Euro 2020/2021

[midtown 3,346]

Jesse Owens, Jim Thorpe or  Barry Sanders.   Can you imagine Barry how many ankles Barry Sanders would break?    And Kaitlin Jenner would have dominated womens soccer.   NTTIAWT

Edited June 15, 2021 by midtown

[MoJames 8,244]

Oh my favorite soccer discussion. Which American athlete not in soccer would make a great soccer athlete.

[TexArcher 37,975]

30 minutes ago, MoJames said:

Oh my favorite soccer discussion. Which American athlete not in soccer would make a great soccer athlete.

Every first baseman would make a great goalkeeper and every defensive back would make a great center forward.  It's science.

[Captain Ron 12,883]

Fucking casuals.

[WBT 20,613]

Finland vs Russia tomorrow morning.

[InkaUtexas 25,981]

3 hours ago, MoJames said:

Oh my favorite soccer discussion. Which American athlete not in soccer would make a great soccer athlete.

Lebron right? 

[Hagbard Celine 10,871]

On 6/14/2021 at 4:01 PM, ztejas said:

Ah. The famous Grecian-backdoor method. Wouldn't be against it. 

Just looked it up because it's still one of the craziest things ever - Greece won Euro 2004 with 7 GF and 4 GA. They advanced to the elims on 0 GD and then won 3 straight contests 1-0.

extra credit: find the portugal-greece heat map from the final

[Hagbard Celine 10,871]

On 6/14/2021 at 6:29 PM, PittsburghTiger said:

Germany tomorrow. Looking forward to that one.

My hierarchy goes: 1. U.S.A.; 2. Germany; 3. Sweden; 4. Ireland.

usa

mexico's opponent

england

argentina

bhutan

australia

scotland

canada

germany

iceland

chile

peru

hungary

bermuda

ethiopia

 

 

[Hagbard Celine 10,871]

On 6/14/2021 at 7:26 PM, Knoxtnhorn said:

Thank God ESPN was able to secure Julie Fowdy's services for such awesome analysis.  Pregame.  Poland v. Slovakia.

Dude: Julie.  What separates Lewandowski from others in Europe.

Fowdy:  Well he's a treat to watch and scores and scores and scores.

In 1999, Loudy Foudy claimed the girlz would beat the men.

[ztejas 43,473]

6 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

extra credit: find the portugal-greece heat map from the final

I don't think it exists after a cursory Google search. This is the best I could do.

Possession isn't that bad actually. But corners won and total shots is funny. 

[Braff Zacklin 13,618]

1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:

usa

mexico's opponent

england

argentina

bhutan

australia

scotland

canada

germany

iceland

chile

peru

hungary

bermuda

ethiopia

Bullshit. Everyone knows you're a homer for Mon Cala.

[ztejas 43,473]

1 minute ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Bullshit. Everyone knows you're a homer for Mon Cala.

Yeah he's full of shit. He was wearing a Martinique T shirt the last time I saw him.

[Hagbard Celine 10,871]

On 6/14/2021 at 8:08 PM, PittsburghTiger said:

poorly finished relationships with Latina gals (both Venezuelans who were bat-shit crazy)

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[Hagbard Celine 10,871]

On 6/14/2021 at 8:39 PM, Braff Zacklin said:

El Tri fans have become aggy

not become.

are.

[Hagbard Celine 10,871]

10 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

snatch and grab

smash and grab is the common parlance

but i like the grabbing of snatch

so let it be written

[Hagbard Celine 10,871]

9 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

As a side note, Germany uses Haydn’s Kaiserhymne for the national anthem. Pitt also uses it for our alma mater.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gott_erhalte_Franz_den_Kaiser

[Hagbard Celine 10,871]

9 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Neuer was not the original sweeper keeper! Chilavert predates him by two decades, and I'm sure there were others before him.

 

[Hagbard Celine 10,871]

7 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

So basically we repeat the next round with the exception of Northern Macedonia. 

i rate the macedonians to advance

[Hagbard Celine 10,871]

6 hours ago, Napoleon said:

If Shaquille O'Neal had grown up in Brazil, Portugal, México, or maybe Uruguay/Argentina, [EDIT: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Morocco… I apologize for my Euro/Latin American blinders]…

He would have been a combination of:

Ronaldinho & Mbappe & Hulk & Thor & The Silver Surfer

With the right exposure to the possibilities of what a showman could do with a soccer ball ⚽️, he would have been abducted by aliens and kidnapped to star in the the Vega Premier League.

fifa

[Hagbard Celine 10,871]

2 hours ago, WBT said:

Finland vs Russia tomorrow morning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

[Zepol87 9,188]

4 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

Fucking casuals. 

You shouldn't talk about Austin FC fans like that

[SimonBolivar 10,958]

31 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

fifa

[shnsajax 3,591]

2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Lebron right? 

Steph!

[PittsburghTiger 6,190]

7 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

usa

mexico's opponent

england

argentina

bhutan

australia

scotland

canada

germany

iceland

chile

peru

hungary

bermuda

ethiopia

 

 

Now that could get confusing!

[PittsburghTiger 6,190]

7 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

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I don’t want to die

[Cheeseweasel 26,438]

6 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

Hulk would be an Hall of Fame NFL player (am I doing it right?)

[Braff Zacklin 13,618]

Well, except for "an" preceding a pronounced consonant. Not even the English say, "Ulk."

[Cheeseweasel 26,438]

1 minute ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Well, except for "an" preceding a pronounced consonant. Not even the English say, "Ulk."

It's early. And I'm still trying to understand how Portugal scored 3 yesterday.

[PittsburghTiger 6,190]

Goal taken away from Finland

[Shady Ray 1,633]

Finns ain't fucking around.

 

Edit: What PittsburghTiger said

Edited June 16, 2021 by Shady Ray

[PittsburghTiger 6,190]

Liking the Finland uniforms 

[Cheeseweasel 26,438]

Big miss by the Russian

[hayden_horn 11,362]

3 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

Goal taken away from Finland

var is a beating. guess he was about an inch offside but i am not convinced we are well served by celebration followed by var revocation. i know i am a bit of a broken record about it so i will shut up about it. 

[PittsburghTiger 6,190]

Russia has settled down well now

[Cheeseweasel 26,438]

Short corners that result in nothing make me irrationally angry.

[PittsburghTiger 6,190]

14 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

Liking the Finland uniforms 

Especially after seeing the ones we just had “designed”.

[PittsburghTiger 6,190]

Russia in all red should have the CCCP across the front of the jersey 

[Cheeseweasel 26,438]

Just now, PittsburghTiger said:

Russia in all red should have the CCCP across the front of the jersey 

[PittsburghTiger 6,190]

Beautiful play, shot & goal by Russia

[Cheeseweasel 26,438]

Just now, PittsburghTiger said:

Beautiful play, shot & goal by Russia

Damn. That was a thing of beauty.

[hayden_horn 11,362]

39 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Short corners that result in nothing make me irrationally angry.

hahaha me too, man. it's a free cross. cross the fucking ball

[Ted Lange 16,110]

Same.  Shit makes me ragey.   Kick that shit in the box pronto. 

[Cheeseweasel 26,438]

Just now, hayden_horn said:

hahaha me too, man. it's a free cross. cross the fucking ball

I  understand the logic if you have some sort of masterful set play (short corner, back post cross to catch the defense out) but they never do. It always ends up as a goal kick or turnover.

[Cheeseweasel 26,438]

Just now, Ted Lange said:

Kick that shit in the box pronto. 

CORNER TAKEN QUICKLY

[Captain Ron 12,883]

17 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Damn. That was a thing of beauty.

I was just coming here to comment on this goal too. If you can switch feet like this AND score, that is going to be gorgeous.

That said - fuck Russia 

[Napoleon 8,688]

44 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Short corners that result in nothing make me irrationally angry.

You must fucking hate Barcelona and the Spanish National Team. 

[Cheeseweasel 26,438]

12 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

You must fucking hate Barcelona and the Spanish National Team. 

Now that you mention it...

[Napoleon 8,688]

Russia on EPO (2018)

vs

Russia NOT on EPO (2021)

…you can’t even tell that they are from the same nation. This EURO 2020 (in 2021) squad looks like it was built from a nation of the same population as Gibraltar or Andorra. 

[PittsburghTiger 6,190]

Amazing how the tone of the game changed after the goal was taken away. Also, Finland, it seemed, kept kicking the ball into Russians once that got to that final 30-yards or so. Good spacing on defense by Russia. It was an entertaining game.

[Trey3216 15,347]

What the fuck is Arda Ocal wearing on his jacket??  Mini sunglasses??  
 

 

Edited June 16, 2021 by Trey3216