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Brazil 3-0Spain in the Confederations Cup!!!!!

 

Not too shabby. Especially, against the arguable top team in the world.

 

Could we be witnessing the beginning of the end of the period of Spanish dominance? When you look at Bayern's steamrolling of Barcelona in the CL and now Spain being thoroughly dominated by Brazil, you have to wonder. All dynasties have to end eventually.

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Maybe this is th start of Spain´s decline, I don´t know. It´s too early to tell, but even in the semifinal against Italy on Thursday, their game was way below what we´re used to seeing.

 

For Brazil, the best thing is that our new manager has accomplished in 06 months what the previous guy tried to do in 2,5 years unsuccessfully: building a team with an identity. Maybe this result is somewhat misleading - no team who won this competition ever won the WC one year later - but let´s see how things develop until next June. The one thing I´m sure of is that I don´t want to be in Brazil when the finals start - it all went crazy here yesterday with all the protests and traffic jams.

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Latest FIFA rankings: 1) Spain 2) Germany 3) Columbia 4) Argentina 5) Holland 6) Italy 7) Portugal 8) Croatia 9) Brazil 10) Belgium...

where is Tahiti?
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Latest FIFA rankings: 1) Spain 2) Germany 3) Columbia 4) Argentina 5) Holland 6) Italy 7) Portugal 8) Croatia 9) Brazil 10) Belgium...

where is Tahiti?

Not as bad as you might think. 154th out of 207. :madra:

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Wow, Brazil went from 19th (I think) to 09th just by winning the Confederations Cup?

 

This ranking system is a joke anyway - how can Brazil have 05 World Cup titles and be behind Colombia, Holland, Croatia and Portugal???? :facepalm:

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Wow, Brazil went from 19th (I think) to 09th just by winning the Confederations Cup?

 

This ranking system is a joke anyway - how can Brazil have 05 World Cup titles and be behind Colombia, Holland, Croatia and Portugal???? :facepalm:

 

I feel like, with the exception of Spain, that there aren't any other teams that are just clearly better than everyone else, so the rankings seem like a joke right now anyways.

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WTF?

 

TWO Nigerian football clubs chasing a single place for promotion into the Nigeria Nationwide League began the second halves of their final games of the season level on points and goal difference: Plateau United Feeders were winning 7-0 against Akurba FC; Police Machine FC was up 6-0 against Bubayaro FC. Police Machine then netted a further 61 goals, while Plateau United Feeders went on an even wilder scoring spree, averaging 1.6 goals a minute and ending its game 79-0.

 

“In a game of 45 minutes? Is that possible?” asked an official of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF). Questionable refereeing and home bias featured heavily. “There were times when they didn’t even wait for the ball to go back to the centre,” says Arafat Aliy, a local sports journalist. The games were scheduled at the same time in the hope of avoiding match-fixing, but spies with mobile phones at the two venues communicated with running commentaries to club officials.

 

While fans were mildly amused, the NFF was outraged by the “mind-boggling show of shame, never previously witnessed in Nigerian football”. It vowed to deal with the “despicable matter”. All four teams have been suspended; the players, club owners and match officials are under investigation. Bubayaro FC’s owner has disbanded his team.

 

The episode is a particularly comical example of the corruption endemic in Nigerian football. League tables are curiously close because home teams rarely lose. Twelve of Nigeria’s 20 clubs are unbeaten at home. The two bottom clubs, Wikki Tourists and Sharks, have between them won 13 of the 19 games played on their own turf. Tempting match officials with bulky brown envelopes and intimidating visiting teams are customary in order to secure a home win. Lax security at stadiums means referees are poorly protected from bribes or coercion.

 

Some say televising the matches could help curb the problem. In the meantime, a committee has been set up to investigate the scandal. But judging by the past performance of a string of similar committees, match-fixing is unlikely to end in a hurry.

 

 

http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2013/07/nigerian-football?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/goalaminute

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WTF?

 

TWO Nigerian football clubs chasing a single place for promotion into the Nigeria Nationwide League began the second halves of their final games of the season level on points and goal difference: Plateau United Feeders were winning 7-0 against Akurba FC; Police Machine FC was up 6-0 against Bubayaro FC. Police Machine then netted a further 61 goals, while Plateau United Feeders went on an even wilder scoring spree, averaging 1.6 goals a minute and ending its game 79-0.

 

“In a game of 45 minutes? Is that possible?” asked an official of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF). Questionable refereeing and home bias featured heavily. “There were times when they didn’t even wait for the ball to go back to the centre,” says Arafat Aliy, a local sports journalist. The games were scheduled at the same time in the hope of avoiding match-fixing, but spies with mobile phones at the two venues communicated with running commentaries to club officials.

 

While fans were mildly amused, the NFF was outraged by the “mind-boggling show of shame, never previously witnessed in Nigerian football”. It vowed to deal with the “despicable matter”. All four teams have been suspended; the players, club owners and match officials are under investigation. Bubayaro FC’s owner has disbanded his team.

 

The episode is a particularly comical example of the corruption endemic in Nigerian football. League tables are curiously close because home teams rarely lose. Twelve of Nigeria’s 20 clubs are unbeaten at home. The two bottom clubs, Wikki Tourists and Sharks, have between them won 13 of the 19 games played on their own turf. Tempting match officials with bulky brown envelopes and intimidating visiting teams are customary in order to secure a home win. Lax security at stadiums means referees are poorly protected from bribes or coercion.

 

Some say televising the matches could help curb the problem. In the meantime, a committee has been set up to investigate the scandal. But judging by the past performance of a string of similar committees, match-fixing is unlikely to end in a hurry.

 

 

http://www.economist.../bl/goalaminute

Something like that happened in Poland in 1993 but that was for the championship. They decided to award the title to the third place team. The Nigerians should promote the club directly behind these two cheaters, unless of course that club was involved in one of those games. :P Honestly, why do they continue to go with the goal difference? Use the head-to-head stat and be done with it.

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So, I'm really confused as to what is going on with Arsenal's pursuit of Suarez. Liverpool rejects £40M, says it's gonna have to be at least 50M. Now there's a chance it may go to an arbitrator? So confused.
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Amazing first day.

 

United were poor and won easily.

Liverpool were excellent, just scraped a 1-0 win. Should have been 5-1 at half time.

Arsenal were awful. Villa are not great, but Arsenal made them look like world beaters.

Southampton are going to be tough to play against this year.

West Ham look good.

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