FIFA World Cup

@Bovidae said in FIFA World Cup:

@booboo said in FIFA World Cup:

I think it's an issue. We find it an issue on the Veldt, and Mexico City is nearly 500m higher:

Altitude:
Mexico City 2,240m
Johannesburg 1,753m
Bloemfontein 1,395m
Pretoria 1,339m

I spent some time in Flagstaff, AZ many years ago and did a lot of walking around the city without noticing any problems. I never realised that its altitude isn't much lower than Mexico City (2,079 m).

Suppose England will be OK if they just walk around the pitch then

I've spent a fair bit of time in mexico city and am a daily runner. Running at that altitude is hard.

Apparently just stared to rain and thunderstorms predicted to continue on and off for next 6 hours... Will be interesting to see what fifa do if that eventuate.s.

Brazilians and ref arcing up like spoiled brats

They don’t like it up ‘em Mr Mainwaring

@SammyC I think England will struggle. It was just a comment about some cities having a higher elevation than you think.

@Bovidae the Mexicans will be playing with a lot of emotion.

That could go either way for them

Always love to see Brazil lose.

The goalscoring in this tournament is kind of nuts. Three guys on 7, Kane on 5 and about to get a chance to add more.

Messi had 7 at the last world cup and was silver boot. Prior to that you have to go back to 1970 where the second highest scorer managed that many. This year 7 might not even get you in the top 3! The last 3 tournaments the third highest scorer managed 4 goals.

1970 was a good year for goals, with Müller getting 10. Since then, 7 would have got you the golden boot every year except 2002 and 2022.

Some of this is down to the extended tournament but I think we've also just got 4 phenomenal strikers in action all at once.

Well cynically speaking the top players are getting extra games and are against weaker opposition. They should be putting in more goals (which is probably the point of the tournament).

Brazil carry on like absolute flogs. Neymar is such an unlikeable douchebag. Pictures of crying brazilian children in teh crowd warm the cockles of my heart. What the fuck was the ref doing trying to let them back in to a game that should have been over?

Haaland is a remarkable player. I've never seen someone so unaffected by not getting touches. The ball doesn't go near him for extended periods and he still converts the two chances presented to him.

Has there ever been a more dissapointing "star player" at the WC than Neymar? Seems to have spent the last 2 rolling around on the ground and gesticulating wildy at the ref...

For a country that used to produce the best of no. 9's, Brazil haven't had a proper one since around 2010 with Luis Fabiano or Adriano before him. It's funny that they are eliminated by the brilliance of one of the only pure 9's running around today. They had their chances but blew them. Deserved to lose. The last Brazil team that were a genuine chance to win the world cup was the 2018 group. Neymar was at his peak in that tournament and they looked good but came undone against Belgium's golden generation and a all-time performance from Eden Hazard.

@Windows97 His career ends up as a case of "what if". Has all the club accolades, was apart of some great teams and arguably the greatest front three ever (Messi/Suarez/Neymar), has the goal scoring record for Brazil... but I still can't help but think that he never reached his full potential. Never won the Ballon D'or which admittedly, is hard in the Messi/CR7 era and he flopped at most of the world cups he played in.

@mariner4life said in FIFA World Cup:

Brazil carry on like absolute flogs. Neymar is such an unlikeable douchebag. Pictures of crying brazilian children in teh crowd warm the cockles of my heart. What the fuck was the ref doing trying to let them back in to a game that should have been over?

Haaland is a remarkable player. I've never seen someone so unaffected by not getting touches. The ball doesn't go near him for extended periods and he still converts the two chances presented to him.

Back in 2014 i must have re-watched that pasting to the Germans half a hundred times. God it was glorious, seeing them crying in the stands.

i love a good hate watch

I really hope that no one on here ever wore a Brazilian jersey. Especially in the 90s or early 00s.

Am I allowed to say that I really liked the Brazil team of 1970? And 1982? Not since though. You wonder why they selected Igor Thiago, a big lump of a centre-forward, and then didn't bring him on when they needed something different.

Mexico v England delayed due to the weather ....

@KiwiPie said in FIFA World Cup:

Am I allowed to say that I really liked the Brazil team of 1970? And 1982? Not since though. You wonder why they selected Igor Thiago, a big lump of a centre-forward, and then didn't bring him on when they needed something different.

Mexico v England delayed due to the weather ....

i remember as a kid collecting some card series based on Football players. Must have been in the late 70's early 80's
Zico comes to mind as a player i would have seen on one of those cards.

Always support team USA. It makes the worst kind of euros angry when they win.

Following the England v Mexico score online, its been 0-0 for a while
look away for just a couple of mins and its all of a sudden 2-1 to the Poms.
3 goals in 6 mins

Go the poms btw..

i missed it had started, i thought it was delayed?

@mariner4life It was delayed. By 1 hour.