ontd_football | euros and wwc's tied up with strings

Euros

Round up of scores because I don't have pictures for all the matches, savvy?
Portugal 2- 0 Armenia

This is the Portuguese kit?

Armenia? Why?

“The problem is that nobody in the Portugal NT is fast enough or precise enough to set up the only one who is able to score - Cristiano Ronaldo. Even the best player in the world can’t do everything on his own, though he did in many matches.” -Commentator

Scotland 1 - 1 ROI

I came into this match 40 minutes in, just in time to see Scotland score

Someone made the comment about England having to hide their up and comers and their kids because the Irish was coming. I choked on my soup. The one meal I had for fast day, and people had to muck it up

Delaney isn't well liked by most of the Irish football supporters I know

The Italian referee was not taking any guff from anyone. I thought he had the game in hand

Gibraltar 0 -7 Germany

Um... well. At least they have something in common with Brazil? No? I'll get my coat

Um... well. Gibraltar got to exchange their shirts with the lads, and can flog them on ebay for some dosh?

Demark 2- 0 Serbia

I... Serbia? I know I have said this before, but the expansion to 24 teams in the Euros is a nonsense.

That tackle!

Albania 1 -0 France

You could knock me over with a feather with that score. Just what?

Boy Lloris, it's like playing for Spurs again, eh?

Giroud got a red card, I think, and France down to 10 men

Pogba came on at half time, but couldn't do anything. Hmmm...

Women's World Cup

Matches on this day, June 13, 2015

Colombia-France

Man, listen... what kind of deliberate handball is this? How wasn't it called? I understand if the referee didn't see it, but ins't that what the linesmen are for?

Nawl Colombia, this is tragic. I reject this

Nice jerseys, ngl, but still judging you. *Judges*

Brazil 1 - 0 Spain

Vero Boqueta and Marta THA GAWD Viera

So. There seems to be a frission of discontent re: the Brazilians. It seems that they have five stars on their crest, yeah ? But it's the five stars representing the men's team, not the women's! The women want to stand on their own, and wear the stars that they earn. I get it, ngl. They might share the canary yellow of the selection, but they want to earn their own badges. I agree

Until then, I'm building my shrine to Marta. She's the real deal, ya'll. Fluid as water, feints filled with guile and cunning, and her reading of the game is some next level.

Just... look at God

Dat flow. How she's two steps beyond her rival. Just... BAE!

Mexico 0 - 2 England

England finally notched a win. *Whew* funding secured

Mexico had England on the back foot in the first half, England seemingly had no answers. Don't know what Samson said in the fifteen minute break (probably reminded them that unfairly, if we don't get a good result, funding for the woman's game will be thrown into doubt - even though the men's team are RUBBISH, and BBC won't cover the WWC again), but they got a result

But the lionesses do have support over here. In a match between them and the three lions, I agree with this letter

Aluko didn't get much service from England, but she held up the ball, and ground Mexico to a stand still in the first half

Copa America

I love everything this logo chooses to be.
Argentina 2- 2 Paraguay

Summary of match result

OTP of OTPs

I can't believe Messi is captain of Argentina when they have Masch

This guy should be the argentine captain. Anyway, I am digging the Adidas treatment to this. Love the kits

Seriously, I approve of these kits. I'd rock one - and I'm not Argentine

DiMaria is supposedly linked to Bayern Munich? Qué?

I know nothing of Paraguay and where they are on the footballing scene. We know that Chile is talented, Colombia is brimming with talent and belief, Argentina and Brazil are coming for our edges, but what do we know about Paraguay- really? The player's name is Nelson Valdez

Uruguay 1- 0 Jamaica

Jamaica got a wild card, and got invited to the competition because they were football Champions of the Caribbean? Someone hit me with a clue by four

The gossip with Uruguay is that people are a bit frustrated with the coach. Suárez seemed to have papered over his mistakes (Rodgers can relate), and el maestro doesn't believe in having new blood, even though Uruguay is brimming with talent

I watched the match and - Jamaica did better than expected. People expected them to show up and make up numbers, but half of the team seem to ply their trade in the second division of English football, and their coach (a German) seems to be a welcome change after Whitmore's beleaguered reign at the NT level (he was asked to resign, as a measure of respect since he was one of the original Reggae Boyz in 1998). Uruguay won buy 1, but they can build on that

I've never liked any of Jamaica's kits. The yellow is atrocious

The World According to Cavani. This will run and run

OP: done! Cheers, jeers, corrections and commentary pushback you know the drill! I will be out and about today (the sun's flirting with me, I'll be a dudebro and act as if it's enough to be getting my dalliance on). Off to go walking, will come back and side eye England against Slovenia. Equal opportunity side eyer, me. Tomorrow will catch up on gossip like Real Madrid supposedly flogging Casillas in order to get De Gea. More time! If I've missed any tags re: national teams, can someone fill them in for me? Cheers!

Threaded | Flat

Actually, Masche was the captain of Argentina during Maradona's time. Sabella came along and gave Messi the captaincy instead. Regardless of who's wearing the armband now, people say that Masche is the true leader in the dressing room, the motivator, the glue that sticks the team together and Messi is the captain only in name.

Nelson Valdez was a former BvB player! Their other goalscorer, Barrios, also was a BvB player :')

So happy for the England girls! I really hope they go far this WWC. I agree about Brazil's 5 stars. None of the other countries have the men's stars on the badges.

I'm not sure who from France got the red card but it wasn't Giroud. He got subbed off at half-time for Nabil.

Edited 2015-06-14 09:34 (UTC)

I can't find anything about a red card in Albania-France.
Well there are just as many controversies in the women's game than the men's game. But that handball should have been a pen.
France created a bunch of chances but couldn't convert. Women will never really be able to beat men at football, they are not fast or strong enough but I don't think that that's a problem. For me the tactics on the pitch look the same.

Oops Argentina. That's not an ideal start. This is supposed to be the tournament where Messi finally leads the senior side to a triumph, I think?

Line-up for the semis of the U20 WC: Senegal beat Uzbekistan 1-0, Mali, Brazil and Serbia all went through on penalties.

i really like Portugal's kit. it's so nice!

aww seems like Germany used this match to overcompensate for their loss against US.

Borussia Dortmund have signed Swiss goalkeeper Roman Bürki (24) from SC Freiburg.#welcometodortmund (https://twitter.com/hashtag/welcometodortmund?src=hash) pic.twitter.com/spEgChmC5M (http://t.co/spEgChmC5M)
— Borussia Dortmund (@BVB) June 14, 2015 (https://twitter.com/BVB/status/610040252023963649)

Looks like it's farewell, Weidenfeller. Funny how Roman will be replaced by Roman.

Edited 2015-06-14 11:32 (UTC)

Christoph Kramer got on the Gibraltar bus

Also saw the highlights last night and that Armenian free kick was be-yoo-tee-full

Lmao that map according to cavani

I missed the matches yesterday except the end of South Korea v Costa Rica- they got their first wwc point :) Colombia beating France:O wish I coulda watched that one but wow that blatant handball that was apparently not called

Okay.

1. Why is Leo Messi the captain??? This is SO not right.

2. So the Portugese team isn't worth Ronaldo, eh? What kind of comm was that?

and three
None other than the Littlest Lord Stark missed the penalty and the German U-20 team lost last night. Gah!

Edited 2015-06-14 14:35 (UTC)

Honestly? Gibraltar were very good, considering what they had to work with. They could have scored in the first half, they were very brave, because they didn't just defend well, but also actually attacked. They were only 1-0 down at halftime.

Once Germany had remembered they were not in fact on holiday yet and scored a few in the second half, Gibraltar got tired and couldn't keep up, which is understandable in people who play in their free time. But if one looks at the first part of the game, it was by far not the smackdown the result makes it look. If you look at discipline, morale, and concentration, they were better than Brazil were that day.

Scotland's kit still amazes me. I had to pause & look carefully before I realized which team it was.

Delaney isn't well liked by most of the Irish football supporters I know Judging by that pic, I'm thinking Delaney dngaf about other people's opinions. He's got his; y'all will just have to like it.

I'm so glad I was here for the 2nd half of the Germany game. Sorry Gibraltar, I'm sure it was way less fun for you! Schuerrle, Gundogan, and Kruse deserved their goal glut.

Expansion to 24, 32, 64! teams is great, surely you can see it. ~~From the perspective of FIFA, big business, advertisers, etc. that is.~~

Albania?! France?! Holy moly. What happened? O.O Albania will surely declare a national holiday or something. :p

Colombian ladies: Maradona would be proud of that handball! Also, agreed re Masch as captain for Argentina. But you can't argue with the power of D10S, so....

That Cavani map! "Donde nos pagan" OMFG I can't stop laughing! XD XD

Oh, Cris. People say there's no such thing as too much of a good thing, but when you are THAT good that no one else on the Portuguese team can come with 100 miles of you then that is something of a burden. Say what you like about the guy, but without him Portugal would be up shit's creek without a paddle. He's dragged them, kicking and screaming, through qualifiers, into tournaments, but is always outnumbered in the end. One guy can only do so much.

Also, I do love it when my pretty running boys provide me with ample gif-y moments to use in future match spams ...

I predict am gonna be using this one a lot, since it so perfectly captures about 60% of my solo football commentary.

Edited 2015-06-14 14:52 (UTC)

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