Ronaldo’s friends vs Zidane’s friends

Brazil are strong , no doubt but watch out for that man Zidane.One moment of magic from him and its all over for Brazil.

Posted from  India

Well, I’m over here in the Brazilian blog because no less than 100 of you had the good taste to come over and insult Argentina today…(I never would have guessed you cared so much). I’ll just say this: If you clowns lose in regular time, you actually will have been eliminated from this World Cup EARLIER than Argentina. So…Enjoy as France breaks your ass for the 3rd consecutive time in World Cup play. You guys must love the feeling…

See you in Copa America…Don’t worry too much that we beat you for the Sub20 World Title and have maybe 10x the number of under 23 TOP LEVEL players…You already know Tevez, Messi and Mascherano, but over the next 10-15 years you’ll get to know all the rest as Brazil tries to salvage a creaky system that today relies on the likes of Emerson, Cafu, Roberto Carlos & Ronaldo.

You guys really are the Pamela Anderson of world soccer: Over-hyped, over-marketed, appealing to the brainless.

Posted from  United States

Sourav, Ze, Euler, and other members with genuinely insightful posts on this fantastic message board:

Just heard Tommy Smyth - ESPN’s Irish football commentator - say that France would win tomorrow. He was being interviewed by Charlie Rose (an interviewer on public television here in the US)

And now, I log onto this web-site only to see that Pele has picked France too.

Adding to my discomfort is a dream (nightmare) I had yesterday that France won. This has put me in a terrible mood. I am having trouble falling asleep tonight.

Although I am from India I have been a huge fan of Brazil since 1982. Many of my close friends are Brazilian too. Two of my worst world cup memories are Brazil loosing to France in 1986 and in 1998.

I hope that the players put aside their rivalries (young clique vs. old clique, etc.) and that they play as a team. France (and Germany too) despite their slightly inferior individual talent compared to a Brazil or an Argentina are able to effectively function as a unit. (France 98 is a perfecdt example).

Since Parreira got Romario and Bebeto to work together in 1994 I hope he can impose the same discipline so we don’t have situations like Adriano not passing to an open R9 or Cafu not passing to an open R10 as in the Ghana match.

May Brazil win but I am getting more pessimistic. Can someone cheer me up, please?

Posted from  United States

Keshab, you just can’t know what’s going on. I hope you move on to Argentina or Brazil for at least 10 years and then I’ll consider your opinion over this matter.

Silly man! You just can’t possibly know what we Brazilians had to endure from our neighbors… you just don’t have a clue! Believe you me!!!!!!!!

To Sanjay: many of my friends dreamed of Brazil losing to Ghana. We won. Sleep well tonight!

hi i think german won is not worth,maybe argentina could with 2-1 by the penalty but refree didnot .a bad refree
and now i want brasil will won in fron of the france.

Posted from  Viet Nam

I watched the Brazil/Ghana match very critically and concluded that inspite of the loss, Ghana played better footbal. Brazil took advantage of Ghana’s overall team inexperience, poor execution of the off side tactics and wasted scoring chances. The outcome might have been different if Essien played. Perhabs he might have been able to prevent the catastrophic breakdown in defence that led to the Brazil goals. Also he might have been able to feed the stikers with balls to take advantage of the wide gaps created by the Brazillian defenders. Too bad that the yellow card epidemic should ruin the flavor of games so much. Referees rule, fans suffer.

Brazil will be facing France who will present them with a lot more challenge on offense. Henry can create opportunities and can score goals. France is tight in team defense and has great team speed. Unless Brazil shows something dramatically different than their last performance, I see them going home. I love to watch Brazil but I see signs of aging, slower steps and fading glory. What are we going to see today? A revamped, recharged fighting Brazil or tied old legs gasping for air and praying for the last blast of the referee’s whistle to end the carnage. Prediction…My heart says Brazil and my head says France. I guess I win either way.

Posted from  United States

Tonight, as the brazilian team play ,i see a diff. approach and i will be jumping w/ joy. I see the vengeance tonight! A HAT-TRICK from RONALDO! YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Posted from  Philippines

Cringe inducing is about the only way to describe how any article about the Brazilian team strategy or their toilet manners includes a mention of this ‘Golden Quartet’ nonsense. An average at best central defense, along with a bunch of highly overrated wingers don’t make for a World Cup winning team. And it doesn’t stop there. Unfortunately for Brazil, it’s not all good (And this is putting it mildly) if you look beyond Ronaldinho and Kaka.

I can’t believe Brazil are favourites for this one, I really can’t. France with their rock solid defense and midfield (THE BEST IN THE TOURNAMENT. There, I said it! Because it’s as much about breaking plays in the midfield as it is about setting up goals) are clear favourites in my book. Yes the finishing needs to be sorted out a bit, but with THAT defense and midfield, all you need is to get it right once and you’re through. Then a second just to seal it and a third to show them the
‘98 final was no fluke, and then a fourth just to add insult to injury. *

* I don’t mean to sound too demanding, but perhaps a fifth? As punishment to Ronaldo for the ummm moon hair we had to bile our way through in the 2002 final.

Incase you haven’t already realised, GO FRANCE!!

Posted from  India

you are all idiot who say adriano is rubbish he likes to be the centre forward end of

he has to play off ronaldo which he is shite at

same goes with ronaldinho he is playing out of position and this is affecting his game as well

adriano likes to be the centre forward so he can muscle up the defenders and push em about which is his main strength parreira is not making the best use of his star players at all

if adriano was the centre forward there to hold up the ball he could get ronaldinho in to their attacks a hell of alot more and many more players who like to push from midfield.

adriano also likes to run at defenders from half way but he cant for brasil but he can for inter parreira is wasting his players main talents and using them out of position

adriaon has still scored 2 goals and goals keep u in teams like henry for france

adriano should stay in the starting line-up why his international record speaks for itself

24 goals 34 games u dont take out a striker like that from ur starting line-up

Posted from  United Kingdom

so u brazilians..showed again..dat u all r just made of shit..by going to da argentina blog and putting sum ugly comments..allright argentina lost..but dont forget da way they played..and they were playing germany..ok not ghana..and all u overconfident brazillians..ur team is not gonna win da world cup..ok so f*** off and do ur big ass stupid dance u people call samba..

Posted from  India

BRASIL will win this game

adriano will score and so will ronaldo im predicting

2-1

Posted from  United Kingdom

Hiren, its very rich for you to make such comments. A comment so far from the truth and greater than 2 standard deviations from the mean is quite simply ABNORMAL ( a euphemism).

In Brazil, the world can witness the beautiful freeflowing game at its best. Their passing, their relentless attack, their skills are simply of the highest order.

It is not a fluke that they have such a huge worldwide following. Your ridiculous comments about their supposed frailties merely reflects on your inferiority complex and self-oppression.

Yes, Brazil may lose because they don’t try to defend a winning margin, or because the referee may cheat, but certainly not the reasons you mentioned.

Rest in peace, and with non-sensical comments like yours, you should continue focussing on your cricket and cricket ALONE

Posted from  New Zealand

I’m really surprised by all this 98 REVENGE atmosphere… But that 98 final was really funny, since the french left the field REALLY BELIEVING their played better, had a better team than ours. WHAT IS A TOTAL ABSURD.

1-In 98, we lost only to OURSELVES. This was CLEAR as water. If we played against ZIMBABWE or HONDURAS that day, we would lose 3-0.

2-Now, let’s remember here: almost the same FRENCH team didn’t go through the first round in 2002 and now (with an even WORSE team) had troubles with TOGO and tied KOREA and SWITZERLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!! If they were BRAZILIANS, I would advise them no to go home, for the press and the fans WOULD TRASH THEM. FRANCE is a BAD team and all this ENVY and BLIND opposition to BRAZIL makes they think they really have a chance. COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3-It’s AMAZING how people are so BIASED in their comments!!! They say WONDERFUL things about the french team, and i wonder HOW THEY CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s impossible!!! Brazilian players wouldn’t be able to sleep anymore with such a RIDICULOUS campaign!! Hard time with TOGO and KOREA!!!! GIMME A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!

My fellow brazilians, don’t worry: we’ll have a GREAT game today. PRACTICE is over. I’m sure they will play their best.

* * * * * * HEXACAMPEAO

Oh, one more thing:

PELÉ said FRANCE would win!!!!

Yahoooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Now, it’s 5-0 BRAZIL for sure!!!!

* * * * * * HEXACAMPEAO

JP, et al,

Your retaliation against people who were not at all related to the sad state of affairs on Argentina’s blog and its comments couldn’t be a greater sign of ignorance and generalization.

At the same time all you can do about it is come here and show you also have scumbags among you. It’s just leveling yourselves by the bottom just to show you also have trash on your side.

Irony at its best.

Posted from  Brazil

Ronaldo is my husbands nephew, and we will ALWAYS support him no matter what. This is not the end of the world. He WILL be in the 2010 World Cup and he WILL show everybody what he is all about. Hey, you win some, you lose some.
Although they didnt play very well this time against France, there will be another game with them and it will be A LOT better.
RONALDO WE LOVE YOU AND WE WILL SEE YOU IN FEBRUARY.

Posted from  United States

BRAZIL YOU DON,T HAVE TO DO FIRE BECAUSE YOU LOSE EVERY-ONE LOSE AND WINS IN THE WORLD IF YOU LOSE YOU WILL PLAY THE NEXT YEAR WHAT HAPEND BRAZIL TO DO THE FIRE.

Posted from  Australia

To do the fire?

Posted from  Netherlands

yeah france won!

Posted from  United States

FIFA HAVE TO INTRODUCE FOOTBALL BASICS IN SOUTH ASIA AND GIVE FACILITIES TO THESE COUNTRIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOOTBall by constructing FOOTBALL GROUNDS ,FRIENDLY MATCHES B/W GOOD TEAMS LIKE BRAZIL,ITLY ,FRANCE THIS WILL GIVE BOOST FOOTBALL IN THESE COUNTRIES .

Posted from  Pakistan

I love Real Madrid club team Real is nat lose any match because Real Madrid has three classic players Ronaldo,Zidane and Raul.

Posted from  Pakistan

I love Real Madrid club team Real is nat lose any match because Real Madrid has three classic players Ronaldo,Zidane and Raul.Ilove Ronaldo.Posted from Pakistan.

Posted from  Pakistan

I love 5 Brazil players Ronaldo,Ronaldinho,Kaka,Juninho and Cafu.Posted from Pakistan

Posted from  Pakistan

Brazils Ronaldo has ever been a true world class striker!He is truly a real phenomenon and no doubt about that.superb balance,speed and unique scoring antics are the attributes that created this near perfect player.in the eyes of real soccer analyst’s,this guy was even better than pele and maradona at his prime.this notion is based on objectivity and not on subjective preconceptions.