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Provisional Standing after Day 2 available here Tiger Soccer Award @sounak (11 points out of 15 maximum) Walk of shame @Gianlu33 @NikolaB @rybak (amazing effort to collect one pity point)

so draw, draw, draw .and POR will be world champion ?

I've got many - right now I'm doing a Hungarian-Polish-English sport dictionary for my master's degree, so the topic is really interesting for me. For example searching for "scissor kick" in football (called soccer in AmE) in Hungarian I found word "ollózás", which means scissoring. I checked in Google, if ollózás is really, what I'm looking for and... well, it is, but among the movies showing such a spectacular kick there were some... lesbian intercourses. The one with "basket" ("kosz" in Polish) seems to be a case in many languages, for example "rzucić kosza" (throw a basket) means to score. As well as @Gianlu33 said about Italian, we also use "fight" in all sports. In field hockey the stick is called "laska", which is also popular word for an attractive, young woman (probably because of the slim shape of a stick, not only in field hockey, but also the one used by elder people to help at walking). The word "canoe" (not the kayak) is "kanadyjka" which means (written with capital - "Kanadyjka") the Canadian [woman, girl...]. The ski-flying hill is called "skocznia mamucia" which means "mammoth hill". Also the "body check" came to Polish in a form of "bodiczek" (in Hungarian it's also "bodicsek"). My theory (maybe someone might confirm) is it was used by Czechs and Slovaks, which are the most hockey nations in our region, in original, English form, but as it sounds very Czech/Slovak, we adopted it as the word of Czech/Slovak origin, which is (at least in Polish) important because of declination. In modern pentathlon, before the name "laser-run" was introducted we used the word "kombajn" in everyday talk (rather not in official press reports), because it sounds like a "combined" which was the name of the event of run and shoot. "Kombajn" is a word for a harvester machine. Also Russians used such a word (our languages are quite similar) and when I typed the Russian texts about competitions to Google Translate it translated as "food processor..." About such a funny stories as @hckosice said about hole, our biggest sport journalism legend, Bohdan Tomaszewski, once said about Irena Szewińska "Pani Irena nie jest już tak świeża w kroku jak kiedyś" which may mean to thing - "she's not as fresh in stride as earlier" (which is what he meant as she was a runner) or "she's not as fresh in crotch as earlier" (which is why the sentence is so funny). Another double meaning, also by Mr Tomaszewski, about our cyclist - "Ryszard Szurkowski - cudowne dziecko dwóch pedałów" - "Ryszard Szurkowski - a wonderful child of two pedals" ("pedał" is also a vulgar word for homosexual).

Provisional Standing after Day 1 available here Teddy Bear Award @thiago_simoes (predicted 5-0 for Russia) Walk of shame @Olympian1010 (predicted the win for Saudi Arabia)

I am glad there are 50+ participants. But that UEFA Euro 2012 prediction contest will remain legendary it seems. There were more than 100 participants from the start I think, and eventually the total number was around 130 which was wow! And I remember that one cause it was my first prediction contest win and podium at all. I think @thepharoah was the second. I still wonder how Deuce managed to run the contest

You may love him, you may hate him, but CR7 is just at his best tonight

That's exactly what a person brainwashed by western media would say. Try to discredit me as much as you want, but there is a clear agenda by having the world cup at this exact date. Think about it: The first time a world cup is played in a muslim country, it will be played at a completely different date, why is that? Why did so many nations try to take the world cup away from Qatar? Let me help you, it's because they are afraid that muslim countries will beat them if the world cup doesn't take place during ramadan.

Have discussed your islamophobia problem with a psychiatrist? This is already the second negative comment about inmigrants you made this week.

People talk about "luck" like they never watched football before, luck always plays a big factor in football we were unlucky so many times in World Cup before so I take this win proudly and don't give a shit about all these things. the first 10 minutes was terrible but since then the match was pretty even and Iran missed the best chance of the match (Azmoun missing one-on-one in first half) of course it wasn't the best match we ever played but who cares, at this level the final score is the only thing matters. after those two forced substitutions I was OK with a draw but we got a lucky goal at the end. even though we were always good on set pieces. that was Morocco's fault giving up that foul near the box. I just hope Queiroz uses a better formation for the next matches, we can play much better than this. but for now, we have 5 days to celebrate this. and I think people are already celebrating this on the streets. winning a match in World Cup is always something special.

Bentancur and Nandez were their usual selves: awful. Uruguay needs different midfielders for next games. Egypt is not out but now they need the win vs Russia. Draw won't be enough as I don't see them scoring +5 with KSA.

Kara in Polish means penalty or punishment so you're right about that However pilka also means hand saw in Polish It's generally a term for any kind of a ball in first place. Hand saw: Football magazine: Dostoyevski's "Crime & Punishment"

Well, award is award. One point is great achivement, cus its not 0 lol

The thing is, you can still win. Italy can't

YAASS! An award for me!

It's a tattical move . The same move that our team do against Sweden

Give me a second, Just a moment to imagine it

Iran leads the group What a gift

5 goals in 4 games in last 5 minutes

Decent way to answer to the country that gave you a 2 year jail sentence (sort of, not like he actually has to go) and an 18 million euro fine

Qatar has bought everything now, World Cup, World Athletics Champs, World Handball champs, their handball team had like two natives and rest just foreigners bought for cash. I wonder how many natives will play football in four years time? Qatar is one huge desert, you might as well play in on Sahara but Qatar has the money to bankroll their wishes. Besides, I'm from Poland that has never been described as a Western country

What a clash of titans

Iran Riots in major cities in the Netherlands in 3, 2...

Say what you want, but Saudis didn't score any own goals yesterday.

What a stupid own goal! How can you aim to the only place you shouldn't??

It was just luck. I hope Japan and South Korea will show more.

A terrible game - but I don't think anyone in Teheran will care...

Hello

And we were thinking nobody can go worse than Saudis yesterday. Bunch of loosers come to World Cup to show nothing

Antishow of football. Shamefull

And the Oscar goes to... Suarez!

the yellow card should be for the URU and his theatralism

Perfect prediction Let's see if I can jinx it again... EDIT: Wait, looks like I have different predictions on Totallympics and Match Predictor. Nevermind.

those attackers of URU are possessed against goalkeeper having 47 years old

and with this one, it's really over... the 2017/2018 season, which started back in August of last year, has just delivered the last match of the season... I'm quite exhausted...I don't know how many games I've watched in these months, but they've been a monster number for sure... I feel I really need a break...but I'm sure that in a week or so, I'm gonna be heavily depressed (I'm gonna have a real abstinence crisis) and very anxious about the new season to start...actually, I just can't wait for that right now... my dear hockey fans...see you soon...

Happy holidays to our Muslim friends at forum How many days it is celebrated after fasting?

Droga means "drug" also in Italian (actually, between Italian and Portuguese and Spanish there are a lot of words with similar meaning)... but when it comes to the ITA vs POR translation, the most "tricky" word is the verb "ficar", which is "to stay" or "to put" (I don't know the exact use of that in POR)... so, if you use the imperative form, it sounds "fica...and so on"...but in Italian that world literally means "vagina" (and it's not the medical version for that, since in this case you have to say "vagina" -pronounced "vageena"- also here)... p.s. some of you might also have geard the word "figa", which is exactly the same (it's used in many regions, especially in Northern Italy instead of the proper Italian word with the "c")...on the other side, if it's written and said in the male version ("figo") literally means "cool"...it's not a word you should use in a formal speech, but nowadays is normally accepted also on tv broadcasts at least)...

Láska is in CZ/SK love btw there a lot of similar words between our nations, I remember quickly that in Ice Hockey for the penalty you use the word "Kára" which in our language mean Funeral Carriage lol. and in other sports, for example Ball is in PL - Pilka (Football - Pilka nožna) right ? Pilka is in our language a Hand saw And you are right. Body Check came from N. American hockey here, peoples started to use it as it sounds really similar to our language and was thus easier to remember, so we just adapted it to our writing - Bodyček.

, and tomorrow. Supporting , and (in that order) for the tournament in general.

Great prediction @thiago_simoes !

Just some news from the rhytmic. For the italian sport press we'll have the apparatus finals, so a lot of medals for Italy

I've never read so much bullshit in one post before...

I was paid off by the Saudi’s to predict them winning . In all honesty I made my predictions before I did my research, like a dummy. But I am gracious for the award, I like come from behind victories anyway

My avatar will be "the trophy" for the "walk of shame" award, thank you

Competition Schudule: http://www.tarragona2018.cat/content/uploads/2018/06/HORARIOS-COMPETICION-TARRAGONA-2018_ESP.pdf

This is imo the only reason why an african nation never won the world cup. Think about this: Why has Turkey never won the world cup? Western nations conspired to have the world cup at this time of the year so that african nations are too weak to beat them, in 4 years it will be very different.

Our team is known except rosters in team sports http://www.zurnal.rs/miks/ostali-sportovi/65095/orlovi-sa-cak-140-takmicara-na-mediteranskim-igrama-u-taragoni?lang=lat Of olympic medalists there will be Španović, Štefanek and i guess water polo players among others there will be several world and european medalists

1 week to go and the official site still very poor no list of athletes no live scoring no news ...