Omnibus World Football Thread 2020-2022 (edited)

No, it does not. Shame.

Barça is quite capable of similar tierra trágame-shame, and they are mentioned in the article. I believe Mascherano was no longer playing for us then, no need of Argentinians for a big blunder.

I wasn’t referring to the blunder but to the quick thinking and creative use of rapid game restart :slight_smile: .

I see, you meant Maradona. Sorry, that is OK. Not the same, but OK.

Not just Maradona, if you meant the Hand of God that was creative (and glorious) cheating, I mean taking advantage of the other team taking his time to prepare for a stopped ball situation by doing it quickly before they are ready, which is not cheating per-se but not something one would expect from the stereotypical teutonic team.

I might have different words. YMMV.

(cf. Henry)

Of course, and I don’t blame you at all.
The required perspective to properly appreciate that work of Art is not something everybody (through no fault of themselves) has.
I can point to several tens of millions of Bangladeshis that get it, though.

And the boy got a free ticket from the DFB for the semi-final in Stuttgart against Portugal. How generous from the DFB! At least the kid got his 15 minutes of fame.

I would like to post this here in a completely humble manner…

I knew Raphinha’s stupid words would come back the haunt him. So the new rules are every member of the team must touch the ball three times before scoring? Nice.

You’ll think that living next to us for so long Brazilians would have a better understanding of how Argentinians think…

Well, you’re just copying Spain from ca. 2008 there :wink:. Tiki taka is such old hat…

(Pep Guardiola smiling.gif)

But against Brazil!

Easy job, we pulled it off better in 2014. On their home turf. :wink:

Damn it, you’ll always have that to beat us with.
As if it wasn’t enough with having most of our World Cup campaigns in the last 20 years or so being defined as “We’ll advance until we met Germany”.

My friend @Frodo, I just wondered what will happen if/when Argentina and Germany meet again in a WC. Will we still be able to talk civilly? :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

We managed these last times IIRC, but in any case, as I mentioned in 2010 (and alas, it was not to be) let’s try not to meet until the final, if at all.

Yeah, I think that’ll be best for all of us. Hope it’s the next final.

As is traditional. I think ARG-GER is the most repeated WC final.

Thinking a bit about it, I’m sure you’re right. I saw all three of them.

ETA: I thought a bit more, and I came to the conclusion that the only other final pairing that happened more than once was Italy-Brazil, in 1970 and 1994. Am I right?