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3/25/2010 10:54:54 PM

^srs bsnss pst

3/25/2010 11:00:12 PM

i am so pumped for the worldcup!!!

3/28/2010 12:23:03 PM

how the fuck does Sven keep getting jobs, especially one with a good team

3/29/2010 10:06:57 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFKGhupTpU4

LOL

3/30/2010 3:23:05 PM

yay

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/soccer/story/7456837/

4/21/2010 9:08:40 AM

Cool! That means it is less than 50 days till I might have a real job. The only job I have found right now that is maybe going to hire me will start on June 1st at 9:00 am M-F. No vacation time can be taken during the first 12 weeks of training. IF they don't hire me then I will have to watch the World Cup!

4/21/2010 12:36:41 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMophHw6iX4

4/21/2010 12:39:06 PM

Cool! I was eliminated from the job I was trying to get and haven't heard from any of the other places I applied.

4/22/2010 11:02:08 AM

Viva Italia!

4/22/2010 11:04:53 AM

I'm not going to look through the whole thread, but has anybody proposed a World Cup fantasy league yet? we did it in 2006 and it ruled

[Edited on April 22, 2010 at 11:55 AM. Reason : D'OH]

4/22/2010 11:54:59 AM

Yeah Yeah we do it every four years

Pm Ernie for all the details

He's the organizer and he runs a pretty tight ship

4/22/2010 12:01:32 PM

i want in

4/22/2010 2:20:26 PM

The video game released today. I got it at Best Buy this morning. It's a great game with all 199 teams that participated in WC Qualifying. FYI the US kits in the game are the two from last year and the new home/away for the WC.

4/27/2010 2:27:57 PM

How much was it? Worth buying at all? EA sports?

4/27/2010 2:42:42 PM

where to buy WC jerseys from?

4/27/2010 2:44:22 PM

I got it for PS3, so it was $59.99 and it is made by EA Sports. The step from FIFA 09 to WC is a lot higher than FIFA 10 to WC. It allows you to take your created player from FIFA 10 and import them into the country for WC to "Captain your Country." They've added lots of things to presentation. Scoreboard & pregame lineups are both in the FIFA format. Lots of little things have added up to make it a very enjoyable game. There is also an online FIFA World Cup tourney.

For jerseys
http://www.soccer.com/soccer24.php
http://www.worldsoccershop.com/2010-world-cup-portal.html


[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 2:50 PM. Reason : links for jerseys]

4/27/2010 2:47:57 PM

Dicks in Cary actually has a good selection of world cup jerseys right now. Official ones, not knock offs.

That's a shame I have to get stuck with old white jerseys. I hope they release an update when we reveal them.

4/27/2010 6:25:21 PM

This is a pick of the "leaked" home jersey for the world cup.



It along with the new road jersey for the WC and the home & away jerseys from last year are in the WC video game.

4/27/2010 8:42:56 PM

I thought someone said only our wc blue jersey is in the game.

4/29/2010 10:51:57 AM

I hate that "USA" block on the back and those red things on the sleeves (and yes, I know it's like that for all the other Nike teams)


I'm really not excited about this jersey but I might get one anyways, I change my mind all the time

4/29/2010 10:54:56 AM

Our "road" WC jersey is blue. It's the jersey the US team wore vs the Netherlands. Our "home" WC jersey is up on http://ussoccerstore.com/. Both of these jerseys are in the game along with the home and away jerseys from last year.

4/29/2010 1:23:25 PM

surprised we don't have a 3rd shirt like the DTOM one around the last World Cup

4/29/2010 1:45:16 PM

de rossi has a crucial world cup beard going

4/29/2010 4:52:21 PM

i knew the away ones were blue...but glad to hear the game has both

4/29/2010 5:11:54 PM

I like the improvements in the game over FIFA 10. The ball seems a lot less "scripted", if you know what I mean.

4/29/2010 5:22:33 PM

Quote :

"On the back of the Shirt's neck is a graphic that reads 'USA', while inside the neck is a graphic of a coiled rattlesnake. Inside the Shirt, on the back of the US Football Federation's crest, and symbolically above the heart, is another crest. Designed by a US artist, the crest features the same coiled rattlesnake lurking in the bushes, accompanied by the defiant and inspiring message 'DTOM', which stands for 'Don't Tread On Me ', a historic phrase that has been used for more than two centuries as a patriotic rallying call. Elite club colors means he's not afraid to scream his battle cry, "Don't tread on me.""

5/4/2010 10:48:50 AM

what's with the numbers? that looks dumb

5/4/2010 10:54:36 AM

^^ I read that in a Rod Roddy voice in my head

5/4/2010 10:57:53 AM

Quote :

"No-one has any idea what Maradona is going to do at the World Cup, least of all Maradona himself. Lionel Messi, Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aguero, Gonzalo Higuain, Diego Milito, Javier Saviola, Hernan Crespo, Martin Palermo, Ezequiel Lavezzi, Lisandro Lopez, Maxi Rodriguez and even Julio Cruz would probably get into most World Cup squads."

ridiculous

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/03/05/the-top-ten-most-strongly-contested-world-cup-positions/

5/4/2010 11:56:19 AM

Argentina has an embarrassment of riches all over the field

I'd love to see an Argentina/Spain final

5/4/2010 12:15:50 PM

argentina are weak at the back. and weak at the managerial position. if they make the final, it will be because they employ the score 1 more than you tactic. the keepers maradona has been using lately dont have a lot of experience at all...

5/4/2010 12:23:21 PM

anybody bought their vuvuzelas yet? i got one in red and one in black last month. i'd better get to use them against england.

5/4/2010 12:24:09 PM

^^ it could be worse in the back, they still have some decent guys back there - Demichelis, Heinze, Samuel, Zanetti, Insua - it's not like they have to deal with Pearce and Corrales

agree about the keeper and and manager though... who knows what to expect from them?

5/4/2010 12:30:01 PM

im curious to see how zanetti will do after a full season at his age...and heinze isnt quite what he used to be...lol that you named insua, i know youve watched him play. hes awful

demichelis and walter samuel should do alright with each other. but they are liable to have a keeper starting with 10 caps or less

[Edited on May 4, 2010 at 12:51 PM. Reason : f]

5/4/2010 12:49:23 PM

maybe I'm biased, I wouldn't call Insua "awful," he's just small and he's definitely improving. He's not world class or anything but I'd take him over somebody like Neville (who has a serious shot at making a WC roster) or anybody at RB for the US

5/4/2010 12:54:17 PM

i thought insua was a left back....

which is half of why i laughed cause he has no shot over heinze.


and i would take neville over insua any day for a backup. id rather have the experience than the potential in a world cup.

[Edited on May 4, 2010 at 12:58 PM. Reason : f]

5/4/2010 12:57:29 PM

d'oh you right

I must have been having flashbacks to my Carra over Neville argument on here



whatever, point still stands. He's a decent squad player.

5/4/2010 1:08:04 PM

this just in: steve nash picks england

5/4/2010 5:47:52 PM

Quote :

"while inside the neck is a graphic of a coiled rattlesnake"

Inside the neck? SHIT I'M GONNA BE WEARIN DIS SHIRT INSIDE OUT.

I actually like the dot matrix numbers, but it does look weird contrasted with the solid sash. Maybe if the sash was dot matrix too it might look bad ass. Or terrible. I'm having a hard time picturing it.

Overall score: 65

Away: 70
Home: 60

Scoring system: Arbitrary


Not the worst kit I've seen, but definitely not the best.

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I like the Republic of Korea's jersey with the tiger print:



Reminds me of Poland's 2006 World Cup jersey, which is one of my all time favorites.

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The Dutch Away jersey is simple but pretty sweet.



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The Hondurans almost had a good kit going, but Joma decided to put their logo smack over the Honduran FA's logo and added some ugly ab accents. Lower the blue faded banner, slap the HFA's logo in the middle of it, put the Joma logo off to the side, and get rid of those skewed equalizer bars and you have a good shirt.


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Like I said before, I like the background patterns, like those on South Korea's new kit and Poland's 2006 kit, but what the fuck is this? Shame on you Italy. You usually have some of the best jerseys. Not this year.



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I like the main design of the shirt, but what the fuck is going on up by the upper chest? Get rid of the cut off. I like the cut of Nike's kits better than Adidas, and this shirt displays why.



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I think New Zealand's Away shirt would have been the best of the cup if they would have implemented one of those background fades of their leaf logo like South Korea's tiger print and Italy's whatever the fuck that is.

5/5/2010 12:02:32 AM

lol @ the front pic from espn's world cup page



http://soccernet.espn.go.com/worldcup/?cc=5901&ver=us&topId=5161644

5/5/2010 11:38:21 PM

Quote :

"Italy's Cannavaro says '10 World Cup is his last"

lol

5/5/2010 11:46:21 PM

That's pretty awesome they got Nate Silver to do a statistical analysis.

5/5/2010 11:51:28 PM

^^ahahaha that is pretty funny...fucking italians thinkng they can play til they are 45

5/6/2010 12:05:25 AM

Portugal should slap a number on the back and make this a 3rd shirt

5/6/2010 1:14:23 AM

and then throw it in the trash

5/6/2010 8:07:05 AM

The Italian background pattern looks like someone from the South Pacific was told to draw the mask from Scream.

5/6/2010 8:17:15 AM

Getting too excited leading up to this...I had a dream about the world cup last night.

Basically it involved watching USA vs England at a bar with a bunch of friends. We were down 3-1 at half and ended up winning 7-6. Crazy game

5/6/2010 8:54:24 AM

7-6... Brian Ching with 5 goals. hahaha.

5/6/2010 10:03:36 AM

still searching to buy cheap wc jerseys....i need about 5-6 of them atleast....might end up getting more if i find them cheaper in bulk!

where are you buying them from? how much? what team/player?

edit: wc party at my place....most games if not all...that is why all my friends and i decided to buy together if its cheaper


[Edited on May 6, 2010 at 11:28 AM. Reason : plus summer = soccer at the beach!]

5/6/2010 11:13:03 AM