Soccer Topics: No goalies in the USA

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In reply to concordtom • 3:01p, 6/23/26
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Cal88 said:
Norway-Senegal a very good game, two good teams going at it, Norway making Senegal pay for their mistakes.

Senegal on the brink, after facing the two heavyweights in the group of death, they need at the very least a narrow loss to hope getting through, assuming they beat Iraq.

But, someone said Group D was the most difficult.

Nobody said that.

Oh really?
What did "someone" say about that?

When you need to lie and then backtrack that says everything about you.
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In reply to PAC-10-BEAR • 3:24p, 6/23/26
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1994 was better when a schmo like me could get a ticket for $50
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba
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In reply to sycasey • 7:12p, 6/23/26
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Pro-regime change Iranian expats harassing and attacking Iranian fans.








Regime change supporters rooting against Iran:



I don't think they should be harassing fans in the street but I've got no problem with cheering against the Iranian regime.


These pro-Pahlavi fans in the bottom link were actually cheering against the Iran team...

And? They can cheer against a sports team if they like, so what?


I don't even know what pro Pahlavi means!
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In reply to PAC-10-BEAR • 7:15p, 6/23/26
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I said it in this thread before he did.

But that was before England played a snooze fest tie which required the ref insanely swallowing his whistle on one would be PK and one red card on Pickford DoGSO. Ghana got screwed in n those non calls.
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In reply to ducktilldeath • 7:17p, 6/23/26
ducktilldeath said:
concordtom said:
ducktilldeath said:
concordtom said:
Cal88 said:
Norway-Senegal a very good game, two good teams going at it, Norway making Senegal pay for their mistakes.

Senegal on the brink, after facing the two heavyweights in the group of death, they need at the very least a narrow loss to hope getting through, assuming they beat Iraq.

But, someone said Group D was the most difficult.

Nobody said that.

Oh really?
What did "someone" say about that?

When you need to lie and then backtrack that says everything about you.


I could go back and find it but proving you are ridiculous and only here for argumentation is not worth my time.
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In reply to concordtom • 7:19p, 6/23/26
concordtom said:
PAC-10-BEAR said:


I said it in this thread before he did.

But that was before England played a snooze fest tie which required the ref insanely swallowing his whistle on one would be PK and one red card on Pickford DoGSO. Ghana got screwed in n those non calls.


These group games are like Week 1 of the college football season over and over every day. First slate of games you are just excited to see football again. By late afternoon you are bored of all the 60-3 scores. Soccer has the occasional 0-0 gentleman's game mentioned above.
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In reply to concordtom • 7:30p, 6/23/26
You can look it up.

Congo being tested, great 1st qrtr by Colombia, the one team that was missing from my earlier list of dark horses. GK Lionnel Mpasi Nzau, dual French citizen, born in Meaux, the capital of Brie and region with the best cheese in the world and one of the most underrated gothic cathedrals in France, plays in Ligue 1 with Le Havre, has had a very solid performance so far. His team has got to help him out a bit.
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In reply to concordtom • 9:01p, 6/23/26
concordtom said:
PAC-10-BEAR said:

I said it in this thread before he did.

But that was before England played a snooze fest tie which required the ref insanely swallowing his whistle on one would be PK and one red card on Pickford DoGSO. Ghana got screwed in n those non calls.

That's right, Ghana got screwed out of a PK.
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In reply to dajo9 • 9:34p, 6/23/26
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concordtom said:
PAC-10-BEAR said:


I said it in this thread before he did.

But that was before England played a snooze fest tie which required the ref insanely swallowing his whistle on one would be PK and one red card on Pickford DoGSO. Ghana got screwed in n those non calls.


These group games are like Week 1 of the college football season over and over every day. First slate of games you are just excited to see football again. By late afternoon you are bored of all the 60-3 scores. Soccer has the occasional 0-0 gentleman's game mentioned above.

Sorry, but ….. huh??
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In reply to PAC-10-BEAR • 10:51p, 6/23/26
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Messi and MBappe were both amazing yesterday, especially Messi, except for his missed penalty.

It's still hard to believe they played on the same team and never won Champions League.

Not to mention Neymar.

Their side did not fit together. In modern soccer teams have at most one non-running defenders at any position, but better to have none. Strikers like Lewandoski and Havertz have won trophies because they play both ways.
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In reply to dajo9 • 11:04p, 6/23/26
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PAC-10-BEAR said:


1994 was better when a schmo like me could get a ticket for $50

Not to me. In 1994 a not great Brazil team beat a not great Italy team to win the tournament. I played soccer during the finals instead of watching it, although I did see the penalties after my game was over. It was definitely fun and surprising to see the US team make the second round, but that team would lose to the current team by like 10 goals.

I watched the US-Colombia match in my apartment in Seattle (!) with a friend. When the US won she said she felt like dancing in the streets. We looked out the window and there was not just no dancing but there was no one on the street at all in sleepy Wallingford. In this Would Cup in Seattle Marshawn Lynch led a parade of thousands to the gates and hundreds of thousands of people were everywhere downtown. (Although the comparison is imperfect since there were no games in Seattle in 1994.)

I was cool that the games were less expensive and less corporate and the structure with 24 teams was better. Still, once we get to 32 this World Cup should be amazing.
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In reply to concordtom • 1:37a, 6/24/26
concordtom said:
ducktilldeath said:
concordtom said:
ducktilldeath said:
concordtom said:
Cal88 said:
Norway-Senegal a very good game, two good teams going at it, Norway making Senegal pay for their mistakes.

Senegal on the brink, after facing the two heavyweights in the group of death, they need at the very least a narrow loss to hope getting through, assuming they beat Iraq.

But, someone said Group D was the most difficult.

Nobody said that.

Oh really?
What did "someone" say about that?

When you need to lie and then backtrack that says everything about you.


I could go back and find it but proving you are ridiculous and only here for argumentation is not worth my time.

No, you couldn't. Which is why you won't. You're what is called loud AND wrong.
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In reply to sluggo • 1:42a, 6/24/26
sluggo said:
dajo9 said:
PAC-10-BEAR said:


1994 was better when a schmo like me could get a ticket for $50

Not to me. In 1994 a not great Brazil team beat a not great Italy team to win the tournament. I played soccer during the finals instead of watching it, although I did see the penalties after my game was over. It was definitely fun and surprising to see the US team make the second round, but that team would lose to the current team by like 10 goals.

I watched the US-Colombia match in my apartment in Seattle (!) with a friend. When the US won she said she felt like dancing in the streets. We looked out the window and there was not just no dancing but there was no one on the street at all in sleepy Wallingford. In this Would Cup in Seattle Marshawn Lynch led a parade of thousands to the gates and hundreds of thousands of people were everywhere downtown. (Although the comparison is imperfect since there were no games in Seattle in 1994.)

I was cool that the games were less expensive and less corporate and the structure with 24 teams was better. Still, once we get to 32 this World Cup should be amazing.


Bummer for you. In 1994 as broke college students, 4 of us (1 of us being Brazilian) paid $50 to see Brazil play. We got there early and partied with Brazilians. I became a lifelong fan that day.

The night before the Brazil vs. USA game we went to a hotel full of Brazilians and partied again. There were Americans out front chanting USA and looking lame while we had a great time inside.

We watched the final match at a house party in Berkeley and when Brazil won we saw the Brazilians partying in the Pasadena streets. Somebody got the idea to drive down and join the party. We rented a car (which took too long) and I drove because for some reason I was sober. We got there around midnight and the police were trying to disperse the still partying Brazilian crowd. My friend got pepper sprayed. Good times, good times.
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In reply to PAC-10-BEAR • 2:09a, 6/24/26
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when the GOAT speaks. I'm sure he's seen tons of soccer. Wonder what h thinks about these sissy water breaks?
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3:21p, 6/24/26
Switzerland beats Canada 2-1 to take 1st place in the group. Canada advances in 2nd place on goal differential. Bosnia beats Qatar 3-1 to likely get a 3rd place advancement, but need to see what happens in the other groups.
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In reply to sluggo • 3:23p, 6/24/26
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PAC-10-BEAR said:
Messi and MBappe were both amazing yesterday, especially Messi, except for his missed penalty.

It's still hard to believe they played on the same team and never won Champions League.

Not to mention Neymar.

Their side did not fit together. In modern soccer teams have at most one non-running defenders at any position, but better to have none. Strikers like Lewandoski and Havertz have won trophies because they play both ways.

If you were PSG's owner at the time, knowing what you know now, wouldn't you still have all three on your team? Maybe the problem was with the center backs or defensive midfielders?
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In reply to cal83dls79 • 3:27p, 6/24/26
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when the GOAT speaks. I'm sure he's seen tons of soccer. Wonder what h thinks about these sissy water breaks?

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3:56p, 6/24/26
Brazil doing Brazil things
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4:58p, 6/24/26
Morocco also taking care of business against Haiti, booking their ticket to the knockout rounds.

Scotland will have to wait and see.
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9:33p, 6/24/26
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/world-cup/schedule#3rd

This is a nice tool
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In reply to Anarchistbear • 9:37p, 6/24/26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup#Ranking_of_third-placed_teams

https://worldcupbracket.xyz/
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In reply to Cal88 • 1:47a, 6/25/26
Cal88 said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup#Ranking_of_third-placed_teams

https://worldcupbracket.xyz/

All that bracket does is place the higher ranked team. They may as well just have a site that says "Argentina".
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In reply to PAC-10-BEAR • 2:24a, 6/25/26
PAC-10-BEAR said:
sluggo said:
PAC-10-BEAR said:
Messi and MBappe were both amazing yesterday, especially Messi, except for his missed penalty.

It's still hard to believe they played on the same team and never won Champions League.

Not to mention Neymar.

Their side did not fit together. In modern soccer teams have at most one non-running defenders at any position, but better to have none. Strikers like Lewandoski and Havertz have won trophies because they play both ways.

If you were PSG's owner at the time, knowing what you know now, wouldn't you still have all three on your team? Maybe the problem was with the center backs or defensive midfielders?


I don't think you can win at the highest level with three guys who don't play defense. It would be even more difficult now. On the other hand they did have some deep champions league runs. It could have worked.

There are also lightly enforced financial fair play rules. Spending so much on those three prevented spending as much on others. Now they have a balanced team and are two time defending champions. I don't think that is a coincidence.
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2:55a, 6/25/26
I see we get Bosnia in the round of 32. They are not bad. Most of their starters play in good leagues. Dzeko was a great striker but he is 40. American Esmir Bajarakterivic or something like that is a nice little player. But we could not ask for better. 2-0 or 3-1.
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In reply to ducktilldeath • 6:21a, 6/25/26
ducktilldeath said:
Cal88 said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup#Ranking_of_third-placed_teams

https://worldcupbracket.xyz/

All that bracket does is place the higher ranked team. They may as well just have a site that says "Argentina".


The more relevant aspect of this bracket, which you have completely missed, is that it gives you the round of 32 teams with the current standings, with the confirmed teams in bold and projected in grey. The rest of the bracket and future predictions are not as relevant.
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In reply to Cal88 • 6:26a, 6/25/26
Cal88 said:
ducktilldeath said:
Cal88 said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup#Ranking_of_third-placed_teams

https://worldcupbracket.xyz/

All that bracket does is place the higher ranked team. They may as well just have a site that says "Argentina".


The more relevant aspect of this bracket, which you have completely missed, is that it gives you the round of 32 teams with the current standings, with the confirmed teams in bold and projected in grey. The rest of the bracket and future predictions are not as relevant.

The current standings that won't be the actual ones. So useful.
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In reply to cal83dls79 • 6:42a, 6/25/26
cal83dls79 said:
PAC-10-BEAR said:
when the GOAT speaks. I'm sure he's seen tons of soccer. Wonder what h thinks about these sissy water breaks?

He thinks they are sissy.
But now he's in on the take, so he smiles.
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