Football (Soccer) Thread

[Liep]

Richard Møller Nielsen died today. The coach who lead the national team to victories in the EC '92 and Confederations Cup in '95.

RIP.

[Valmy]

Richard Møller Nielsen died today. The coach who lead the national team to victories in the EC '92 and Confederations Cup in '95.

RIP.

RIP mighty leader of Vikings.

However you are not allowed to be happy about the Confederations Cup, I was informed when I got excited about the US making the finals in 2009 that nobody cares about it and I was a yankee doofus for thinking that mattered.

[Liep]

It was named something different, after a Saudi Arabian sheik iirc. But anyhoo, winning 2-0 against Argentina in a glorious game in the heat is something that mattered for us. And it still does, even if it has that club world championship vibe, a tournament I've never watched and never will watch.

[Josquius]

Some materials leaked over at the Palm Beach Post suggest that one of the discussed names for Beckham's Miami MLS franchise is...



http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/caneswatch/2014/02mi-david-beckham-mls-team-name-logos-kit/

Make it happen. 

Wait...one of their colours is green?
That's a rarity.

[Warspite]

 

[Liep]

17 or 41? What age is Joseph Minala, the youth player from Lazio. This picture looks photoshopped, like someone took the head of a 41 year old and put it on a younger body.

[celedhring]

Picture isn't shopped at all, google his name and you'll see that's certainly his head.

About his real age, dunno. I don't think he's 41, his body seems youthful enough in all the pics I have seen. He might just have some really bad skin/features.

[alfred russel]

Wait...one of their colours is green?
That's a rarity.

Green/Teal isn't uncommon for sports teams in Miami.

Did anyone see this:

http://www.bobsblitz.com/2014/02/soccer-player-scores-headbutts-through.html

Awesome. I don't get the red card though.

[Liep]

Wait...one of their colours is green?
That's a rarity.

Green/Teal isn't uncommon for sports teams in Miami.

Did anyone see this:

http://www.bobsblitz.com/2014/02/soccer-player-scores-headbutts-through.html

Awesome. I don't get the red card though.

It's the douchebag rule, perfectly acceptable card.

[FunkMonk]

Wait...one of their colours is green?
That's a rarity.

Green/Teal isn't uncommon for sports teams in Miami.

Did anyone see this:

http://www.bobsblitz.com/2014/02/soccer-player-scores-headbutts-through.html

Awesome. I don't get the red card though.

[Ed Anger]

I see Greg Oden is playing for Lazio now.

[Josephus]

Did I mention Toronto FC now also has Brazil's No. 1 goalkeeper?

[Josquius]

Did I mention Toronto FC now also has Brazil's No. 1 goalkeeper?

That's like saying the local whorehouse has Scotland's hottest woman.
That may be so. But hot women are hardly what Scotland is known for. :p

[Josephus]

Too early in the a.m. for me to figure out that metaphor.

[Josephus]

Although I have been in Scotland and did make an observation about the women there. They all had huge breasts. The weren't particularly pretty. And all the 16 year olds were wheeling babies in prams.