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World Cup rant (pg. 6)
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| King Luis |
| quote: | Originally posted by ** TigerLily **
It is true and quite sad. I'm thankful my parents always put education first even though they didn't finish highschool themselves. They faced many struggles in Canada and have had to work very hard to make a decent living without an education and didn't want my sister and I to go through the same thing. Anyway, I'd be hard-pressed to find someone from my highschool who went onto higher education or another Portuguese person in Engineering with me. Thanks for the article!
AND BTW - one thing I am sick of is people always saying Portuguese people jump on the bandwagon - what? we can't support another country now all of sudden, even though other people can. What is wrong with finding a good excuse to celebrate and party (of course, there is no excuse for violence and harassment)... even if it is with our long- lost cousins :p
Lastly, hasn't anyone mentioned the English soccer fans? They are pretty crazy themselves... |
my parents were the same with me and my brother, very strict when i came to school. i would be getting 80s and it wouldn't be good enough.
aren't the english fans called hooligans? or are those just crazy fans in general? |
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| TCB |
| all i can say is GO AUSSIES!!!:p |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vivid Boy
yeah but if u ever watch the quality of goals.......sorry man its in hard to score in soccer, and thats why most goals scored are in beautiful |
of course its hard to score....run around a huge field chasing a ball will make those legs tired....by the time you actually get a chance to take a shot on net you're lucky to have enough strength to even kick the damn thing.
Any game where you are lucky to get 10 shots on goal is going to be lacking excitement. The U.S. was lucky enough to get one shot on goal in their game....come on.....I almost peed myself I was so excited. |
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| Vivid Boy |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
of course its hard to score....run around a huge field chasing a ball will make those legs tired....by the time you actually get a chance to take a shot on net you're lucky to have enough strength to even kick the damn thing.
Any game where you are lucky to get 10 shots on goal is going to be lacking excitement. The U.S. was lucky enough to get one shot on goal in their game....come on.....I almost peed myself I was so excited. |
thats cause the czechs are strong. and if u play proper soccer, theres actually not as much running invloved as u think |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vivid Boy
thats cause the czechs are strong. and if u play proper soccer, theres actually not as much running invloved as u think |
if you look at any of the World Cup Games so far only a couple of teams have had more then 10 shots on net. Soccer is such a defence first game....its like the trap in hockey. |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vivid Boy
BTW GO CZECHS! |
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| KaiLee |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
I saw a guy driving around with four different flags on his vehicle....WTF |
Identity crisis perhaps?
I'll never forget when I was 11....and my first time to Toronto was when Brazil and Italy were in the world cup finals (I think.....correct me if I'm wrong I was 11 and had no idea wtf was going on lol). That was absoloute madness! |
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| King Luis |
| quote: | Originally posted by KaiLee
Identity crisis perhaps?
I'll never forget when I was 11....and my first time to Toronto was when Brazil and Italy were in the world cup finals (I think.....correct me if I'm wrong I was 11 and had no idea wtf was going on lol). That was absoloute madness! |
talking about identity crisis....
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| Mercury20 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vivid Boy
btw portuguese girls are dumb as bricks, kelly's one of em that prove it daily.
theres only a small selection of portuguese ppl i like. most of them i find to be the most disgusting unhygenic ppl ive ever met. On construction sites, The portuguese will take a right on the floor and walk away, literally. ive seen some of the nastiest come from portuguese ppl.
^^^ this doesnt go for all portuguese ppl, just the ones ive met on job sites |
your an ignorant douchebag.
i really shouldn't waste my time responding but i'll make an exception this time.
as far as your original rant goes...... guess what, like any other cross-section of society, there are some obnoxious portuguese people out there.
the fact that these big tournements are only on every few years, means that their fans treat them as much more special occasions than an event that happens every year, like the stanley cup for example.
then you add alcohol, which everyone knows makes people do alot of stupid things.
so after sitting around having a few pints while watching the game, there's no doubt that in the aftermath a few bad apples will be annoying/pissing off people somewhere. this situation is definately not unique to the portuguese community.
but hey, don't let that stop you from spewing some more of your prejudiced bull. it really allows people to see up front what an ugly person you are. |
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| Wyndham |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mercury20
your an ignorant douchebag.
but hey, don't let that stop you from spewing some more of your prejudiced bull. it really allows people to see up front what an ugly person you are. |
not prejudiced at all, its an obvservation, based on years of examples. Infact its so blatently obvious every 2 years, its become a running joke. The portugese and italians are hilarious when the soccer tournys come around, defend all u want, its a fact. |
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| Mercury20 |
yand as far as people getting their panties in a bunch over portuguese people supporting brazil goes....
i really don't see why that's so differant than 90% of canadians supporting England even though their families have been living here in canada for multiple generations.
pure bandwagon-jumpers do indeed suck.
but there are long-standing cultural ties between portugal and brazil that date back hundreds of years. it's not like portuguese people choose to follow brazil as their 2nd fav. team simply because they're the best in the world.
when only a few countries in the world speak a certain language (in this case portuguese), it's only logical that the inhibitants of these countries would feel a certain bond to those few other coutries who speak the same language. |
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| simms327 |
from this weeks economist
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Why the World Cup is better than the Olympics
SEVENTY years after Jesse Owens sprinted to victory in the 1936 Olympic Games, the Berlin Olympic stadium is once again at the centre of the sporting world. Football's World Cup, which starts this week, will come to a climax with a final in the refurbished Olympic stadium in Berlin next month.
Fortunately, the political overtones that made the Berlin Olympics such a sinister event are completely absent. This is not just because Germany is now a democratic country. It is also because the World Cup, unlike the Olympics, is wonderfully difficult to manipulate for political purposes. Over its long history, success at the Olympics has usually been a fairly accurate measure of global political power. Although the world now remembers the snub that Jesse Owens delivered to Nazi theories of racial superiority, the Germans came top of the Olympic medal table in 1936, reflecting the Nazi regime's growing power. During the cold war, the United States and the Soviet Union repeatedly struggled to gain a symbolic victory, by winning the most medals at the Olympics. Already a similar, politically charged battle for supremacy between America and China looks likely in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
By contrast, the World Cup has its own hierarchy, which is pleasingly divorced from the global pecking order. There is a sole superpower—Brazil. The Italians and French, apparently doomed to gentle decline in the real world, remain formidable competitors on the football field. And then there are the rising powers—which are more likely to hail from Africa than Asia. America will field a serious team at the World Cup, but nobody expects it to win. The Chinese, who have discovered a passion for football, failed to qualify for the tournament.
Football's power structure reflects a satisfying characteristic of the global game. Despite the undoubted prestige to be had by becoming champions of the world, it is extremely hard—if not impossible—for a determined and well-resourced government to create a World Cup-winning team. Arguably, the Italians managed it in the 1930s; and Argentina's World Cup winners in 1978 received plenty of backing from the ruling military junta. But a modern-day dictator who ordered his minions to create a team that could beat Brazil—or even play in their style—would be swiftly disappointed.
How to run rings around the Olympics
Again, the comparison with the Olympics is striking. Think of all those robotic East German sprinters, Romanian gymnasts and Chinese swimmers churned out by state-backed programmes. By contrast, a winning football team needs not just athleticism but also a spark of creativity and style that cannot be manufactured by sport's central planners. Even taking drugs does not appear to be much help for footballers.
As a result, every World Cup seems to throw up a team that suddenly clicks at the right time and beats a much-fancied opponent. Think of North Korea vanquishing Italy in 1966 or Senegal turning over France, the reigning champions, in 2002. It is this capacity to surprise that helps make the World Cup such a gripping event. And it is why in the endless competition between the Olympics and the World Cup for the title of “the world's greatest sporting event” we vote for the World Cup.
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