Danny here makes a good point

Q ECUADOR vaya hasta el segundo round i would be happy, but still im happy por el tri

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X4v13r wrote:

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DulceGalletita wrote: X4v13r wrote: X@vier S.H.I.O.T: Ummm, is anyone joining or doing like a soccer pool for the World Cup??? I did the last world cup and had to give $5 ... I wanna do it again sounds like a good idea to me, I'm in if it happens but it has to be $20. X@vier

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Ummm, $20 ... Ok I'm in too ... will someone organize this from foro ...

Im going to try to get a hold of the guy that did this 4 years ago and ask him if he is still doing this and how much??

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X@vier

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S.H.I.O.T: Ummm, is anyone joining or doing like a soccer pool for the World Cup??? I did the last world cup and had to give $5 ... I wanna do it again

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rick wrote: why can t we discuss it now?? maybe because you got nothing ???.. why are you bringin laura in a soccer conversation?? why do you bring the war in a soccer conversation??.. you talked about ecuador this and ecuador that ,, we are the best  all the other southamerican teams are the worst. you said people don t know about soccer and i wanna discuss soccer history with you and you run away??... ok watever bro... and yea at least i won watch my country finishin last in their group .. at least i won have to hide myself when all the other foro people start a topic about ecuador losing in the first round ... and also i can talk to you about soccer history from any other southamerican country (except bolivia and venezuela) and compared it to the soccer history from ecuador cuz i was tired and i went to sleep ... and ur an idiot obiously ..i never said ecuadors the best team in south america.. and if my teams looses so what???a real fan should support their team anyways.. like i said at least we made it and peru didint ..thats all i can say..must suck for u that u cant go for ur country!;P u know deep down u would have wanted them to make it and big deal if u have more soccer history then us ...we can swtich this around in many angles....were did u guys finish this time ??thats right second last..ur team sucks now ..i dont even see u on the fifa rankings hahaha   thank u im out again!!! :p

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All of a sudden I totally understand Miss Exotic. 

Jajajajajaja ok finally 4 pages jajajaj done reading,

Very interesting.  Thanks for all the history I learned a lot.  But I still think Mexico is going to win LOL.

FYI...Danny - you did say Ecuador's was the best team in the secound page.

Mexico, Mexico, Mexico.

Yesi

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ok , i see your point .. but i just gotta do a simple math ... if there are more teams now , it means you have more chances to make it ??? doesn it?? .. if there were less teams before that means your chances to make were less. is like sayin before you had 14 chances to make it now you have 32 chances to make it anyways man , good luck to ecuador all the best .. i want the the spanish teams to do good .. i want a spanish team to win the world cup .. np matter who it is

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no bro u got it twisted it was easier to make it back there then it is now, bro even india made the world cup, but they were diqulified for not playing with shoes, but thanks for the support ñaño we appricite it

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nice piece of history but whats the point of it ???... the only point i can see in that article is that peru loss against argentina 6 - 0 . but there may be something you forgot , the peruvian goolie was argentinian (nacionalizado peruano) and hel fue amenazado por el gobierno de ese tiempo . and i m not sayin that , the goolei quiroga (if i m not mistaken) said that once long time ago

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my point is bro that there are more teams in the world cup then before when peru made it, but u know what bro we got to stick together no matter what we are a minoriti

• Year: 1978
  
• Host: Argentina
  
• Participating Teams: 16
  
• Canada: Finished 4th in CONCACAF final round qualifying

A troubled political climate threatened to derail the 1978 World Cup tournament even before it began.

A number of countries expressed concern about playing in Argentina, given the government's record on human rights. Among the thousands of people killed under the military dictatorship of General Videla was Omar Actis, president of the World Cup Organizing Committee, who was assassinated by the guerrillas.

The miliary junta guaranteed there would be no violence during the tournament, which went off without a major incident of violence.

Despite a widespread call to boycott the event, all of the top soccer playing nations agreed to attend, provided they qualified. Those who failed to make the cross-Atlantic trek included England, Yugoslavia and USSR.

The 1978 final saw France make a return engagement after a 12-year hiatus but their appearance would be short-lived as they failed to advance past the first round, suffering losses to both Italy and Argentina.

Tunisia made history by becoming the first African nation to win a match at the World Cup when they beat Mexico 3-1. Tunisia later held defending champions West Germany to a goalless draw, but it wasn't enough for advancement to the second round.

Scotland qualified for the World Cup as Britain's sole representative and, with the likes of Kenny Dalglish and Graeme Souness in the lineup, expectations were high that the team would advance to the second round for the first time in their history. But alas, a loss to Peru and a tie against Iran scuttled their hopes for advancement however, the team did go out on a high note, defeating the Netherlands 3-2.

All of the pre-tournament favorites advanced to the second round with relative ease except for the Netherlands, who were without premier player Johan Cruyff who elected not to play due to the political situation in Argentina.

After beating newcomers Iran 3-0, the Dutch side settled for a scoreless tie against Peru before losing 3-2 to Scotland. Still it was enough to get them into the second round, which saw them paired with Italy, West Germany and Austria. Led by Rob Rensenbrink, the Dutch team found their soccer legs with a 5-1 win against the Austrians, knocking off the Italians 2-1 and tying 2-2 against the Germans. Italy's loss and the Austria's 3-2 upset of the Germans vaulted the Netherlands into the final.

In the second group, a struggle emerged between South American rivals Argentina and Brazil.

After each team scored a win in its opening match and battled to a tie against each other, the Brazilians appeared set to move into the final with a 3-1 win over Poland. That left Argentina with the daunting task of winning by four goals against Peru in its final match. Sparked by the tournament's leading scorer and the mysterious absence of Peru's top goaltender, the host nation scored a convincing 6-0 win to join the Netherlands in the final.

Kempes would again emerge as the hero, opening the scoring in the final before the Dutch equalized on a goal by substitute Dick Nanninga. The score stayed that way until 14 minutes into overtime when Kempes struck again for what proved to be the winning marker. Then with five minutes left to play, Daniel Bertoni booted the third goal for Argentina, who won their first title after reaching the final for the first time since 1930.

• Year: 1982
  
• Host: Spain
  
• Participating Teams: 24
  
• HOW CANADA FARED: Failed to qualify. Finished fourth in final round of CONCACAF qualifying with 1-3-1 record. (Honduras & El Salvador qualified)

Under new rules, 13 teams qualified from Europe, three from South America, two from Africa, two from Asia/Oceania and two from CONCACAF (Central and North America). Host Spain and defending FIFA World Cup champions Argentina received automatic bids.

The new tournament format broke down into three different phases: The first round consisted of six groups of four teams with the top two nations advancing; a second round with four groups of three teams from which the top nation in each group qualified; and finally the semi-finals and final.

Tournament favourites France, West Germany and Italy all struggled to advance to the second phase. A tie with the Czech's in the final game of the opening group phase was enough for the French to sneak through behind Group D winners England while the Germans recovered from an opening game shock loss to Algeria to finish first in Group B with a win over Austria in its final game. The Italians, after a pair of draws against Poland and Peru, found themselves in a life and death struggled to advance in their final game against Cameroon. A 1-1 tie forced the matter to be decided on goal differential, which barely swung in Italy's favour.

All three teams discareded their opening round jitters and went on to win their respective groups in the second phase with Italy knocking off both defending champions Argentina and their South American counterparts Brazil, in what many have dubbed one of the greatest World Cup matches ever played.

The semifinals pit Italy against Poland and West Germany against France. Paolo Rossi carried over his goal scoring magic from the second round, notching both goals in Italy's 2-0 win. In the second semifinal, West Germany and France finished regulation time tied 1-1. In extra time, the French side got goals from Tresor and Giresse just six minutes apart and looked ready to book their ticket to the final. But in a span of 10 minutes, the Germans fought back on goals by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Klaus Fischer, sending the match to a dreaded shoot-out.

Dominique Rocheteau gave France a 3-2 lead when Uli Stielike of Germany recorded the first miss. Didier Six had a chance to seal the French victory, but he too came up wanting, opening the door for Pierre Littbarski to notch the equalizer and prolong the penalty shootout. After Platini and Rummenigge made it 4-4, Maxime Bossis missed for the French side while Horst Hrubesch scored the match winner, leaving the French side in disbelief over what might have been.

The semifinal victory appeared to have taken its toll on the Germans, who - after playing to a scoreless first half - succumbed to the Italian side in a 3-1 loss. Led by Paolo Rossi and 40 year old netminder Dino Zoff, the Italians joined Brazil

@ el duro

last world cup ecuador did come last in their group .. goal differencials

HOLY MOLEEEELYYYY FINALLY DONE READING ALL 4 PAGES..

Geezzz this thread has some serious Rage and at times super funny...I wish I would have read it sooner...I had some comments to post but its too late now..sooo I all I am going to say is why is it that Argentinians pretty much shed tears when their teams loose? I cannot comprehend ...lol and Wow so much Hype going on I wonder how long this thread is going to be up to whe the games start IN TWO MONTHS people 2 meses!!! & bottom line is GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONES TEAMS (that qualified of course)I just hope its a latin team that wins! the tittle...Cuz I mean we are better at soccer then the Euros or no??..I CANT WAIT!!!

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After all this trash talk (wich I stop reading after the 2 page) the bottom line is that Ecuador is in and we as Ecuadorians are very happy about it, just like any1 else would be if their country was in. Win or Lose, we will always be proud of our team and just like any1 else we are not going to let others come and rain on our parade. We never thought this thread would get out of control but is part of what makes the WC the WC, a little bit of trash talk doesn't kill any1 it just makes it so much better but like i said before, there is a fine line to everything. Anyways, good luck to all the other teams and no matter who wins the cup lets just hope is a Latin American country because at the end of all this trash talk thats what we all are. X@vier

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YAY BABY !!!!

 !!! GO ECUADOR GO !!!

OMG all Ecuas are going to be EATEN UP Alive when we loose. LOL, LOL, LOL.

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 GRACIAS A NOSOTROS UDS SABEN LO QUE ES EL FUTBOL!!!!

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bajá ché bajá!!!!!!!!

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Chilenita wrote: Bainaman wrote: PANAMA! PANAMA! PANAMA! WHAT??? CRAP! WE DIDN'T MAKE IT!!!! There is not bat or catchers mit do you really care? Not Really!!!! I do watch the World Cup though. I guess it's all about the hype around it. I like watching people suffer when their teams lose........specially the Italians and Argentinians........mainly 'cause they'll come up with the most ridiculous excuses........the conspiracy theories are the best ones!

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Okay that is sooooooooooooooooooo true!!  World cup isn't even here yet and my husband is going on about how Argentina was put in a crappy group on purpose  I swear he is already singing that tune.  I tell him it doesn't matter what group anyone is in because if you want to be WORLD CHAMPION you will need to beat EVERY single team anyway.

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Bainaman wrote:
PANAMA! PANAMA! PANAMA! WHAT??? CRAP! WE DIDN'T MAKE IT!!!!

There is not bat or catchers mit do you really care?

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After all this trash talk (wich I stop reading after the 2 page) the bottom line is that Ecuador is in and we as Ecuadorians are very happy about it, just like any1 else would be if their country was in. Win or Lose, we will always be proud of our team and just like any1 else we are not going to let others come and rain on our parade. We never thought this thread would get out of control but is part of what makes the WC the WC, a little bit of trash talk doesn't kill any1 it just makes it so much better but like i said before, there is a fine line to everything. Anyways, good luck to all the other teams and no matter who wins the cup lets just hope is a Latin American country because at the end of all this trash talk thats what we all are. X@vier

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I agree X you guys should be happy you made it into the last two world cups.  I just think Danny is a bit annoying so people enjoy raining on his parade  It's great you guys are in and hopefully your team will make you proud.

@Danny....Ecuador is doing well no doubt but it will still be a while before you can talk SHIT about soccer in Peru....you guys have a LONG way to go b4 you can do that. 

 

why can t we discuss it now?? maybe because you got nothing ???.. why are you bringin laura in a soccer conversation?? why do you bring the war in a soccer conversation??.. you talked about ecuador this and ecuador that ,, we are the best  all the other southamerican teams are the worst.

you said people don t know about soccer and i wanna discuss soccer history with you and you run away??... ok watever bro... and yea at least i won watch my country finishin last in their group .. at least i won have to hide myself when all the other foro people start a topic about ecuador losing in the first round ...

and also i can talk to you about soccer history from any other southamerican country (except bolivia and venezuela) and compared it to the soccer history from ecuador

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hahaha go sleep danny boy ... you can only do that because ecuador has not soccer history hahahahahaha go sleep .. toma tu leche si antes de dormir

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still awake buddy.......if u wanna see it at a different angle ..were in this year and ur not ..thats what counts as well..at least i can cheer for my team and u cant ...that must suck for u eh..u wish ur team made it deep down

so go watch some reruns of laura bro ...and wel disscuss peruchoooooo soccer history some other time

thank u!!