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I figured I would start this thread to say that North Korea is holding Brazil to a 0-0 tie right now! Also we can use this to talk about the non-USA games. I am at work but found a site that streams the game. I have it on alt+tab in case my manager pops his head in lol shhhhh

0-0 North Korea v Brazil and its 46:00 in the second half. I, for one, am shocked. Anyone else watching?

They're trying to hold on....but Brasil will eventually score one and then play prevent. North Korea has no push.

It would be funny to see Brasil lose though.

I jinxed them

I'm watching. Brazil just scored. 55 mins. 1-0

now brazil goes into prevent mode and plays with 6 backs

yep...i really enjoyed watching the Ivory Coast outplay Portugal...its too bad they had to settle for a draw though...

I cant stand watching Portugal...i think Ronaldo ruins it for me. just watching a guy flop so bad is so annoying. Any contact whatsoever...actually there doesnt even have to be contact for Ronaldo to go down...its the worst

2 - 0 now. Nice goal by Brazil there.

my excitement has tapered off a good deal now

i hate brazil

2 - 1 now. Korea got lucky. Nice slice by them and the Brazilians were slacking there.

Spain and Switzerland have kicked off. Spain looks like they are toying with them

i really can't stand people whining about the world cup.

for one, it's not like it is taking away anyone's nighttime tv away. these games are over before you get home from work.

i didn't like soccer much before the 2006 cup, but i gave it a chance and got hooked. i won't watch mls or anything like that but occasionally i'll watch some EPL on the weekends.

but even when i didn't watch soccer prior to 2006, i didn't bag on it like a lot of people are.

people are the same way with hockey. they don't give it a chance. it's more of a sport than baseball will ever be.

I disagree thats the hardest thing to do. HUNDREDS of people in the pros do it every yr and countless more in the minors. I would think a strike out is harder. The hardest thing in sports to me would be something that takes year to hone the skill, like grind a handrail in skateboarding or something. I've always thought something like that would be waaaaay harder. Hell throwing a TD pass would be harder to me. Roughly only 32 ppl a yr do that. Or what about a gymnastics move, I bet you could give a gymnast 50 tries to hit a fast ball and he'd do it. Yet you could give Ortiz/Rpince Fielder 1000 tries to do routine gymnast move/event and doubt they could do it.

@LBJ - Least in hockey is phsyical and goals every game. Sorry soccer just seems whimpy to mean. I think its extremely boring. Can't get into it no matter how hard I try, the most bored I have ever been at a sporting event was going to a columbus crew game. They played two game and not one goal was scored.

no, it's not. people always say that. try playing goal.

it's coming at you the same speed, except the guy firing it is not trying to hit your glove. there are people standing in your way, some of them trying to deflect it past you, not to mention there are guys setting up shop right in front of you, jabbing at your arms and legs with a stick.

playing goalie much much more difficult then hitting a baseball.

and i took a shot at baseball, but i don't whine about it being on tv either.

so no.

also, there are situations in hockey, where as a goalie, you have zero chance to stop the puck. with baseball you always have a chance.

but again, standing around waiting for a ball to come to you, and then going and sitting in a dugout, and just switching back and forth on that is soooooooooooooo hard.

Who was bagging on soccer?

Sorry you put me out there on the diamond and give me a try all day I will put my bat on a ball sorry. Outside of rec league softball I havent played baseball since about 6th grade either, but i will eventually put a bat on a ball in a day. fine two yrs from now someone could hit a handrail, but what was harder? Thats all I was going for, some sports take years of dedication to do.

i wanted this to be a thread about people who watch the games and want to talk about them.

anybody have any comments so far about Spain V Switzerland?

i don't care about the soccer bashing. i've heard it all my life and throughout college. i don't defend soccer. i love the sport. most people in america don't. i accept that. i don't care. let's leave that stuff off of this thread.

Isn't it ironic that a non-USA thread turned into a baseball thread?

Thats the way conversations go.

the horns are kind of annoying, but 5 minutes into the game, i've already tuned it out.

Spain play at a different level. Their passing and movement both off and on the ball is a joy to watch.

I would expect Torres to be introduced and maybe Spain go to a 442 instead of the 451 with just Villa as the only striker.

Alonso, Xavi, Iniesta 3 of the best imo

i have a feeling Spain is going to explode on the scoreboard here in a couple minutes

And the Swiss are on the board!!!!!

just like i jinxed north korea, i jinx spain. i need to keep my mouth shut

TORRES!

Wow ... huge upset.

The best part of this is if Spain do not win the group then they likely face Brazil in the last 16

This game had one thing that most Americans love to see. We as a whole love to cheer for the underdog. I think that is a big part of why we love March Madness.

We also love the comeback. I think for me I'm trying really hard to get into soccer but as a fan those are two things that draw me into games if I don't have a vested interest in one of the teams playing.

For the most part in Soccer the chance for a comeback is not really there. If a team is down by 1 you might see a tie but normally not a comeback victory. If a team gets up by more than that it's basically over.

Please don't take this as me bashing the sport because that isn't what I'm trying to do. I'm just pointing out the reasons I have trouble getting into the sport.

Ya, I get what you're saying. Soccer can be a lot like a boat race. Once one boat grabs the lead, they're all playing off the same wind. Race = over.

In soccer, a team can play a prevent defense and virtually shut down the opposing offense completely. However, if you were watching the Slovakia and New Zealand game yesterday, you'd have seen something surprising. New Zealand scored in injury time to tie. Eseentially, 15 seconds before the game was over. Amazing finish! Too bad I was rooting for Slovakia. Crushing!

I guess the same can be said for most sports. In the NHL, most teams that get the first goal win. And if you think about 5 or 7-game series, the teams that wins first usually wins. And if a team is down 0-3 in a series, it's essentially the same as a soccer team being down 0-3 in one game.

Just trying to paint the right picture.

Again, I'm no soccer honk. I won't watch another minute of soccer until 2014 in Rio (after the last game is played July 11 of this World Cup).

Staying on topic of the thread.....HOLY CRAP! Spain lost! Wow! I'll be talking smack the rest of the day to my Spain coworkers. They pretty much NEED to beat someone who already has a win in their group to advance.

What happens most of the time is that a team gets up 1-0 and then plays with 6 defenders. It's like trying to throw a hail mary when another team has 8 guys standing in the end zone

and holy crap what an upset

the only top ranked team to act like they want it is germany 4-0 against austrailia. well, argentina could have had more goals from messi but nigeria's goalie played out of his mind.

Oh Wow! Spain LOST!?!?

Uruguay V South Africa

what was that guy's injury? just flipped it on and saw him on a stretcher. couldnt tell from the replay

Broken fingernail most likely.

from the replay it looked like he whiffed on the ball and in doing so, might have torn a ligament in his knee because his plant foot was stuck in the ground as he spun around.

which is also the most embarrassing way to get hurt