Bundas, Bribes and Brazucas - The Official Brazil FIFA World Cup 2014 Thread

Who do you think will win the World Cup?


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Piff Huxtable

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Maradona at least has 1986

Messi tho :mjpls:
 

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Safe to say Germany is the gold standard country and society now :manny:. As long as they aren't making basketball shoes for a certain Chicago Bull they're the best at everything.
  • Porsche, Benz, BMW, Audi best cars around. Even Rolls and Lambo needed Germany's help
  • 6 Weeks Holiday
  • Strongest economy in Europe
  • Oktoberfest
  • 5.1% unemployment rate
  • PAWGs who love black men
  • Bayern Munich would've been the GOAT club team if they didn't hire Pep :snoop:
  • 4 straight World Cup Semifinals
  • 2014 World Cup Champions
yeah the amount of respect i have for germans is crazy, goat race if there ever was one. They make rolls royce too btw, BMW owns RR, and BMW is german.
 

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This is an old interview I came across. :banderas: @ the politeness and directness Ballack sons Lalas with
 

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It's hilarious how Messi alone is responsible for the entire Argentine team. It's equally silly considering Xavi played with the best forwards of the last decade. Makes his job a lot easier I would think


Germany is full of stars and people underperformed for them. Or disappeared but guess what no one gets knocked because someone always come through for them. Other teams don't have that luxury.

Messi underperformed after the first 45 but Germany's defense has been fantastic in the knockout stages. But that ain't none of my business :mjpls:

Seriously, its not like Germany was some podunk fluke team. Messi barely got to touch the ball and when he did Neuer played the angle well and forced a bad kick. Cats seem to for get that this Argentine side was flabby besides Messi, Di Maria and Mascherano. Meanwhile, Germany had starters on the bench, the game winner was scored by a sub. Also, people aren't acting like Boateng didn't have the game of his life and acting like Bastian didn't put the team on his back for 110 minutes.

Without Messi, the albiceleste don't even get out of the round of 16 brehs. And even beyond that, lets NOT act like the man isn't the most decorated player in the world. This reminds me of when people were hating on Lebron because he wasn't Jordan. It's like no matter how much the man does he wont be Maradona. Even if he won i think people would still hate. Let that man cook and continue to break records all over the place.
 

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Im glad Messi won the ball. Now the general public are backlashing against a breh who is rapidly becoming the biggest hypejob outside of England internationals in the games history.

He has NEVER look good, apart from the times hes had a midfield which dominated and supplied possession like none other in the history of the sport. Only when he has been the most consistently supplied forward in the history of the sport, in a time of unprecedented inequality in La Liga and club football in general has this breh actually shined. But its funny how all of a sudden "injuries have got him" and his poor body is declining and whatnot, its funny how all that coincided with Xavi dipping, brehs got their excuse on deck just in time I see you :sas1:

you know what's amusing? messi is this generation's pelé :mjlol:



that's it, i'm a cologne fan

germans have come a long way from not likin it up in em :wow: what an 8 year run it's been for them :obama:
@concise can we get this thread unstickied and burn it forever and act like it never happened please
 

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Can a school help China qualify for the World Cup?


That China is dreadful at football is no secret. It currently languishes in 103rd place in the Fifa World Rankings, just below Equatorial Guinea.

The Evergrande Football School is meant to change all that.

The school's turrets and towers rise above the surrounding countryside like a Transylvanian Castle. The courtyards and galleries give the feel of an English public school and the facilities - an Olympic-size swimming pool, tennis courts and 42 full-sized football pitches - would be the envy of many of them.

In the 2,300-place boarding school, pupils attend normal academic lessons but get their football - at least an hour a day - from a team of Real Madrid-trained coaches.

The whole thing was built in less than a year at a cost of almost $200m (£117m), the brainchild of the billionaire owner of one of China's biggest football clubs, Guangzhou Evergrande.

But the school claims high-level political support too.

"Chinese President Xi Jinping has three wishes," the school's headmaster, Liu Jiangnan told me. "To qualify for, to host and to win the World Cup."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28259011
 

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Argentina Sues FIFA For Not Honoring Bribe
Jul 15, 2014




Argentina’s football association has announced plans to sue FIFA for violating an agreement that promised them victory at the World Cup if they paid the most money in bribes.

Argentina lost to Germany in a 1-0 game Sunday in Rio de Janeiro. However, Argentine Football Association Chairman Isidoro Gómez said his team had been promised victory after they paid a hefty bribe to FIFA officials.

“FIFA told us that Germany had paid the top bribe to win the World Cup, so we came back with a more generous offer,” Gómez said. “When (FIFA officials) saw the money, they told me, ‘Sorry, did we say Germany is going to win? We meant Argentina is going to win.’

I thought it would be a repeat of our victory with Diego Maradona over West Germany in 1986, after we loaned downtown Buenos Aires to FIFA executives for a week.”

FIFA, which is no stranger to allegations of corruption and match fixing,

FIFA spokesman Gilles Triquet congratulated Argentina on its “spirited attempt” at winning the game, but admitted that Germany’s football team came up with an unexpectedly more generous bribe at the last minute.

“Just like the actual game of football -- such as Portugal’s surprise tie of the United States or Germany’s crushing defeat of Brazil -- sanctioned football bribery is an unpredictable and thrilling game,” he said. “You never know who’s going to win.

"Well, we at FIFA know who’s going to win, obviously. But the fans don't know, and that’s what’s really important.”

However, Argentine president Christina Fernandez de Kirchner tells The Daily Currant that the integrity of FIFA and world football was at stake in Argentina’s lawsuit.

"What is the world coming to when you can't trust FIFA to honor a bribe," she says.

http://dailycurrant.com/2014/07/15/argentina-sues-fifa-for-not-honoring-bribe-2/
 
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