World Cup Thread: Get Hyped

Croatia here, last night was bullshit
Nishimura can go fuck himself

Marcelo tho

 

Hey don't be too hard on yourself at least you scored a goal. Oh... yeah Brazil put it in their own net...

Officiating in world tournaments is always bad just like in the Olympics.

 

All the games are already decided 3 weeks before the tournament starts. It's like wrestling.

 

Must be why North Korea made it to the finals once

 

Why is every thread in this forum full of elitistic retards that a: Make fun of the enthusiasm of the OP or b: Abuse the thread to "proof" why their obsession is better than the one presented...

 

Im yet to meet a person who would have a positive opinion about fifa.
Vids pretty based.

 

I hope you guys used balls guard of some sort as well.

 

I wished the selfie was the last goal instead of the first.

Would make for a fine equivalent of flipping the bird.

Not that i have anything against croatian bros, but if you have 4 goals in a match and all of them by your opponent, you are doing it wrong.

 

Im sorry for not taking the sock puppets thread seriously.


Then again, I'd like to see some examples from you, I didnt notice anything as of late bar the usual friendly shitposts.

 

Here are the highlights of Brazil-Croatia, if you missed it, the commentator seems to be from al-qaida:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONHxWB2wKuk

 

Never knew Al-Qaeda was a country

 

It was not safer, they just got different kinds of injuries.

More "internal bleeding", less "concussion".

Don't even try to argue that shit like the Flying Wedge was remotely safe. There's a reason it's now banned.

 

The flying wedge was banned before the 1900s...

There was less people dying from concussions and walking crooked once they retired from the sport is what I meant.

I've never read anything about Internal bleeding in the early professional era. Maybe a few freak accidents in collegiate levels in late 1800s? I am totally unaware about them being frequent enough to be a common problem in the early days. Does the chest protection really prevent most of the internal bleeding? I would of thought that it would of gotten worse with the size, speed and helmets of today's game.

 

Nope.

 

The style of play caused different injuries. It's not that modern padding magically stopped internal bleeding. The game changed so that just didn't happen anymore (and new injuries sprung up with the modern style).

Here's the general tone of a post-wedge football play at that time:

1. Your O line lines up against their D line.
2. You give the ball to a back and he follows roughly the middle of the O line as they attempt to push forward.
3. Everyone else gets behind the back and pushes him forward.
4. Everyone on the defense gets behind the D line and pushes them against the O line (and back).
5. Shit gets squeezed - queue internal bleeding.

Note: Yes, they could've ran around the side of the line, and it probably wouldn't've broken any rules (though rules varied tremendously), but it would've gone against the "rough & manly" "spirit" of the game at that time. ​

A concussion happens when your body is moving at a decent speed in one direction and then gets abruptly stopped while your brain keeps moving in that direction and bruises itself against the skull.

In modern football, this can happen literally every single play. You have a back that's accelerating at a pace on par with olympic sprinters until a defensive player stops him on a fucking dime (or vice versa). If his neck isn't able to take some of the deceleration (i.e. he's using his helmet as a weapon), then it all goes into the brain and a concussion occurs.

Contrast that with late 19th to early 20th century football. There's a lot of squeezing, but no one is moving very fast. The only way you can get a concussion is if you fall to the bottom of the pile and get kicked in the head or something weird. That's a legit accident and it doesn't happen often.

Fauctz: I took an elective class on pre-WWII sports in college because Murica, but this is the internet so proofs: at least 45 people died from football injuries between 1900 and 1905. The first cause listed was "internal injuries".

 

Wow, american football is actually advanced. Watching it, it just looks like people running into each other and then the ref yells "down".

 

It's like a turn based strategy game. Every down is a turn.

I find that you can't replicate that level of strategy in "ongoing" games like soccer.

 

You wont succed in making american football sound intelligent, spartacus.

 

All I know is that football playbooks are fucking massive. I've never seen a soccer playbook.