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    Gratuitous US-Italy Match Thread

    Well well well....a sad day for both countries...

    USA to play so well and all for naught...(especially the awesome McBride)

    Italy to play so crappily with so many advantages....with a (or was it even two??)red card, you should at least be in the other guys end sometimes, but it was as if Itlay had gotten the red card, not America, in the last half. I saw some beautiful moments in that last half, like the great 2 against 4-5 push by usa that ended with an offside goal....terrible. I HATED that ref.

    Let me just say that I am normally cheering for Italia but USA deserved that game, they gave it their all and suffered from clearly biased calls.

    Let me just say that I thought the US offense (in that particular game) was hot!
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    I was happy that they played their hearts out, even though they had been blown out by the Czechs just prior.

    Looking out 20 or 30 years, it becomes clear that the US needs examples of the type of teams that we would wish to field, in order to build a solid tradition.

    Tivo'd.
    Last edited by DanS; June 18, 2006, 23:17.
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    • #3
      What are you talking about?
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      • #4
        There happens to be a World Cup thread already, Seeker
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        • #5
          Nonsense! The World Series isn't for months yet.
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          • #6
            The goal was offside.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by notyoueither
              The goal was offside.
              The play was called offside. The goal, wasn't.
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              • #8
                The "play"

                Silly Americans
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Sikander


                  The play was called offside. The goal, wasn't.
                  Reluctant as I am to feed this dicussion that should be on the other thread, the flag has to go up here.

                  First, there is no such thing as a 'play' being offside. Players are offside, and goals can be disallowed for offside, but there is no such thing as 'a play' anway, other than in the minds some (mostly US) observers.

                  As far as the disallowed US goal goes, much as I wanted it to stand, it was offside - and there is no better example of a player being active in an offside position when the ball is struck forward than a bloke standing in front of the goalkeeper, blocking his vision, and stepping out of the way at the last moment.

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                  • #10
                    The ref bashing becomes pathetic.

                    According to the most important german football magazine the mistakes were done by Larrionda's assistants:

                    IIRC 5 of the 12 offside calls against Italy were wrong. But do the Italians complain like little childs? No, they are men.

                    All important decisions were decided correctly. Learn some rules and get over it.

                    And some add on probably unmentioned in american media:

                    The FIFA vice president in charge of referees congratulated Larrionda for his performance after the Italy-USA match.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by siron
                      All important decisions were decided correctly. Learn some rules and get over it.
                      Rarely in life are "all" important decisions made correctly. Certainly not in sports...and 100% NOT in this game. What was good for the World Cup, however, was how well both sides handled the bad calls. And lest somebody say I'm a biased American, Italy really should have won, but you have to give the US team credit for coming back this well after such a horrible first game.

                      The FIFA vice president in charge of referees congratulated Larrionda for his performance after the Italy-USA match.
                      LOL! Of course he did! We wouldn't want to admit that sometimes the officials get in the way of a good World Cup, right? Or at least the person in charge of the refs wouldn't, apparently. Somebody should go ask the FIFA Vice President for Not Wanting to See A Good Match Up Nearly Tossed in the Trash. For a look at how such games *should* be called, I submit the Australia-Brazil game.

                      By the way, any word on the investigation on the Italian betting scandal? Ah, yes. Good, clean soccer.
                      Last edited by yin26; June 19, 2006, 08:03.
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                      • #12
                        It's nifty when all the americans start acting up about football, with their strange vocabulary and fierce patriotism. You lefties aren't fooling anyone.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by siron
                          The FIFA vice president in charge of referees congratulated Larrionda for his performance after the Italy-USA match.
                          I see. Just how far up does this conspiracy go? To the very top I fear.

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                          • #14
                            I just read on CNN that Bush is contemplating airstrikes on FIFA.
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                            • #15
                              I don't think you're going to find many Euro's (or otherwise) opposing such a move.


                              Btw, why do we have a seperate thread on this? An American nonetheless.
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