by Cocacolajojo1 » Fri Jul 18, 2014 9:08 am
This tournament wasn't as bad as South Africa, I don't any tournament can ever come close to being as bad as that tournament, but it wasn't great at all.
- Sure, the group stages offered a lot of goals but the goal production declined drastically in the knock out stages
- A 5 man defense can be a fantastic thing to watch and I've argued with mates that it's probably the best way to beat a team coached by Pep, but Costa Rica or Holland... I mean... shit... boring boring boring.
- Shit defenses. No wonder the goalies got a lot of attention this tournament with no or little protection from the four-five players right in front of them
- Badly organized teams. Germany, Costa Rica, sure, they were organized but the rest.... meh.
- Argentina. Instead of making this tournament a great one, Argentina sat back and expected Messi to do everything, or rather, they expected him to do everything after they threaded the ball to him onto a surface between the midfield and defense.
- Teams playing for penalties, a la Costa Rica and Argentina
- No Sweden
- Bad refereeing because FIFA basically wanted a more dangerous World Cup to get people more excited. Next tournament all teams should have to go down a half pipe during half time.
- FIFA Cooling breaks. I mean, why did the commentators have to keep referring to it like this? Breaks, water breaks or time outs are several other terms they could have used to spice it up a little.
- FIFA not payijg around 200 million dollars in taxes to the Brazilian government
- Commentators going "Brazilians love football" 5 billion times
- Several African football federations still being as corrupt as they were 20 years ago but people still blame the players for wanting a slice (It's a very enriching thing to be in a world cup, for a football federation that is, look it up) and then reverting to racial slurs.
- Commentators focusing on Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo, Pirlo, etc, when Football is A TEAM SPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Balotelli not being as good as he was in 2012
- Commentators saying "Football is the most important thing to people in Brazil" a billion times
- Del Bosque getting his contract renewed until 2018 despite being a miserable manager
- Commentators screaming like they shat their pants whenever someone scored. Yeah, it's fun when latin american commentators do it or whatever, it's kind of their thing, but it's just annoying when you do it Chris.
- Chris Härenstam (you think you have it bad in the UK, import this fellow and enjoy)
- Did I mention that Messi and Neymar got a lot of attention from the commentators and the pundits?
- Hour long shows before and after games with no or little content except "let's analyse this goal, well it was nicely executed or badly defended, perhaps both, as is ALWAYS the case with football and did I mention that Messi is really good?"
- Jogi Löw didn't smoke during matches like in 2008
- Referees allowing people to play after getting knocked out, see my point about the half pipe
- Suarez biting himself out of the tournament and Agüero failing to score a single goal (I had both as top scorers)
- Boateng having a good world cup (I want him to fail so badly, I don''t really know why)
- You know what, go up to any Brazilian parant and ask them "would you want Brazil to win the WC and your children to go blind or your children to have perfect health and Brazil never to win the WC ever again" and I think most parents would choose the latter alternative. Could you stop going on and on about Football being the most important thing in Brazil?
- Strangely clad air stewardesses at the prize ceremony
- Sepp Blatter not getting pelted with rocks or chairs at the prize ceremony
- Bosnia going out early after a falsely disallowed goal by Dzeko
- The Ivory Coast playing as a team for like 5 minutes during the entire tournament and thereby failing to show their potential again
- Commentators referring to their mates' twitter accounts or basically any social media. Just go out and ask people instead what they think
- Fifa forcing Brazil to sell beer on their arenas despite having done away with alcohol at stadiums because of violence
- Little or no face time with the mascot in the studio
- Neymar claiming to have been nearly paralyzed by a knee in back.
- Klose not getting a golden statue for breaking the record of most goals scored in the WC
"I used to be 6 foot 2 with curly hair, look what it's done to me"
"In my career so far it's the most important goal. You score the goal in the last minute to win the title. You're not sure if that's ever going to happen in your career again. I wish I could tell you how I did it but I can't. I thought for all the world that Mario was going to have a go himself but he just moved it on one more and it fell at my feet and I just thought: 'Hit the target, hit it as hard as you can and hit the target.' And it went in."
