World Cup

[basinbear]

Man, #16 Croatia v Mexico today. Dude finally got tossed towards end, should have been run a few minutes sooner.

Officiating crew was not good...missed several calls especially an obvious hand ball inside the box which cost Mexico a penalty kick....0 to 0 at the time

[CajunFan3406]

forgive me but why can't they just stop the clock when there's a time out or injury? I HATE NOT KNOWING WHEN THE GAME IS GOING TO END! What if the NFL gave Bress or Manning an extra five minutes for a game?

If you don't have a general idea of how much stoppage time will be at the end of each half, then you're even more retarded than you let on. This may possibly be the stupidest complaint about soccer that I've seen so far.

[CajunFan3406]

forgive me but why can't they just stop the clock when there's a time out or injury? I HATE NOT KNOWING WHEN THE GAME IS GOING TO END! What if the NFL gave Bress or Manning an extra five minutes for a game?

Not to mention you have brought the "issue" up about 3 or 4 times so far on this thread, and guess what, no one is agreeing with you. Give it a damn rest.

[ManAboutTown]

Holy cow, that was aggressive. 3406 going all Steve Wilkos on fools..

[ZoomZoom]

Not to mention you have brought the "issue" up about 3 or 4 times so far on this thread, and guess what, no one is agreeing with you. Give it a damn rest.

Ditto!
If you don't know the laws of the game, Your local youth association is always looking for new refs.

I understand your anger, got to listen to all the experts at work today, most who never touched a soccer ball .

[Cajun90]

forgive me but why can't they just stop the clock when there's a time out or injury? I HATE NOT KNOWING WHEN THE GAME IS GOING TO END! What if the NFL gave Bress or Manning an extra five minutes for a game?

It really isn't that big of a deal...as someone who has followed the game for over a decade I understand how Americans don't get it but lets put it in perspective.

In American sports (Football, basketball) you have a number of timeouts to utilize which in effect make the game longer. I mean seriously how do you explain it taking three hours to play a football game that on the clock should only take one hour and fifteen minutes including half time.

I can promise you that every soccer player in the Premier league or equivalent expects nothing less than 2-5 minutes of extra time at the end of the game. It isn't a big deal after you have played ninety minutes especially when you know it is coming Keep in mind that the goal scored against the U.S. yesterday was the latest goal in the history of the World Cup.

My rant on injuries and flops. Certainly players take flops but as a student and a coach of the game I can tell you that a lot is straight up. In World Cup there are plenty of attempts to get call but many are legit when you look at replay and others are just an attempt to slow the game down and get a breather/ water break. In American sports the same is accomplished with a timeout which isn't available in soccer.

How physical is the sport? I've personally witnessed the following in youth soccer from U-11 to U-15: Serious Concussion that required medical intervention on the field and ambulance transport, torn ACL (twice including my daughter), shattered eye socket, broken femur, dislocate knee (worst thing I ever saw in sports), ruptured spleen, a broken fibula. I've also personally witnessed one of my daughters take out tow goalies. One with three sprained fingers trying to block a goal and another with a hyper extended elbow trying to block a goal.

There are certainly flops in soccer but often times there is more than meets the eye.

[ZoomZoom]

It really isn't that big of a deal...as someone who has followed the game for over a decade I understand how Americans don't get it but lets put it in perspective.

In American sports (Football, basketball) you have a number of timeouts to utilize which in effect make the game longer. I mean seriously how do you explain it taking three hours to play a football game that on the clock should only take one hour and fifteen minutes including half time.

I can promise you that every soccer player in the Premier league or equivalent expects nothing less than 2-5 minutes of extra time at the end of the game. It isn't a big deal after you have played ninety minutes especially when you know it is coming Keep in mind that the goal scored against the U.S. yesterday was the latest goal in the history of the World Cup.

My rant on injuries and flops. Certainly players take flops but as a student and a coach of the game I can tell you that a lot is straight up. In World Cup there are plenty of attempts to get call but many are legit when you look at replay and others are just an attempt to slow the game down and get a breather/ water break. In American sports the same is accomplished with a timeout which isn't available in soccer.

How physical is the sport? I've personally witnessed the following in youth soccer from U-11 to U-15: Serious Concussion that required medical intervention on the field and ambulance transport, torn ACL (twice including my daughter), shattered eye socket, broken femur, dislocate knee (worst thing I ever saw in sports), ruptured spleen, a broken fibula. I've also personally witnessed one of my daughters take out tow goalies. One with three sprained fingers trying to block a goal and another with a hyper extended elbow trying to block a goal.

There are certainly flops in soccer but often times there is more than meets the eye.

Ah soccer injuries...nothing like reaching the field before the medics to see a 12 year old girl standing up, unapproachable even by her parents, as her broken upper arm was swaying in the wind. I'm with ya, seen some things make you toss cookies in soccer over the years. You're one acl up on me...

[Cajun90]

It really isn't that big of a deal...as someone who has followed the game for over a decade I understand how Americans don't get it but lets put it in perspective.

In American sports (Football, basketball) you have a number of timeouts to utilize which in effect make the game longer. I mean seriously how do you explain it taking three hours to play a football game that on the clock should only take one hour and fifteen minutes including half time.

I can promise you that every soccer player in the Premier league or equivalent expects nothing less than 2-5 minutes of extra time at the end of the game. It isn't a big deal after you have played ninety minutes especially when you know it is coming. Keep in mind that the goal scored against the U.S. yesterday was the latest goal in the history of the World Cup. The vast majority of the time it is a none factor. Originally the referee had assigned four minutes of extra time but extended it to five after the U.S. took to long making a substitution. Another words we were the enemy.

My rant on injuries and flops. Certainly players take flops but as a student and a coach of the game I can tell you that a lot of it is straight up. In World Cup there are plenty of attempts to get a call but many are legit when you look at replay and others are just an attempt to slow the game down and get a breather/ water break. In American sports the same is accomplished with a timeout which isn't available in soccer so players "make" their own timeouts.

How physical is the sport? I've personally witnessed the following in youth soccer from U-11 to U-15: Serious concussion that required medical intervention on the field and ambulance transport, torn ACL (twice including my daughter), shattered eye socket, broken femur, dislocate knee (worst thing I ever saw in sports), ruptured spleen, broken fibula, broken toes, and dislocated shoulder. Don't even start with the small stuff such as sprained ankles etc. I've also personally witnessed one of my daughters take out two goalies. One with three sprained fingers trying to block a goal and another with a hyper extended elbow trying to block a goal shot.



There are certainly flops in soccer but often times there is more than meets the eye.

[RCAJUN90]

If you don't have a general idea of how much stoppage time will be at the end of each half, then you're even more retarded than you let on. This may possibly be the stupidest complaint about soccer that I've seen so far.

No it's retarded to add extra time at the end of a game. Nobody knows exactly when the game is going to end! Three seconds less and Portugal doesn't get that goal. BTW I can careless if nobody agrees with me.

[CajunRebel]

No it's retarded to add extra time at the end of a game. Nobody knows exactly when the game is going to end! Three seconds less and Portugal doesn't get that goal. BTW I can careless if nobody agrees with me.

The ref added on 5 minutes of stoppage time.

The goal was scored with 94:30 on the clock.

Everyone but you knew exactly when the game was going to end.

[RCAJUN90]

The ref added on 5 minutes of stoppage time.

The goal was scored with 94:30 on the clock.

Everyone but you knew exactly when the game was going to end.

The announcers don't even know exactly when it is going to end. So I think it's fair to say I'm not the only one.

[zephyr]

Any soccer analyst worth his salt is saying that Bradley gave the ball away poorly but we still had plenty of numbers back and were in a great position to defend their counter attack. Ronaldo sent in the perfect ball and none of our 3 center backs reacted to it. You can also blame Jurgen for pulling off a midfielder, someone for Bradley to pass the ball to, to put in a center back who's known for bad positioning and awareness. But you wouldn't know anything about that because you react in the moment then stay true to your dumbass opinions no matter how wrong you are.

Omar Gonzalez has the rep of being one of our best center backs. He was expected to be starting but injuries in the last month delayed that and then Besler and Cameron have been playing really well. If the pass by Ronaldo was a "perfect" pass, why would it matter where our defenders were anyhow? The fact is, they had good positioning and you are right, it was a perfect pass made by the best player on the planet. The problem I had was that we got way too conservative on the other end and didn't attack their goal when we had numbers.