World Cup GDT: June 15th - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

SebC · 06-15-2014, 12:59 AM

Sunday June 15th

10:00 AM Switzerland (6) vs. Ecuador (26) (Group E)
1:00 PM France (17) vs. Honduras (33) (Group E)
4:00 PM Argentina (5) vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina (21) (Group F)

Numbers in brackets are FIFA rankings.

Troubamaker · 06-15-2014, 01:11 AM

The diving exhibited over the first 3 days has been sickening.

4X4 · 06-15-2014, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Troubamaker

The diving exhibited over the first 3 days has been sickening.

I'm pretty happy about the lack of diving by Italy today.

Go Switzerland!

Table 5 · 06-15-2014, 07:40 AM

Yeah, maybe we're just used to much worse, but I was expecting a hell of a lot more diving than we've seen.

Table 5 · 06-15-2014, 07:41 AM

I guess flags on cars just won't do in the Netherlands.

Red · 06-15-2014, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Table 5

Yeah, maybe we're just used to much worse, but I was expecting a hell of a lot more diving than we've seen.

Exactly, there hasn't been more diving that you would see in an average NHL game. At the very least its close.
And in soccer you actually have to fall to get a call. If you don't go down you don't get the whistle, simple as that.

cam_wmh · 06-15-2014, 10:25 AM

What a great game, this Switzerland Ecuador.

GirlySports · 06-15-2014, 10:27 AM

There really has been minimal diving in this world cup so far.

And lots of goals!

GirlySports · 06-15-2014, 10:28 AM

wow on that replay not a single Swiss defender even jumped

Sylvanfan · 06-15-2014, 10:33 AM

I have enjoyed this tourney so far. Costa Rica pulled a big upset yesterday. Italy and England was a good match. When teams are willing to attack, it's fun to watch because every scoring chance has a high percentage of resulting in a goal.

They should have made France play Honduras in that stadium Canada got blown out of with Honduran security.

Brannigans Law · 06-15-2014, 10:42 AM

Shiqiris hips don't lie. That was a bad cross.

SuperMatt18 · 06-15-2014, 10:46 AM

Another ref could have given that as a penalty. Contact was on the player way before contact was made on the ball.

GirlySports · 06-15-2014, 10:47 AM

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Another ref could have given that as a penalty. Contact was on the player way before contact was made on the ball.

I think he was stumbling already.

19Yzerman19 · 06-15-2014, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by GirlySports

There really has been minimal diving in this world cup so far

Actually hilarious that this is considered minimal. You're right, I guess, it's all relative.

Troubamaker · 06-15-2014, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by GirlySports

There really has been minimal diving in this world cup so far.

And lots of goals!

I cannot imagine what regular amounts of diving would look like. Wow.

GirlySports · 06-15-2014, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19

Actually hilarious that this is considered minimal. You're right, I guess, it's all relative.

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Originally Posted by Troubamaker

I cannot imagine what regular amounts of diving would look like. Wow.

Week to week it can get pretty bad mostly because the referees are inexperienced and fall for it. The Brazillian league for example everything is a foul so naturally players will just fall over.

In the World Cup the matches are too important and the referees are the best in the world. If you dive you could get yellow carded or even worse lose the ball in a vulnerable position leading to a counterattack as the ref laughs at you.

The only dive that has duped the ref was Fred. Although that's not even a dive he was off-balanced, couldn't get the ball, felt the hand on his shoulder and fell on his ass. It's not like he was rolling around in pain.

This Swiss-Ecuador game has been clean, there's hardly been a foul.

GirlySports · 06-15-2014, 11:04 AM

beautiful corner it's 1-1

browna · 06-15-2014, 11:05 AM

No idea with the goalkeeper was doing there though. Just as poor defending as the opening goal.

SuperMatt18 · 06-15-2014, 11:08 AM

Diving has been minimal the last couple matches, Spain and Brazil had put on a display in their games though

Bagor · 06-15-2014, 11:16 AM

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In the World Cup the matches are too important and the referees are the best in the world.

No, they are not and it is not ... even ... close.

Repeating myself from an earlier post in the other thread.

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Imagine the U.S. playing for World Cup survival on June 26 against powerhouse Germany. Clint Dempsey and Michael Bradley line up on one side, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Mesut Ozil on the other. And the referee is a Tahitian named Norbert Hauata. He has never before been to the World Cup. Usually he referees squads like Dragon and Tamarii Faa'a back in Tahiti, a country that has never sent a team to the World Cup.
It could happen.
As an alternate in the pool of 33 World Cup referees in Brazil this month, Hauata is a pulled hamstring away from the biggest stage in the game. And it isn't just the alternates who lack experience. Among the 24 official referees are several who have never called games involving big-name teams and players.
The world's most popular sporting event uses a more democratic than meritocratic process for choosing referees. While the World Cup's 32 teams must play their way into the tournament through a grueling two-year qualifying process, FIFA, the sport's governing body, pulls referees from more than 40 countries out of a sense of fairness to all of its member associations. It is similar to how basketball's world governing body plucks officials from around the world to work the Olympic tournament.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-p...ees-1402354736