I’d like to get some opinion on the past idea of increasing the size of goalpost by the diameter of ball in width and height. Therefore any shot that hit the post would resultingly end up in the net.

Yeah, but then you’d just have shots that (now) inch over the bars hitting the bars after the change, and further calls to enlarge the goal. So rather than enlarging the goal, we should just have a goal ‘zone’, where if the ball comes anywhere into the zone, it will be considered a score. And we should also allow the players to pick up and carry the ball…

Naww… I say leave it like it is. Sure, lots of balls hit the posts, but that will happen no matter how large you make the goals.

Rooney’s red card seemed legitimate to me for this reason. I think he would have gotten a yellow for the ’stamp’, because really, that hurts! and his second yellow probably came from shoving C.Ronaldo.(I’m not a referee but thats just my opinion)

England played well, with 10 men too, they did a good job countering the Portuguese unfortunately without Rooney they can’t seem to get someone to score. They definitely deserved to win.

Give credit to Ricardo for 3 saves, absolutely brilliant! I’m a long time Portuguese supporter, so that was a thrilling game for me!

Forca Portugal!

This takes my prize for worst football news article ever. Even read in Korean it is really bad. I mean 11 metres and 9 yards is very different. Perhaps if the shoot outs (or shoots as is translated in said article) were taken from the 18 yard line the expectation on strikers to score would be less and the skill would be more of a factor for both keeper and striker.

Also, I’d like to get some opinion on the past idea of increasing the size of goalpost by the diameter of ball in width and height. Therefore any shot that hit the post would resultingly end up in the net. There be less propensity for referees to ‘decide’ matches and the skill of the goalkeeper would become more criticl.

But I should also say that all the blame now on Parreira goes back to politics inside CBF (the brazilian soccer association). There’s more under the rug than the international midia is actually showing. Brazilians are fed up with Parreira for a long time and the world cup loss (at least I feel) is now the chance we have to be heard: we don’t want him anymore as a coach.

But who knows about the future…? Brazil is always Brazil, the last-minute great-player showing-up kingdom. Maybe the next one is just around the corner playing in some tiny soccer field in the countryside, waiting to be discovered.

By the way, I don’t think Dda was implying that the Brazilians are prone to making lame, Korea-like excuses after losing football games. He was probably referring to our infamous commentor: “Baduk” and his penchant for outlandish conspiracy theories.

Great hear from an actual Brazilian fan.

I do wonder, however, if the Brazilian team was a tad bit over-rated in the first place.

To paraphrase what Marco Van Basten said in a different context, Brazil seemed to have “great names,” not “great players,” this time around. I grant that Ronaldinho is great and in his prime. Perhaps Kaka as well. But Ronaldo is clearly past his prime and perhaps way past his prime. Cafu and Roberto Carlos–neither of whom I thought that great even in their primes–couldn’t have started for any elite team in their current senescence.

So I don’t see how this team was so heavily favored to begin with. And I certainly think it is lunatic to compare this team in talent to the ‘82 team that had Zico, Falcao, and Socrates (sure, they didn’t have a scintillating striker, but neither did this team!).

So while it is easy to blame Parreira, how talented was this Brazilian squad?

And perhaps more important, what is the future of Brazilian soccer? It seems to me that the Argentines and the Spaniards have the superior young talent as far as 2010 and beyond is concerned. Or is there someone down the pipe that we don’t know about of a Messi-type of quality in Brazil?

Deutschland uber alles!

Answering your questions:

1. Bad strategy. Parreira showed us he can be the worst coach ever. He’s been slauhgtered in the Brazilian press right now, and has nothing to redeem. Parreira is over.

2. Because one of the men chose to mark Henry (Roberto Carlos) was allegedly arranging his socks (!!!!!!!!!!) while Zidane was kicking. That’s what RC said to the press, believe it or not. Isn’t it amazing the absence of professionalism of these guys?

Dda, unfortunately for your conspiracy theory, the Brazilians at this time are not blaming anyone else except the bad soccer and the bad coach they had. The whole media in Brazil is fingerpointing all the mistakes the players and Parreira, everybody knows how great Zidane is right now, nobody thinks the ref or FIFA or whatever was responsible, and we definitely know the soccer we played this World Cup was ridiculous counting we allegedly had “the best players on Earth”. These players should swallow their arrogance and learn to play as a team, not as Nike individuals.

Dissidentdave, I wish you could read portuguese… There are amazing articles on Brazilian press analysing all these dream-not-come-true story with lots of example of bad management of the team. Parreira should be ashamed of such a bad job.

Chinese soccer commentator Huang Jianxiang apologized on Tuesday to TV viewers for his biased comments in World Cup game between Italy and Australia.

http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/28.....107643.htm