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posted by The Angel of lightness on Jun, 23 2014 @ 09:54 PM
The only country that has a clear possibility to complicate a lot the advance of Columbians in this world cup is Brazil, and through a great pressure of the public over
the referees, but ....they can accept the challenge to cut the advance of Brazilians to the final.
June 23th 2014 12:55 am post by the Angel of Lightness
So the desire to optimize at maximum this opportunity can give them the necessary stamina to resist such stress and offer to the world a genuine Maracanazo.
originally posted by: The angel of light
a reply to: grainofsand
Not at all, and I am sure many experts in Soccer , including German ones, that have in clear what is quality and ethics in sport share my same opinion.
originally posted by: The angel of light
a reply to: Vasa Croe Yeah....because that is what the World Cup is all about....please spare us your moral conditions on your prediction,
Well Vasa Croe,
There is no doubt in my mind that Soccer is all about precisely what you say for You and for people that think like you, for people that only think in a selfish way, but for many millions more around the world is a tremendous important way of personal self help an education, and as so is a discipline of the body and the spirit, a way to grow physically, but also in principles and in ethics, and to teach them to Children.
The genuine spirit of sport has nothing to do with the idea to destroy rivals, to humiliate them, that way of thinking can prevail in who is planning to win wars, but football is not that, and whoever see it in that way is morally sick.
Why don't we give the chance to say something about this to a real authority in Football??,
Edson Arantes Do Nacimento "Pele" describe that in the following links
www.7msport.com...
The outstanding achievements of the greatest soccer player of all times were precisely moved by a Child dream, to erase a terrible shame on his country due to Maracanazo of 1950.
www.youtube.com...
The Angel of Lightness
originally posted by: skalla
a reply to: john666
They had no need to discipline themselves as evidenced by their victory in the final. And the reason why teams want to score more goals (wtf am i doing explaining this, it's just silly) is that people have an eye on the golden boot, their tally of international goals and assists, striving for the best performance possible and their reputation as a player on the greatest stage. That Germany team achieved Footballing immortality.
Germany took their foot off the gas in the second half as 10 goals would have been embarrassing for both teams, whereas 7 goals is a near legendary result that people will talk about 50 years from now. They would have worries about getting out of the stadium if they had scored many more.
This is a remarkable silly thread, smh, but then i come to ATS for a reason so i cant really complain.....
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
a reply to: john666
Maybe you should re-read my post about how Brazil did the same thing to TWO teams in the 1950 semi finals. Sorry Brazil got their butts handed to them but they have done it NUMEROUS times themselves.
originally posted by: john666
You are contradicting yourself here.
You say that teams want to score as many goals as possible, but then you say that 10 goals would have been embarrassing.
But why?
Why would 10 goals be embarrassing, but not 7 goals?
Do you think that for the Brazilians, the 7 goals that they received in their own country, were not embarrassing?
The main goal of a football team should not be to score as many goals as possible, but to defeat a team that was before their match with you considered better than you!
Or if you are already "the best team", to keep that title of "the best team" as long as possible.