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World Soccer XXIV: The Road to Rio

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pirate said:
Tigers? Was that an American firm making the recommendation?

Maybe Little Kickers, The Storm or The Krush were already taken.

Not knocking their historical name as much as commenting on how most American teams have to be The Something(s). Drives me crazy that even in their teens, some of the teams have names that make them sound like U8 rec league teams.
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And how silly it is when people complain that a team doesn't have a nickname. One person I knew said "What the hell is an FC?"
 
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Uh. Oh.

Brazil's sports minister says he is concerned about the pace of construction at the 2014 World Cup stadiums that need to be ready in December.

Aldo Rebelo said Tuesday that work needs to be accelerated at five of the six stadiums that are under construction because they ''are facing a tight deadline.'' The minister said that only the Sao Paulo stadium that will host the opening match next June is comfortably on track to be completed on time.

FIFA has made it clear that it wants all 12 stadiums ready by December. It has said it won't tolerate the kind of delays that afflicted the stadiums used in the Confederations Cup earlier this year.

Only two of the six Confederations Cup venues were completed by the end of 2012 as FIFA had originally wanted. Football's governing body made exceptions for this year's event but said it would not do the same ahead of football's showcase tournament.
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Four of the stadiums are less than 80 percent completed - in Curitiba, Manaus, Natal and Porto Alegre. The venue in Cuiaba is 80 percent ready, according to the sports ministry.
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England or the USA?
 
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Jimjamesak said:
We went through this in 2010. Nothing will happen.
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Agreed. I'd be shocked if the world cup were moved from Brazil, regardless of any construction or other problems.


It will be interesting to see how this whole Qatar winter world cup nonsense plays out. It's like FIFA didn't realize how hot Qatar is in the summer when they awarded the world cup to them or something. Or else they talk out of both sides of their mouth.
 
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The morons in Sarajevo who booed the National Anthem need to study their history. Who do they think secured their independence?
 
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Priceless said:
The morons in Sarajevo who booed the National Anthem need to study their history. Who do they think secured their independence?
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Mother Russia :p

Frustrating half to watch... Bosnia just suffocated any offensive opportunities we could come up with...
 
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This isn't the A team is it? (computer at work has no espn3). And I get Bosnia is 13th, and that's why I'm hoping it's the B team because I would not like to be down 2-0 with the A team, even if it is on foreign soil to the 13th team.

I don't want to speak too soon, but that win streak was fun while it lasted, just wish we could've gotten a couple more big name teams included in it so it doesn't look like a fluke.

And as I type this it's now 2-1 so there's hope.

EDIT: And now it's 2-2. Glad my pep talk could get the boys going.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
This isn't the A team is it? (computer at work has no espn3). And I get Bosnia is 13th, and that's why I'm hoping it's the B team because I would not like to be down 2-0 with the A team, even if it is on foreign soil to the 13th team.

I don't want to speak too soon, but that win streak was fun while it lasted, just wish we could've gotten a couple more big name teams included in it so it doesn't look like a fluke.

And as I type this it's now 2-1 so there's hope.
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2-2 now. It isn't the true A squad without Dempsey, and no Landon for that matter.
 
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Obviously a result on foreign soil against a quality opponent would be awesome, but regardless the US can take a lot of positives from this game.
 
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Well, 4-2 now. It looks like my post on a college hockey message board made its way through the interwebs and to the USA sideline in Bosnia, so if you don't mind I'm gonna be taking credit for this one.
 
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According to the FIFA World Rankings simulator, this win just bumped us to 1003 pts, good for 12th in the world. That's not counting other teams that played today so we may be further back than that.
 
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Jozy doesn't suck.
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I'm more worried that the rest of the Sunderland team does.

Either way great way to win a game even if the defense seems to make a mess of every game we play against top quality Euro opposition. Pretty pleased to walk away from a summer triumvirate of Germany, Belgium, and Bosnia, with a 2-1 record.
 
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BoomGoestheDynamite said:
I'm more worried that the rest of the Sunderland team does.

Either way great way to win a game even if the defense seems to make a mess of every game we play against top quality Euro opposition. Pretty pleased to walk away from a summer triumvirate of Germany, Belgium, and Bosnia, with a 2-1 record.
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Is that 3 rolls of the dice in Risk??
 
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