thiago_simoes

I understand @heywoodu. I can't force myself to, even though I'm Brazilian.

Neymar is an idiot. I am sorry he represents my country. Now the commentator on Brazilian TV is saying Neymar is a good boy and trying to capitalize on all this fake drama and fake crying. Yuck.

Even the Brazilian coach is good at diving.

This match is disgusting on so many levels. This late goal only puts salt to the wound.

Neymar is not the solution for this team. He is this team's main problem.

So how come they didn't qualify for the World Cup?

Before the World Cup began: Brazilian hype. During (and after the World Cup): Brazilian hyperinflation.

Yes, I know, but sometimes when we discuss about it, it looks like earning Olympic gold is a walk in the park while earning the World Cup title is something next to impossible. Well, Olympic gold is pretty hard to get (Germany as a unified nation has never won it), and I know that the World Cup title is even harder, but we're still talking about two hard titles to earn. On a scale from 1 to 10, it's a level 7 title and the World Cup title is a solid 10, but both are huge achievements, in my opinion.

I, for one, was hopeful (or delusional) enough to seriously believe Argentina could challenge for the title. The first half of the match was very even, but the second half was a disaster. This could easily have been the new 7x1, and I feel bad for Argentina because I kind of like Messi (he seems very level headed and humble, opposed to CR, the buffoon, and Neymar, the stupid). They can still beat Nigeria, but things are not looking good.

Olympic gold is shunned as if it was not important, but it's funny that in recent times no nation was able to hold both Olympic and World Cup titles at the same time. The last nation to do this was Italy in the 50s, I think, and it was such a different time that we cannot really compare.

Poor Tunisia.

I predicted England would beat Tunisia 5-0. I clearly know nothing about football.

I predicted 4-0 to Belgium but I guess I was wrong. Panama is doing remarkably well given their level.

It will be fun to see who had the best prediction for today.

We use this in a Brazilian dessert called Brigadeiro. I'm sure @heywoodu must have eaten it by now.

I know. I'm just being overly dramatic (as always).

Why not Netherlands? Oh, wait...

Two hours ago everyone was talking about how Europe was doing so well and now the European world champion has lost the first match. Nice surprise.

I'm amazed by Mexico's kamikaze tactics. They will be known as Kamikazexico if they win this match.

Mexico!

Very boring match, but a deserved win for Serbia. Costa Rica has lost a lot of steam. And I agree that Europe deserves more quotas. In my opinion we should have something like this: UEFA - 14 CAF - 4 AFC - 4 CONMEBOL - 4 CONCACAF - 2 OFC - 1 And 3 quotas for intercontinental playoffs, what means every continental zone would have the chance to qualify one extra nation. Of course we need to deduct 1 quota for the host nation from the numbers above.

In Brazil, when a tennis player wins by 6 : 0, we say "pneu" (tire) and winning by double 6 : 0 is called "bicicleta" (bicycle), just like in Polish (and Serbian).

I hope he did.

Pablo Jhosua Calvache Arias.

What happened? Does he have any reason to be against the fencer or is he just being a jerk?