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Re: World Cup

#421 Post by Mescal » Fri Nov 25, 2022 3:54 pm

Artemis wrote:
Wed Nov 23, 2022 4:42 pm
Canada didn't get the W today but fought to the end. Definitely gave Belgium a run for their money! Seems the refs favoured Belgium, and so many missed shots, just couldn't get the ball into the net. Oh well, on to the next...Croatia.
Yeah, Belgium played really badly. We didn't deserve to win but I'm glad we did.

Kudos to Canada! Belgium will have to up their game, don't know if they can though. Then again, it's football, anything can happen. Missing the all for one, one for all attitude

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Re: World Cup

#422 Post by Artemis » Sat Nov 26, 2022 6:17 am

Canada definitely has to win tomorrow to have a chance of going through the next round. We're the only one in Group F with 0 points.

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Re: World Cup

#423 Post by Artemis » Sat Nov 26, 2022 2:47 pm

I love this! :rockon:

Of course, the Croation media is making more out of the comment. Tomorrow's game might be extra physical.

(My tweet button doesn't seem to work)

https://twitter.com/TSN_Sports/status/1 ... 6491865096

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Re: World Cup

#424 Post by Artemis » Sun Nov 27, 2022 2:16 pm

:wavesad: I guess that's it then.


Best to the rest to move on. See you in four years when we will co-host with USA & Mexico. CANAMEX. :lol:

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Re: World Cup

#425 Post by Bandit72 » Sun Dec 18, 2022 4:26 pm

If you’re wondering why football (ball played with feet :cool: ) is so popular, please watch a repeat or highlights of the World Cup Final. Not only will you see one of the greatest World Cup finals (or games!) of all time, you will also watch the greatest footballer of all time and also a future super star. What a game today :rockon:

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Re: World Cup

#426 Post by JessieJim » Mon Dec 26, 2022 9:23 pm

I liked the way the French president hugged Mbappe

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Re: World Cup

#427 Post by clickie » Wed Jan 04, 2023 10:31 am

The one thing that bo
Bandit72 wrote:
Sun Dec 18, 2022 4:26 pm
If you’re wondering why football (ball played with feet :cool: ) is so popular, please watch a repeat or highlights of the World Cup Final. Not only will you see one of the greatest World Cup finals (or games!) of all time, you will also watch the greatest footballer of all time and also a future super star. What a game today :rockon:

The one thing that bothered me was the outcome was determined by a penalty kick. Let them play for sudden death it's the World Cup.

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Re: World Cup

#428 Post by Bandit72 » Thu Jan 05, 2023 2:40 am

clickie wrote:
Wed Jan 04, 2023 10:31 am
Bandit72 wrote:
Sun Dec 18, 2022 4:26 pm
If you’re wondering why football (ball played with feet :cool: ) is so popular, please watch a repeat or highlights of the World Cup Final. Not only will you see one of the greatest World Cup finals (or games!) of all time, you will also watch the greatest footballer of all time and also a future super star. What a game today :rockon:

The one thing that bothered me was the outcome was determined by a penalty kick. Let them play for sudden death it's the World Cup.
The Golden Goal rule has been tried before, it doesn't work in football. Penalties are good as it shows the character of the players and also makes you hide behind a cushion :lol:

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Re: World Cup

#429 Post by parklife03 » Thu Jan 05, 2023 6:46 am

What a game, being from Arg! We passed from happiness to suffering, to happiness again, to suffering again and so on. Just like with everything in our country :drink:.

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Re: World Cup

#430 Post by Artemis » Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:22 pm

Since we don't have a soccer/football thread, I'm going to post this news here...
Lionel Messi picks MLS's Inter Miami in a move that stuns soccer after exit from Paris Saint-Germain

MIAMI — Lionel Messi has pulled off his latest stunning feat: He is headed to Major League Soccer, and joining Inter Miami.

After months — years, even — of speculation, Messi finally revealed his decision to join a Miami franchise that has been led by another global soccer icon, David Beckham, since its inception but has yet to make any real splashes on the field.


That likely will soon change. One of Inter Miami’s owners, Jorge Mas, tweeted out a photo of a darkly silhouetted Messi jersey shortly before the Argentinian great revealed his decision in interviews with Spanish news outlets Mundo Deportivo and Sport.

It was widely believed that Messi eventually would choose to play for Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia, following longtime rival Cristiano Ronaldo to a nation where some clubs now are funded by the state’s sovereign wealth fund. Going back to Barcelona, a storied franchise where he spent most of his career, was another possibility.

But in the end, he made the call that surprised many. Messi is joining MLS. He said in the interviews Wednesday that some final details still need to be worked out, but that he has made the call to “continue my path” in Miami.

“After winning the World Cup and not being able to return to Barcelona, it was my turn to go to the league of the United States to live football in another way,” Messi said.

He didn’t take the money. He didn’t choose the memories. He picked Miami instead. Messi’s next matches are likely to be exhibitions with Argentina against Australia on June 15 at Beijing and at Indonesia in Jakarta four days later — and then his Inter Miami debut figures to be sometime in July.

“We are pleased that Lionel Messi has stated that he intends to join Inter Miami and Major League Soccer this summer,” read a statement from MLS. “Although work remains to finalize a formal agreement, we look forward to welcoming one of the greatest soccer players of all time to our league.”

The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner — the trophy given annually to the world's best player — makes his move after two years with Paris Saint-Germain. At 35, Messi has nothing left to prove in the game and filled the only significant unchecked box on his resume back in December by leading Argentina to the World Cup title.

Messi has more than 800 goals in his career for club and country, making him one of the greatest scorers in the sport’s history. In more than 17 years of representing Argentina on the international stage, he has scored 102 goals against 38 different national team opponents — 16 of those goals coming on U.S. soil. He scored twice in last year’s World Cup final against France, a match that ended 3-3 with Argentina prevailing 4-2 on penalty kicks.

He has been to the absolute mountaintop of the game. He is a four-time Champions League winner and his 129 goals in the top club competition are second to Ronaldo's 140. Messi has won 10 La Liga titles and two Ligue 1 championships, seven Copa del Reys and three Club World Cups plus a Copa América and Olympic gold medal for Argentina.

And now he comes to MLS, and a team that is struggling — last place in the Eastern Conference, just a few days removed from the firing of coach Phil Neville (who was hand-picked by Beckham two years ago).

Messi’s decision to play in the U.S. might be the biggest boost ever for American soccer on the pro stage. Some of the game’s biggest names — Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, Thierry Henry and Beckham himself — have come to the U.S. toward the end of their careers, but landing a player still no worse than near the pinnacle of his game and just a few months removed from hoisting a World Cup is simply huge.

“This is obviously the biggest signing that they've brought in,” said Nashville defender Walker Zimmerman, a U.S. national team regular. “It's kind of reminiscent of Beckham when he came originally. You saw how the league has kind of changed in the 15 years since he arrived, and hopefully 15 years from now we're seeing all the growth from this addition to the league. I think it's a great thing. I think it'll be great for the sport in this country, especially ahead of the 2026 World Cup. And I'm excited to play against him.”

It took months of negotiations with MLS, the Miami ownership, Adidas and even Apple getting involved in a creative pitch to bring Messi to Miami’s pitch. Apple — which is a broadcast partner of MLS — announced Tuesday that it will show a still-untitled four-part documentary series “featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes access to global superstar Lionel Messi. … In his own words, Messi tells the definitive story of his incredible career with the Argentina national football team, providing an intimate and unprecedented look at his quest for a legacy-defining World Cup victory.”

And now, his story will have a Miami chapter.


Inter Miami needed six years from inception to playing its first match, and its first four seasons have been less than stellar.

Messi is joining a team that sits last in the Eastern Conference and just fired its coach. It has made the playoffs in two of its first three seasons but has yet to finish a season with a winning record or even a positive goal differential.

Still, there have been hints for months that Miami remained very much in the Messi sweepstakes. Messi met with Inter Miami co-owner Beckham this spring, and that was shared publicly almost to ensure that everyone knew the sides were still talking. Messi and his family also own several pieces of luxury real estate in South Florida, and — almost as if to suggest something big was coming — the MLS club told fans the only way they could get tickets for the second half of this season was to purchase a season-ticket package.

He’s an enormous draw everywhere on the globe, including Miami. Two days after Argentina won the World Cup, Miami Heat guard Kyle Lowry sat on his team’s bench for a game unable to play because of injury. He wore a Messi jersey that night.

Inter Miami still plays home matches in a temporary home in Fort Lauderdale, about 45 minutes north of the site in Miami where the team wants to build a permanent complex.

And even in an area where the population has a serious Latin flavour, and where more people might actually call the sport fútbol than soccer, Inter Miami has struggled to generate the same attention as do the area’s primary pro teams — basketball’s Heat, baseball’s Miami Marlins, football’s Miami Dolphins and hockey’s Florida Panthers.

Messi could change that in an instant. In a flash, he becomes the biggest name in MLS and makes everything Miami does newsworthy.

His decision ends what has been a wild saga. Barcelona made Messi a superstar, but the financial issues that forced the team to letting him go two years ago still remain an issue.

“I heard that they'd have to sell players or lower players' salaries and the truth is, I didn't want to go through that,” Messi said Wednesday.

There are no financial issues with Saudi Arabia, and speculation that he would end up there intensified when Messi made an unauthorized trip to the kingdom. PSG suspended him and some fans turned on him, serenading him with jeers toward the end of his season with the French club.

Everyone knew he wouldn’t be back with PSG. Few likely thought he was heading to Miami. But here he is, a move to Miami by a superstar that might even be more shocking than LeBron James arriving to join the Heat 13 years ago.

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Re: World Cup

#431 Post by clickie » Wed Jul 26, 2023 2:04 am

Yeah Artemis Messi makes it look easy.





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Re: World Cup

#432 Post by clickie » Wed Jul 26, 2023 2:09 am

His first game on the team he did this






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Re: World Cup

#433 Post by Bandit72 » Wed Jul 26, 2023 11:15 am

GOAT


FACT

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#434 Post by clickie » Wed Jul 26, 2023 3:29 pm

US women are going for the 3peat

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Re: World Cup

#435 Post by clickie » Wed Jul 26, 2023 3:37 pm

Tune in tonight Bandit this is some must tv against the Netherlands

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#436 Post by clickie » Wed Jul 26, 2023 3:38 pm

much see tv

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Re: World Cup

#437 Post by clickie » Wed Jul 26, 2023 3:41 pm

I think they go on 9pm

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Re: World Cup

#438 Post by clickie » Wed Jul 26, 2023 5:23 pm

You know this a good team because Megan Rapinoe comes off the bench

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Re: World Cup

#439 Post by clickie » Wed Jul 26, 2023 5:36 pm

Lets go Trinity Rodman your time is now

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Re: World Cup

#440 Post by clickie » Wed Jul 26, 2023 11:24 pm

I was hyping the game up and it ended in a tie.

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Re: World Cup

#441 Post by clickie » Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:25 am

Bandit72 wrote:
Wed Jul 26, 2023 11:15 am
GOAT


FACT
I was lucky enough to see Pele back when he was on the New York Cosmos

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Re: World Cup

#442 Post by clickie » Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:31 am

Now I can go see Messi and you're invited

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Re: World Cup

#443 Post by clickie » Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:05 am

Lionel Messi is playing tonight it's must see tv


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