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[MischiefSC]

World Cup? What is that, tennis?

- if Americans actually liked soccer they wouldn't have made Jurgen Klinsmann their coach, after he leaves quite literally the best soccer player in US history Landon Donovan off the World Cup team, then goes on record to say the US has no chance of winning the World Cup championship this year... maybe because he hamstrung what would have been the best US national team ever fielded. Our first legit chance to make a real showing in the World Cup and he screws it over because of his own ego over coaching the best US player ever. *ever*.

I hope he catches his nut sack in his zipper so badly he needs hospitalized.

You wonder why nobody in the US cares about soccer. This is why.

[NeonKnight]

SirLANsalot, on 11 June 2014 - 10:34 PM, said:

I think we all forgot...there Canadian, it answers everything.

Yup....Canadians ROCK!

[Snowseth]

It's only Brazil v Croatia.

Brazil. 4-1.

You are welcome.

[Funkadelic Mayhem]

darkkterror, on 11 June 2014 - 10:27 PM, said:

Most of the citizens of the world? So more than 3.5 billion people watch the World Cup?

actully soccer/football is the most popular sport world wide.

http://wiki.answers....up_soccer_final

How many people worldwide watch the worldcup soccer final?

over 3.5 billion people watch soccer around the world

Edited by Funkadelic Mayhem, 11 June 2014 - 11:08 PM.

[Marmon Rzohr]

Ted Wayz, on 11 June 2014 - 10:15 PM, said:

Who the hell schedules a major playtest at the exact same time as the start of the World Cup? Really? You sell all those flags to adorn the interior of our mechs and it doesn't dawn on you what most of the citizens of the world will be doing at 2:15 PM EST on June 12th 2014?

Love to play with the new toys but unfortunately there is something bigger going on.

Is the world cup some kind of tournament ?
What's the tonnage limit ?
Are any of the big teams gonna participate ?

[Ozric]

Soccer is what 'muricans call football. You see, I'm cultured.

[627]

Funkadelic Mayhem, on 11 June 2014 - 11:01 PM, said:

actully soccer/football is the most popular sport world wide.

It is called football. Because it is played with the foot.

soccer... I don't call that other sport "carry-an-egg-over-a-green-field-ball" either.

[DaisuSaikoro Nagasawa]

While I agree the World Series is really important, one game of baseball WONT take up the whole 24 hours.


[edit]

World Cup? Is that a golf thing?

[edit]

I only kid. There's more to life than the American world view.

[Lyoto Machida]

MischiefSC, on 11 June 2014 - 10:52 PM, said:

World Cup? What is that, tennis?

- if Americans actually liked soccer they wouldn't have made Jurgen Klinsmann their coach, after he leaves quite literally the best soccer player in US history Landon Donovan off the World Cup team, then goes on record to say the US has no chance of winning the World Cup championship this year... maybe because he hamstrung what would have been the best US national team ever fielded. Our first legit chance to make a real showing in the World Cup and he screws it over because of his own ego over coaching the best US player ever. *ever*.

I hope he catches his nut sack in his zipper so badly he needs hospitalized.

You wonder why nobody in the US cares about soccer. This is why.

Yeah...that was a garbage decision. Pretty funny that he went in on Klinsmann in his first show after getting hired as an analyst for ESPN:

http://www.nydailyne...ticle-1.1825540

[Dymlos2003]

Not everyone cares about soccer/football.

[B0oN]

Imagine a football world cup under the influences of HSR ... muharrharr, delicious thoughts !

Unrelated question : what´s a TV ? Can it do what my PC can do ? No? Then I don´t need it

Eh, all of you should be grown up enough to decide where your priorities are, shouldn´t you ?
So Mechs it will be, leave soccer to itself (mostly because we can´t participate with mechs, but that´d be another train of thought)

2€cents

[MonkeyCheese]

Sigh

I will be watching and playing or just recording, but I hold zero hope for the Australian team, wrong football world cup for us to expect to get anywhere...

[Expired]

Ted Wayz, on 11 June 2014 - 10:15 PM, said:

Who the hell schedules a major playtest at the exact same time as the start of the World Cup? Really? You sell all those flags to adorn the interior of our mechs and it doesn't dawn on you what most of the citizens of the world will be doing at 2:15 PM EST on June 12th 2014?

Love to play with the new toys but unfortunately there is something bigger going on.

Well... most of the citizens of the world will be sleeping or at work at 2:15 PM EST on June 12th 2014.
I hope i dont kill your picture of earth but there are more continents besides NA and SA with even more citizens.

Edited by Expired, 12 June 2014 - 12:22 AM.

[MonkeyCheese]

Expired, on 12 June 2014 - 12:20 AM, said:

Well... most of the citizens of the world will be sleeping or at work at 2:15 PM EST on June 12th 2014.
I hope i dont kill your picture of earth but there are more continents besides NA and SA with even more citizens.

Hope this helps

[van Uber]

MischiefSC, on 11 June 2014 - 10:52 PM, said:

- if Americans actually liked soccer they wouldn't have made Jurgen Klinsmann their coach, after he leaves quite literally the best soccer player in US history Landon Donovan off the World Cup team, then goes on record to say the US has no chance of winning the World Cup championship this year...

It's called expectation management. US will have a chance of winning the cup some time in the future, but this year? If Klinsmann says no it's probably because it's not realistic. Your group is really tough by the way, you'll have to deliver some upsets to beat Portugal for second place.

And if your team is in the progress of building for the future, there is no sense in building it around a 32 year old forward/midfielder with his best days far behind him. And old merits does not guarantee a place on the pitch, if that was the case you should fall down on your knees and beg Klinsmann to suit up for you instead.

Klinsmann is good at what he does, he layed a really good foundation on the German national team for Joachim Löw to continue with. I expect him to deliver the same level of thoroughness for the US. Just wait and see, a world cup is not something you bring home just because you want to.

[Lily from animove]

nerds do not care about the world cup.

[dragnier1]

World cup? Rugby has a world cup too

I'm thinking they needed a name change over there, since when we talk about footy they think of that white oval ball they chase around the field wearing armour.

[Mordin Ashe]

Snowseth, on 11 June 2014 - 10:59 PM, said:

It's only Brazil v Croatia.

Brazil. 4-1.

You are welcome.

Just how the hell is Croatia supposed to score 1 goal...?

Anway, since I will be working an unexpected 13hr shift today (yaaay!), its neither football nor MWO for me today. But hey, next week ;-)

[MonkeyCheese]

dragnier1, on 12 June 2014 - 12:30 AM, said:

since when we talk about footy they think of that white oval ball they chase around the field wearing armour.

As an Australian I lol at that

[dragnier1]

MonkeyCheese, on 12 June 2014 - 12:26 AM, said:

Hope this helps

I thought SA would have a lot of people in it too...plus turkey has 2 of the 10 most populated cities in the world...