World Cup 2022 LIVE thread (43 Viewers)

[swag]

Yeah, it wasn't rigged

Insufferable GOAT-f**kers.

I do blame Millennials for this crap. Muhammad Ali uses the term in an individual sport. Then when LL Cool J album later, and now every team sport is being reduced to GOAT conversations.

Shut up and honor teammates.

 

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[ALC]

Why would you blame millenials? Ali wasn’t one and neither are the sportheads that spend entire hours on talkshows arguing about it. If anything, in the US, I see boomers argue about sports a lot more than I see millennials

 

[Seven]

Why would you blame millenials? Ali wasn’t one and neither are the sportheads that spend entire hours on talkshows arguing about it. If anything, in the US, I see boomers argue about sports a lot more than I see millennials

I have tried to slowly remove myself from this debate if it comes up. I will just stay quiet or talk about something else. It's boring and I find it nonsensical. But rather than pointing this out I have noticed simply ignoring the debate altogether works much better.

 

[Bjerknes]

Everybody loves a nice pile on

Both true taken literally and figuratively. Argentina was even more advanced up the pitch than the Frenchies.

 

[.zero]

Insufferable GOAT-f**kers.

I do blame Millennials for this crap. Muhammad Ali uses the term in an individual sport. Then when LL Cool J album later, and now every team sport is being reduced to GOAT conversations.

Shut up and honor teammates.

You know who the real GOAT is?

God

 

[Seven]

You know who the real GOAT is?

God

Is he though? I get the feeling he's slacking off.

 

[Strickland]

It is and it isn't advanced. How many players who still play in Brazil or Argentina even make their national teams? The vast majority plays in Europe. That in itself says a lot. And then there's only Uruguay that has some real pedigree apart from those two. I mean I like Colombia and Chile, but they're quarter final teams at best. In Europe you probably have 8 or 9 teams that could make it to the semis any given tournament.

All that being said, I don't really understand why we even have this debate and I'm very glad that this time European team A or European team B didn't win.

Thats reducing advanced to pays better which leads to a better competition.

How many of the players who play for Argentina and Brazil are not youth products of argentinian and brazilian football academies? They do make some advanced footballers there. They just choose to move on to the better paid and more competitive European leagues.

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

You know who the real GOAT is?

God

Y'all mind if I praise the Lord? Drop that new Kirk Franklin.

 

[.zero]

Y'all mind if I praise the Lord? Drop that new Kirk Franklin.

Love Kirk Franklin

God's Property was a proper gang

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In other news

World Cup winner Papu Gomez is covered in painful SUNBURN after his team's open top tour bus parade

 

[Enron]

Why would you blame millenials? Ali wasn’t one and neither are the sportheads that spend entire hours on talkshows arguing about it. If anything, in the US, I see boomers argue about sports a lot more than I see millennials

boomers ruin everything they touch

 

[Dino_mk]

By pure numbers, the fool shouldn't even get the trophy to jerk with it around.

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

he wasn't really right at any point, the argument you make on what dictates WC winners makes a lot more sense than footie not being advanced in South America lol.

WTF. How can you possibly argue that Europe hasn’t been superior to South American in international football over the past 20 years?

 

[CrimsonianKing]

You know who the real GOAT is?

 

[swag]

Why would you blame millenials? Ali wasn’t one and neither are the sportheads that spend entire hours on talkshows arguing about it. If anything, in the US, I see boomers argue about sports a lot more than I see millennials

Ali called himself the Greatest Of All Time in the 1960s. There was plenty of exposure back in boomer days or Gen X.

But all this GOAT crap really didn't go haywire until after 2000 ... which is the era of millennials by named definition. Michael Jordan, LeBron, Messi, blah blah blah. None of them individual sport stars, mind you. Teams somehow don't matter in this calculus of stupid.

I don't know anybody over the age of 40 who voluntarily uses the term "GOAT" unless triggered to do so by someone in their 20s or 30s.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Think I'ma go to the 2026 WC. Murica, you ready?

 

[IliveForJuve]

Let me just say that there are only 12 countries in South America and that's if you count Suriname and Guyana who are not even part of Conmebol. SA's population is 439 million.

On the other hand, Europe has 44 countries and UEFA has 55 members. Europe's population is 748 million and that's not counting the additional 11 members of UEFA.

Suk my dik yurocuks

 

[campionesidd]

By pure numbers, the fool shouldn't even get the trophy to jerk with it around.

FIFA awards are a popularity contest.

 

[CrimsonianKing]

Let me just say that there are only 12 countries in South America and that's if you count Suriname and Guyana who are not even part of Conmebol. SA's population is 439 million.

On the other hand, Europe has 44 countries and UEFA has 55 members. Europe's population is 748 million and that's not counting the additional 11 members of UEFA.

Suk my dik yurocuks

Technically only 3 at least when it comes to World Cup relevance. Colombia and Chile had some good generations and so does Uruguay had their one title in the 50s but really SA is Brazil and Argentina.

 

[Xperd]

Brazil's decline is the only reason Europe has gained ground on South America and been dominant over the past 10-15 years.

From 1986-2002, you had atleast one South American nation contesting a WC final.

Overall, out of 22 Fifa World Cup editions, atleast one South American team has made it to the final in 13 out of those 22 editions.

 

[Strickland]

WTF. How can you possibly argue that Europe hasn’t been superior to South American in international football over the past 20 years?

Not arguing that, just saying Mbappe was wrong.