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#218938
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World Cup 2006
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218938/action/topic#218938
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They are reporting that Ronaldo felt sick, with some migraine, and was rushed into a hospital in Frankfurt. Last time he got sick in a World Cup, back in 1998 when he had a seizure hours before the final against France, Brazil turned apathic and lost. I am quite sure the same will happen this time. Ronaldo is the past.
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#218605
Topic
World Cup 2006
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218605/action/topic#218605
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
What does everyone else think? Can Germany win the Cup?


Could go a bit far pushed by the fact that it's playing home, but no more than Korea did back in 2002. That's no team to win a World Cup. Could happen, but it's very unlikely. I'll keep my present bet: Argentina and Netherlands in the finals.
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#218373
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World Cup 2006
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218373/action/topic#218373
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
So what is KaKa'? A nickname?

Kaka means poo in Italian.


Yes, it is a nickname, there is no such name here. Comes from Ricardo. Sometimes, over here, nicknames come from a certain sillable from one's name, often repeated. Like "Ca" in Ricardo - which is spelt with a K because "Caca" (with no "á") means "dirty thing, filthy thing" in brazillian portuguese. There's a player called Dodô, his name was also Ricardo. As for myself, I am usually called Ric or Ri by close ones.
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#218366
Topic
World Cup 2006
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218366/action/topic#218366
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Originally posted by: ricarleite
The only one who even tried was Kaká. By the way, he has the same name and last name as I do...!
I thought your name was Ricardo Leite? BTW, do you know what Kaka means in Italian?


That is his name too.

No, I don't know what it is, but I asume it's something nasty.

My head hurts SO bad... I've never drank so much so early in the afternoon...
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#218359
Topic
World Cup 2006
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218359/action/topic#218359
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Brazil nersus Croatia. OK first of all my impressions of the game itself.

That was bad. Real bad. The team couldn't move, and didn't get the game going. Lucio did some terrible mistakes. Emerson seemed to WANT to get a red card. Ronaldo... that was just sad. It was "Orson Welles at the end of his carrier doing voice-over for Transformers for money" sad. And then Parreira (the coach) got him out and put Robinho in! Robinho can't control the ball, cannot pass and cannot kick. He's worse than a fat, tired, uninspired Ronaldo. He should have got Ricardinho there, playing along with Cafu, to get the plays to move better from the midfield to the foward players. The only one who even tried was Kaká. By the way, he has the same name and last name as I do...!

Regarding the whole experience today: it was very cool. Got out to this pub to watch the game, and the traffic in the way was just unbeliveable. The place was packed, almost everyone dressed in white, yellow, green or blue - I felt out of place with my red t-shirt! Everyone cheering and singing along out national anthem, it was deafening! People booing Croatia's (which I feel to be disrespectful, but it was ok on that place under those circustances). But it felt like... watching a Star Wars premiere. Like when people booed Vader back when Star Wars was released. Or the whole excitment on the lines outside the theater. Being with friends, laughing, cheering, drinking - by the time the game was on 30 minutes of the first period, I was absolutely and completely drunk - and it was 4:30 in the afternoon of a tuesday!

It was great. Gonna watch the following game with my parents at my home town and the game against Japan, most likely at home, alone, working and looking at the TV at the same time. After that, who knows... I am not very confident on this team. Mark my words, the final will be Netherlands and Argentina. But I don't know which one will win.
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#218187
Topic
Nintendo Wii
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218187/action/topic#218187
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Originally posted by: theredbaron
Yeah, actually, I've heard that this can be quite an effective technique - making selfish purchases seem like selfless ones. If you talk about how it can improve your relationship or family closeness, it might help...all this, AFTER purchasing it, of course.


So, by this rationale, purchasing porn could be viewed as a marital aid and, therefore, a good thing, eh? I'll try explaining that one to the wife and give her your name and address, okay?


LOL!

Well... why can't it be?
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#218183
Topic
World Cup 2006
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218183/action/topic#218183
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Not gonna quote because I hate editing quote tags.

Warbler, I did not mean to ridicule or put down north american football, a sport I also enjoy watching (I wasn't able to watch for the past couple of years due to a busy schedule and being on different locations). I was just showing the key points of both and why some are popular in the United States, and some around the rest of the world.

It is intriguing to me on why football has not being popular among north-americans, and I agree with boon23, if it was there would be no competition. The US women soccer team is the best of the world! Then again, it's a culture thing. Football was never really introduced into the USA and was never popular. Among the audiences, it was seen as dull. When I say people dosen't have that emotion to support their teams, and even knowing there is such emotion between sports fans in the US, it is still different compared to how it is on South America and Europe. Maybe because on those places, the teams are not linked to an specific city, and people actually defend their teams as they would they own honor, thus explaining the sad part of all this: holligans.

Still, NO sport is better than the other. North American football is fun and I hope I can get back to watching it again. I loved playing basketball on high school. And ironically enough, I never really liked PLAYING football (soccer). But I was never really athletic, I was that outcast geeky kid who got beat up for being different.

I just wished football (*sigh* soccer) was more popular among other audiences, and not put down and ridiculed like the author of that "The-Rest-Of-The-World Cup" article did.
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#218075
Topic
World Cup 2006
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218075/action/topic#218075
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Originally posted by: Warbler
What is wrong with preplanned plays? As meantioned before, football requires one thing soccer does not: strategy. It is a game that requires intelligence, not just brute stength. It shares some qualities with chess.

Football imho, is much more exciting to watch. Atleast there is alot more scoring. To me nothing is sports compares with watching a team that is behind trying to move the ball down field to score with less than two minutes to play and no time outs.

Ric, football and baseball became popular in America long before tv was around.


I also find American Football exciting to watch, but only on brief moments. That Superbowl in which the Titans lost for an inch, that was exciting. But that's it, it's a rare event. It's mostly pre-planned, rehearsed strategies that feel like pro-wrestle: it's rehearsed, it's "staged", only difference is the other side is not aware of which strategy will be chosen. After both are picked, that down is pretty much defined, there isn't much room for improvising. The quarterback might not see anyone free for a pass and try to run for it, but most likely he'll just move back, look around and be tackled by the defence. End of play. Fourth and eight, the team will actually QUIT the atack and kick the ball. But only after these messages from the sponsors.

Football, on the other hand, is non-stop. What makes it less exciting for you is the fact that the scores are low, and it takes too long for another team to score. Think of it as watching a chess game (American Football is more like paper-scissors-rocks, football is more like chess), how often, in a pro match, do you see the players moving the pieces amock, running with their queens, capturing every piece around, with cheerleaders jumping at each piece captured, grabbing the king in an amazing move? Never. Most frequently there won't even be a checkmate at all, the other player will resign (well not on the ot.com tournament but still ).

This is how football really is. It's a sport played on the field, not by increasing numbers around a score. Every time a team has possesion of the ball, it's exciting. The whole team playing as defence, trying to move around the best strategy to desarm the play, using real strategies (not reharsed plays) and real skill. And then the team moves to attack, moving the ball the fastest way, the best way, to make sure the foward players get to score.

Come to think of it, I belive the reason for this lack of interest in football by north americans is because it's a sport that demands passion. It's not a show, or, as to the comment above: a show later transformed into a TV show. It demands that you root for a team. That you project that emotion into the game being played. That you have a freaking heart attack every time the oposing team is getting closer to your goalkeeper. In north america, people don't have a devotion to a certain team. There's no real spirit of celebrating the team's victory and feeling bad about the losses the way we do in south america and europe. THAT is the difference, I belive...
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#217987
Topic
World Cup 2006
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217987/action/topic#217987
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I've been invited to watch the Brazil game tomorrow at a local pub, so I'll have to ask permission to leave early as 3:30PM (I will start working at 7 and will not break for lunch). But the problem is, I work directly with people from north america, americans and canadians, with almost no interaction and management from locals, so it's kinda hard to convince them that this is actually OK and not some lame excuse for me to skip work. Hell, it's a holiday here on thursday and I'll work!

Reminds me of this hilarious advertisement shown here for a cable pay-per-view game. Shot kinda like "The Office", this old man gets into an office and talks to this man: "Look, I know I shouldn't be doing this. My grandson, he works for you, and he bought this game on pay-per-view, and we wanted to watch it together, we've always seen the games together since he was a little kid... And he said he couldn't do it because of his job, so I decided to come here and ask for your permission for him to leave early just for today."

The boss smiles, and picking the phone, says: "Oh, you're too late. He left 5 minutes ago, to attend your funeral. *to the phone* Hello? Human Resources department?"
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#217960
Topic
World Cup 2006
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217960/action/topic#217960
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I think it's pretty much over for the USA... I was really disapointed at the result! Czech Republic is good but USA has done some good games before. Now it gets complicated for the US, because both countries will lose for Italy and beat Gana, so Italy and Czech gets to move to the next round. Oh well better luck next time. If the USA invest in this sport a bit more, it can do well. I mean, it's not like they don't have the resources for it, all they need is support and trainning.
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#217861
Topic
World Cup 2006
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217861/action/topic#217861
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OK let me make some remarks about what north-americans thing of football and the whole issue.

First of all, sometimes I do refer the sport, when speaking in english, as soccer, because it's how people from north-america know it. Makes my life easier. But when I'm speaking with someone from Europe, I'll always say football.

Second, I've noticed that the sports popular between americans are the ones in which the almost exclusevely play among themselves. The north-american football. Basketball. Hockey. Baseball. These are sports that allow TV stations to fill the game time with advertisements during all the broadcast (time the ammount of game actually been played on a Superbowl game, and the ammout of time for ads and you'll see what I mean) - and I always found that a bit arrogant. Another good example is racing. Nascar is the most popular car racing on the US, mostly because it is dominated by US drivers. What about Formula 1? Not popular, why? The last american Formula 1 driver competed in 1994 and was never able to FINISH a race. Football does not allow commercial breaks in between the game. It dosen't have spetacular scores. It is dominated by south america and europe. So there's no media attention. No popular interest. No one cares. So they put it down as much as they can.

I did watch north american football, and I belive it is a good game. I've seen every Superbowl since 1996 to 2004, and wacthed regularly during 1999 and 2000. But it is different. It's something else. It dosen't class. The strategies are limited to pre-determined rehearsed plays. There is no real competition, as soon as the plays are called, the down is pretty much defined. You almost never see a real improvised play, a moment of full team play on a situation outside the pre-determined play. The real football is a sport that requires both planning and preparing and skill. It requires a lot of skill. The players must be complete. There's no "quarterback". No "kicker". You can't change the whole team for the defence.

There was this interesting article by a north-american sports website back on the 2002 World Cup, called "The Rest-Of-The-World Cup", in which he said how boring football was, how sports should be designed for TV watching, and that north-americans would only care about it when "America wins the damn thing". That's the whole spirit about it.

While I am against USA politics in all senses, I've NEVER been anti-american at all. I am a huge fan of its culture, history and its people, and I have always been an admirer of that great country, but this view on sports, and specially on *sigh* soccer, I always have seen as arrogance.

But then again, it's better that way. It's like a fun private club the whole world can get in except USA and Canada. And only south americans and europeans have the SPIRIT for it. That's why I've said the only way to watch a football game is in a London pub at 9pm getting drunk.