Ghana Loses Muntari & Boateng
This needs a thread
http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2014/6/26/5845046/ghana-kevin-prince-boa…
There's just a few hours remaining until Ghana face Portugal in one last bid to progress to the next round of the World Cup, but over the past few days, the team has been thrown into chaos. The disputes reached a head this morning, when coach Kwesi Appiah announced that Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sulley Muntarihad been sacked.
BREAK: #GHA coach Kwesi Appiah confirms sacking Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sulley Muntari from team camp.
— Gary Al-Smith (@garyalsmith) June 26, 2014
As a result of yellow card accumulation. So that wouldn't have mattered anyways.
Good for him, now he's free to spend more time boateng.
Bravo
said something about players refusing to play because they weren't getting paid OR there were disagreements with the coach and were suspended. I'm sure in a day or two some more clarification will come out.
Doesn't matter. We're gonna beat those nazi bastards anyway.
A tad over the line
Srsly. I didn't say WAY over the line, just a tad. I don't think that comment will be received well by the majority of the board. Just some friendly feedback without a neg from me.
But I agree. These aren't the stereotypes of the current Germans. This is associating them with some of the worst atrocities and people in the history of our civilization, rather than poking fun of stereotypes. Not to turn this into the awful "Redskin" debate that happened last night or anything, and I'm not exactly offended by it, but I will assume that the continuous uncreative mocking of a country and its people for something very few of them are even associated with (and likely not many more than Americans associated with the same things, given the racial tensions that exist in our society) gets a bit tiring, given the subject matter, and is probably a bit over the line and maybe we should move on to something else.
Agreed. It's like basing your assessments of white Americans on watching Roots. I'm all for casual slander of a group, so long as it is funny and non-offensive. Like telling my Italian friends to go eat some spaghetti. Or asking my Mexican friends if they could climb the fence to retrieve our soccer ball, because...
But I know quite a few Germans, and the "N" word associated with them is as derogatory as the "N" word associated with blacks.
I assume you mean the argument that Germans were the aggressors and blacks were victims, in regards to the association with their respective titles?
While that is true, present day Germans are also victimized by their association with a terrible chapter in history. It's a totally separate set of circumstances, obviously, but neither group deserves the condemnation in any way.
I recall a fetching young German exchange student who was living with my neighbors back in 1989. I was home after my freshman year at OSU and we were getting along very nicely until I mentioned catching a movie and suggesting Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I got an earful about Americans and how we continually keep making movies about Nazis and how we think all Germans are Nazis and the fact that we won WWII, we should just let it go already. My self-righteous, still seeing the world in mostly black and white, 19 year old self argued back about Germans either marching in lockstep or, at best, turning a blind eye to what Hitler was doing. Suffice it to say any chance of "international relations" went down in flames.
Other Germans I have met over the years have expressed similar unhappiness though my response has moderated with age and perspective. It seems younger Germans are a bit more able to shrug it off. I recall asking my in-laws exchange student a couple summers ago about the Nazi imagery in X-Men First Class and he wasn't really bothered by it. It was part of history and who the Germans were but not who they are today. Time heals, I suppose.
And the Germans make great Beer. Thanks for your input and I agree totally with your assessment. Having deployed a couple times to Germany for military operations, the Germans I've met are great people and very hospitable. I suppose my reactions to this whole thread could be explained by this fact.
But there would certainly still be neo-nazis by another name. Lest we forget our own anti-semetic history leading up to WWII, not to mention groups like the KKK, who were capable of marching tens of thousands of members down Pennsylvania Ave in the late 1920s and had approximately 4 million members at the time.
there would be a lack of one of the funniest scenes in US cinema history. 
Just call them skin heads instead.
You know who ELSE gave nice speeches?
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Otherwise I'm sure I could have convinced more people.
whoa. I had no idea that comment would get such attention. I was just joking because of all of the Nazi references being made in the media lately because a few crazy people have been showing up at the World Cup (e.g. the guy who rushed onto the field during a game, and the black painted face dudes). Get a grip people.
You weren't even around to hear our debate??? Well fuck me running....
They were nazis Walter?
Shut the fuck up, Donnie. You're out of your element.
Those were Natzis
Is that like, as in "Nebula?"
How soon will we know if this game will be delayed? As I am fixin' a take a very long lunch today if it will be played...
I was approaching this break from work like an impending snowday. Without a snowday, its..I don't know..do I work?!
that your boss took away Christmas bonuses, so I'd say he's a dick.
his boss enrolled him in the Jelly of the Month Club.
Rainout? Are you shittin' me, Clark?
Unless there is lightning.
I suppose if it was a lake. However I'd take a 0-0 tie because the ball was floating and no one could strike it properly.
On the flipside, soaked grass can be very dangerous for keepers, as well. It is very hard to correctly judge a through ball if you are not sure whether it will skip on a puddle, or stick. I've looked stupid on a goal or two due to rainy conditions. It messes with both your timing on low shots, and on through balls. And there is a tendency to slip when you try to cut hard or make a strong extension dive.
Soaked field --> unpredictable results for everyone, individually and collectively. I don't like that going into today's game. Maybe if we were huge underdogs hoping for an equalizing factor, but we're not.
Grant Wahl and Ives both report game will be played as scheduled. No standing water on field but pictures of flooding in Recife are crazy.
We're not huge underdogs looking for an equalizing factor?
I don't see anyone who doesn't have Yankee glasses in the international spectrum calling for the U.S. to win, and aside from conspiracy junkies who think Germans are going to lay down - very few have this as a tie unless somehow it's 1-1 or 2-2 in the 70th minute. We need every equalizing factor we can get.
of elimination is dependent on a Ghana win, and Ghana ain't winning.