OT: The 2026 World Cup Thread

[Guts]

? I thought it was a fantastic final.

Spain showed their pedigree throughout, the inferior team clawed and scratched, which is also enjoyable. AND then we had the ultimate drama. The inferior team, down a man and desperate, turned to the best soccer player in history and he once again took over by making play after play and almost equalizing, which would have been improbable. If not for a Spanish defender's smashed face, we go to penalty kicks.

Shades of 2015 Denver versus Patriots.

Not really this was belt to ass lol
You could say that ArgenFIFA got lucky Spain wasn't clinical or it could've gotten ugly

 

[Triumph]

In other countries, there was a dot next to the country code indicating their uniform color. Here on Fox you had to realize it was the stripe under their name.

Yes it was and it was encapsulating the score. Inside the score box was an obscure shade of green. During one of the Mexico games, the green score box color matched the green color identifying Mexico. It didnt matter I suppose because Mexico is one of the easier teams to identify.

Also, either MAR [from the French] or MOR is something of an insult to the country, since the actual name for the country in Arabic, their official language, is Maghreb. [Egypt is even worse, as they're Masr.] Plus FIFA doesn't produce chyrons in non-Latin alphabet languages, so a lot of other countries have to do extra work, too.

A soccer fan on here mentioned that MAR is an old school name for Morocco.

 

[Boomer B]

? I thought it was a fantastic final.

Spain showed their pedigree throughout, the inferior team clawed and scratched, which is also enjoyable. AND then we had the ultimate drama. The inferior team, down a man and desperate, turned to the best soccer player in history and he once again took over by making play after play and almost equalizing, which would have been improbable. If not for a Spanish defender's smashed face, we go to penalty kicks.

Shades of 2015 Denver versus Patriots.

“Clawed and scratched…which is also enjoyable”.

They didn’t have a shot in regulation. The football equivalent of 3 runs up the middle and a punt.

 

[rochrist]

The improvements recommended are valid.

The ball hitting a wire on a goal and a players hand touching the ball on a goal are inexcusable. In a sport with so little scoring you'd surmise that they would strive to get it right. Nope, oh well. See ya in 4 years.

In some of the games, I could not tell who was playing who. It wasn't just me either. Friends didnt know what country was in what jersey. Morocco is abbreviated MAR. Clear as mud. I do not wish to be on my phone googling everything, about a game that I am trying to watch.

The NFL cleaned up its act. It used to be half axx like soccer, but no more.

Holding the NFL up as a paragon that has 'cleaned up its act' is pretty funny.

 

[Guts]

“Clawed and scratched…which is also enjoyable”.

They didn’t have a shot in regulation. The football equivalent of 3 runs up the middle and a punt.

belt to ass bro

 

[borg]

Holding the NFL up as a paragon that has 'cleaned up its act' is pretty funny.

Baseball is a 4 hour food court that people buy tickets to eat at.
The NFL is a platform to broadcast 120 commercials woven into 15 minutes of action over a span of 3 hrs 20 mins
We are more conditioned than Pavlov's dog.

 

[upstater1]

“Clawed and scratched…which is also enjoyable”.

They didn’t have a shot in regulation. The football equivalent of 3 runs up the middle and a punt.

Spain didn't score either!

So teams start taking more chances when they were desperate.

Think of the 2018 Super Bowl. Patriots were guarded, and then they weren't, or 2003.

After the Spanish goal, Messi whipped them into a frenzy and they had plenty of shots and could have easily equalized.

 

[Boomer B]

Spain didn't score either!

So teams start taking more chances when they were desperate.

Think of the 2018 Super Bowl. Patriots were guarded, and then they weren't, or 2003.

After the Spanish goal, Messi whipped them into a frenzy and they had plenty of shots and could have easily equalized.

Whipped them into a frenzy? Did you watch a different game than the rest of us? Every outlet has called it one of the most boring finals ever. One team came to play, the other didn’t. Spain should have won 3-0.