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***Official*** 2018 World Cup thread (and Drinking Guide) (3 Viewers)

Eephus said:
Normally don't like to bump my own posts but this one got kind of lost in Frosty's North Woods Fishing trip.

I finished 1982 and it's kind of a mixed bag.  These films were made for audiences who were presumably familiar with the recent tournament so they take more of a NFL Films-style approach.  Most of the game footage is filmed from low angles and the editing is more artistic than informative. 

The movie is a game of two halves.  The first half is more like a travelogue with nice views of post-Franco Spain and features on the New Zealand and Cameroon teams.  They didn't cover the groups exhaustively (the Disgrace in Gijon isn't shown) but spent time on the great Brazil-Italy match.  The last 45 minutes or so focus on the two semi-finals and the final.  There's one famous/infamous game and two better left forgotten.  The segment on France-Germany is by far the best part of the movie.

There's a lot to like here but it's definitely a product of it's time.  There are shots of topless beaches, coaches smoking in the dugout, dugouts, the Bernabeu in 1982, hooligans, Paolo Rossi and lots and lots of mullets and porn star mustaches.  The big takeaway for me was the physicality of the game.  If soccer was still played that way, there wouldn't be enough Neymar left to roll on the turf.

12 stars.  Next up 1974
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If thats the France Germany game that went to ET, in my memory the best WC game I've ever seen. W/ rumenigge.

 
Eephus said:
Toni Schumacher winner by TKO
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Jeebus... totally forgot about that! No foul iirc. Play on. Hfs... I need to see that again..completely shocking if I'm remembering right.

Karl Heinz at the top of his game, Pierre libarski, one of my favorite French players Amoros. Amazing game... and I remember feeling gutted for the French even though I was more familiar with ze Germans because of soccer made in germany and was in awe of the come back

 
Due to technical difficulties with 1974, next up is Campeones about Argentina 1978.

Very 70s fonts in the credits.

This one is in widescreen format but no Connery this time out.

 
Scotland had Dalglish and Souness in their squad.

16 team format with only one team each from CONCACAF, AFC and CAF.

Lots of Adidas three stripes

 
Eephus said:
Scotland had Dalglish and Souness in their squad.

16 team format with only one team each from CONCACAF, AFC and CAF.

Lots of Adidas three stripes
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One of the gb teams had a teenager... Norman Whiteside? I think... I remember he was good, and it inspired the hell out of me that he was only a few years older than me.

 
My favorite WC was 1998 because I got paid to sit and watch.

I took a 2 week substitute teaching job at a school for kids on probation from the youth authority.  Total cake job.  I never had more than 10 kids and there was a teacher’s aide who did all the real work.  I just walked around the class from 7:30 to 11:45 and “tutored”.

The aide left at noon but I had to stay until 3:00 because there were a few kids on independent study.  They were supposed to check in once a week but none did since they knew the real teacher wasn’t there.

So I’d eat my lunch while watching the late games in the knockout/quarters while getting paid.

 
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Campeones is a much better film.  It's a more straightforward account of the games with occasional slow motion and replays.  They're probably shown as much soccer in the first half hour as the entire 82 movie.

Back passes rarely make the highlights but they're surprising to see again after 25 years. 

 
A Scottish player was fouled in the box late in their game vs Iran.  The referee awarded an indirect free kick rather than a penalty.

 
Campeones gets 19 stars just edging out Mario Kempes for the Golden Boot.

It's remarkable how much the sport has changed in 40 years.  The game on the pitch is different but still recognizable but the influx of money into the tournament has made a massive difference.  Argentina '78 has production values like a high school drama club performance of Evita. 

 
Sinn Fein said:
:lol:

its a contentious choice here.  Most people here follow the EPL most closely, but you will find a few who prefer La Liga, and Bundesliga, and even Serie A (Italy).  And some might suggest you find an MLS team to support locally  

Good team and players in all those leagues. 
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"and even serie A"...it's like that, is it?

 
rockaction said:
Baggio was 10 with a mullet, right? 

And missed over the crossbar...ouch.  
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Mullet?!? Good God, man....it was "The Divine Ponytail"!...and everyone remembers that pk miss, but forget his 5 goals in the knockout rounds; one in the 89' to tie against Nigeria, & another to win it in extra time; gamewinner vs Spain in the 88th(?),  and a match-winning brace against Bulgaria.

My brothers & I got to watch the Spain game live at Foxboro; absolute madness...one of the best experiences I've ever had.  We took a gamble on the tickets, so if Baggio doesn't produce the miracle vs Nigeria, it would have been all for naught. Still get goosebumps...

 
Kafka said:
Mullet?!? Good God, man....it was "The Divine Ponytail"!...and everyone remembers that pk miss, but forget his 5 goals in the knockout rounds; one in the 89' to tie against Nigeria, & another to win it in extra time; gamewinner vs Spain in the 88th(?),  and a match-winning brace against Bulgaria.

My brothers & I got to watch the Spain game live at Foxboro; absolute madness...one of the best experiences I've ever had.  We took a gamble on the tickets, so if Baggio doesn't produce the miracle vs Nigeria, it would have been all for naught. Still get goosebumps...
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No, Baggio was awesome and I remember being stunned he missed. I'm not as into it as you; I just remember fragments and things. I remember watching Stoichkov more that tournament. I was home from school. I must have going into my junior year of college, and was bored and watched the Cup. Plus, it was in America and we were making our own run then, so...I was still pretty provincial. Still am. Still miss us in the Cup. 

That's awesome you got to watch it at Foxboro. Are you from New England? 

 
rockaction said:
No, Baggio was awesome and I remember being stunned he missed. I'm not as into it as you; I just remember fragments and things. I remember watching Stoichkov more that tournament. I was home from school. I must have going into my junior year of college, and was bored and watched the Cup. Plus, it was in America and we were making our own run then, so...I was still pretty provincial. Still am. Still miss us in the Cup. 

That's awesome you got to watch it at Foxboro. Are you from New England? 
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Nope.  "The First State".

@Ned :hifive:

 
####, want to drink to all the games today but I have a 2 pm tattoo appointment, well I guess I’ll only get to drink for the morning game ?

 
So I am....rooting for the team that apparently has a nazi groundskeeper ?!?!? :bag:

Guess so since Russia gotta lose.

GO ENGLAND/SWEDEN WINNER!

-QG

 
NewlyRetired said:
Thankfully, right now our best American players are also our youngest players.  We have a handful of teenagers that if they curve out well, should be very good players.

The best US player right now is 19 year old Christian Pulisic.  He plays for Dortmund in Germany but not a day seems to pass by where another rumor emerges of him moving to one of the big teams in England.
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Personally i like the style of quick counter end to end play you see in Germany.  Teams park the bus less and relatively little diving. Koln was the one squad who always played for the nil nil draw and they were thankfully relegated. 

That said, i am part of an EPL pool at work and watch that most.  I don't have a favorite team but i like rooting against the big boys and have my least favorites, Chelsea and Arsenal. I loved Leicester winning a couple years ago.

 
Had an emergency come up and need to be in car. Can one of my gbs link me a live audio feed?  Sorry to ask for google help but gotta haul ###. 

 
Eephus said:
82 is the first WC I remember watching.
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Same for me. I was living in New Zealand that year.  Missed the only Brewers World Series of my lifetime, but saw Toni clock Battiston live.  I was living in West Germany 4 years later and of course it was still a big issue when they played again in the semifinal. French fans hung a Schumacher dummy in effigy outside the stadium in Mexico. 

 
Wow there is zero chemistry between the play by play guy and the analyst. Play by play guy seems to be providing at least as much analysis as she is 

 
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