US SOCCER

[GannonFan]

"Brazil Fans Start Obscene Chant Toward Female President During World Cup Loss

During the 7-1 loss in the World Cup semifinals against Germany, Brazil soccer fans became so outraged with the score that they began chanting “Ei, Dilma, vai tomar no cu,” which translates to: “Hey, Dilma, go f*** yourself in the a**!”

Brazilian fans are angry with President Dilma Rousseff, for allowing the government to spend more than $11 billion dollars to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fans began chanting around the 40th minute of the match that became the worst defeat since Brazil’s 1950 World Cup loss to Uruguay.

Those protesting against Rousseff believe that the money invested to host the World Cup could have been put to better use by building up schools and hospitals or helping poor neighborhoods like Cidade de Deus.

News America Now reported that police fired tear gas to break up hundreds of protesters outside Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium and that buses were set on fire. Stores were also looted in Sao Paulo.
Angry fans even set fire publicly burning the flag of Brazil in the streets............"

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I bet those same ppl were cheering when they found out Brazil was going to be the host!!!!

Well, of course some were, but many were also probably people protesting like crazy last year at the Confederations Cup after it became apparent that the government was burning through tons of money and the payback to the country was going to be minimal. No reason at all for the 12 venues, that was waste in and of itself - FIFA only requires 8 venues.

[dal4018]

I bet those same ppl were cheering when they found out Brazil was going to be the host!!!!

Well, of course some were, but many were also probably people protesting like crazy last year at the Confederations Cup after it became apparent that the government was burning through tons of money and the payback to the country was going to be minimal. No reason at all for the 12 venues, that was waste in and of itself - FIFA only requires 8 venues.

They were protesting because of the obvious if they were on the other side of this historic beatdown these protest would not be heard.

[clenz]

Well, of course some were, but many were also probably people protesting like crazy last year at the Confederations Cup after it became apparent that the government was burning through tons of money and the payback to the country was going to be minimal. No reason at all for the 12 venues, that was waste in and of itself - FIFA only requires 8 venues.

They were protesting because of the obvious if they were on the other side of this historic beatdown these protest would not be heard.

False.

There would still be protests.

[GannonFan]

Well, of course some were, but many were also probably people protesting like crazy last year at the Confederations Cup after it became apparent that the government was burning through tons of money and the payback to the country was going to be minimal. No reason at all for the 12 venues, that was waste in and of itself - FIFA only requires 8 venues.

They were protesting because of the obvious if they were on the other side of this historic beatdown these protest would not be heard.

Huh? These protests were happening a year ago, well before last night's game. Do you read the news? Ever?

[dal4018]

They were protesting because of the obvious if they were on the other side of this historic beatdown these protest would not be heard.

Huh? These protests were happening a year ago, well before last night's game. Do you read the news? Ever?

Okay thanks these protest are legit obviously they have fallen on death ears.Argentina is tied 0-0 with The Netherlands.

[93henfan]

Pulling for North Carolina over Clemson.

[93henfan]

TARHEELS WIN!!!

[Grizalltheway]

Nazis vs gauchos for all the marbles. Let's go Nazis!

[clenz]

Messi smiled during today's match.

What a fucking prick

[93henfan]

Messi smiled during today's match.

What a fucking prick

Hahah. Clenz can't let anything go. It's awesome.

[BlueHen86]

Huh? These protests were happening a year ago, well before last night's game. Do you read the news? Ever?

Okay thanks these protest are legit obviously they have fallen on death ears.Argentina is tied 0-0 with The Netherlands.

Death ears?

[BlueHen86]

If the game is tied after regulation they should do the penalty kicks before the two overtimes.

The winner of the penalty kicks wins the game if it's tied after the two OT''s.
If the tie is broken in the OT's then the team with the lead wins (and the penalty kicks won't matter).

This way one of the teams will have to score in the OT's. You will see more action.

[Skjellyfetti]

Interesting idea. Could just lead to the team that wins the penalty kicks parking the bus for 30 minutes, though.

[bandl]

Each team take off one player every fifteen minutes

[93henfan]

Each team take off one player every fifteen minutes

And replace them with a midget!

[bandl]

Each team take off one player every fifteen minutes

And replace them with a midget!

So much this

[BlueHen86]

Interesting idea. Could just lead to the team that wins the penalty kicks parking the bus for 30 minutes, though.

As opposed to two teams parking the bus waiting for PK's.

Also, we parked the bus against Portugal. Didn't work out so well.

[BlueHen86]

Each team take off one player every fifteen minutes

That works for me.

[Grizalltheway]

Interesting idea. Could just lead to the team that wins the penalty kicks parking the bus for 30 minutes, though.

As opposed to two teams parking the bus waiting for PK's.

Also, we parked the bus against Portugal. Didn't work out so well.

Well, no tactic is going to work out if you give the ball away as easily as Bradley did.

[YoUDeeMan]

Huh? These protests were happening a year ago, well before last night's game. Do you read the news? Ever?

Okay thanks these protest are legit obviously they have fallen on death ears.Argentina is tied 0-0 with The Netherlands.

Hey, there is a 12-step program for people like you...1st through 12th grade. You should apply now.

[grizzaholic]

Okay thanks these protest are legit obviously they have fallen on death ears.Argentina is tied 0-0 with The Netherlands.

Death ears?

[clenz]

Okay thanks these protest are legit obviously they have fallen on death ears.Argentina is tied 0-0 with The Netherlands.

Hey, there is a 12-step program for people like you...1st through 12th grade. You should apply now.

I'm not sure he'd get accepted to any

[GannonFan]

I think the biggest mistake last night was subbing out Van Persie during extra time. It meant there was no Van Persie to take the first PK (the Dutch coach said he asked two different players to take the first PK and they both declined before finally Vlaar agreed to do it - seriously, two guys turned it down? Not a lot of guts on that Dutch team), and it meant that he couldn't bring on Krul. The Dutch keeper was great all game, but he clearly is not a PK stopper. He should've blocked two of those shots, one of them being the last where he had two full hands on the ball and couldn't turn it away. And subbing out Van Persie made no sense - the game had already slowed down and both teams were starting to set up camp to get it to PK's - it didn't matter if Van Persie was tired, no one was going to threaten much anyway. On a team where you don't have a lot of great scorers anyway, you can't take out probably your best one with PK's less than 30 minutes away. Especially when it meant you had to stay with that keeper. How the coach can go from making great decisions in the Costa Rica game to just blowing it in the next game is interesting and should make his upcoming tenure at Old Trafford very interesting.

[89Hen]

No reason at all for the 12 venues, that was waste in and of itself - FIFA only requires 8 venues.

In their defense many host countries are relatively small in size and 8 is plenty. Brazil is massive both in size and population with terrible transportation from what I've read. They probably wanted to make sure enough of their own got to see games which meant bringing the games to them.

Brazil = 3.3M square miles
South Africa = 471K
Germany = 138K
SK + Japan = 182K

[bandl]

I think the biggest mistake last night was subbing out Van Persie during extra time. It meant there was no Van Persie to take the first PK (the Dutch coach said he asked two different players to take the first PK and they both declined before finally Vlaar agreed to do it - seriously, two guys turned it down? Not a lot of guts on that Dutch team), and it meant that he couldn't bring on Krul. The Dutch keeper was great all game, but he clearly is not a PK stopper. He should've blocked two of those shots, one of them being the last where he had two full hands on the ball and couldn't turn it away. And subbing out Van Persie made no sense - the game had already slowed down and both teams were starting to set up camp to get it to PK's - it didn't matter if Van Persie was tired, no one was going to threaten much anyway. On a team where you don't have a lot of great scorers anyway, you can't take out probably your best one with PK's less than 30 minutes away. Especially when it meant you had to stay with that keeper. How the coach can go from making great decisions in the Costa Rica game to just blowing it in the next game is interesting and should make his upcoming tenure at Old Trafford very interesting.

I think they were worried that Persie was going to shatter his leg if kicked another ball