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As expected New Zealand beat Pakistan and India is officially out of the World Cup!

The best match in the World Cup so far was played today! Both teams definitely deserved to be in the final four, India was so close of catching Australia…. Probably India will be eliminated, which will be quite a disappointed, it will depends on New Zealand that has to beat Pakistan tomorrow.

Well i guess i understand now why Australia has won the last three World Cups and is the main favorite to also grab this one. Was expecting good fight but instead got a walk in the park from the australians against New Zealand. Bowled out and losing by 60 runs. What a team! This week next matches are expectingly less interesting, don't expect any surprises. A good one will happen next 13 October, with Australia vs India

Probably the best match of the tournament so far, between what are probably the top 2 of Group B. Tomorrow’s might be a good one: current World Champions Australia vs New Zealand

true, but was expecting India to get troubles from Australia, not from New Zealand, and specially not by being bowled out. Makes the group phase interesting though

I’ve been recently introduced by some friends to cricket (or the t20 version of it, at least) and actually liked it so I’m following the World Cup that’s happening during this month

Tried to open a new topic for the Women's World Cup like the one for Men's but i guess the common thread will have to do it for the girls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway, some interesting matches on this first four days i would say, especially the defeat of India agains New Zealand.

What a win, and what a year for this guy!

You should send Jerry Heil one day, she's really good!

Cooling down after Olympic with the Cycling world champs, and some football Champions League games

Ah interesting! And you know if they will have some World championship event next years or will it only be again during the next world games?

Btw are the competitions of park and street in the world games “the” world championships? Or does skateboarding have a separated event for that?

This was a fun one. Portugal scored a goal that went through the net and the referees didn’t allow it that’s why nobody (except from Portuguese for some reason, and I guess Spanish and Italians) care about this sport haha

Man this made me miss home... frango assado....

And another one. This mf just does not stop I do feel this international breaks are here to remind me how much i hate Roberto Martinez for being the most useless coach i can remember seeing in the Portuguese national team, even worse than Queiroz (which was stubborn, but at least had ideas. Martinez looks like me if they ask me to do work for which i have no qualifications for it. "Fake until you make it" is for sure his motto )

WSL Finals ended up with John John Florence becoming World Champion (2-0 against Italo Ferreira) and Caitlin Simmers beating by 2-1 Caroline Marks great finals, specially the first heat of the women’s title match. Also impressive Ítalo beating everyone from the 5th spot until the title match, too bad John John was better this time but I believe he’ll do it again soon.

In case someone's into Surfing, today are the WSL finals where a new champion (male and female) will be crowned

900 is a pretty big number. Also nice that this happened during a Portugal national team match, while playing for a home crowd in Lisboa.

For this TISC, I bring you back to the late 70s/early 80s, a very important period in Portuguese history: this was the early years of democracy, which returned to Portugal after almost 50 years of cruel and hard fascist dictatorship, which included a 13 year war in Africa that no one wanted to fight except our dictator. The dictatorship ended in 1974, April 25th with our bloodless democratic revolution, and the following years had some political instability (communists trying to take over, democratic forces trying to put things back on track), but in general the feeling in the streets was that of a nation forced into silence for half a century and that now had the freedom to speak, to sing, to kiss and to dance in the streets. So as you can imagine, a lot of artists and songs came up in this years, all in a particular style that we would associate to this era. Among them, was a man called Antonio Variações, a barbershop man who liked to sing during his work, and that got the attention of one of his clients: a famous tv show presenter. He became incredible famous for his happiness and joyful while singing, and later on for sadly becoming one of the first big public figures to die of AIDS, at the very early age of 39. He produced and sang several hits that are now great classics of Portuguese music history. For TISC Open 2024, Portugal presents the most famous of his songs, released to the radios moments before he got admitted to the hospital where he would die a few days later. I hope some of you enjoy it PORTUGAL António Variações - Canção do Engate

This one will forever be - to me - the corona song, due to that amazing kpn advertisement "ode aan nederland". Kippenvel everytime i see it

I remember the Porto defeat to this day, with Artmedia (which everyone would call "Artmerdia", that looks like portuguese word for crap - merda - in order to make fun of Porto fans after the defeat ), that was quite a surprise haha

is in of course

Not sure how are they in France now but i remember looking at the Equipe newspaper and being jealous of the headlines they gave to non-football (of course football is still the big headline majority of times, but i remember seeing several times big covers for other sports, either after they win or just because some big competition was coming up). There has been good improvements in some newspapers though. But the big problem are the tv channels, that's where the attention is given 100% to football clubs drama (almost every night there are "sport talkshows" in every channel, lasting for one or two hours, where they only talk about benfica/porto/sporting topics). But tv channels also are mostly just a reflection of how majority of people think. For example, one of the saddest things i remember seeing while i was still living there: Nelson Évora, at the time one of the only four gold medallists in our entire history, after he won the medal, decided to change his training club (for the same reason anyone changes jobs, to get better compensation), and decided to leave Benfica and join Sporting (football club rivals from Lisbon). Did anyone cared about triple jump at all? About athletics? No. And yet, the backlash of this was so big that people started to hate him, boo him, stop following on social networks, all this things just because he had left one football club to join some other. This was in 2016. Today, 2024, and there are still a lot of people that got happy because he didn't make it to the Olympics, because of what happened back them... Football clubism in Portugal is a super toxic disease and one of the things that i hate there (and that i'm glad is not as bad here in NL )

yes, I had some hopes for Pimenta and Jorge Fonseca for example. Also the triathlon guys did a great job, wasn’t expecting medals but their race was really good. i believe that with a better sport culture (not great for now) and a bit help from the media (giving proper space to non-football sports) things would be better. unfortunately media interest only come after the success, and last for little time. My best example was when Rui Costa became the first Portuguese ever Road Cycling World Champion, and not a single one Portuguese tv channel was showing his race, I was following it via YouTube or something like that. when he won, and specially because he had beaten a Spanish in the finish line, everyone got sudden interest (tv show guest, memes, congratulated by politicians). And, like Iuri now, that interest died the next weekend when club football started again