hyzer
Veteran Member
Watching some of the World Cup soccer. Two thoughts, the penalty for mugging another player is not severe enough to stop it, on the other hand, it is just severe enough to bring on acting worthy of professional wrestling.
They paid Eurocrats to get the World Cup in the first place.World Cup news... Qatar paid for people to cheer for them.
Arab money has been buoying European football for a while. Sure, there were bribes and all, but that was a drop in the bucket compared to all the financing into European football that bought this World Cup.They paid Eurocrats to get the World Cup in the first place.World Cup news... Qatar paid for people to cheer for them.
Neither the play-by-play or color announcers have much of clue on how referees are taught or act or told what to look for. Former players are the worst of all. More than half the time, they have it wrong. They have little appreciation on how a play looks from different angles or the pressures that the referees have at that level to keep the game entertaining (which means keeping as many players on the pitch as feasible).I wish the game calling could have been a bit better. I needed to look up back passing, because an Argentine defender, on his knees, kneed the ball to the keeper who covered it up. That isn't a backpass, but I don't recall it coming up at all by the announcers.
Danielle Reyna, wife of former United States men's national team captain Claudio and mother of current international player Gio, says she told U.S. Soccer sporting director Earnie Stewart about USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter's past domestic violence incident because she was frustrated by comments made about her son after the team's elimination from the 2022 World Cup. U.S. Soccer did not receive any details about the claims against Berhalter until Dec. 11, when an executive was informed in a call with Claudio and Danielle Reyna that Berhalter, 49, had a past domestic violence incident, sources told ESPN. On Tuesday, Berhalter, whose contract as U.S. coach expired Dec. 31, revealed details of the incident with his wife in a lengthy statement posted to Twitter. "During the World Cup an individual contacted U.S. Soccer, saying that they had information about me that would 'take me down' - an apparent effort to leverage something very personal from long ago to bring about the end of my relationship with U.S. Soccer," Berhalter said.