Amateur: world cup is upon us peasants.

[Mitch]

I'm good homie. It's been a of a run

Thoughts on Mexico's election, hombre?

[LkrFan]

Thoughts on Mexico's election, hombre?

Estoy preocupado. Creo que podría haber habido interferencias rusas para ser honesto!

[Mitch]

Estoy preocupado. Creo que podría haber habido interferencias rusas para ser honesto!

Quit using Google translate, pendejo

[LkrFan]

Quit using Google translate, pendejo

What you talking about son?

[Mitch]

What you talking about son?

i know enough frijolero to spot translated text, tbh

[LkrFan]

i know enough frijolero to spot translated text, tbh

Whatever negrito

[Mitch]

Whatever negrito

yo soy gringo, cabron

[LkrFan]

yo soy gringo, cabron

[webshad]

The previous World Cup in Brazil was garbage.

This World Cup is totally awesome. I usually don't watch soccer that much, but I am watching these World Cup games more and more, very exciting. Anything can happen, no such thing as an underdog anymore in this World Cup, loving it.

I think this upcoming NBA season is ruined, will probably try some club soccer.

[apalisoc_9]

The previous World Cup in Brazil was garbage.

This World Cup is totally awesome. I usually don't watch soccer that much, but I am watching these World Cup games more and more, very exciting. Anything can happen, no such thing as an underdog anymore in this World Cup, loving it.

I think this upcoming NBA season is ruined, will probably try some club soccer.

Lol if you hate NBA stay away from LA-Liga

Watch The continental cups. The games are super intense jist like the WC. Players fighting for their lives.

- AFC is in 2019 and the quarter finals is when the big boys play each other

- African Cup of nations should be fun from the group stages also in 2019

- Euros in 2020

- copa america in 2019

[Mitch]

Fitting the le is "us peasants" instead of "us, peasants", tbh

That's what soccer mostly is, peasants kicking a ball around

[Killakobe81]

The previous World Cup in Brazil was garbage.

This World Cup is totally awesome. I usually don't watch soccer that much, but I am watching these World Cup games more and more, very exciting. Anything can happen, no such thing as an underdog anymore in this World Cup, loving it.

I think this upcoming NBA season is ruined, will probably try some club soccer.

Another amazing pair of games today and the semifinals should be high quality too.

[HarlemHeat37]

Croatia reaches the final 4 with 2 straight penalty shootout wins

midnightpulp

[lefty20]

Deciding important games with PKs cuz endurance athletes refusing to endure more than 1 OT session. ing pussies need to keep playing till someone scores(PO Hockey) or someone dies.

[Caltex2]

I'd be more in favor of every player, including bench players, getting in for a sudden death than penalty kicks. Too easy, too amateur.

[dfens]

Deciding important games with PKs cuz endurance athletes refusing to endure more than 1 OT session. ing pussies need to keep playing till someone scores(PO Hockey) or someone dies.

at least they're contested, unlike freethrows.

also lol @nba a one team collusion based compe ion even touching the stories or the interest of the world cup. An NBA season is a meaningless blip compared to a world cup tbh. Especially in a one-team league, with collusion, no parity, mvps living on freethrows without even proper offensive game, in a bas ized version of the game aimed at maximizing 3p shots to make the game more appealing to casual fans etc.

Today Russia-Croatia had more drama than the entire NBA playoffs since '16. Real, live, edge of the seat, frenetic, players falling onto the pitch in exhaustion. No flops, no dirty fouls, no cheap shots, no freebies, no ing at the ref, no calls because "star players", no commercial during the game, no pointless breaks, life-or-death 120 minutes of desperate defense, all players gave close to their ing last breath in an absolute classic display of sport. Not one is even a contender. In sport bringing together more than half this planet.

y'all merrycans can keep living in that tariffed bubble tbh, in your uneducated mindless dogwhistled bipartisan society straight out of a ing dystopia.

[dfens]

I'd be more in favor of every player, including bench players, getting in for a sudden death than penalty kicks. Too easy, too amateur.

lol son, everybody loves penaldos, it's do or die, not that pussy merican way of "it has to be fair ". It also adds to the strategical depth of the game as the purpose isn't necessarily winning on the pitch in 120 mins ... a concept which afaik is alien and impossible to understand to the simplistic merican society.

[Caltex2]

I didn't watch the game but I have a hard time believing that there were no flops at all.

[Caltex2]

lol son, everybody loves penaldos, it's do or die, not that pussy merican way of "it has to be fair ". It also adds to the strategical depth of the game as the purpose isn't necessarily winning on the pitch in 120 mins ... a concept which afaik is alien and impossible to understand to the simplistic merican society.

You go to penalty kicks because scoring is so rare, you have no other choice unless you want the game to end two-five hours later or for someone to die of heat stroke.

And yeah, no one ever plans to go into OT in any other sport. Football coaches don't plan their final minutes around settling for a tie and basketball coaches don't strategize to settle for the last shot or overtime when ahead or behind. And why would you want to go to OT and the final tiebreaker? People have lives and players need energy.

[lefty20]

defending PKs like they are not absolute ing luck . Might as well declare the game in favor of the team that wins the OT coin toss, cuz ppl have lives and you don't want the players to get a heat stroke.

[dfens]

defending PKs like they are not absolute ing luck . Might as well declare the game in favor of the team that wins the OT coin toss, cuz ppl have lives and you don't want the players to get a heat stroke.

there an emotional component attached to the PKs tbh .. it's not luck, it's lack of preparation and amazing keeping that makes the difference. It might look like luck to you casual fans I guess.
Teams LOSE at penalties, they don't win .. point is the better prepared team wins.

[Killakobe81]

defending PKs like they are not absolute ing luck . Might as well declare the game in favor of the team that wins the OT coin toss, cuz ppl have lives and you don't want the players to get a heat stroke.

PKs look easy but like FTs in the NBA Finals ( o Nick Anderson and George Hill), but pressure and field conditions make them a challenge even for the world's best... And sometimes the goalie guesses correctly and stops the shot.
I agree not the best choice to end a match of that magnitude but they are given 30 extra minds beforehand to try and avoid it.
is exciting none the less
The goal for the US is to make a similar run like Russia did this Cup as host team underdogs was impressive.
US has no excuses.

[apalisoc_9]

there an emotional component attached to the PKs tbh .. it's not luck, it's lack of preparation and amazing keeping that makes the difference. It might look like luck to you casual fans I guess.
Teams LOSE at penalties, they don't win .. point is the better prepared team wins.

Son, stop it these fatsos like anything slow and one fat people can play. No obese allowed in football tbh

[midnightpulp]

Croatia reaches the final 4 with 2 straight penalty shootout wins

midnightpulp

Ridiculous. Another team I like seeing losing is England, and those ers advanced against Colombia without even properly putting the ball into the net . First goal was a Kane PK and then they advanced after they won at Mario Party. The poorly designed "sport" of soccer can easily fix this by allowing larger rosters and unlimited subs (the excuses I've heard about why soccer doesn't allow unlimited subs are poor), which would allow for indefinite overtime, like in ice hockey

And at all these povertypenalty fans defending PKs. Shootouts were introduced in the 50s or 60s to make the sport more "fan friendly." They were never historically a part of the game, and teams would play until there was a winner, continuing the next day if possible. It's a jackass way to decide important matches. It's a ing minigame that barely resembles the main game and based on more luck than skill. The team who goes first (decided by a coinflip ) wins 61% of the time. So win the lucky coinflip and the odds are in your favor.

Soccer fans will continue to defend it because they're "exciting," and if conversing with Divekick fans on here has taught me anything, is that they value shallow entertainment above all else.

[Caltex2]

Or they can just widen the net. One thing I'll say is that soccer is not the only one using archaic rules. Basketball hasn't adapted to the post-shot clock era. All sports have outdated rules really but some, such as hockey, adapt. Soccer likely won't because its popularity will likely remain the same.