None of this 1st round, 2nd round, bronze medal nonsense...
Round of 16
Brazil 1-2 Chile
Colombia 2-0 Uruguay
Netherlands 1-0 Mexico
Costa Rica 0-1 Greece
France 2-0 Nigeria
Germany 2-1 Algeria
Argentina 2-0 Switzerland
Belgium 0-1 USA
Quarter-Final
Chile 2-1 Colombia
Netherlands 2-0 Greece
France 2-1 Germany
Argentina 2-1 USA
Semi-Final
Chile 2-1 France
Argentina 1-0 Netherlands
Pasadena will be 27 C today (average 89F in July). Mexico City is high altitude and will be 20 C (average 75 F in July). Not as hot as other cities in the Americas would be.
I was in Dallas for the Holland-Brazil 1994 quarterfinal and it kicked off at 2:30pm and it was HOT. It was so hot they barely did anything in the first half and saved it all for a fabulous 2nd half. So it was really a 45 minute game.
I think the absolutely hottest place during that world cup was Orlando. Hot and humid it really was unplayable.
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I was in Dallas for the Holland-Brazil 1994 quarterfinal and it kicked off at 2:30pm and it was HOT. It was so hot they barely did anything in the first half and saved it all for a fabulous 2nd half. So it was really a 45 minute game.
I think the absolutely hottest place during that world cup was Orlando. Hot and humid it really was unplayable.
Lets have matches in Phoenix!
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I was in Dallas for the Holland-Brazil 1994 quarterfinal and it kicked off at 2:30pm and it was HOT. It was so hot they barely did anything in the first half and saved it all for a fabulous 2nd half. So it was really a 45 minute game.
I think the absolutely hottest place during that world cup was Orlando. Hot and humid it really was unplayable.
To be fair, Jerryworld and the stadiums in Phoenix and Houston are all air-conditioned.
Also, "the ultimate group of death" could be called the 1982 three-team group of Italy, Brazil and Argentina, where only one group (Italy, the eventual champion) would advance.
Been offered a spot in the Kosovan Football League. Good PR move by them.
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Luis Suárez has been offered a short-term sanctuary in Kosovan football while he serves his four-month ban from all football. Hajvalia, who won last season’s Kosovar Cup and finished sixth in the league, have made an opportunistic offer to take the striker on loan.
With Kosovo not yet recognised as a full Fifa member, the club believe Suarez’s ban would not extend to the country’s league - although financial considerations would still need to be overcome for the ambitious deal to become a reality.
The club’s director, Xhavit Pocolli, told the Kosovan daily Sport Plus: “Suárez can’t play in the next four months. As we are not part of Fifa yet, I think he can play in Kosovo, so we have an offer that we will send to Liverpool.
Suarez apologizes. A step in the right direction. Next up Evra.
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The Uruguay striker says in a statement posted on Twitter on Monday that "I deeply regret what occurred," and that "the truth is that my colleague Giorgio Chiellini suffered the physical result of a bite in the collision he suffered with me." Suarez was banned from all football for four months after the incident, which occurred during Uruguay's 1-0 win over Italy in their group-stage game in Brazil. He had denied wrongdoing in a statement to FIFA, saying he simply collided with Chiellini's shoulder.
Suarez apologized to Chiellini and "the entire football family," and said "I vow to the public that there will never again be another incident like (this)."
And the Uruguayan president takes a diplomatic stance on the issue.
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Uruguay's President Jose Mujica has called football's world governing body Fifa "a bunch of old sons of bitches" over Luis Suarez's four-month ban. The 79-year-old described the punishment, which also included a suspension for nine international matches, as a "fascist ban".
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