018 USA World Cup bid host cities:

1/12/2010 3:56:38 PM

As cool as it would be to have the World Cup local...I hope to God they don't chose the USA...that has FAIL written all over it.

not to mention the host cities are so scattered across a massive country. The host cities need to be centralized to one area like Mid-atlantic, West, north east....not all.

[Edited on January 12, 2010 at 4:01 PM. Reason : .]

1/12/2010 4:00:09 PM

Agreed.

1/12/2010 4:04:20 PM

^^ is that a serious post?

^ and was that a serious agreement??

[Edited on January 12, 2010 at 4:18 PM. Reason : .]

1/12/2010 4:17:41 PM

^is that a serious post?

1/12/2010 4:23:11 PM

You do realize we hosted the highest-attended-to-date and what's regarded as one of the most successful world cups of all time 16 years ago, right?

What exactly would have FAIL written over one in 8 or 12 more years? The bigger and better stadiums? The impressive infrastructure? Low cost/ease of travel for visiting fans? Greater possibility for more sponsorship revenue than other host countries? Moderate weather in the summer?

So again, I ask, was that a serious post?

1/12/2010 4:35:21 PM

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"You do realize we hosted the highest-attended-to-date and what's regarded as one of the most successful world cups of all time 16 years ago, right? What exactly would have FAIL written over one in 8 or 12 more years? The bigger and better stadiums? The impressive infrastructure? Low cost/ease of travel for visiting fans? Greater possibility for more sponsorship revenue than other host countries? Moderate weather in the summer? So again, I ask, was that a serious post?"

I want what you're smoking and I"m sure many others will as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_football_stadia_by_capacity

I honestly don't even know where the better comes from either.

[Edited on January 12, 2010 at 4:51 PM. Reason : asf]

1/12/2010 4:49:18 PM

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"Low cost/ease of travel for visiting fans?"

Please explain to me how this is true. Nothing says "ease of travel" like going from New York to Los Angeles, or being a car centric nation with some of the worst urban sprawl and poorest public transportation among industrialized nations.

Having the World Cup spread across the entire United States is like having Europe as the host. I am also not a fan of countries that do not give a shit about the sport hosting, even though selfishly I will obviously enjoy it because I will have a chance to attend some matches.

1/12/2010 4:59:08 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_records#Attendance

they play in NFL stadiums jackass




^ just because Americans don't give a shit doesn't mean the millions of immigrants already in the US don't give a shit too

and I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it's a hell of alot cheaper/easier to find flights into the US than into somewhere like South Africa

[Edited on January 12, 2010 at 5:03 PM. Reason : .]

1/12/2010 4:59:49 PM

^did you look at the list, jackass...because most of the USA stadiums listed are NFL stadiums.

Quote :

"Please explain to me how this is true. Nothing says "ease of travel" like going from New York to Los Angeles, or being a car centric nation with some of the worst urban sprawl and poorest public transportation among industrialized nations. Having the World Cup spread across the entire United States is like having Europe as the host. I am also not a fan of countries that do not give a shit about the sport hosting, even though selfishly I will obviously enjoy it because I will have a chance to attend some matches."

this...and so many more reasons.

Lets not forget the giant target painted on the USA. Security is already air tight for the World Cup...just imagine what hell it would be when DHS throws its 2 cents in

Also, there were lots of games where you could literally go to the stadium the day of and buy tickets at the window in 94. Not to mention what little television coverage it gets already.

[Edited on January 12, 2010 at 5:08 PM. Reason : .]

1/12/2010 5:03:38 PM

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"and I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it's a hell of alot cheaper/easier to find flights into the US than into somewhere like South Africa"

From South America, perhaps. From Europe and Asia, not really.

I personally still kind of hope the USA wins the bid, but it's for purely selfish reasons like I mentioned above. Taking away my personal bias as an American, I would be more prone to support England, Portugal and Spain, or Belgium and the Netherlands. When the World Cup is in the US, it's just another event going on and will have little or no effect on the daily lives of most people. When it is in many other countries, the entire world seems to stop in that country for 4 weeks, and there is pretty much nothing else on the brain but the World Cup.

1/12/2010 5:08:26 PM

^EXACTLY

1/12/2010 5:09:30 PM

I think you underestimate how big the World Cup would be domestically in 8-12 years. There are a lot more people who appreciate soccer but don't follow it at all than ever before. If we could get those people into the stadiums to experience an actual World Cup game that passing interest could easily develop into something more.

1/12/2010 5:12:59 PM

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"When it is in many other countries, the entire world seems to stop in that country for 4 weeks, and there is pretty much nothing else on the brain but the World Cup."

that's nice and all, but it has nothing to do with hosting a successful World Cup. The only thing that matters is money and FIFA knows we can give them more than any other bid could

Why are both of you ignoring the fact we've already hosted a World Cup successfully and set attendance records that still stand and will probably only be beaten by us in the future? It was before we had soccer-only programming on television, before every single game of the tournament was shown live on television, before we even had our own domestic league, and before we had accomplished anything at all as a country internationally.

We've already proven we can host one and for the next bid, we'll have bigger and better stadiums than we did before - find me a country that has 10-12 quality stadiums with capacity like we have. Your little list of stadia means jack shit because we're not talking about a World vs. US bid - who gives a fuck about a stadium in North Korea or India because they have no chance at hosting?

I'm not trying to tell you that if you support another bid you're dead wrong (I actually would like to see England get 2018 as well). I'm arguing that saying a US bid has "FAIL written all over it" is just ridiculous

[Edited on January 12, 2010 at 5:50 PM. Reason : .]

1/12/2010 5:50:14 PM

Germany 2006 has been the most successful world cup to date...fyi.

Just admit like the rest of us that having the world cup in the USA is a good idea purely for selfish reasons.

[Edited on January 12, 2010 at 6:01 PM. Reason : .]

1/12/2010 6:01:12 PM

just admit that you can't see why FIFA will strongly consider giving 2018 or 2022 to the US because you're a dumb ass

[Edited on January 12, 2010 at 6:15 PM. Reason : just noticed I said definitely... which is not the case]

1/12/2010 6:04:58 PM

i dont know how anyone can argue against the US having a world cup...i cant even argue this cause aimorris already owned up in here...

1/12/2010 6:31:19 PM

Quote :

"that's nice and all, but it has nothing to do with hosting a successful World Cup. The only thing that matters is money and FIFA knows we can give them more than any other bid could"

I didn't say the US WOULDN'T win the bid. I don't really give a shit how much money FIFA can put in their coffers; as a fan that means nothing to me.

1/12/2010 6:46:51 PM