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:lol: the last one is so awesome

He was the biggest disappointment for me. all the others had plausible excuses for being subpar, but not this guy, he shoud have been at the heights of his power

the only thing i can critizise about his performance is that he should have completely taken over spain's game. take the free kicks, shoot more often. otherwise, he was very good. i only saw the second half though. but, i really like iniesta's development over the years from xavi's junior...

so, what can be said? it's not even that painful, because that fantastic generation with its unique football philosophy really had the full amount of success that they deserved. no result can take those 6 years away from them Still, i really would have liked to see a dignified ending to that...

+1 vintage xavi bossing the final, san iker flawless and with many important saves, xabi alonso with a rock solid tournament and beating france on his own. Had those three retired, what a way to be remembered. now look at them. and i'm positive, if those pillars retire in 2012 and del bosque...

Thanks for your thoughts raed, you didn't disappoint :) Its purely semantics now, since de gea is out. What i'd like to say is, as a barca and spain fan, i've cursed and loved casillas in equal measure over the years for that "champion factor" that he could make saves exactly in the crucial...

raed, i'm curios, real madrid goggles aside, would you play casillas in the next game if you were del bosque? I'd take the jump and play de gea. Not as a knee jerk reaction to punish casillas, but simply judging by whats best for the team right now, especially the defenders need confidence and...

Still, cudos to him for that last double save yesterday. Takes champion character to drag yourself out of the shithole and make an "irrelevant" save after that horrible game.

don't have so much time to spare, unfortunately so only spain, germany maybe italy if i can make it. Also bosnia, together with my dad What i'm really hoping for is that there'll be matches between strong second tier nations, like mexico - croatia or belgium - chile, because normally you see...

Heast, no need to make us smaller than we are! We were at the ec 2008. okay so maybe we hosted the damn thing... but still we were there. We even scored a goal, ffs, a bloody penalty gift of a goal! no but seriously in austria it's basically mandatory to adopt a successful football nation for...

Pique has played like two games since march though. why he's starting against the freaking dutch in the world cup is another matter, but he has a valid excuse for not being up to snuff. Ramos is the real disappointment today, he should be at peak perfomance That's a great idea, because we have...

You make a lot of sense wolfe, but what would you have done in casillas place? retired from the nt before the world cup? then they play with reina who's definitely worse or de gea, who's form i can't really judge but who's a rookie when it comes to big international tournaments. If valdes...

Keep him, let him be our elder statesman and captain and help easing in the canteranos. I guarantee you with lucho he won't play one second more than is beneficial for the team. btw xavi's close up after the 1:5 was heartbreaking. i don't care about the world cup any more, messi can have it or...

haven't felt this empty after a game from spain since...well actually 2006 when they lost to zidane. well' it's been 8 fine years! I'd say the match was lost with silva's chance/van persies wondergoal right before halftime, that shifted the momentum. overall, i wouldn't say spain's playing...

I could live with host nations getting some "soft" benefits, for instance when brazil faces a very physical side, then they'll use a girl soccer approach to fouls (apologies to all girl soccer players, you're totally awesome) rather than premier league level. But these blatant calls that...

the sad thing is that nishimura is technically a good referee and was so until the penalty. it really looks like some higher ups got cold feet after the first goal and then told him during the break "look, lets give em 20 minutes to turn this around on their own, and if not you'll know what to...

no bergkamp thread worth its salt will leave out this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHELKXxCqms Saw this goal live on tv and in terms of footballistic beauty it doesn't get better than this. de boer's 60 m pass from downtown, and he brings it down like a throw in, nutmeggs ayala and then...

I wouldn't mind if he stays, granted that he would accept his role as super sub (which in all fairness is a lot to ask), but i will say this: my first thought when we bought cesc was "okay, so...why?" but i had complete faith that pep or whoever was pushing for his signing knew their stuff and...

really? that's quite unusual, i don't think i've ever heard a barca player saying anything negativ about messi. But i agree, a good thing if true. leave it to xavi to drop the truth bombs!

hmm take a stroll down the cuenca thread and you shan't be disappointed we're not living in a black and white fairy tale my friend. the fact of the matter is, there are many people out there, and a lot of them are cunts. some of them support real, others support barca. if you keep looking for...