I figured when I took Buffon as my keeper, that he was mine and only mine. Turns out thats not how it works. Basically someone could make a team identicle to mine or anyones, and we would end up in a tie.

Oh well.

I was curious, since we've all made our teams, and we already pretty much know which national team everyone is pulling for. Who are you favorite club teams?

Kansas City Wizards

'EST 1892'

KC Wizards est 1995.

Aahah I'd say they've got some years/history on em.

england vs jamaica the other day. Jamaica had a player who plays for KCW and the commentators go
"and there's _____ on the ball, plays his football with kansas city wizard"
"don't you mean he's having a spell at the wizards"

aha. aha. aha ha. ha ha ha. How ever will we cope with a full month of hilarious puns like that

Sure, Jermaine Hue.


Thats funny. But no one else watches football (soccer) here anyway. So I'm the butt of every joke either way.

aye thats the guy, he was jamaica's best player by far

He is class. I think he played in Europe before.

EDIT: Nevermind, his last club was Harbour View of Jamaica.

Thanks for the link.

Do you have any tactical plans, guys? I mean, have you already selected 2 players you'll transfer, on what basis, have you left yourself the possibility of picking up a new player from a nation already represented in your team? Are you shaking thinking about it?

I definetely selected Essien, hoping he'd be the best Ghana player, being everywhere to be seen - but I doubted (til the African team result mentioned not so long ago) Ghana would play more than three matches - so that I'd remove him by the end of the tournament, with either Trabelsi (Tunisia) or Magnin (Switzerland - he was a nightmare for France last time two teams met).

Malouda's a great pick for your team, Atari.

World Cups & injured players... Every nation seems to point out the fact that one of their most talented players ain't up to his reputation, due to the weariness of repeated games (Vieira, Zidane) or injuries (Totti, Rooney, Ballack)...

i found a new way to persuade my wife to watch the games together..
we bet on them..

currently, if italy wins against usa, she wins a trip to the spa..




why couldn't women be more interested in football?

cnn today had an expose on fifa

corporations such as (big names include McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Anheuser-Busch) who have paid huge sums just to be a sponsor contributed some 650 million this year to fifa to gain corporate sponsorship. these companies, among many others of course, have contributed for many years to gain the privilege of the exposure to the global market. the problem is that this year fifa handed out so many tickets to these corporations that fans are fniding it difficult to get tickets for matches & are having to resort to scalpers. the story maintained that these scalpers got their tickets from the corporate sponsors. As a result of the mess, even prices for legitimate tickets are going through the roof.

are anheuser busch behind budweiser? I saw a thing on tv on friday which said the germans were outraged at american beer being the only beer to be sold at matches. Apparently there was such a big deal made out of it that german beer is to be sold in unmarked cups from unmarked taps

According to this http://www.worldcup365.com/story/0,1...264777,00.html Ronaldo's injury is only blisters. Big wuss

holy fuck!!!!! budweiser in germany???? and the ONLY beer at games?? who the fuck will want to drink that PISS???

that shit would warrant a revolution. no shit. what fucked up shit. im twitchy with rage. ha ha. but seriously...

oh man, i just went & picked up the sports illustrated from the post office...there's this cool black fold-out booklet...one the back is all of the first round schedule info about match-ups, game times & which network its on & when you open it, there are all 64 team crest logos which you can open like little doors & they have a picture on the back & a blurb inside. it can be removed from the magazine too. I thought that was kind of neat.

The article on the USA team talks them up a good bit, but time will tell how they fare against CZE and ITA.

Pictures?

Italy'll kick their arses. the czech..they have a good team but i'm not sure. A draw i'm guessing.

Is it possible that when johnnywinternoshow created the group that he opted not to make a draft part of the roster selection & instead chose by default or accident to have open selection?

Did you remember seeing anything like that as part of the set-up options, johnnywinternoshow?

nope, as well as the SY league you're also in a league with other people who are fans of whatever country you all selected and I think those leagues are open ended so you could have 1000+ teams in the england league which'd probably leave no players left to pick from. I think the way it's set up that 2 people can have the same player is quite common in uk fantasy football, I don't think I've ever played in a league that a player can only play for one team, although I do like that sound of that

Yeah I thought that was weird when I had to choose to be "fans of <insert country>"

Oh well, I just thought I would ask, but just to clarify what I meant to anyone reading:
I mean just within our small group to have a draft where you rank each player in sequence, then a random generator determines who gets who based on how you've ranked the players that you would like to have. This is just the way I'm accustomed to picking fantasy teams. Of course, not everyone out of the millions that play fantasy through that interface are gonna have only one draft. There''s not enough players for that.

Usually there's a default order of players already pre-set for the draft with them already ranked in the order of most likely preference. From there, each team owner reshuffles the priority of each player according to their strategy of getting who they want.

there is one thing i have to say i have to say i have to

whenever i hear u.s announcers narrate games it gives me the willies. see the thing is they rely too much on statistics & bullshit-- as if it was baseball or something.

statistics don't mean shit in FUTBOL. all that counts is the goals.

so i usually tune to univision where the guys have a better feel for the games. though lately i think abc or whatever brought some british announcer who made a whole lot more sense than the disoriented fools from yore.

/end of rant

Add to all of that this question: is this really a 'German' world cup? Coca-Cola hold the lisence for non-alcohlic drinks, Budweiser hold the alsohol lisence, McDonalds will be advertised everywhere etc etc. So going to a game will hardly provide one with a 'taste of Germany'. Seems a shame.

The 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta had all of the soccer matches in Athens where I was living at the time. It was cool to see relative underdogs Nigeria beat Argentina. After the match, there were parades of Nigerians with flags marching through downtown. Faves Brazil (Brasil) won the bronze. My girlfriend at the time was Brazilian & was the major reason I even went.

Oh & the USA Women beating China for the gold was something.