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June 5, 2015, 12:33 am
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Real Madrid's third kit

Dortmund's new coach. Dem cheekbones!

Brasil stars in training for Copa America

Now that Coutinho has gotten a profile this year at LFC, he's now being tapped more and more into Brasil's top competition. Talent or marketing? Damn you FIFA for making me question

Esquire tapped up Harry Kane for some photos. No article, just photos. I do remember reading designers who said that footballers (European footballers, not American ones) were easy to dress because of their proportions, and more times than not, easier to style

Kaka is me right now. This is what I'll be spending the rest of my day doing

OP done! Cheers, jeers, corrections and pushback against commentary, you know the drill. I gotta dash. Oh, can someone fill in the tags for me, please? I have to go!
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International Friendly!

June 5, 2015, 10:10 am
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Free for All Friday!

June 5, 2015, 2:02 pm
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Brought to you by the King

How was your week?
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football news round up

June 5, 2015, 11:18 pm
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Everyone is hyping over CL. FIFA's shenanigans has taken the shine off the upcoming match for me, tbh

Guess who these English football players are

Supposedly the USMNT had a friendly against Holland? Somebody holla, because I don't know

Yedlin supposedly played very well as a winger, and his positioning has improved, I hear. He still counts on pace to get him out of trouble, which is okay now, but not so great when you're older, so he needs to tweak that aspect of his game

The USWNT watching the USMNT- right, do you yanks have a name for your team? For instance, England is called 'three lions' (or 'lionesses' depending on the sex of the team)

The USMNT took down FIFA and now oranje- what a week

Memphis got an assist in his country's goal (NED).

Depay be all up in defences like... a wrecking ball

Huntelaar was on the hunt! He got a goal! Tim Howard has said that he wants to come back to international competition

Today was a good day

OP: done! Any cheers, jeers, corrections or commentary pushback, y'all know the drill. I'm walking this weekend, so any round up of matches played today will be truncated in tomorrows post. Have a good one!
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UEFA Champions League 2014-15 - FINAL! + Women's World Cup

June 6, 2015, 8:10 am
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champions league final

June 7, 2015, 12:49 am
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No News from the sidelines today, just pictures.

The champions! A lot of events for the history books. Rakavic scored the fastest goal in a CL match

Buffon kept his side in the game. Juventus had an unsettled first fifteen minutes

Juventus protest Neymar's goal saying that it was a handball, Neymar's goal got disallowed

Suarez was a menace all night, he had at least three attempts at goal before breaking through

See what I mean? Suarez was a live grenade and Buffon would throw himself on it

Pogba suffered from performance issues. There, there, it happens to everyone?

Gif of the first goal of the match. Rakavich or whatever got first blood. That midfielder though

Morata got the only goal on the sheet for Juventus. Well... progress, at least he celebrated this one, instead of turning away dramatically while his teammates celebrate hysterically

Messi didn't get a goal on the sheet, but that doesn't mean that he wasn't present. Assisted Neymar's last goal, dragged defenders with him, dat positional play doe

Wasn't Pirlo's best match in a shirt, tbh.

Pogba hugs it out

The personification of the English expression 'gutted'

Statesmen of the game having a hug and a natter

I don't know what was said, O lipreaders

Smile though your heart is breaking... you just SMILE

Morata got the only goal for his side. I thought that Juventus would have parked the bus with an eye for penalties, to be honest

Suarez had to come off the field because he was injured. LFC supporters were sobbing in my TL last night. Looking at Suarez, and Mascherano (sp), it was a sad night

Suárez's face after he got his goal. He was searching for it, rousting Juventus for one, they weren't going to deny him

At the end of the match, the Barcelona team held a guard of honour for Juventus as they formed a queue to collect their medals

Last photo of Pirlo crying, promise

They didn't do their 'turn up for what' jump

:*(

In every match there's a winner and a loser

Tears everywhere.

Tears

On the other side of the coin with despair is joy- ecstatic, overwhelming, coursing through your body- obliterating everything else- joy! Neymar's 100 jesus

Messi holding his trophy and showing off his ugly tattoo

This is how you go gently into the good night. A treble, nothing but winnings with good teammates and a good coach. Not every team can be Barcelona, though

Some kid

Alves continued to dive towards the end of the match. Half the time I was like, "Really?"

Xavi's last match as captain of Barcelona

This happened with Suarez's goal. Enrique was like, turnt up

Never mind the fact that Neymar is being sued for tax dodging (render unto Caesar which is Caesar's, no?), the orgies that his Christian father allegedly ordered and got and all the noise around him, you have to admit that Neymar has only blossomed as a player. He got a goal disallowed and it didn't throw him off, he didn't obsess over it, just focused on what he needed to do, and got the third goal for his team, totally tying up the match with a bow

Neymar seems to be a guy like this. He's able to put emotion to the side, get the job DONE, and then only then, he focuses on it, lets it wash over him and allows himself to break

selfies!

Neymar and David

Just Barcelona's match. It was written

The winningest trio in Spanish history - and none are Spanish!

Twitter Pique: “My Argentine companion in battle, the soul of the team and the three fucking geniuses. Veni, vidi, vici.”

After all this, Enrique might leave. Welp

Women's World Cup

The matches are on too late for the likes of me to stay up, unfortunately (GMT). But here are some gifs

End of the opening ceremony

I really can't believe that Canada couldn't spare the money for grass on the turf. Or FIFA fighting against women wanting to play on GRASS. The hell, Blatter?

Netherlands entered their first World Cup and won their first game.

For the first time in WWC history there are 24 teams

Canada and China first match

The cup has a mascot. I don't know her name

The turf hurts my feelings.

China's goalie beaten by penalty!

OP done! No news today because d'uh! Any cheers, jeers, corrections or commentary pushback, you know the drill. I'll be watching England vs Ireland today, and hope that there are no IRA chants or the like
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Women's World Cup & International Friendlies!

June 7, 2015, 4:54 am
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weekend news (and matches)

June 8, 2015, 12:46 am
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NGL I'm kinda bored and over Barcelona and the CL final, but there's some gossip, so

“Thank you, Kevin Roldan. All this [treble] started with you. [ovation from the public]”
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Gerard Piqué - 7/6/15 (Campo Nuevo celebrations)

Kevin Roldan was the singer hired at Cristiano Ronaldo’s 30th birthday party.

Flashback to Pique picking up the net

Messi was all, "We got three" or summat. Like I said, haven't been following

There's video - but eh, not hunting it down.

Moving on

Will Enrique stay? If it hadn't been for Xavi, he wouldn't have gotten Messi onside.

Miscellaneous

Lucas Silva to be loaned out preseason.

International Friendlies, WWC 2015

Germany 10- 0 Ivory Coast. I mean, really?

The match ended. I've yet to watch one, and reports are that the quality of football is kinda spotty? I can't wait for the weaker teams to be ushered off the stage

England vs Ireland - it was pretty flat. The time of day, the fact that the football season finished...

The most interesting part of the game!

Raheem Sterling got some stick from the crowd- because Liverpool has a huge swath of Irish supporters, so every touch, he got booed. I mean, he's leaving the club anyways, so *kanye shrug* but his agent has done him no favours at all

ITV(the local station who showed the match) got shirty with the team

LMAO! The FA is getting mad, stay mad! ITV paid for the rights to show the England match, so suck it!


What happened with France and Belgium? What's with the Belgian coach looking to leave Belgium and going back to club football?

Someone fill me in? It ended 4-3 to Belgium


Coutinho put Brazil ahead of Mexico

Haven't seen that match, how did it go?

OP: Done! Any cheers, jeers, corrections and push back against commentary - you know the drill! Bye!
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Women's World Cup + International Friendlies!

June 8, 2015, 8:10 am
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football news round up

June 9, 2015, 12:24 am
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Copa America and Women's World Cup - I can't keep up! Here's Coutinho helping me out

Neymar taking a private jet to join his teammates over in Copa America

Women's World Cup

The narrative around the US- it's been sixteen years since they last won the women's world cup. USWNT are better at soccer than any other countries - in that they defined the modern women's soccer game, and oh, if you didn't cheer for USMNT you can't cheer for USWNT. OKAY?

Hope Solo - she of domestic abuse charges - showed why she's one of the best goalies out there

Well, I won't support the USWNT because of Katy Perry lyrics, tbh

USMNT no 15 be bobbing and weaving through the throng of Aussie players. I like both kits

Aren't women with pony tails afraid of their hair being pulled. I know I would be! Man, that astroturf is some BS. FIFA's said that going forward, the woman's world cup will be played on grass

US supporters all out to support the women! Yeah, because kicking like a girl... is actually quite a good thing

Dammit, Hope Solo, why U so bad and yet so good? I wish I knew how to quitchu

SMH at this score

Copa America

Copa America will start soon, so until then, enjoy pictures of my BOO, Kün

Brazil stars mugging for selfies. I love the boy's hair (in Luiz's arms)

When Sanchez isn't throwing elbows with teammates, he's smiling

OP: Done! Cheers, jeers, commentary pushback and corrections, you know the drill! I gotta go! Will finally watch a Women's World Cup match because England is playing France today! Hopefully we get over our French complex, oui
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News on the radio happy birthday happy birthday

June 9, 2015, 5:34 am
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It is Miro's 37th! And he just re-signed a one year contract with Lazio so he is not done yet.
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Women's World Cup + International Friendlies!

June 9, 2015, 8:10 am
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news and gossip

June 10, 2015, 12:07 am
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Roma's new kit

Copa America begins on June 11, iirc? Messi has flown in to meet up with his teammates

Neymar, still hungover from his wins, is a late addition to his Copa America side

Arm wrestles with Coutinho

Hugs for Dunga

Ain't no party like a Luiz hug party

Women's football getting a boost in America in terms of numbers

On the East and West coast

John Cleese


Shots fired. Morgan can't help himself, because he's an Arsenal fan and according to this article they ruin the internet for everyone. That's a talent, surely?


Women's World Cup

I didn't get to see Marta play, too bad!

Pele in a skirt is her moniker. Whatever, she made history by being the top goal scorer in women's competition

They played against Korea republic - is that South Korea?

All hail Marta! Sho' nuff

The penalty shot that tumbled Marta into the history books

England played France. England lost to France for the sixteenth time in a row. The hunt continues

The Lionesses lost to Les Bleus. People were expecting a rout of 3/4 goals to France, so going down by 1 is deemed encouraging?

I'll watch WWC until England gets knocked out, then I'll turn my attention to the Euro U21s. My heart is upholstered with duct tape. The one with the penguins, because heartbreak can look cute, even though it hurts

Costa Rica and Spain played. That match I didn't see either. Damn it, it's really too late to watch anything! I now know how people in Asian time zones feel when it comes to European football

I like Mexico's kit, don't you?

The detail is lovely

Colombia's woman's kit matches their male counterparts! To be fair, it's the same for France, England, Sweden and Germany, but it's nice. I like that, it shows brand cohesion, you know?

OP: done! Any cheers, jeers, corrections and commentary pushback, you know the drill. I'm going to be away from the computer for the rest of the day. Or well, be here, but not around, I have another Spanish oral to study for). Have a good one!
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International Friendlies!

June 10, 2015, 9:40 am
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international friendlies (and news round up)

June 11, 2015, 12:51 am
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Tickets for the Euros are now open. You have to buy a slot for the place rather than the team. So I've been poring over this map to see what will be the best way for me to get to a specific place before I even slap money and details down

Pictures

First FIFA, then the Netherlands and Germany. The yankees are coming

confidence is high, I must say. Where's the picture of the Statue of Liberty with a lightsaber

Villa was watching his teammate- okay, I'm putting the cart before the horse, and people will be wanting context, no? The USians will correct me, I'm sure

As it stands right now, Klinsmann is building a team for the future. Yes, he's tapped up old ass Beasley to come back into the side for mentorship, but he's looking to da youf. In addition, Klinsmann's doing loads of friendlies with a strong side, which can only help their seeding in future competitions. Klinsmann is switching, but he seems to be zeroing in on the talents that he wants on his side

Neuer was rested for this young un Zieler- again, which makes sense, because Germany will also be looking towards blooding the youth in. TIL- since Loew has been in charge, Germany has had 75 different players coming through and starting for die Mannschaft- it seems to have stuck. I probably spelt it wrong.

I was pretty much watching the match for Yedlin (not pictured) to be fair. A lot of Americans are ringing the alarm that Yedlin has yet to get sustained PL play time. But ITKs said that Yedlin didn't impress in his first coaching, re: lack of positional discipline. Also, he seems to be used as a supersub for USMNT but anyway!

Herman Munster on the case. He did well! (German lad)

Polksi is still alive?!

Got Wood? Wood scored on the Americans with a closing goal. All I know about him is that he's from Hawaii and plays in a lower league side in Germany

The Americans fell behind quickly in the first half, Mix Diskerud (?) brought his side level

Yedlin (Yedders as he's now called) came on in the second half. Immediately gave US some teeth - he makes a good winger

I can't make up my mind re: Michael Bradley. What is he supposed to be? A playmaker? Or...?

Klinsmann needs some pompoms, or semaphore flags. Stat

Yo, Dutch peeps, how's Johannsen doing?

Bobby Wood! Anyway, as much as the American announcers were crowing, please remember that Germany didn't send out a full strength team, and they seem to be in transition what with Lahm retiring, Schweinsteiger recovering from one injury or the other, and the young uns being blooded in. That being said, Klinsmann has a youngish side now buoyed by success headed into the Copa America and he seems to be imprinting his version of style on the Americans.

OP: done! Any cheers, jeers, corrections and pushback you know the drill! I will be out and about. Have a good one!
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International Tournaments + Friendlies!

June 11, 2015, 10:10 am
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news and matches

June 11, 2015, 11:55 pm
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Following in the footsteps of Guardiola, Xavi goes to Qatar


Gareth Bale is closing in on his 50th cap for Wales. The way how he's gone about representing his country is really inspiring so no more guff from me
Courtois practicing for the Belgium vs Wales Euro Cup qualifier tonight! Beligum and Wales have the same kit, just in different colours, ISTG, Adidas is just dialing it in at this point

DeGea and Navas greeting each other. If DeGea comes in and Casillas stays, Navas needs to go. So, Navas, are you free *fluttering my eyelashes in his direction*


Pictures

Copa America begins! People getting turnt up

Chilean tribal dancers in Santiago

It's the oldest continental competition in the world. Rocking around since 1916. Argentina are odds to win

Wow, so purty

Vidal was on point. I love the Chilean kit, don't you?

Some random Chilean player

Juan Carlos Paredes, Ecuadorian defender. "Thou shalt not pass!"

Women's World Cup

I've nothing against Copa America, because it's nice seeing non European competition that's keenly followed but - with that starting, there's going to be less eyes on WWC. I'm going to try harder into getting more pictures of the WWC on this here comm, okay? Okay. Here we go. China 1- 0 Holland

I love the kits for both teams

The Norwegians getting in on the act! They drew with Germany 1-1!

Oh all right... come on, lasses, break up the love fest, there's more to come! But that set piece was the bomb.com. Back of the net!

The German's second kit looks NICE!

I can also appreciate a good tackle. Saw a few highlights and dang, the Germans are technical, aren't they? Going forward, good passing, great touches on the ball... Just really good on all counts. Norway weren't chumps though

That leap!

Seriously, the kit has some nice details that you can't see at first glance. The socks, necklines and sleeves with the contrasting trim are great touches. The petal cut of the shorts are a throwback to the eighties running shorts but are longer and hang better. I have truck with this outfit.

The font for the numbers is cool, too. Great job, Adidas!

Players from the Ivory Coast. They lost to Thailand 3-2

I'm digging the uniform, the hair cuts and just their general style

Thailand came to slay this day. I see you, Thailand

The teams were both evenly matched, but you got the feeling that Thailand handled their business a bit better
“We [the women’s national team] get paid 1% of what the men get paid. Some are mothers. Some lose their jobs to play in the team and to represent an entire nation that doesn’t support us.”
— Yoreli Rincón, midfielder for Colombia

OP: done! Any cheers, jeers, corrections or general commentary push back, you know the drill! Wales are playing Belgium today, so I need to get ready. I know I have a Welsh flag somewhere... and am still eying up Euros and France and the nearest match place to get to by plane. El mister is making noises about buses, but I'm rejecting that out of hand. So we'll see
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Internationals!

June 12, 2015, 8:25 am
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FFAF [12th June]

June 12, 2015, 2:00 pm
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euros and wwc's tied up with strings

June 13, 2015, 12:11 am
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Miscelleanous

Southampton's away kit. Give that they'll be playing in three competitions, they might need another kit apart from this one and home? Or ...?

Their home strip

Nope, it's not a photoshop. This is Memphis Depay in a United strip. His strip will say Memphis, since he doesn't recognise his biological father. Makes sense, his father sounds like an arsehole


Pictures: Euros

Um, is it me or is Bale becoming more... simian like?

Welsh huddle

Welsh national stadium(?) The theme is 'together stronger'.

The players that lead the Welsh side. From left to right: Ashley Williams (captain Swansea), Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) and Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal)

Team picture

Wales scored the only goal of the goal. I'd like to say something about the match, but uhhh... I don't have time

Another view of the goal. There are mumblings that Belgium needs a new national coach (this has been the mumblings from the World Cup in 2014) that for the quality of players in the side, they're not playing as well as they should

Ramsey tried to get in. Courtois went 'thou shalt not pass'

It's a big deal for Wales. They are on the cusp of getting into a major football competition for the first time in twenty years. Wales is a BIG rugby country, so it's a big deal. It will be interesting to see how this develops their football (it helps that Swansea is doing well in the PL)

Croatia 1- 1 Italy

Buffon on his hustle!

Mandz- he's seemingly on his way out of Atlético Madrid, because he annoys Simeone very easily, but he came correct on country duty though!

Antonio Candreva converted a 35th minute penalty to get a tie. Love the blue of the kit. Puma, right?

Latvia 0 -2 Holland

It's too early in the morning for me to start spelling Dutch names. So. Anyway, I dig the white kit. It's similar to their ladies kit

van Persie was on the hunt

The colour of the Latvian kit is nice. Holland is supposedly grumpy about their national coach. Koeman (Saints coach in the PL) was in line for the job, but due to shenanigans they went with the man who's in charge now, and he doesn't seem to be working out.

Narsingh is rather dashing in this pose. I would photoshop a sword in hand and a floucy hat Three Mouseketeers style

Fans waving flags

Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-1 Israel

I have a soft spot for the Bosnian team. Their fans seem a mess though, they rioted in Tel Aviv yesterday - what?

Andorra Cyprus

Two weak teams. They might struggle to get out of the group stages, but it's football, eh? The ball is round

Bulgaria - Malta

NGL, the team expansion to 24 teams is still too much.

Women's World Cup

I tried to stay up for this match. Nodded off at 12:55 am my time for a 01:00 start. When I woke up, the match was over. Gutted!

Respect to Fox sports for really pushing the Woman's World Cup. I've seen the promos, and the narratives around the players that the Americans do so well. It helps that some of the players seem to have personalities, like Megan Rapinoe? She can also pass and make goals like a champ

There are mutterings about Jill Ellis. No tactics, been found out, the US women aren't playing up to standard, etc. What's the word from the other side of the pond, mates? If Ellis is really tapped out, she could watch basketball matches for their midfield tactics, because her teams have none (again, from my readings of the situation)

People who watched the match, what was good? Idek if I like the USWNT blue kit. It's the same as USNT but still... meh

Switzerland 10 - 1 Ecuador

There's been titters around them expanding the number of teams from 18 to 24 (if the numbers are inaccurate, holla at your girl -that's me!) because some of the teams are so weak. But FIFA maintains that's the only way some countries will fund the women's sport (b/c countries do get allocated monies for the ladies programmes), and are looking to expand it to 32 like the male's World Cup in the not so distant future. They said that Japan got trounced in 1995 and won the World Cup in 2011, so there's precedent for weaker teams to grow and blah blah blah cakes. What say you? If anyone reads these tags, you get me?

Nigeria 0 vs 2 Australia

Nigeria's singing like they're winning. I think a few of their players ply their trade in Sweden, and Liverpool Ladies have the African player of the year, so you know... Nigeria has skills, gets props, ranked 33 in the world, one of the best African sides

Australia came in like a wrecking ball

Nigeria, you need to come through. There's no party if an African nation is not out of the group stage, we know this

Aboriginals are a part of Australia's WWC15 squad


We interrupt the proceedings for a special PSA. Am glad, because Canada and Zimbabwe were the only two countries that applied to hold the WWC (England passed because they've been side eyeing FIFA from 2010 and thought that they didn't have a chance in getting the cup anyway). The fact that the numbers have been good, will (hopefully) raise interest in other countries wanting to apply - with hopefully grass pitches

bbc round up for matches with videos, etc

OP: done! Any cheers, jeers, corrections and commentary pushback... I'll get back to it when I get over the case of Rachael Dozeal and the case of transracialism. I... just can't. Anyway! See you around!
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