Soccer Thread

[Friðbjörn]

the league here uses Mitre Ultimax, but it's optional for the teams:

http://www.joiutherji.is/joiutherji/upload/images/mitre_vorur/1177114_mitre_isl_boltinn_2006.jpg

[Stllmn8j]

Regular Season-

http://www.mlsgear.com/imgs/products/369_1006654.jpg

 

Used in MLS Cup+League Champ uses this ball the following year for home games

http://www.mlsgear.com/imgs/products/369_1008160.jpg

[HaziLPTonz]

umbro balls for FA cups and FA cup final in EPL, while nike balls used for all other domestic games, cbb to put up pics, im sure everyone has seen the pics, A-league also uses the same balls as the EPL and La Liga

 

i like the MLS balls, nicely designed, alot like the WC ball too, does it swerve like crazy still? or has that been fixed

 

FA cup final this saturday!

[MrsBennington-Delson]

Used in MLS Cup+League Champ uses this ball the following year for home games

http://www.mlsgear.com/imgs/products/369_1008160.jpg

+Teamgeist?

how gay lol

[Peterdea]

even if it does look pretty bad, id still love to kick it! lol

[HaziLPTonz]

i think its german designed?

 

the ball look nice, id still kick it around for sure, though i like the champions league ball, especially when its swirling in mid air, looks awesome

[Friðbjörn]

not necessarily, although adidas is german, and it's the fifa world cup 2006 (germany) official ball

[HaziLPTonz]

apparently the next generation balls from adidas no longer bobble in mid air but swerve like crazy, i read it somewhere, i like the design of the adiads balls, but u still cant beat the nike balls,well for me anyways

[Friðbjörn]

2nd half of the UEFA cup final just started in Glasgow, Sevilla and Espanyol are tied atm 1-1

[Person]

=o

Go Espanyol!

I don't want Sevilla to win lol

[Friðbjörn]

moises hurtado (espanyol) got sent off now

[HaziLPTonz]

sevilla 2-2 espanyol(3-1 penalties)

palop saved like 3 in a row, what a beast

 

it was a pretty good game too, sevilla were always gonna be stronger int erms of perssonel, but espanyol were really good.

 

i love getafe , floggin barca 4-0 to go through to the coppa del ray final.even though its a tad old, its still awesome

 

man U V chelsea FA cup final on saturday, hopefully its a belter, but apparently mourinho has no back up attackers, with shevchenko,ballack,mikel and co out injured, the forward line looks a little sparse, hopefully it lives up to its billing, no.1 and 2 in the EPL, each have won a cup so far, and both were knocked out at the SF stage of the CL, so it should be fairly even

 

spain won the under 17s cup(euro?) defeating england in the final

[Friðbjörn]

transfer season about to reach the peak soon

Thierry Henry going to Barcelona...au revoir Henry

 

y bienvenido, cause I'm actually a Barcelona fan too lol

[MrsBennington-Delson]

He's goin to Barca!? O.o

 

poor frenchie in los espanjos lol

jk

[GraDoN]

Barce played a friendly vs out leading club (sundowns) and won 2-1

lol kinda funny since we sux at football eventhough were a football playing nation -_-

[Person]

heh... sometimes (well... most of the times), BIG teams like Barca tend to go easy on teams they know they are superior to. Teams get too confident >.<

[HaziLPTonz]

T Henry for 16 mil?(reported) is an ABSOLUTE BARGAIN, for a player of his class and quality,thats like finding a rolex in a pile of garbage! Considering Torres(athletico) is valued at 25 mil,Darren Bent was valued at 18 at one stage(he was bought for 17 by West Ham but backed out, hes reportedly about to sign or has signed for Spurs for 15-16 mil), so what does that say about these blokes? are they as good? or overpriced louts. The sporting director actually came out and blamed Man U for driving Henrys price up, GOOD GRIEF! Barca were willing to throw the entire bank at Henry last season and are complaining he was bought for 16...=_=. in anycase, what do you reckon Chelsea and Liverpool have done as well? Chelsea paid 25 for SWP,30 for Sheva,while Liverpool paid 10mil each for Crouch,Bellamy and are chasing Diego Forlan for around 10 as well! whos jacking up the prices aye?

 

i say a big au revoir to Henry, the man i feared the most when ManU were winning, he was probably the only bloke who could strike fear into ManU and carry it out all through these years, forget Drogba,forget Kaka, this bloke was the real deal, his speed, magic and brilliance have won him almost everything in world football, good luck on his next endeavor and a big thank you for making ManU-Arsenal Derbys special occassions simply by being at the game

[HaziLPTonz]

alot of signings happening...a small recap of the MAJOR signings, mainly EPL stuff,feel free to add

 

Fernando Torres(Ath.Madrid) to Liverpool(27mill)

Djbril Cisse(Liverpool) to Marseille(8mil)

Craig Bellamy(Liverpool) to West Ham(8 mil)

Thierry Henry(Arsenal) to Barcelona(16mil)

Eduardo De Silva(Dinamo Zagreb) To Arsenal(10mil)

Frank Ribery(Marseille) to Bayern Munich(10-15mil?(depending what you read))

Claudio Pizarro(Bayern munich) to Chelsea(free)

Steve Sidwell(Reading) to Chelsea(free)

Tal Ben Haiim(Bolton) to Chelsea(free)

Alex(PSV Eindhoven) to Chelsea(1 dollar...thats right,u read correctly)

Nigel Reo-Coker(West Ham) to Aston Villa(8mil)

Anderson(FC Porto) to Manchester United(17mil)

Nani(Sporting Lisboa) to Manchester United(17mil)

Owen Hargreaves(Bayern Munich) to manchester United(17mil)

Luca Toni(Florentina) to Bayern Munich(undisclosed)

Luis Garcia(Liverpool) to Ath.Madrid(7mil)

Tomasz Kuczak(West Bromwish) to Manchester United(3mil)

Mark Viduka(Middlesborough) to Newcastle United(free transfer)

Joey Barton(Manchester City) to Newcastle United(i forget how much)

Darren Bent(Charlton) to Tottenham(16mil)

Gareth Bale(Southhampton) to Tottenham(9mil)

Julien Faubert(Bordeaux) to West Ham(6mil)

Scott Parker(Newcastle United) to West Ham(7mil)

Jonathon Woodgate(Real Madrid) to Middlesborough(7mil)

Diego Forlan(Villareal) to Ath.Madrid(not sure)

 

those are the main ones so far this season, there are plenty of others on small deals or loan deals with views to permanent moves or free agents moving to other clubs, those were some of the small ones making the news.

 

alot of rumors continue to, such as Chivu to Inter Milan/Real Madrid,Adriano to Real Madrid/AC Milan,Kaka to Real Madrid,Simao to Liverpool/Ath.Madrid/Chelsea,Quaresma to Liverpool/Ath Madrid,Florent Malouda to Chelsea/Liverpool,Shaun Wright-Phillips to West Ham/Manchester City,Nicolas Anelka to Arsenal,Ryan Babel to Arsenal, Drenthe to Chelsea, Pato to AC Milan/Inter Milan/Chelsea, Renato to Manchester United/Arsenal/Chelsea/nter Milan,Alan Smith to Everton/Middlesborough/Sunderland,Kieran Richardson to Sunderland and Carlos Tevez to Manchester United(apparently a done deal, all the tabloids in the UK are calling it, the deal hinges on the Permier League go ahead,theres issues over Tevez being owned by a third party rather than West Ham)

 

anything i missed feel free to add.

 

Also the Asian Cup is beggining tonight,go Australia!!!

 

i retract that last statement,Australia is a fucking embarasment, GO VIETNAM(6 Nguyens,cant go wrong!) and maybe south korea!

[Friðbjörn]

also the copa america quarter finals start tonight

[HaziLPTonz]

mhmmm

 

so far Brazil flogged...chile? 6-1, robinho and love scoring doubles(think it was vagnar love) and uruguay beat host nation venezuela 4-1

[Friðbjörn]

yup chile

 

and tonight peru-argentina and mexico-paraguay

[HaziLPTonz]

australia have just drew 1-1 to OMAN...fucking disgraceful, both sides, socceroos for having 0 skill to knock off oman, and oman for stacking their defence with alll 11 bloes after snatching the 1-0 lead. its just not footballl....

 

welcome to "asian" football...not much different to european football where minnows stack the defence, but at least the "top" teams can still WIN, pathetic Australian performance

 

thank you Everton for releasing Timmy Cahill for socceroo duty, he saved out bacon...again, a 92nd min leveller

[Friðbjörn]

must be a disappointment...you don't hear much about the skill of oman soccer players...

[GraDoN]

who is omen? 0.0

[Friðbjörn]

Oman, with an A, is a country in the Middle East, just south of Saudi-Arabia if memory serves