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USA rules Germany drools
« on: June 26, 2014, 09:51:45 AM »
Not a bad team on the field for the USA. Nervous yet Uwe?
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Re: USA rules Germany drools
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2014, 10:32:21 AM »
Unfortunately, with the score 1 to 0, it doesn't look too good for the U.S. right now.  I haven't even got over the horrible last-minute goal by Portugal in the last game. 
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Re: USA rules Germany drools
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2014, 10:57:29 AM »
It's all good. We get in with the Portugal win against Ghana. All those forwards and Germany can only score one measly goal? Could have been a different story if the ball ever found Dempsey's foot and if Altidore had played.
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« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2014, 01:19:32 PM »
uwe's busy looking for that dp world cup connection.
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« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2014, 01:53:11 PM »
It's all good. We get in with the Portugal win against Ghana. All those forwards and Germany can only score one measly goal? Could have been a different story if the ball ever found Dempsey's foot and if Altidore had played.

Yes, that's true.  Overall, not bad. 
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Re: USA rules Germany drools
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2014, 04:49:28 PM »
I have no interest in the world cup but wanted to share this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpnsjJfoa5w

And now this from today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o50FARrsppE

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Re: USA rules Germany drools
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2014, 04:59:26 AM »
Liebe Amerikaner,

you've come a long way. You were always good athletes and generally do your best work under German guidance (von Steuben, Klinsmann), but you've become a goal danger by now. It wasn't a glorious or spirited game of the deutsche Nationalelf, but what we call an "Arbeitssieg" in German, we worked very had (had to work very hard) to win by one goal.

I'd love it if the end game was between Germany and the USA (as is technically possible) - the team with the German trainer would be the sure winner!

And it's about time that you guys became good at a decent, sensible, adult sport. And not just have one guy hit the air with a wooden bat while the rest of the team watches on the bench, play a ghetto sport or prance around dressed like Darth Vader. :P (See, I can elegantly offend baseball, basketball and football fans in just one sentence!)

PS: Nofi, you're losing it, the connection between soccer and DP is as overt as the one between smoke and water or high, way and star!  :mrgreen: Blackers - in his younger to middle age days - was an excellent soccer player (as a teen he successfully threw the javelin), played regularly (and well, I saw him at a game in the late 80ies, skilled goal getter with an eye for the moment), follows the German Bundesliga avidly and even met his current wife Candice at a New England rock star soccer game she was reporting about for her radio or TV station in the early nineties.


That's Ian Paice behind him btw.

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Re: USA rules Germany drools
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2014, 06:33:03 AM »
I know something about the World Cup!

Someone got bitten.

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Re: USA rules Germany drools
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2014, 07:31:22 AM »
Those are some stout looking football legs Blackmore's got there. I'm guessing he's not that tall. Probably can hit the ball with good force, not that it helped the typically large legged Iranians any. The Turks are another group with stalky legs yet they didn't make it to the world cup at all this year. Still hard to believe Spain, Portugal, Italy and England all didn't make the cut. My condolences to any bass players hailing from those lands on this forum.
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Re: USA rules Germany drools
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2014, 08:20:51 AM »
Blackmore and Pice probably received tactic instructions on the headsets hidden in their wigs...

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« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2014, 08:32:21 AM »
Ritchie is "medium-tall" for a Brit (have to make allowances for islanders, their bad food and their limited DNA pool) and for someone born around the end of WW II, 1,79/80 meters, his height is regularly given as 5'10 or thereabouts, rarely more, sometimes less. He can't be that short because he is not dwarfed by a Strat which tends to look large on a player. At the same time, his sleek figure and those platforms always made him seem tall on stage. But he was never as tall as Ian Gillan or David Coverdale who are both tall for seventies rock band standards.
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« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2014, 08:37:05 AM »
Blackmore and Pice probably received tactic instructions on the headsets hidden in their wigs...


 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Fact: Blackers is a bad loser. Any team he plays in on an amateur level always has "coincidentally" a few retired or almost-pro soccer players. Paice isn't a bad player either (though his bad eye sight would have ruled out any serious soccer career). Gillan runs around a lot, but hardly ever gets the ball. Lord was gentlemanly on the field or plain lazy - depends on your view of things! Roger Glover works on the field, but is no talent.
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Re: USA rules Germany drools
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2014, 09:08:28 AM »


 Perhaps if the U.K had fielded D.P in several redactions they'd have fared better in the World Cup   :rolleyes:
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Re: USA rules Germany drools
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2014, 02:16:51 PM »
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Re: USA rules Germany drools
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2014, 04:09:15 PM »
I think that's part of the reasoning behind independence, Mark... there is no UK "soccer" squad, no full-time rugby squad, but full "international" athletics...

Scotland failed to make the cut... :rolleyes:
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