Now, let's talk some SOCCER!

Knee injury will keep Edmilson out of World Cup

Brazilian midfielder Edmilson has been ruled out of his country's defence of its World Cup title because of a knee injury.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060601.SOCCERNOTES01-2/TPStory/Sports



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One down, 10 to go...!

 

Interesting friendly tonight

FULL TIME: ​

Netherlands 2 vs 1 Mexico​

Si si...Quite dangerous at first...but we drowned the caterpillar after all -TEQUILA!


20' Jared Borgetti 0-1
54' Johnny Heitinga 1-1
56' Ryan Babel 2-1

In the first half we saw a completely different Oranje line-up than last Saturday against Cameroon: Marco van Basten is giving his 2nd choice a chance, resulting in an awaited 0-1 at halftime.
But now we're putting things back in order again ...

~to be continued~

 

Chelsea sign Shevchenko

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/new...RTRIDST_0_SPORT-SOCCER-SHEVCHENKO-LAMPARD.XML

 

Ah what was that song again? Remind me...

[MOVE]"It's all 'bout the money; and I don't think it's funny...." [/MOVE]

 

Money talks, bullshit walks.... always has, always will.


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Young guys (under 21):

France-Holland 2-3

Which means Holland is in the final at sunday

 

[MOVE]WIN AGAIN -Tequila please ! [/MOVE]



See my above post: scoreboard

 

A little blurb from the local newspaper,

That many fans just to see a practice? Is this normal?

The Germans are definitely psyched.



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here go

 

LoL,

yeah, i can't speak for all of Canada but here in Toronto, being so diverse, all the talk is Football. And this is in a country that all but once, never gets a sniff at this tournament....

Even where i work, the Ghanians are talking up the Italians already over their "soon to be" first game in the tournament. They are very confident, even though never qualifying for WC ever in the past.


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Coming sunday the European soccer final will be played in Bessa between Oekraine and Netherlands.
These are all players younger than 21 years.

Well we have a final anyway then

 

And for the worldcup in Germany some other news from the Ukraine.


If Ukraine's players want any, um, quality time with their wives and girlfriends during the World Cup, they better play awfully well.

 

Prince Willy pumps up the English squad,

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...6/01/bc.sport.soccer.world.england.prince.ap/

England players were impressed with William, as he preferred to be called, with midfielder Joe Cole saying he was "very relaxed, a nice geezer" and "very down to earth."

Ahhh..... nothing like a visit with the future King.



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In that case, my sincere advice to you Edsky-please:

Take a BANDAID, change your UNDERWEAR for once, and STOP SNIFFIN!! (hanky?)

 

24 year old student Edwige Madze Badakou from Togo will be the Miss World Cup during the tournement in Germany.

 

Nice extension for FireFox (Thanks to Slammer who gave me that link)

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/725/

Works also for the Worl Cup ofcourse

 

The anthem has also been unveiled,

http://www.itv.com/news/entertainment_192513.html

The Time of Our Lives will be performed at the opening ceremony on June 9 and again at the final in Germany on July 9.



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THAT will be the reason for my wife to at least see the opening ceremony. She went last april to a concert of Il Divo in Rotterdam, she likes those guys

Gerard

 

LoL,

I'll be watching for Toni Braxton.



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Special for Snowbound:

If you are visiting your mother-in-law, suffering a cable crisis or your girlfriend has stolen the remote this section offers you soccer salvation!

 

Thanks Gerard, i'll keep those options open in case the problems u listed, arise(or any others).

I think peoples of all nations are represented in this city. I already see a vast aray of flags flying proudly on a lot of cars here.

For some reason i'm seeing a lot of Orange lately.



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Orange?? Geez...I wonder who that could be for? Oh...but...I didn't realise that Syracuse qualified! Go figure!!

Time to start getting serious folks...Fri 9 Jun...Germany vs Costa Rica!

I'm ready, big ed

 

Lol,

Some funny readin here,

http://torontosun.com/Sports/OtherSports/2006/06/04/1614046-sun.html

A couple of quotes from the page,

Three elderly soccer fans are saying a prayer for their teams. The first one asks, "Oh Lord, when will Germany next win the World Cup?"

God replies, "In the next five years."

"But I'll be dead by then," says the man.

The second asks, "When will America win a World Cup?"

The Good Lord answers, "In the next ten years."

"I'll be dead by then," says the man, sadly.

The third one asks, "Oh Lord, when will England next win the World Cup?"

The Good Lord answers: "I'll be dead by then."

Nothing like a little giggle to kick off the World Cup. We're going to need it. Guaranteed.



England has injury problems but none that compare in novelty with Spanish goalkeeper Santiago Canizares, who in the last World Cup, dropped a bottle of aftershave on his foot and damaged a tendon. Only in a sport where grown men kissing and rolling about in the grass is encouraged, can a guy get sidelined for using a scent that is too heavy.



Finally, we have the office pool. The one I'm looking at consists of three pages of rules and instructions. Fidel Castro makes shorter speeches than this. Look. We're Canadian. Tunisia's Ali Boumnijel is the tournament's oldest player at 40 and England's Theo Walcott, at 17, is the youngest but most of us wouldn't know a Romario from a Romeo. I've got better odds at Lotto 6/49 than picking a winner in this thing. But, back in the gene pool there's a dash of Danish and some William of Orange so my team is Nederland. Don't know why. It just is.

Oops! Gotta run. Dinner's on. Pickled herring on Delft blue plates. Yummy ... and pass the gouda.

See ya'll on Yonge Street. I'll be the doofus doing the wooden shoe dance with a Dutch flag wrapped around my head.

It makes sense. But you've got to be Canadian, and a soccer fan, to understand why it makes sense.



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