Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - It's Amad World

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no doubt :salute:

salazar didn't get the idea from nowhere, he was a dictator of a colony-holding country just like the monarchs before him

he ramped it up a bit though as part of his Novo Estado plan. he didnt have centuries of lineage behind him like Pedro and his peoples did, so he had to build on this idea of "pan-portuguese"


i only know about 10 angolans, but only one of them has an african name, the rest all portuguese. the names of those i know might as well be brazilian or portuguese themselves, they even carry the same naming method. not sure if any of them speak local languages, but i dont think they do. on the other hand, i know a lot of francophone west africans who speak at least 2 local languages.

the portuguese were really, really awful at handling their colonies, which is not such a bad thing in hindsight, they were misguidedly paternalistic and condescending but that was because they were generally smart enough to know they couldn't sustain the brutality that other european powers used. not to say shyt was a walk in the park for mozambique or angola or anywhere else, but at least it wasn't belgium (an admittedly atrocious standard)
But the Portuguese colonies, all got independence through violent armed struggle and the two biggest one suffered absolute catastrophic civil wars that were the direct byproduct of the factions created in those independence struggles. Portugal's track record might be one of the bloodiest all things considered.

While we're on this topic, I've been meaning to watch this Portuguese doc. on Amilcar Cabral for the longest time.
 

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You lived in Brasil and have an intimate relationship with the country(i only have an academic one), but what exactly is incorrect, because all the stats, and numbers says otherwise.
stats and numbers dont tell the story on the ground

brazil obviously has deep seated race issues, which i've already commented on. and from a governmental perspective, you may be right. but the average brazilian gets along with the average brazilian, regardless of color. at least in the southeast and northeast, in the deep south it's mostly white people who are generally more conservative than the rest of the country. i dont know that part of brazil too well tho tbh
They can't bumps the Nats, to one of their HD stations, and i'm not even gonna talk about 980(Disgraceful)
try 1500 AM

that's where they play the wiz games when the caps are playing, as pathetic as that is

the average WFAN listener IS chad dukes, that's the sad part. speaking of that walking clogged artery, did you hear lavarr going out of his way to agree with callers saying sterling was experiencing reverse racism :why:
 

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Atlanta's fan vote for their fukkass team name is over with. The winner? :heh:

The Atlanta Phoenix :heh:

fukking battybwoy dweebs, how you gonna name your team after another city FFS :dead:

This was the WOAT major sports franchise the SECOND it was announced, but they insist on lowering the fukking bar :mjlol:
 

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Atlanta's fan vote for their fukkass team name is over with. The winner? :heh:

The Atlanta Phoenix :heh:

fukking battybwoy dweebs, how you gonna name your team after another city FFS :dead:

This was the WOAT major sports franchise the SECOND it was announced, but they insist on lowering the fukking bar :mjlol:

In the Civil War, Sherman marched through GA, burning everything in sight. Phoenix symbolizes the resurrection from the ashes...and keeps up with the bird theme of the sports teams (Hawks, Falcons)

If the Lakers can be in LA, and the Jazz can be in Utah, Phoenix is pretty reasonable for an ATL team. :yeshrug:
 
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im hoping its his agent that keeps leaking this shyt

the one position we dont need to improve is up front

Yea, it's probably to put pressure on the other clubs to hurry up and close a deal. We already have a headache this summer with RVP, Rooney, Kagawa, Welbeck, and fukking Mata :heh:. We gotta let people go. Everyone has a case to be sold except for Mata.
 
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