Olympic Football Tournament Rio 2016
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Luftstalag14
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Thank you Iraq. This is very good for us.
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Flavia
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Brazil won't get far. Even if they manage to get to the next stage, when they face a proper team they will lose. Rafinha and Neymar likely to be back before la liga starts.
What normal team? Noone except for Brazil cares for this tournament
JerseyAddict
Well-known member
I mean relay what on Earth is with this Brazil last 10 years??? They are disqrace for that 90's and early 00"s team. And people in Argentina have somethin to say to Messi&Team?
I was a kid and stayed late to watch 90' and 94' Brazil. This team does not deserve to wear yellow jersey.
I was a kid and stayed late to watch 90' and 94' Brazil. This team does not deserve to wear yellow jersey.
Pablo Escobar
New member
Brazil in 2002 won seeing the top 4 favorites out by Round of 16, Argentina, France and Portugal in the Group Stage, Italy in R16 + Spain was at least on par with them to win, they hardly qualified for the tournament itself, they are paying their dues now, nothing bad about it.
BBZ8800
Senior Member
Brazil had R9 (Ronaldo), Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Roberto Carlos, Cafu back then.
That team was 10 times better than current Brasilian teams.
About other teams getting knocked out, WC was in Japan/Korea.
"A strange" climate is usually an answer.
In those circumstances, majority of European teams play like a crap and are confused, outplayed and outrun by random African/Asian/South American teams who are more familiar with that climate.
European teams usually play awesome in "a classical" European climate, when Euros and World cups are held in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, England, Austria and similar. When they are "at home".
It can't be a coincidence that European teams always win Wcs held in Europe, and whenever a World cup is on some other continent, European teams fail miserably:
Wcs held in Europe:
1934 Italy: winner Italy
1938 France: winner Italy
1954 Switzerland: winner Germany
1958 Sweden: winner Brasil **
1966 England: winner England
1974 Germany: winner Germany
1982 Spain: winner Italy
1990 Italy: winner Germany
1998 France: winner France
2006 Germany: winner Italy
Wcs held in South America/North America:
1930 Uruguay: winner Uruguay
1950 Brasil: winner Uruguay
1962 Chile: winner Brasil
1970 Mexico: winner Brasil
1978 Argentina: winner Argentina
1986 Mexico: winner Argentina
1994 Usa: winner Brasil
2014 Brasil: winner Germany **
Wcs in Asia/Africa:
2002 Japan/Korea: winner Brasil
2010 south Africa: winner Spain
From 10 Wcs held in Europe, European teams won on 9 out 10 occasions.
From 8 Wcs held in South/North America, South American teams won 7 out of 8 times. Europeans won only 1 time.
So, about Brasil from 2002, it was easy to predict/expect that majority of European teams will fail miserably in a strange Asian climate.
Further, about current Olympic team Brasil, their plays are actually even worse when we consider that they are a host team, that they play in a familiar climate, and how European teams usually have huge problems to adapt to South American climate in such a short period.
Further, slightly offtopic, but when people are talking about Messi, WC in 2018 will be held in Russia.
Since non Europeans won it on a European soil last time in 1962 (Pele's Brasil in Sweden), I don't have any hopes for Messi and Argentina in Russia 2018' except more misery for Messi.
On the other hand, in Kuwait in 2022', you can again expect insane problems for majority of European teams in such a climate.
And much bigger chances for Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay and random African/Asian teams (with some luck in a draw).
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Pablo Escobar
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Wtf, you forgot how Portugal, Italy and Spain were knocked out in 3 consecutive games by South Korea starting in the last match of the group stage? Italy had a team 10 time better than this one right now which many consider not bad at all either. While Brazil was better in theory, because Ronaldo was just back from injuries while they hardly got to the tournament, which normally was formality even for their bad teams, not to mention the funny way they started the championship with that asian referee in the game against Turkey 
Failed miserabily? I saw something else in 2010 and 2014, 3/4 semifinalists were from Europe far away from Europe with the toughest climate in history in Brazil, especially in Manaus or northern cities like Fortaleza. Don't really see the relevance in the 60's, we can talk about the 16th century when Europeans were already colonizing the shit out of the rest of the world and owning 99% of all the globe.
Kuweit? I hope you mean Qatar.
Failed miserabily? I saw something else in 2010 and 2014, 3/4 semifinalists were from Europe far away from Europe with the toughest climate in history in Brazil, especially in Manaus or northern cities like Fortaleza. Don't really see the relevance in the 60's, we can talk about the 16th century when Europeans were already colonizing the shit out of the rest of the world and owning 99% of all the globe.
Kuweit? I hope you mean Qatar.
JerseyAddict
Well-known member
Under South Korea knocking out Italy in SK/Jap you mean "referees knocked out Italy"? It was one of the strangest fooball matches I've seen in decades.
El Flaco
Active member
It happened when South Korea played against Spain and Portugal as well.
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Flavia
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Let's see how that goes. The lack of a clear playing style turning into desperation. But as the midfield wasn't working, maybe this might.
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