[WC] World Cup 2010 - General Talk Thread (21 Viewers)

[swag]

Remember the WC 2006 final? Of course you do. You also remember the 8 Juve players playing in that same final. 8 players. That's like the entire team playing.

We Juventini always take pride from that fact and we rarely miss a chance to repeat it as a proof how strong that team was. And it was.
Yes, you can't really claim being the best of the best because you have 8 players in a WC final, but boy does it say that it was a strong team.

Now almost 4 years after that final we're in the knock-out stage of the 2010 world cup. 16 teams, 368 players.
You know how many of them play for Juve?
One- Felipe Melo.

Or lets make it 1 and a half because we still own Tiago but we know that he's as good as gone, while Caceres isn't our player anymore. Our best players Diego and Del Piero weren't at the world cup. Our Azzurri stars and "stars" were humiliated and they're somewhere in Rome now. Our expensive transfers, Amauri and co., home too.

Now, one can say that Juve were badly coached, had injury problems and invent many more excuses, but the fact is only 1 out of the 368 players remained in S. Africa is a Juve player. If the 8 juventini in 2006 were telling how good we were, the single Juventino in 2010 is screaming how bad we are.

Inter have 7 players remaining. Expected. They are the best in Italy. Roma have 4. Milan have 4 too even though only T. Silva is there from their starting XI.
Udinese, yes Udinese has 3. Napoli has 2. Andujar and Morimoto give 2 to Catania. Yup, Catania has more players at the WC than Juve,

Juve have 1.
You know who else has one player remained in South Africa? Cesena has. Atalanta has one player too and so does Reggina.

Thanks God for that 0.5 Tiago gives us, so we can take pride in having more players at the WC than Cesena and Reggina do.

Looking forward to 2014.

Good post.

 

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[giovanotti]

Remember the WC 2006 final? Of course you do. You also remember the 8 Juve players playing in that same final. 8 players. That's like the entire team playing.

We Juventini always take pride from that fact and we rarely miss a chance to repeat it as a proof how strong that team was. And it was.
Yes, you can't really claim being the best of the best because you have 8 players in a WC final, but boy does it say that it was a strong team.

Now almost 4 years after that final we're in the knock-out stage of the 2010 world cup. 16 teams, 368 players.
You know how many of them play for Juve?
One- Felipe Melo.

Or lets make it 1 and a half because we still own Tiago but we know that he's as good as gone, while Caceres isn't our player anymore. Our best players Diego and Del Piero weren't at the world cup. Our Azzurri stars and "stars" were humiliated and they're somewhere in Rome now. Our expensive transfers, Amauri and co., home too.

Now, one can say that Juve were badly coached, had injury problems and invent many more excuses, but the fact is only 1 out of the 368 players remained in S. Africa is a Juve player. If the 8 juventini in 2006 were telling how good we were, the single Juventino in 2010 is screaming how bad we are.

Inter have 7 players remaining. Expected. They are the best in Italy. Roma have 4. Milan have 4 too even though only T. Silva is there from their starting XI.
Udinese, yes Udinese has 3. Napoli has 2. Andujar and Morimoto give 2 to Catania. Yup, Catania has more players at the WC than Juve,

Juve have 1.
You know who else has one player remained in South Africa? Cesena has. Atalanta has one player too and so does Reggina.

Thanks God for that 0.5 Tiago gives us, so we can take pride in having more players at the WC than Cesena and Reggina do.

Looking forward to 2014.

Nice review, Alen. But just one thing to add here , that doesn't mean a lot because 2002 in 1/4 final of the WC we didn't have a single player representing us but we still managed to be in the final of 02/03 CL competition having an awesome team.

 

[Rabbit]

Some coca-cola dude gave me a mini vuvuzela and 2 nigeria flag tattoos (that will come out after a wash).. The vuvuzela broke after 5 minutes ...

Lmao

 

[Delle Alpi]

........

I know it was all good and cozy back in 2006 to have those 8 players in the WC final and the strength of the team was based on the results with Juve in Serie A and not in the WC, the presence of the players in the late stages of the WC has no meaning at all. A great player could be playing for a strong team or bad team and his presense might not be a factor. This whole we have more players in the WC thing is just overrated. I would die to have players such as Jovetic, Pato, Vucinic, Zlatan, Dzeko, Giggs in his prime, and etc. I wouldn't mind having Evra, Ribery, Vidic, Kolarov, D. Rossi, and etc. Playing in the NT is different than playing club football.

 

[K.O.]

Remember the WC 2006 final? Of course you do. You also remember the 8 Juve players playing in that same final. 8 players. That's like the entire team playing.

We Juventini always take pride from that fact and we rarely miss a chance to repeat it as a proof how strong that team was. And it was.
Yes, you can't really claim being the best of the best because you have 8 players in a WC final, but boy does it say that it was a strong team.

Now almost 4 years after that final we're in the knock-out stage of the 2010 world cup. 16 teams, 368 players.
You know how many of them play for Juve?
One- Felipe Melo.

Or lets make it 1 and a half because we still own Tiago but we know that he's as good as gone, while Caceres isn't our player anymore. Our best players Diego and Del Piero weren't at the world cup. Our Azzurri stars and "stars" were humiliated and they're somewhere in Rome now. Our expensive transfers, Amauri and co., home too.

Now, one can say that Juve were badly coached, had injury problems and invent many more excuses, but the fact is only 1 out of the 368 players remained in S. Africa is a Juve player. If the 8 juventini in 2006 were telling how good we were, the single Juventino in 2010 is screaming how bad we are.

Inter have 7 players remaining. Expected. They are the best in Italy. Roma have 4. Milan have 4 too even though only T. Silva is there from their starting XI.
Udinese, yes Udinese has 3. Napoli has 2. Andujar and Morimoto give 2 to Catania. Yup, Catania has more players at the WC than Juve,

Juve have 1.
You know who else has one player remained in South Africa? Cesena has. Atalanta has one player too and so does Reggina.

Thanks God for that 0.5 Tiago gives us, so we can take pride in having more players at the WC than Cesena and Reggina do.

Looking forward to 2014.

Sad. Very sad :depressed

 

[giovanotti]

I know it was all good and cozy back in 2006 to have those 8 players in the WC final and the strength of the team was based on the results with Juve in Serie A and not in the WC, the presence of the players in the late stages of the WC has no meaning at all. A great player could be playing for a strong team or bad team and his presense might not be a factor. This whole we have more players in the WC thing is just overrated. I would die to have players such as Jovetic, Pato, Vucinic, Zlatan, Dzeko, Giggs in his prime, and etc. I wouldn't mind having Evra, Ribery, Vidic, Kolarov, D. Rossi, and etc. Playing in the NT is different than playing club football.

 

[The Curr]

In this World Cup, there were six shots on Italy's goal.

They conceded from 5 of them.

 

[giovanotti]

In this World Cup, there were six shots on Italy's goal.

They conceded from 5 of them.

Is this true?

 

[The Curr]

Apparently.

 

[giovanotti]

Shots on target from game to game (results)

Italy-Paraguay 5-1 (1-1)
Italy-New Zealand 7-1 (1-1)
Slovakia-Italy 4-6 (3-2)
---------------------------
Opponents-Italy 6-18 (5-4)

You were right Adrien , 6 shots on target and 5 goals.

 

[The Curr]

It's Adrian.

 

[The Curr]

Rigobert Song claims to be 33 years old?

 

[giovanotti]

It's Adrian.

sorry mate.

 

[Rabbit]

He played in 4 world cups didn't he?

 

[The Curr]

He played in 4 world cups didn't he?

Yep. So far...

 

[Dragon]

In this World Cup, there were six shots on Italy's goal.

They conceded from 5 of them.

They had more shots on goal than Holland, Uruguay and Paraguay which finished 1st in their groups!

 

[Bjerknes]

I thought Honduras would draw the Swiss.

Good job by them.

 

[Fred]

So far so good.

England are going out against Germany. Tomorrows game between Brazil and Portugal will end in a draw. Spain will beat Chile. Spain will then beat Portugal in the second round. They'll play Argentina in the semi's and choke. Brazil will beat Chile in the second round, beat Holland in the quarters, then proceed to beat Uruguay in the semi's. The final will be between Brazil and Argentina. Messi and co will choke it out against the Brazilians as usual.

Brazil will be the victors.

You think Switzerland won't beat Honduras and this is where the rest of your story too fails

They won't beat Honduras.

 

[JBF]

Their GK won it for them.

 

[JCK]

Nice review, Alen. But just one thing to add here , that doesn't mean a lot because 2002 in 1/4 final of the WC we didn't have a single player representing us but we still managed to be in the final of 02/03 CL competition having an awesome team.

You do know that the CL 02/03 was AFTER the World Cup 2002, right?