Daniel being so classy and also being 36 years old is quite something. We really suffered without him last year WC. Nothing less expected from the player who won most trophies.
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2019 Copa America | 14 June to 7 July 2019 | Now featuring Qatar and Japan
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Daniel being so classy and also being 36 years old is quite something. We really suffered without him last year WC. Nothing less expected from the player who won most trophies.
South American teams have nothing on European teams, at least not in the past 30 years. That's just a fact man, whether you like it or not. I don't even like European teams, but it is what it is.
I still enjoyed watching the game today for what it was.
That Europe has dominated world soccer for the past 30 years or so.
If you agree with that, then you must agree that a tournament without European teams is second tier.
A South American team has made it to the Finals on 4 of the last 7 World Cups.
Without playing, so you are just saying what we know, that messi has a bad team around him.
I"m feeling our players aren't on their best. Lack of Filipe Luis was hurtful to Everton side. Also the team was shaking on defense. Quite a poor showing. I have to say tough that Coutinho has been a positive surprise this America Cup.
I meant damn as in 3 in a row is impressive, not necessarily that I'm against them winning lol.
Omg... i forgot the Copa restarts 4 years again and will hold one next year
So if Ronaldo doesn't have a convulsion before the game or Higuain doesn't miss that wide open shot against Germany now all of sudden South America is good and Copa America is worth something?
Lmao, you have no idea the fuck you're talking about, so do us a favor and to stop watching since this tournament doesn't mean anything anyway.
If anything the lack of Filipe Luis helped Everton, since Alex Sandro is much better offensively. What actually happened was Sandro being forced to stay back due to Dani Alves constantly overlapping and rushing ahead. It would be suicidal to have both backs in the attack leaving only Casemiro, T. Silva and Marquinhos to defend.
Everton should have left the the sideline more or took Firmino's position as he normally enjoys to drop back to create.
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Lol using "ifs". Denial is not a river in Africa buddy.
You may not want to accept it, but Europe has been dominating soccer for the past few decades. And if we are just talking about the past 12 years or so, then even more domination. 4/4 champions, 7/8 finalists, and 13/16 semifinalists have been from Europe. Keep fighting the good fight though.
I don't think Argentina will ever beat Brazil in a competition again sadly. But congrats Brazil. Hopefully either Brazil or Peru wins it. Sorry Chile, you've won too many times already.
Also it seems Argentina might be the unluckiest country in the world, always on the verge of glory only for everything to collapse on them. What a cruel fate.
Also it seems Argentina might be the unluckiest country in the world, always on the verge of glory only for everything to collapse on them. What a cruel fate.
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no worries, his "good teammates" in spain will carry him to some useless farmers league medals 👍
What a load of garbage.
In the last 30 years we had in FIFA official competitions (World Cup and Confederations Cup):
7 titles for CONMEBOL
1 title for CONCACAF
10 titles for UEFA
That's hardly a UEFA domination, considering they have half of the spots (at the World Cup) and the money.
Brazil is winning most of titles in the last 30 years, along with France and Germany to have won 2 World Cups in this period. You have to combine UEFA countries to build a case of European superiority. Just compare each country individually and you'll see that the country who dominates football historically isn't European.
dude, do you realize that in South America only four teams and a half qualify for the world cup?
Ignore the troll people, for pete's sake. Guy was trolling the Women's World Cup thread, then it got heated and he went to troll somewhere else, a.k.a here.
EDIT: And just like VAR, justice eventually arrived.
EDIT: And just like VAR, justice eventually arrived.
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What an embarrassing post, of course it's one of the Brady avatars. Pure toxicity
No one counts Olympic gold in the tally of international trophies. It's effectively (or at least was) a U23+3 tournament that many countries didn't even really focus on. It's the same reason no one one really cares if you've won a FIFA U20 WC or the UEFA equivalent.
True haha
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Peru vs Chile. Unsure who'll take this one. Chile in theory is stronger, but so was Uruguay and Peru still managed to hold a tie (lucky for them there's VAR in this Copa) and go through on the penalties.
In either case neither team seems capable enough to beat Brazil in the final. Feels like it's their final to lose at this point in time, though finals are always special matches. Chile was also the underdog in the other two Copa America finals...
I don't think Brazil have been much better than other countries to be honest. Brazil have certainly improved a lot since 2014's World Cup, but I wouldn't say they are on a much better situation than other Southamerican teams.
In this Cup, Brazil have mostly faced teams that are usually considered "weaker" compared to other teams in Southamerica and still didn't quite look like the Brazil we all grew up watching (Argentina being the exception). Draws against Venezuela and Paraguay and wins over Perú and Argentina.
Last night's match game was interesting because during the first 20 minutes of the match, we saw a great Brazil team, but then it could have gone either way to be honest, because Argentina started to perform much better than Brazil until the second goal happened. The ref was awful for both sides and it showed.
I do agree that football in Southamerica is going through a process of renewal though and Brazil are the ones who started this process. So, from that point of view, I also think that Brazil are doing much better than other teams.
Is Argentina literally crying today? The AFA sent a bunch of critics to conmebol, some of are really bad(others are true critics), and Messi said Brasil control everything. To add more, Basile said Argentina lost to the worst Brasil in 20 years........ Did he not watched Brasil 2007? That team was awful and still won against Argentina in 2007 America Cup.
We're far from the best team in the world. Brazil 2017/18 was much playing much better than in this year.
Argentina with the classic tantrim of the "undeserved defeat".
Thank god blaming referees for a loss will always be lame to most people
Thank god blaming referees for a loss will always be lame to most people
Argentina has not had a quality striker since Batistuta. That is their primary issue. They don't have that player outside of Messi but as we have seen now for over a decade, Messi isn't a goal scoring machine with Argentina when he has to rely on people like Tevez and Higuain.
all been world class or at least very close to it at one point in their careers. Messi might not have had a super team, but he lost to worse squads all the time.
Good thing now we have the var, afa is asking for the tapes. It should be easy to see what happened .
Crespo
Milito
Saviola
Palermo
And now Icardi
Creating prolific strikers isn't Argentina primary problem
all been world class or at least very close to it at one point in their careers. Messi might not have had a super team, but he lost to worse squads all the time.
I don't give two shits about club. I am Italian and Christian Vieri was world class from club play for awhile but it was better to have Pippo or Del Piero up front over Vieri. Argentina has not been able to have success with Messi despite what I think is good play because the people up front have not really been there and been dominant. Look at Aguero, Batistuta has produced way more goals than him on the national level in fewer games and he didn't play with Messi.
Maybe I am too much of a Batistuta fan boy.
I give you everything minus Luis Fabiano. He was a monster during Dunga first era. Truly the last "true" striker we had.
