Football (Soccer) Thread

[celedhring]

We're gonna be shit, so it'll soon be hip again to be a Barça fan.

[Admiral Yi]

Real Madrid players (practicing at Eastern Michigan University for their friendly today at Michigan stadium*) try a game of touch football.. touch AMERICAN football: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu_18WDMhQ

That's cute.

Can one of the Spanish speakers tell me what "calienta jugando" means?  Try their hand at playing, something like that?

[Valmy]

An article on why Americans should support Everton:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2161748-everton-should-be-americas-de-facto-favorite-team-in-2014-premier-league-season
USA! USA! USA!

Frankly every human should support Everton.

[Admiral Yi]

Can one of the Spanish speakers tell me what "calienta jugando" means?  Try their hand at playing, something like that?

Now I'm thinking it means "warm up by playing."

Am I close?

[Liep]

If the players and clubs don't agree on sharing the commercial profits the players will strike as of tonight. Not that the Danish clubs had any chance of qualifying to the champs league anyway.

Who'll play Keanu Reeves? Can we get Mads Mikkelsen, please!

[celedhring]

Can one of the Spanish speakers tell me what "calienta jugando" means?  Try their hand at playing, something like that?

Now I'm thinking it means "warm up by playing."

Am I close?

Yes. They are warming up by playing touch football.

[Liep]

[Syt]

Stop reading BILD.

[Liep]

Stop reading BILD.

I'm not really reading Bild, but I do like their headlines more than what our tabloids can come up with.

[Viking]

Anyways, American Soccer Fans should NOT support mine and Tamas' club Chelsea. If you start supporting Chelsea AFTER Abramovich took over that is just as bad a new baseball fans becoming Yankees fans. For the same reason you should not be Man U or Man City or Barcelona or Real Madrid or Bayern Munchen fans, supporting these clubs is a bit like cheating at a soccer manager game.

Unless you started supporting the team before it got rich or unless you never had any choice, you should not support Man C, Man U, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munchen. You should not support any Italian team either, because they are all evil and hate the game.

[Liep]

B-3 doesn't have the same ring to it as B-52, poor choice of number there for Biggie B.

[Tamas]

Anyways, American Soccer Fans should NOT support mine and Tamas' club Chelsea. If you start supporting Chelsea AFTER Abramovich took over that is just as bad a new baseball fans becoming Yankees fans. For the same reason you should not be Man U or Man City or Barcelona or Real Madrid or Bayern Munchen fans, supporting these clubs is a bit like cheating at a soccer manager game.

Unless you started supporting the team before it got rich or unless you never had any choice, you should not support Man C, Man U, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munchen. You should not support any Italian team either, because they are all evil and hate the game.

Hells yeah. I remember all my friends thinking I was weird caring for an English club struggling to get into CL/UEFA every season. Then after the first won season with Mourinho all these Chelsea "supporters" turned up.

[alfred russel]

Anyways, American Soccer Fans should NOT support mine and Tamas' club Chelsea. If you start supporting Chelsea AFTER Abramovich took over that is just as bad a new baseball fans becoming Yankees fans. For the same reason you should not be Man U or Man City or Barcelona or Real Madrid or Bayern Munchen fans, supporting these clubs is a bit like cheating at a soccer manager game.

Unless you started supporting the team before it got rich or unless you never had any choice, you should not support Man C, Man U, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munchen. You should not support any Italian team either, because they are all evil and hate the game.

To the extent I support anyone (which is incredibly limited), I support Man U. That has been since Malcolm Glazer bought the team. A combination of me sort of being a fan of his NFL team and seeing the improvements he made there as owner, plus the anti- Glazer reaction when he bought Man U, pushed me to support them. I always wanted to walk into a pub in england and explain to them how awesome glazer is and how some reforms to be more like American sports would benefit the EPL (yes I know this is real life trolling).

Although I guess I'm sort of an everton fan for as long as tim howard is their goalkeeper.

[Josquius]

[Liep]

Hmm, then I should be an Everton fan.