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I just finished watching the match, I think Piroddu will remember this for a while, he gave up two takedowns both of them on his own attack. he could easily score on both but instead he gave up points ! I think the first action was definitely a 2 and not 4. cuz the action started on the ground. that wasn't a 4pts throw. and the last action was also just one point pushout . that was no way a takedown. they used to penalize these kind of actions as fleeing with 2pts + caution but if I'm not wrong the new rules say 1pts + caution ! (they change the rules day to day so even for me it's hard to be up to date about the rules ) but I didn't understand what happened after the challenge , they removed the caution and gave the challenge thing back to the Italian coach !! if their challenge was wrong (which it was) they should gave another point to the Uzbek guy. and yeah success in cadet level doesn't necessarily mean success in Junior/Senior levels. specially in Greco because Greco is less technical. but this kid has the talent, i believe he has a Greco background, he needs more experience in freestyle competition to not lose the single leg twice. this semifinal was his match to lose.

Iran won the team title in World Freestyle Cadet Championship in Croatia. finally a bit success for our freestyle program ! even though winning 3 out of 10 gold medals is not something to celebrate too much but some of these kids did great and that was the first team title for Iran after 22 years ! USA and Russia finished 2nd and 3rd in team ranking . I wonder if Iran already seleceted the wrestlers for the Youth Olympics (cuz Iran qualified 3 wrestlers and have to pick 2) but if not Zare at super heavyweight deserves one of the spots. other two guts won silver and bronze ,it will be hard to pick any of them. btw Italy also won a bronze medal in men's freestyle by a home grown wrestler. which was interesting and the Italian kid almost made it to the final. he lost narrowly to the eventual gold medalist from Uzbekistan (if I'm not wrong)

Iran won the team title in World Freestyle Cadet Championship in Croatia. finally a bit success for our freestyle program ! even though winning 3 out of 10 gold medals is not something to celebrate too much but some of these kids did great and that was the first team title for Iran after 22 years ! USA and Russia finished 2nd and 3rd in team ranking . I wonder if Iran already seleceted the wrestlers for the Youth Olympics (cuz Iran qualified 3 wrestlers and have to pick 2) but if not Zare at super heavyweight deserves one of the spots. other two guts won silver and bronze ,it will be hard to pick any of them. btw Italy also won a bronze medal in men's freestyle by a home grown wrestler. which was interesting and the Italian kid almost made it to the final. he lost narrowly to the eventual gold medalist from Uzbekistan (if I'm not wrong)

Iran won the team title in World Freestyle Cadet Championship in Croatia. finally a bit success for our freestyle program ! even though winning 3 out of 10 gold medals is not something to celebrate too much but some of these kids did great and that was the first team title for Iran after 22 years ! USA and Russia finished 2nd and 3rd in team ranking . I wonder if Iran already seleceted the wrestlers for the Youth Olympics (cuz Iran qualified 3 wrestlers and have to pick 2) but if not Zare at super heavyweight deserves one of the spots. other two guts won silver and bronze ,it will be hard to pick any of them. btw Italy also won a bronze medal in men's freestyle by a home grown wrestler. which was interesting and the Italian kid almost made it to the final. he lost narrowly to the eventual gold medalist from Uzbekistan (if I'm not wrong)

It is commonly said that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I wonder if this match makes Belgium stronger , A real title contender Japan played great. just great but that was stupid to attack in last minute with so many players against such dangerous team. you have to learn to park the bus sometimes.

that's NBA player Thon Maker I'm sure he didn't know how to fight before today. btw I wonder if FIBA suspends Filipino players. at least some of them deserve that. specially their star player Castro. and guess who is their next opponent in next round ? Iran we also have them in our group for the Asian Games. sooooo I'm not against any kind of suspensions for them this is terrible that our loss to Iraq will carry forward to the next round even though Iraq is eliminated ! even though I think we need only two more wins to qualify. but Japan looks scary the way they played in this 3rd window.

well refs disqualified 9 Filipino players ! and with only 3 left we had 5 vs 3 basketball for few minutes before the remaining players fouling out intentionally ! what a shame

since the match was "very interesting" I was almost sleeping on my couch before the commentator screamed for the penalty

Karate quotas for the 2nd day. Men's -61: Men's -68: Men's +68: Women's -53: Women's -59: Women's +59:

Qualified athletes after the 1st day of Karate Qualification tournament Female Kumite -53kg: Aika Okazaki (THA) and Yasmin Nasr Elgewily (EGY) Male Kumite -61kg: Mohammed Alassiri (KSA) and Abdallah Hammad (JOR) Female Kumite -59kg: Anna Chernysheva (RUS) and Mobina Heydariozomcheloe (IRI) Male Kumite -68kg: Robert Shyroian (UKR) and Kotaro Nakamura (JPN) Female Kumite +59kg: Janessa Michelle Fonseca (PUR) and Annika Saelid (NOR) Kumite Male +68kg: Keisei Sakiyama (JPN) and Robert Avakimov (RUS)

Shame on Japan now they are wasting time !!! against such a poor Polish team. it's not like they are playing Brazil ! now I won't get upset if Senegal scores.

I don't think so. Japan has two yellow cards less 1+2+1 for Japan 2+3+1 for Senegal

what about giving 30 spots to Europe + Brazil and Argentina and kill the rest of the world ? that would be fair I guess . why the rest of the world even exists ?! btw I'm a big fan of Italy. I love Italy NT more or less the same as Iran but they deserve to "not qualify" when they picked someone like Ventura to lead the team.

and you can make fun of them when they lose. but I was reading the forum during Panama-ENG match and even during that match someone was complaining about the number of Asian teams ! even Saudi Arabia wasn't that disastrous after the first match.

well done Korea. but yeah I know people still make fun of Asian teams even when Panama lose by 6 goals. and who says Sweden can't beat Mexico ? they did actually but I'm glad Mexico got lucky at the end. they deserved a little luck after winning 2 matches.

Congrats for the qualification but seriously out of all those accidents "all of them called against Iran" you picked this one to complain about ? Ronaldo's penalty was 50/50 at best. and there were 2-3 accidents in your box beside that penalty. 1 or 2 them were very suspicious. and above all so many people believe your Ronaldo should get a red card which would end his World Cup. cuz such red cards usually mean 2-3 matches ban. you are very lucky to have him in the next round. and that was a handball. that's the rule. if you raise your hand and touch the ball that's a foul. that was a cheap penalty I know but that's the rule. btw good luck for the rest of the tournament. people like Portugal here because of Queiroz.

Taremi Taremi Taremi Taremi Taremi he broke 80 millions heart tonight by missing that almost one-on-one chance in extra time. as when he missed that header against Spain. either of them could send us to the next round . he was crying like a baby after the match, I just hope fans don't be harsh on him. to me he played great despite missing big big chances in these two matches. and what about the ref ? looks like VAR is only there to help the big teams, there were 3 accidents in Portugal's box and if that Ronaldo's dive was a penalty, then they were penalty as well. but the funniest thing was the extra time. we had 3 VAR review in 2nd half, each one of them wasted at least 3 minutes plus that was a tense game full of fouls and protests. still he gave us only 6+1 minutes ! and Ronaldo was lucky to get away with a yellow after elbowing Pourali-G. even though I believe that was the correct decision but still any other player would get a red card for that. ppffff. so this is it. our players gave their everything in such a tough group. even Morocco was the best African team. to me all of them did their job and they were great. I didn't expect more but damn we were close this time. really close

I have to admit KSA played much better and that was a well-deserved win. they are not that bad as we saw in first match, they are not just fighters , sometimes they just give up easily when they are behind but the Colombian ref also tried his best to help Saudi Arabia. and I'm not just talking about that phantom penalty.

and probably this Colombian referee will be a bit richer tomorrow. or maybe a lot richer. and this is what we always see with Saudi Arabia when they play in Asia. but didn't expect that in a world cup match !

I know but this is different. in that case only two teams were tied and after GD and number of goals. obviously they went for the head to head match but if 3 teams are tied. on points, GD and number of goals. they will remove results against the 4th places teams (Korea in this case) . now Sweden has more number of goals. now between Mexico and Germany the question is will they re-apply the tie breaking criteria once again (starting from criteria 1) or they will just go the next criteria. "fair play"

No Mexico will advance by virtue of beating Germany in head to head match Edit. I might be wrong here. that's the way in sports like basketball. not sure if that applies for FIFA rules or not.

to me that's OK for one or two nights but yeah I got sick badly during the 2008 Olympics. you can't do that for two weeks. I was student at the time and had to wake up VERY early in the morning for the competitions and then had to stay late in the night for doing my things. yeah good old days

You never watched a match after 1 am ? the easiest thing for me to do is not sleeping the whole night when there is something important to watch

That Korean late goal might hurt Mexico at the end. this is still possible to have 3 teams with 6 points in this group. a 2-1 (or 3-2 or more) win for Germany is the worst possible result for Mexico.

OK I found which countries I missed