Yeah, i think Shagnasty is projecting his own willful dismissal onto all Americans.
With gymnastics, they have a routine and you know when it is coming. With soccer, you have to know what to look for and it could be at any time. I had to watch that video 5 times before I figured what, if anything happened that was special. There is no way I would have noticed if someone forced me to watch the game live. The same thing is true in American Football but they help you out by running replays with commentary right after every notable play. American Football is made for TV in that way and many fans prefer watching it on TV rather than the stadium itself if they want to understand what is happening. Even the stadiums are becoming really, really big TV’s themselves in the case of the Dallas Cowboys stadium and others. If you are used to seeing sports presented that way, soccer is hard for someone like me to even mentally process live.
So, you didn’t see the chilena? I see. Try to watch it picture by picture. In the first secuence a guy jumps in the air, around 2 meters high and hit the ball upside up! with an impresive force. It is so fast that it is difficult to see.
Watch it in slow motion. Look at the amazing curve in this goal!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0bF2PImax4&feature=related
By the way, the “low quality” of some movies is because youtube! Not because bad television.
nevermind. the moment was lost.
I remember that game (France vs Brazil Le Tournai de France), as great a free kick taker as Roberto Carlos was, there was a fair element of luck in that goal.
Anyway here’s some more soccer skills:
(Le Tissier’s top ten goals)
(Dennis Bergkamp’s outrageous goal against Newcastle)
Don’t worry. You got it in and destroyed the evidence. Touche.
That guy is AMAZING!! :eek::eek:
Congrats!
I was living in England in the early 1990s when Le Tissier really started making his name, and i continued to follow his game after i moved back to Australia. He was an incredibly talented player, and i always found it hard to believe that he only ever played 8 games for England.
That compilation was actually made whilst he was still playing (it was on the DVD released to celebrate the 1st ten years of the Premiership), he scored a few more that are equally desrving to be there. You might notice that lob he scored was against Peter Schemeichal (for my money the best goalkeeper ever).
Matt Le Tissier had no pace and was incredibly lazy, but his skill kept Southampton afloat in the Premiership (basically except for him, all the other players probably belonged in the league below), he got a few England caps, but never really did much for us (England).
If had a little more drive he could’ve been a contender for one of the all time greats (he certainly had the skill and despite playing for a rubbish team was one of the top scoring players of his time). He also amazingly scored 48 out of the 49 penalty kicks he took in his career!
I remember as a teenager in the mid-nineties staying up to watch match of the day and being blown away by his skill.
People still talk a lot about Eric Cantona, but formy money Shearer and Le Tissier were by far the best strikers in the Premierhsip at that time.
I’m not a big rodeo fan but I think it has to do with the fact that rodeo started in countries where they have (or had) large cattle ranches and long cattle drives like the U.S., Mexico, Chile, and Argentina. The sport was an outgrowth of the skills that were necessary for the men to drive thousands of head of cattle across hundreds of miles of wilderness and plains.
Is it that he’s accurate from range? That doesn’t look all that impressive to me.
Well a lot of those goals are impressive for different reasons, which makes the compilation all the more impressive as Matt Le Tissier was far from a one trick-pony.
One of Matt Le Tissier’s greatest skills was hitting a ball with pinpoint precision from a difficult situation. What’s perhaps not apparent to unintiated is the sheer amount of control he gets on those shots in terms of dip and curve, you can see in one of those goals the keeper doesn’t even dive because he’s totally deceived by the dip and curve on the ball.
Indeed. An interesting question. I believe in many countries of the Americas people love Rodeo, like in Mexico (Charros), Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Southern Brazil (Gauchos), Venezuela (Llaneros), Chile (Huasos), etc. And, of course, in Canada as well. And I believe they love Rodeo because the New World was made by riding and by growing cattle! It is some of the more authentic things of the New World.
The Amazing is that he made goals after the ball has bounced! Straight in the air. That’s not an easy task. By comparison, it is like to make a home run in baseball. Most goals of that kind are made with the ball flat at the floor, or even standing still.
Exactly! Rodeo is the sport of our country peoples, from the cowboys. And cowboys existed all over the hemisphere. In a certain way, the cowboy traditions come from Spain, as you can see in certain form or raching they have there. Rules aren’t the same in all Rodeos but the origin is the same, and customs and passions are similar. After the expansion to the West, some of those customs passed to America, where cowboys created theirs own Rodeo.
I remember when I lived in Canada I loved Rodeo as well. It is something people of the New World carries in the blood, sort of speak.
That was absolutely amazing. I’m not much of a sports fan so I still won’t sit and watch a game unless I’m watching it with someone who can explain the bits I don’t get. Of course, I pretty-much stopped watching any sports-like entertainment after Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling went off the air (ETA: The first time).
Another amazing goal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vAzG-7MUHc&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Was that the one where what her name ripped off her shirt? A little more of that and you might stir up some interest…
This thread is depressing. I have no idea why a simple question(which we’ve already discussed in a zillion other threads) lead to such negativity and sweeping generalizations about other cultures and sports.
For a site dedicated to fighting ignorance, this thread has had a lot of it.
