Dude, Gotze's 2014 late Cup-winning goal will always be one of the most epic goals ever, imo. The way he bounced off his chest into the perfect shot...at the perfect time...ugh...so good.

I think there a wikipedia page about the Dutch versus Germany rivalry

Check it

Football is super unfair sometimes. I initially thought Japan were lucky to get to 1-1 at half time, but they were easily the better team in the second and should've gone through. No hard feelings though, it was an entertaining game.

In order of preference to win: Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Norway, England, Italy, France, United States.

And

Gary Lineker. His famous quote “Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win”

Once the Netherlands scored, they seemed to rely on keeping the ball at the back, but their defensive players are not that good.
I was a neutral talking to an Oranjed couple, surrounded by Japanese fans. The crowd was insane. Really sorry for Japan.

wayne rooney schools the children

https://mobile.twitter.com/mls/statu...38107068739585

Love it. He's now done that for every team he's played for.

England women's are playing Norway tonight. It's gonna be interesting to see how both teams cope with the heat for sure.

I remember him doing it against West Ham for your lot. Still say it was a misplaced clearance ;)

makes me wanna start following dc united again. and it’s been aaaaaaages...

So we're getting either an England v France semi, or an England v USA semi. :D

It's settled. I am moving to Norway. Between these soccer players and their snowboarders, I develop the biggest crushes on women from there...

Sorry if that makes me a sexist, blah, blah, blah. I just felt a need to express...

You are getting England v USA. We will NOT lose to France?!?!?!

Did you see the French reporter asking Tobin Heath if they would let France win? Pretty amusingly fun and light-hearted moment, I enjoyed.

I'll give you a pass. You can (should) respect them as athletes, but they are attractive, which helps. I do it too.

And honestly? I don't care about the American team. I don't care about France either, but I hate them less. I'm sorry; but you win all the time and rub it in to everyone. Allez les Blues!

Go England!

Haha, yeah.

You were unlucky to only get the one, but the US were the better team on the day. Unfortunately.

sssssso... looks like i’ve been missing the copa américa and i didn’t even know!

fml...

hmm, not sure if this should be posted here or in the oh my god how can famous people be so stupid thread :-)

Wesley Sneijder got arrested because he had been jumping and trashing and peeing over a car, and as far as I could tell from the reports he didn't know those people. Looks like he was visiting people in the same street. See video here (if you can watch that from abroad)


and this one belongs to the oh my god how can criminals be so stupid thread:







Dammit, the football match is at the same time as the F1 qualifications ... Multi-taking on a Saturday is undoable :(

Yes! Yes! Yes!

2-0 in a much better game. We not only made it to the next round, but also qualified for the next Olympics in Tokyo for the first time!!

btw, that PSV story should make a great movie script similar to Fargo :-p

LeClerc got pole ahead of Hamilton

oh wow! awesome. good for him! And it's good to see that he can be competitive against the Mercedesses and not only Vettel. But now I'm mad at you because I already know the winner. I was about to watch it right now. Thanks for the info though :)

Sky News reporting Arnie's apparently handed in another transfer request.

Can't be arsed with him anymore. The club should cut its losses now. Let him go and become someone else's headache.

And he's spent so much time injured (not on big periods of time), that it'd be a good idea to let him leave WH.
who to take over though?


USA-England: 2-1, an exciting game, a deserved win and 3 lovely goals.
Funny how the US field a 5 girl backline close to the end. Could be tricked with that when facing whoever gets out of tomorrow's game.

The club have been after Maxi Gomez for about as long as Pellegrini's been there. It'd be amazing if they can pull that off. Maybe the owners will cash in on an Arnie move and use that to improve their offer for him.

caught usa-england on the road today and wow it was quite the thriller

goals reversed by var, penalties given by var, penalties stopped!, and cards galore (for legitimate reasons) including a red one (which was 2 yellows but should have been a straight red).

fun post-lunch that was. and yeah usa to the final.

Finally! Beerensteyn will be starting instead of Van De Sanden. This was the big discussion before and after every match.

Let's hope she scores :)

0-0 after 90 minutes, so extra time. Both teams had chances that were really unlucky to not score, so I can't split it.

Have a crush on Lina Hurtig now tho :o

WH accept 22m for Arnie while Maxi Gomez looks to have signed for Valencia.

Leaves them with a strike-force of want-away Chicharito. And. That's. It.

Five week scramble to get two strikers.

God knows.

How much were you offered 6at the beginning of the year?

I dunno. I know the club have accepted less than they wanted but to be honest I'm just glad to see the back of him. Even if we end up starting the season without a proper forward and have to use someone from midfield, I'd rather than that a troublemaker.

(i forgot to say the other day)

haaa haaaa haaaaaaaaaa

Looks like Everton are making a bid for Diego Costa.

Don't think anyone saw that coming. Could be a great bit of business.

who will win the Women's final this afternoon?
at which minute will the US score their first goal? In all their matches they scored within the first 12 minutes or so, only against Italy they scored in the 14th minute.


As much I would like the Dutch to win, I don't think they'll have a chance. So my prediction:
4 - 1 for the US, with the first goal scored in the 9th minute. And the Dutch goal in like the 80th minute.

fingers crossed for the usa team. i don’t know if i’ll be able to catch them on tv but i will try. all about timing. game vs. england was awesome.

also, for those who can watch, there is a copa américa this season and i totally missed it (been moving, don’t have the channel, etc.)

today’s final is brazil v perú at the maracanã

yesterday argentina beat chile 2-1 for 3rd place and... messi was thrown out?

semis were perú 3 - chile 0 and brazil 2 -argentina 0

a lot of shit apparently has been going on but i have no idea nor time to find out

ALSO

the concacaf copa de oro has been happening and mexico usa play the final today. other than that i know fuck-all about it.

don’t plan to watch that one.

lol.

This should be a pretty high-scoring final, I've got the Dutch ranked as the best offense in the world. The issue is they can't really defend, and the US can (Plus the second best offense). I wanna say 3-2 in extra time to the Americans, but that seems a little unlikely.

Apparently Messi's opponent ran into him for no real reason, the two started pushing each other around, and the ref got a bit trigger-happy.

lol i like gary medel but he’s no saint

well well well

looks like i tuned in at the right time—right before the penalty

that lavelle goal was amazing

afterwards it looked like all the us forwards got greedy and wasted tons of chances by trying to score on their own

caught the last bit of brazil with 10 men beating peru 3-1 (jesus was kicked out at ‘70 or so). no neymar, but richarlison came in late to knock everyone’s socks off. saw some headlines suggesting brazil better without neymar (i believe it).

Luff me a bit of Richarlison. That is until the day he leaves Everton in about 2 seasons time

before him peru had brazil sort of against the ropes trying to tie for 2. not on any kind of individual brilliance, but by sheer team effort.

after he came in... fuggeddaboutit. peru went on the defense.

note to the world: tite (i hope you get to pronounce that right lmao) really means business