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Coincidence that France didn't participategood line
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Unbe ing leivable
S. African killed by wife, kids in TV spat
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG -- Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family in the northeastern part of the country.
David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the small village of Makweya, Limpopo province, fought with his wife and two children for the remote control on Sunday because he wanted to watch Germany play Australia in the World Cup. The others, however, wanted to watch a gospel show.
"He said, 'No, I want to watch soccer,'" police spokesman Mothemane Malefo said Thursday. "That is when the argument came about.
"In that argument, they started assaulting him."
Malefo said Makoeya got up to change the channel by hand after being refused the remote control and was attacked by his 68-year-old wife Francina and two children, 36-year-old son Collin and 23-year-old daughter Lebogang.
Malefo said he was not sure what the family used to kill Makoeya.
"It appears they banged his head against the wall," Malefo said. "They phoned the police only after he was badly injured, but by the time the police arrived the man was already dead."
All three were arrested Sunday night, but Lebogang was released on $200 bail Tuesday, Malefo said. The other two are still being held in custody.
Malefo said the mother and son will reappear in the local Seshego Magistrates Court on July 27.
"He was always a happy man, never violent," Makoeya's nieces, Miriam and Anna, told the Daily Sun newspaper. "On Saturday, we saw him the last time at a funeral."
The World Cup, being played in Africa for the first time, started Friday and runs through July 11.
where? I was never confident.
no, coincidence that another team eliminated brazilCoincidence that France didn't participate
france didn't participate in 1994 too.
after seeing spain's defense on the counter attack i doubt it.
Furthermore, nobody is a lock. There are many types of teams out there with different personnel and different mental strength.
Arg has the personnel only in offense, their defense is a walking red card no speed approx marking AND it seems no mental strength (definitely not gonna win with diego without a MAJOR miracle you can bet on it).
bra can get complacent easily and don't have pressing strength with kaka and robinho easily disappearing in games, teams that kill midfield and are more physical then them will give them trouble .. dunga is smart to know this and to pick cup players in the roster.
spa are traditional world cup chokers their mental strength is always questioned (look at their goddamned roster throught their history and then try to explain why they were not a semis/quarters usual as all other teams with tradition) .. ooh and let's not forget not playing a true targetman while overplaying on the wing which puts alot of pressure on what often becomes stretch defense (swi says hi)
ita can grind/luck/cheat out any team (2006 best example remember their training sessions?
ger don't have the overall talent plain and simple, they have good not great players and they play the right/grit way, a great contender, but IF they meet a more talented team on a good day the will lose (spain 2008, ita 2006, bra 2002, etc)
portugal are a one trick pony (unfortunately for them tactics is null, thus being reduced to a ronaldo team) .. a team i sincerely hate for its idiocy. No way these dumb s are winning squat, they're like the denver nuggets
netherlands are another hot-and-cold team that can beat anybody yet still be beaten by any team(russia at euro for ex, portugal in 2006 .. good teams but not contenders .. should mean something right). Mental strength has always been questioned. In my eyes they are ALOT like spain (now AND throughout their history)
mexico are pretenders, let's not kid ourselves.
ooh england, almost forgot of them
More objective: each and every time they play a good team they have problems, moreover, they have problems sometimes even with inferior sides.
even us homers shouln't dare think of us being anything near a conteder, even mexico has a better chance not to mention talent and they are pretenders.
Mexico ed France's up.
Good . Not really thinking of winning just advancing, but we have great potential in our future.
i agree .. a good generation awaits mexico but you woes will remain tactics, mental strength and defense. I simply don't believe you/usa will contend in the next 20 years based on pure tradition (that might sound dubious but it's not, cause tradition singles out contender pretty well and history does repeat itself, just ask ger/ita/bra)
"the impostors"
"the impostors"
LOL domenech. /france
lol everytime I see maradona doing anything else then kicking a ball i pity argentina.
Look @ zidane and you see class. Even the redcard fouls were class.
Look @ pele you see a relatively civilized and peaceful .
Look @ maradona you see a junkie.
argentina would of had a huge shot at this world cup with the right coach.
I don't like Maradona either, but I also don't like Pele, he's the worst kind of star imho, a guy that tries to act nice and correct for the cameras, but every now and then he reveals his true self. He's an envious old man that has trashed all the current great players at some point, he's also a social climber that is able to suckup anybody just to be around power.
I'm with you here actually, though I don't really like Pele either. Peaceful is pretty much the only good thing you can say about Pele other than his record as a player. Dude is as false a person as you're likely to meet.
The refs are pretty weak, never saw so many weak red cards...
Anyone still want to make an argument as this as the worst WC ever? Not even done with all the 2nd games and its completely up to par for me. Its been excellent and there's been a good amount of drama.
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whoever came up with this is ing genious:
http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.spurstalk.com
let's see:
handball as last defender on shot kewell
klose two yellow make a red (especially fouls from behind make yellows)
kicking a player like the nigerian did
cahill tackling a guy without the ball from behind
are what come to mind first which are all perfectly good decisions. by the book i might add.
so .. how are these weak? there are rules and when you break them you pay, it's quite clear.
true, i remember being in brazil 3 years ago and guys from the security company (brazilians) talked about how great pele was and the like and one of them (50ish old dude) said something about pele throwing teammates under the bus or some kobe-esque stuff.
I can't say about pele much other than he was a goalscoring machine and that he gets beyond-jordan treatment from the press erasing any mistake. I can say that i saw both maradona and zidane at two world cups each and I watched alot of juventus/real madrid with zidane so i am quite sure i know how these guys behave.
Zidane is really a class act and maybe the greatest footballing mind I ever saw, the way he controlled the flow of the game is clearly beyond past and present generations. I consider him the goat.
this world cup is awesome. only thing that is outstandingly negative is the jabulani. I have never seen so many goalkeeper mistakes at this level in my life so there has to be something with the ball.
There are more goalkeeper mistakes than the last 2 cups combined and we're only to the 2nd games in the group ffs. Casillas sure knew what he said.
I agree, only problem for me is those ing vuvuzelas. I want to hear the fans chanting for their teams not an endless drone of bull .
Robinho will score the most goals in the World Cup.
I do, so far this WC it's right up there with the one in 2002 as the worst I've seen. And stats help me back my thought. However it's true that as the tournament progresses the play it's getting better (maybe 'cause they're getting used to the ball). Hopefully this improvement continues.
For the best soccer players in the world I am seeing so many shots and crosses sail off target.
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