Worldcup 2014

[SittingElf]

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4:00 PM against Belgistan!

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[tbellemare]

Jack,

You know the game so much better than I that it's almost silly...

I've only played with others that really didn't know how, but it was still very fun.

I can appreciate how skilled these teams are and how difficult it is...

I'd like to see USA & Oranje in the final.

We'll see, anything kan...

Tom

The US and the Netherlands would meet in the semi-final if they win their next games.

Oops! I guess not anything kan...

Tom

 

[jonathan-m]

 

[AlexThePalex]

Watching the game right now, USA vs Belgium. That right foward Yedlin is on fire, he totally owns his defender and plays impressively. Too bad USA seems to lack people in front who can finish it. I see no goalgetter mentality there. The Belgians seems to have the same lack though they do have the upperhand in general. Keeper Howard is doing a good job and keeping America in the race.  

The commenter said Yedlin is only 20, I tell you, he's going to be big.

 

[SittingElf]

0-0
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Headed into overtime!

Cummmooonnnnn USA!!! [thumbs up] [thumbs up] [thumbs up]

 

[SittingElf]

NOooooooooooooooooooo!!!! 

Belgium 1-0 in extra time right out the gate.

USA... GET IT BACK!!!​

 

[John Bates]

Brilliant job by USA, great effort and it's a shame that they didn't quite make it.

 

[jacko9]

The USA gave it their all, good showing [smile]  We'll keep getting better as the years go on and the TV audience watching was impressive!

Jack

 

[krisberden]

Well, as a Belgian Festool fan I have been reading many posts on the FOG for quite some time and I've learned a lot that a I never could have learned anywhere else.
I never thought my first post on the FOG would be about soccer, but here we are.
We, Belgium, our national soccer team, from a country the size of your smallest member-states,  just outflanked, outran and outperformed the USA national soccer team in any way you can think. It was a victory well deserved by our notional team!
Grtz,
Kris

 

[wow]

Well, as a Belgian Festool fan I have been reading many posts on the FOG for quite some time and I've learned a lot that a I never could have learned anywhere else.
I never thought my first post on the FOG would be about soccer, but here we are.
Kris

First, [welcome] to the FOG!

If soccer is what it took to get you to post, so be it. Hopefully you will also post some of your projects?

 

[SittingElf]

Sigh..... USA! USA! USA USA!USA.......   Oh well, maybe next time. [sad]

But in the meantime.....

My son Kai changes his chant!

 

[Tinker]

Well, as a Belgian Festool fan I have been reading many posts on the FOG for quite some time and I've learned a lot that a I never could have learned anywhere else.
I never thought my first post on the FOG would be about soccer, but here we are.
We, Belgium, our national soccer team, from a country the size of your smallest member-states,  just outflanked, outran and outperformed the USA national soccer team in any way you can think. It was a victory well deserved by our notional team!
Grtz,
Kris

1st  [welcome] [welcome] [welcome]

Even tho we lost, even tho we were outclassed at both end... oops!  That goalie, he, as one play by play commenter said, "... did not deserve to lose."  I think the was the finest display of goal tending I have ever seen.  16 stops and most were spectacular.  The closet any goalie in a world cup game was 9 stops.  He did allow two goals, but by that time, he had put his stamp on the game.
Tinker

 

[krisberden]

You’re right  about your goalie, Tinker, and I can imagine the US soccer team becoming a world team in not a very far future. I read somewhere that in the US 16 million kids are training in the youth soccer leagues. Belgium has about  11 million inhabitants as a country. Sooner or later this has to show up in the figures.

 

[jacko9]

You’re right  about your goalie, Tinker, and I can imagine the US soccer team becoming a world team in not a very far future. I read somewhere that in the US 16 million kids are training in the youth soccer leagues. Belgium has about  11 million inhabitants as a country. Sooner or later this has to show up in the figures.

Yes but, when they reach 12 years old most quit soccer and join the baseball, basketball or American Football leagues.

Jack

 

[Tinker]

You’re right  about your goalie, Tinker, and I can imagine the US soccer team becoming a world team in not a very far future. I read somewhere that in the US 16 million kids are training in the youth soccer leagues. Belgium has about  11 million inhabitants as a country. Sooner or later this has to show up in the figures.

Krisberden,
30 to 40 years ago, soccer suddenly became popular with kids in this country.  It sort of had something to do with a guy named Pele.  My kids started playing at age 7 and 9 and I got involved in coaching.  I knew diddely about soccer but I also did not appreciate that kids did not have all of the space to play unsupervised as I had growing up.  There were a lot of others the same as me with the same, or less, experience.  Most of us tried to keep it fun.  I coached for about ten years and probably never actually able to show any of “my kids” a thing about skills.  My favorite line from beginning to end was, “If you guys can’t play this game any better than I, you are in deep trouble.” 

We were fortunate to have a few volunteers with some skills and between all of us, a few of our kids ended up playing in colleges.  A couple ended up coaching professionally and one, who I had somehow had a hand in teaching him something, ended up playing in the Olympics and coached a couple of pro teams.  Kids today are learning from a lot of guys and girls who’s first coaches knew no more than I had known. 

Our highschool coach had grown up in Portugal.  He often told me that when kids start playing by themselves and without all the supervision they would then start showing up on a world stage.  My wife is German.  On one of our visits to her family in a small village about 30 km south of Studtgart, I recall seeing a group of six teenagers playing keepaway with a soccer ball.  They were kicking the ball around in a small area, never touching with their hands or letting the ball touch the ground.  The circle they were playing in was probably 20 to 25 feet in diameter with very well marked perimeter.  You see, they were playing in the center of a traffic rotary with heavy traffic from all four directions.  I watched in amazement as those kids were acting as if totally unaware of the traffic.  I watched for maybe ten minutes;  the ball never stopped moving.  The ball never went “out of bounds” and the boys were not only showing total control of the ball, but they were banging into each other as if out on a wide pitch. 

I am sure those six young lads were not exceptions in the skills area.  I told my friend about what I had seen.  He told me that was not exceptional in Europe.  When our kids can develpoe skills at such a level, we will become competitive with the Europeans and South Americans. 

Hey, I am waiting for the girls turn in a couple of years.  I had the most fun coaching them.  I even had the good fortune to have coached against one of the best in the world.  I “hated” her when I was coaching my girls.  She absolutely killed us. One time, we held her to one goal and thought we were absolutely great. But later on, I got to cheer her as she played in more international games (they call it “caps”) than any other girl >>> or guy

 

[cruiten]

I wonder if I will ever see The Netherlands win a World Cup in my lifetime. The best team to have never won it all...

I wonder too. I'm not betting on it.

Could this be the year???

Two more wins, just two more wins...

HUP HOLLAND HUP!!!

Cor

 

[AlexThePalex]

Well Cor, here's hoping.  [smile]

 

[jacko9]

I'd like to see the Netherlands team advance to the finals but, they need to be more creative on offense.  They waisted so much possession to the offside trap that they almost lost the game in one of the Costa Rico breakaways.

Jack

 

[Wooden Skye]

Does the German Team help with the development of Festool Drills?  They completely drilled Brazil.  

Hopefully come Sunday Festool Germany will be so happy they won the World Cup, maybe they will allow some items to become available in NA.

 

[SittingElf]

Oh well...

The end of the world as we know it. [crying]

USA - Gone
Netherlands - Gone
Nigeria - Gone
Brazil - Destroyed.

World Cup - Basically over... who cares about the remaining two?

MEH!!!! [mad]

See y'all in the next one... [unsure]