When he found out minutes earlier that a few of the U.S. players criticized him for trying to injure Johnson after the second goal via Landon Donovan from the Stars and Stripes team, Sanchez was sharp-worded with his reply, “I don’t give a s*** what they say. F*** their mothers.”
Good thing Zidane wasn't within earshot.
His reaction takes something away from the human interest story of Sanchez losing his father just before WC2006.
Well, the Italian league will resume but with mostly empty stadiums this weekend. Now the players are thinking strike. Soccer is going nowhere but downhill in Italy.
10spro wrote:Well, the Italian league will resume but with mostly empty stadiums this weekend. Now the players are thinking strike. Soccer is going nowhere but downhill in Italy.
I'm heading to Turin next week so perhaps I can go to an empty stadium and watch a corrupt team that got relegated to the B league. Looks like Turin's stadium is one of the few "acceptable" ones.
Outside of paying his salary, how so? The article linked claims ManU bought him from MLS for £2.3M and now Everton have paid £3M. They didn't make off like bandits, but that's a little bit more.
Outside of paying his salary, how so? The article linked claims ManU bought him from MLS for £2.3M and now Everton have paid £3M. They didn't make off like bandits, but that's a little bit more.
For what it's worth, Italy bumps Brazil as the top nation in the world, when the SA's lost in an earlier exhibition to Portugal earlier this month.
Spain and the Czech Republic inch into the top 10.
wco81 wrote:I was going to post about those FIFA ratings.
In the past, haven't they been about as well-regarded as the BCS?
Anyways, US kicks Mexico's ass a couple of weeks ago but is ranked well below?
Has US been losing a lot of international matches since the WC?
Also, I've heard that some of the traditional European powers had a tough road to qualify for Euro 2008?
The US ranking tanked mainly because they didn't have any matches for 6 months after the WC when they had no coach. It doesn't really matter though; to say the FIFA world rankings are as well-regarded as the BCS would be giving the FIFA rankings a compliment.
In Europe, England better get its act together or they could find themselves on the outs for Euro 2008.
Things are still tight in the Spanish Primera Liga. Sevilla ties Barca for 1st place while Real Madrid (Beckham gets a red card over the weekend) and Valencia are behind their tails. Atletico Madrid and Zaragoza are in the mix of things for the championship as well.
The spotlight is on F. Capello as some reports have him quitting the team and his indifference with D. Beckham and now gone Ronaldo.
I watched the A-League final (Australia). Some guy named Archie Thompson had 5 goals as Melbourne beat Adelaide 6-0 in front of 56k. I think I'm going to have to purchse Archie Thompson in my Football Manager game.
fsquid wrote:I watched the A-League final (Australia). Some guy named Archie Thompson had 5 goals as Melbourne beat Adelaide 6-0 in front of 56k. I think I'm going to have to purchse Archie Thompson in my Football Manager game.
He promised three goals by half-time. Not shy, that lad.
He had a hat-trick for me in the final of the Asia Cup in WE
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My guess is that this is actually gunning for 2022, since (unless their infrastructure isn't up to snuff) Brazil will get it in 2014, and it will likely go to England in 2018.
fsquid wrote:I watched the A-League final (Australia). Some guy named Archie Thompson had 5 goals as Melbourne beat Adelaide 6-0 in front of 56k. I think I'm going to have to purchse Archie Thompson in my Football Manager game.
Looked like pub football - Thompson's strike partner, Danny Allsopp, was a City player a few years ago ; looked OK while we were kicking about in the lower divisions, but never what you would call prolific. I seem to remember seeing the Adelaide striker Carl Veart in English football as well, I think he was a Pig.
"The players come from all over the world, the money from deep underneath the Persian Gulf, but, as another, older City poster campaign put it, this is their city. They may now exist in the global spotlight, but they intend to keep it that way."
I liked the game, it was very wide open and attacking football. Sure, the talent isn't like the Euro leagues, but I'm glad I set the DVR to it. I just wish Melbourne wasn't head and shoulders above the rest of the league.
