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Brazil - France (July 1st) [Quarter Finals] (pg. 15)
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by raveed
wow i didnt expect this kind of behavior. quite shameful
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Meh, it's Santa Catarina, no one cares about them :p
What Paranoiko said is quite true though and, if you live in Brazil, you can easily understand how and why it happened.
Let's face it - the last time Brazil lost during the knock-out stage was 16 years ago in a game against Argentina. Since then, the Seleção has been deified: "we've got more titles than any other team" and "we've got the world's best players" were sentences repeated in a daily bases. The possibility of losing was completely discarded - not by arrogance, but because we had never seen this generation fail, and most Brazilians naively thought this day wouldn't come.
The destruction of Ronaldo's statue was not just a random act of ire. It represented the death of a God, the humanisation of Ronaldo, the trip back to reality.
Brazil is doing very well economically and scientifically, when compared to other developing countries, but the masses have in football their only pride - they've just recently felt the economic development underway, and they're politically frustrated. This is something we excelled in the world, as opposed, according to the pessismist majority, pretty much everything else.
I wouldn't say it's sad. If anything, it was a positive destruction. They weren't unfair at the moment they destroyed the statue: it happened long before, and far beyond the reach of Ronaldo's acts. They just woke up. |
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| loconet |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
The destruction of Ronaldo's statue was not just a random act of ire. It represented the death of a God, the humanisation of Ronaldo, the trip back to reality.
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so was it a Ronaldo or Ronaldinho's statue? (unless you are referring to Ronaldinho by his real name?) |
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| paranoik0 |
| To make things more confusing, Ronaldo the fat guy is also sometimes refered to as Ronaldinho. :wtf: |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by loconet
so was it a Ronaldo or Ronaldinho's statue? (unless you are referring to Ronaldinho by his real name?) |
| quote: | Originally posted by paranoik0
To make things more confusing, Ronaldo the fat guy is also sometimes refered to as Ronaldinho. :wtf: |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronald McDonald... soon there will be 22 Ronaldos for every game, mark my words. |
:p
It was Ronaldinho's statue (the one in your sig), as he is the one from Rio Grande do Sul (hence "Ronaldinho Gaúcho", his first famous nickname). It all became confusing after someone decided to drop the Gaúcho from his name and promote former Ronaldinho (the fat one) to Ronaldo. Since I knew this from the context, I ended up calling Ronaldinho (the not fat one) by his real name, and I'm afraid this might've made my post unclear.
I wonder why they don't call Cristiano Ronaldo just Cristiano? Did we really need a Ronaldo trinity? Are they God? Does Tiesto know about it? :conf: :D |
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| malek |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Meh, it's Santa Catarina, no one cares about them :p
What Paranoiko said is quite true though and, if you live in Brazil, you can easily understand how and why it happened.
Let's face it - the last time Brazil lost during the knock-out stage was 16 years ago in a game against Argentina. Since then, the Seleção has been deified: "we've got more titles than any other team" and "we've got the world's best players" were sentences repeated in a daily bases. The possibility of losing was completely discarded - not by arrogance, but because we had never seen this generation fail, and most Brazilians naively thought this day wouldn't come.
The destruction of Ronaldo's statue was not just a random act of ire. It represented the death of a God, the humanisation of Ronaldo, the trip back to reality.
Brazil is doing very well economically and scientifically, when compared to other developing countries, but the masses have in football their only pride - they've just recently felt the economic development underway, and they're politically frustrated. This is something we excelled in the world, as opposed, according to the pessismist majority, pretty much everything else.
I wouldn't say it's sad. If anything, it was a positive destruction. They weren't unfair at the moment they destroyed the statue: it happened long before, and far beyond the reach of Ronaldo's acts. They just woke up. |
how charming.
you're trying to hard to downplay what some drunk punks did... deat of a god... what did you smoke honnestly.
And here's some of that Brazilian magic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enWK...brazil%20turkey |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
how charming.
you're trying to hard to downplay what some drunk punks did... deat of a god... what did you smoke honnestly. |
No, I'm not trying to downplay anything here. However, this was not a random fact, and I won't treat it as such.
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| Martinez |
What old prehistorical ancient players can do for a team
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| paranoik0 |
| :stongue: :stongue: :stongue: |
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| fastmp3 |
| lol Lira could you translate the commentaries ? |
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| malek |
| carlos is not doing his job of covering Henry and is inspecting the grass, how hard is it to understand? |
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| Dj Smitty20 |
Aside from Henry being clearly unmarked, I never noticed that Carlos wasn't even paying attention to the play.
What a ing tool. |
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| fastmp3 |
| i wanna know what's written in the white boxes, does it bother you ? having a bad day malek ? :haha: |
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