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Aircal,

Luís Fabiano couldn´do nothing, he was tottally isolated upfront . like Tom Hanks in the desert island. Maybe with Kaká´s return in the next game against Venezuela things will get better, but if Dunga stays , any team is difficult to beat.

Brasil has serious technical problems

sorry to ask a dumb question but what are you talking about ? Technical ability is the last of Brazil's worry's.

As for the supporters not having a relationship with the team, why do you think that is ? Because the players are all European-based or because Brazil won many trophy's recently that they are not starved for success ? Maybe both ?

Penta is an English Learner..he means tactical problems.

Pabs,

"Technical ability is the last of Brazil's worry's."

--->I meant technical indeed, but not in the sense of lack of technical ability. Actually, this is a new generation of players ,in my opinion, is one of the best we´ve ever had, and that´s where the problem is. This brilliant generation has been spoiled , wasted by CBF direction because we aren´t taking any advantage of it. The generation of 98, 2000 and 2002 is gone and these new values are very good players, the team that went to the Olympic games is excellent if we look at the names called, but since they don´t have a coach to train (just a bit, it doesn´t demand an extraordinary effort), their technical ability as you say doesn´t show. The 3 new goalkeepers are very good, the deffense with Juan, Alex Silva , Miranda is excellent, we have Diego, Hernanes, Robinho, Lucas, Anderson, Kaká, Pato, etc. I mean , the Brazilian coach(if we had one) has at his disposal some of the best players of the world, but if he doesn´t train the minimum, they will never play as a team.

"the players are all European-based or because Brazil won many trophy's recently that they are not starved for success ?"

---> The "foreign" players is a factor, but not the main, since it happens all over the world and it has been happening for decades, even when we talk about European NT(some players from Spain, German or England also play abroad). The problem is that people feel that the players doesn´t have a serious commitment about the seleção, they are there thinking about showing up to increase the profits for their careers and thinking just a bit in our history, our nation, the name of our Seleção. Gilberto said after the game against Argentina "I get upset with this, people come here to applaud Messi, I leave my family at home to come here to see this?" WHAT????? The guy speaks as if being called for the most victorious team of the world is a sacrifice and not a glory, adn more, he wants that a brazilian worker, who spends considerable part of his salary to buy a ticket and see a terrible performance of the team, cheer for bad plays? He gotta be kidding.

About recent trophies, well, we have short memory, the most recent ones were Canada scoring two goals against us, Venezuela beating us for the first time in history(even in a friendly), Paraguay beating us by 2x0 and a ridiculous tie against the last place Bolivia at home. The last trophy was Copa America, we had a hell of a game against Argentina, the thing is: nobody was expecting that, since we had lost to Mexico by 2x0 and the classification against uruguay was on the penaties decision, and aside fron the goleada against Chile, there wasn´t a great game in that competition.
By some kind of miracle, we are still in 2nd place, hmmm, the miracle is , man, aside from Paraguay, the southamerican teams are playing really bad, even Argentina hasn´t been showing much consitence, specially in their deffense. In different degrees , I think argentina is suffering something similar than us, Alfio ideas got old, they need new blood. In our case, Dunga has no idea what being a coach is.

you need help Dunga. 5 WCs and you're still crying.Try living in a shit country where there is no love for the game and being the descendant of another two shit countries in football.

agentesecreto wrote:you need help Dunga. 5 WCs and you're still crying.Try living in a shit country where there is no love for the game and being the descendant of another two shit countries in football.

lol

Dunga ? uhm, that would be Penta...

I was a bit confused. The Metrolink train that crashed runs the route that I ride every day. Except I head South in the evening. I may know some of the folks who gut hurt and or died. Fucking horrific. My family was going nuts trying to get a hold of me.

Robinho scores with Manchester City, but what's up with the shirt exchange at half-time with Deco? That's gay!!!!!!!!

palo

yeah I heard about that. What was the cause ?

At Halftime ? That's wierd to say the least. Why not just wait until the end of the game...

IT was weird. Manchester City lost 1-3.

They think that it was a missed signal or the signal equipment failed. 18 dead and 3 more pressumed dead aboard the train. I may start driving to work come Monday or maybe catching the subway . It takes much longer and the crowds are rougher and the womne less attractive but it appears safer. Thsi si the second big accident on my line. Last time it was a wacko that parked his car on the tracks.

Fuck that.

RIP to my fellow Metrolinkers and a peace to the families and loved ones left behind.

I'm not just saying this but I wanted to ask you this before. Does LA have a subway ?

I've heard it does (by you, I think), but I also heard that it doesn't that's why traffic is always bad 24/7/365

L.A county has both a a commuter train sytem that cover about 400 miles and connects 5 counties called Metrolink and a light rail system operated by the Metropolitan Transit Authority along the bus system. 3 legs of the light rail sytem are underground and the rest are light rail on the surface. One leg is a dedicated bus path.

Most folks in LA don't know the differnce because they're idiots. No offense to Tubby, we all know his brain metabolizes information slowly.

We won our prelim semi 2x1 and yours truly scored the first for our side! I hit a long range shot from a cross field pass, great feeling!

Now we play the major semi this Saturday to get into grand final.

I played 2 games today

I thought my game was at 9am but it was actually at 11am. One of the teams on the 9 o'clock game was short so I filled in. I played in net but we were short so we lost something like 5-0. I could hardly be blamed for any of the goals. Maybe 1.

I took a boot to the mouth. I immediately feared my tooth was knocked out and started to panic. Instead I got a swollen upper lip and damage to the inside of my mouth.

We won our 2nd game quite easily. The other team got a red card early on so it was never in doubt. He was last man back and he committed a foul. I was hoping the ref was going to keep the card in his pocket because all it did was ruin the game as we had our way with them and it wasn't fun.

We already won the league by a long shot.

I'm not sure if I'm going to play indoors this year.

ZZZzzzZZZ®

have you ever kicked a ball in your life ? And be truthful !

I grew up playing on the streets of L.A, summers in Jalisco and long vacations in Guatemala. My father was golie for the local league and we would play at Griffith park when we were kids. My first ball was a brown leather size 3 imported from the street markets of Guatemala, at age 4. My mom stitched our team logo on our cheap white t-shirts for Atletico , a team started by my brother. I later played for the Saturday afternoon Salesean rec league. I played in Junior High school and high school. I played as a colege student in the intramural leagues. My brother was all city and selected by the local leagues. I was injured at age 23 and since then I only play pick up games at local parks.

You may have traces of Italian blod my my life has been that of any Mexican boy with the difference that we spoke English most of the time.

you should write for Penthouse...

Injury at 23, what happened? I tore the ACL in my right knee at 19. Then the other one at 34. Also had a piece of meniscus taken out of my right knee at 24.

Ankle. I was already a young father and couldn't afford to be off work. Same reason I slowed down on the Mountain biking. I have children who need a father.

is that why you cheated on their mother, deadbeat ?

(just asking)

Pabs - Are you talking about the cute blonde whose picture he use to post on the old site?

I don't know if that was her. All I'm saying is that I find it funny that palo preaches to others when he is as morally bankrupt as they come.

Ask John McCain why he left his wife and started dating the rich ho while still married.

And why are you gay?

'cause you give such great head that it's difficult for me to say no...

We are in the grand final! we won today 1nil in extra time, I could have won it in normal time with a diving header but the goal keeper was at the right spot to save it. but our right wing saved the day and scored with a great angled shot, we all just jump on him! It was a golden goal. Our league should follow fifa rules and not have the golden goal but they wanted to keep it.

Grand final next week!

we tanked it today

All we needed was a draw and we shit the bed. We had about 3 chances to make it 1-0 (2 goalposts and an unbelieveable miss from 3 meters). 0-0 at the Half. Our central defender left the game with injury so we had some shuffling to do. Then our other central defender gets his 2nd yellow card and we are hanging on to dear life. In the Second Half the younger guys on their team use take advantage of their younger bodies.

We were in First Place throughout the year and won the league, but we lost the playoff section today by losing 3-0.

yawn.

I repeat: do you even play ?

Kaka scored a rocket of a goal today, and Pato got on the score sheet. Hope is not lost for the selecao..... with the return of Kaka!

Pabs wrote:we tanked it today

All we needed was a draw and we shit the bed. We had about 3 chances to make it 1-0 (2 goalposts and an unbelieveable miss from 3 meters). 0-0 at the Half. Our central defender left the game with injury so we had some shuffling to do. Then our other central defender gets his 2nd yellow card and we are hanging on to dear life. In the Second Half the younger guys on their team use take advantage of their younger bodies.

We were in First Place throughout the year and won the league, but we lost the playoff section today by losing 3-0.

That sounded like our game but we were the young side by far and it paid off for us. We played in 31degree heat but kept running at them. even when we started the extra time period, we really turned up the heat and attacked full on, after 5 minutes it paid off.

Aircalzinho Paulista wrote:Kaka scored a rocket of a goal today, and Pato got on the score sheet. Hope is not lost for the selecao..... with the return of Kaka!

But we have to get rid of Dunga first, he won't call up Pato.

Air:

shoot me the ink to your avatar's picture.

She looks good there.

Post the link instead.

I meant link, Air, not the ink. My verbage has suffered as of late.

lol.. i found that picture on here

http://www.chickipedia.com/ellen-rocche/

I wish I had come up with the idea of chickipedia.... the largest selection of hot chicks ever..

Thanks Cal. Listen you still want my VCR tapes? Free.

I am quitting football.

sure bud.. i'll take the vcr tapes.

Mail me a box and postage plus shipping fees. 3 easy payments. :0

But wait, if you think that is a great offer, we also include this CD collection for the same low price .......