World Cup 2018 Knock Out Rounds

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degenerasian wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 9:44 am Modric must win the Ballon D'or this year right? Break the string of Ronaldo and Messi, they have won since 2008. In fact they have been 1st and 2nd since 2008 other than Iniesta finishing 2nd in 2010.

Trivia: who won the World Footballer of the Year (now Ballon D'Or) in 2007?
you get 10 guesses.
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degenerasian wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 9:44 am Modric must win the Ballon D'or this year right? Break the string of Ronaldo and Messi, they have won since 2008. In fact they have been 1st and 2nd since 2008 other than Iniesta finishing 2nd in 2010.

Trivia: who won the World Footballer of the Year (now Ballon D'Or) in 2007?
you get 10 guesses.
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Messi wins it this/next year.
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degenerasian wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 9:44 am Modric must win the Ballon D'or this year right? Break the string of Ronaldo and Messi, they have won since 2008. In fact they have been 1st and 2nd since 2008 other than Iniesta finishing 2nd in 2010.

Trivia: who won the World Footballer of the Year (now Ballon D'Or) in 2007?
you get 10 guesses.
The World Footballer of the Year goes back before 2007....The award was won by Best, Charlton, Yashin, Eusébio, Mueller, Cruff, Beckenbauer, Kevin Keegan (one of my favorite old highlight tapes has great commentary on him)...but the first one...well that is a special one for the swamp.
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 1:58 pm
degenerasian wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 9:44 am Modric must win the Ballon D'or this year right? Break the string of Ronaldo and Messi, they have won since 2008. In fact they have been 1st and 2nd since 2008 other than Iniesta finishing 2nd in 2010.

Trivia: who won the World Footballer of the Year (now Ballon D'Or) in 2007?
you get 10 guesses.
The World Footballer of the Year goes back before 2007....The award was won by Best, Charlton, Yashin, Eusébio, Mueller, Cruff, Beckenbauer, Kevin Keegan (one of my favorite old highlight tapes has great commentary on him)...but the first one...well that is a special one for the swamp.
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Anyone want to a soccer swampcast where i just ask dumb neophyte questions?
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Ryan wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 2:59 pm Anyone want to a soccer swampcast where i just ask dumb neophyte questions?
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This would be good. Ryan asks a question and then a dozen guys trip over each other to answer it.
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Nobody invite Neymar.
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govmentchedda wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 3:09 pm Nobody invite Neymar.
I get this!
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I like the idea.
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degenerasian wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 9:44 am Modric must win the Ballon D'or this year right? Break the string of Ronaldo and Messi, they have won since 2008. In fact they have been 1st and 2nd since 2008 other than Iniesta finishing 2nd in 2010.
I've been a fan of Modric's play if not his weaselly move to get out of London) since his days with Spurs.

he is a truly great player.

But he clearly was not the best player on Real Madrid last season.

DeBruyne a better choice if you are looking beyond the traditional Messi/Ronaldo battle.
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Pruitt wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 3:48 pm
degenerasian wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 9:44 am Modric must win the Ballon D'or this year right? Break the string of Ronaldo and Messi, they have won since 2008. In fact they have been 1st and 2nd since 2008 other than Iniesta finishing 2nd in 2010.
I've been a fan of Modric's play if not his weaselly move to get out of London) since his days with Spurs.

he is a truly great player.

But he clearly was not the best player on Real Madrid last season.

DeBruyne a better choice if you are looking beyond the traditional Messi/Ronaldo battle.
Nobody really stands out so far this year. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a calendar year award, right?) Ronaldo "led" Madrid to a 3rd consecutive CL title, but did fuck all for the first half of the La Liga season (coincidentally, the end of 2017) so maybe it'll be him again. Messi was the driving force behind Barcelona's La Liga title with oodles of goals, but they crapped out in what the QF of the CL? Modric is very good, but I'd be very surprised if he won, even if Hrvatska pull off the upset on Sunday. Those might be your finalists though. Maybe DeBruyne, Salah,

I can't think of anyone with a better resume from France, Croatia, Madrid, or Liverpool, or anyone who lit it up for a non-finalist team.
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I completely ignored Modric's play in the World Cup.

Yeah, they win, he could get the trophy.
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So England finish out 3-1-3 with two losses to Roberto Martinez.
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Looks like the "team that suffers a soul-crushing loss in the semifinals loses the third-place game" rule holds.
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Beautiful equalizer from Croatia.
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A_B wrote: Sun Jul 15, 2018 10:29 am Beautiful equalizer from Croatia.
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That penalty was the correct call, but damn, that was soft.
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Sabo wrote: Sun Jul 15, 2018 10:38 am That penalty was the correct call, but damn, that was soft.
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All hand violations are soft.
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This is one of only two possible bad results.
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Where's Ovechkin?
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The better team won the game. Croatia was done after the 3rd goal.

Classic moment in the deluge after the game when some massive henchman was holding an umbrella over Putin while Macron and the Croatian Prime Minister were getting soaked.
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That was a fun World Cup. In my opinion, the three best teams were France, Belgium and Brazil and it was interesting how Roberto Martinez came up with a really good game plan to beat Brazil but then got outmaneuvered by Deschamps in the semis. I also really enjoyed Croatia's style of play. They always seemed willing to press the action and their presence in the Final made it a much more enjoyable game than if someone like Spain, Russia or England came through that side of the bracket.
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