2013-14 Official Football Thread. All Leagues Discussed

[TheWall]

1-0 united lead.... aggregate 2-1 Olympiacos lead

[TheWall]

2-0 united..... aggregate 2-2....united may well turn this tie around....

[KeyserSoze]

ooooooooo  robin van peeersie...........ooooooooo  robin van peeersie..........ooooooooo  robin van peeersie

[TheWall]

ooooooooo  robin van peeersie...........ooooooooo  robin van peeersie..........ooooooooo  robin van peeersie

ooooooo c*nt pussy.......ooooooo c*nt pussy.........ooooooo c*nt pussy  

[TheWall]

hattrick for c*nt.....3-0 united......3-2 aggregate.....

[KeyserSoze]

thru to quarterfinal......paddaya drops......men,women and DKCs andariki?

[TheWall]

thru to quarterfinal......paddaya drops......men,women and DKCs andariki?

rooney gadu masthu aadadu. ..de gea shud be man of the match or rooney......great result for utd...bad luk for olymp......second half too much aadaru kani de gea was too good for them to drill one... ..

[KeyserSoze]

rooney gadu masthu aadadu. ..de gea shud be man of the match or rooney......great result for utd...bad luk for olymp......second half too much aadaru kani de gea was too good for them to drill one... ..

killer instinct ledu bhayya team ki...3 goals tharvatha ..not attacking much.....itla chesi pl la konni matches odipoyaru....ya rooney as usual played excellent...dont forget giigs mayya

[Suhaas]

How many of you guys like Ian Darke as a commentator?

[KeyserSoze]

How many of you guys like Ian Darke as a commentator?

annaya evadadu

[Suhaas]

annaya evadadu

 

Premier league ESPN/NBC Sports lo vache games ki veedu one of the commentator. 2010 World cup US Broadcast ki ESPN lo veede commenting chesadu.

[shishkebab]

Good read about  Michael Ballack  from the guardian...

 

 

There is a great photograph of a distressed Michael Ballack during the penalty shoot-out in the Champions League final in 2008. Taken just after John Terry had squandered the chance to win it for Chelsea, Ballack is caught slumping to the floor, his legs turning to jelly, his hands holding on to Frank Lampard and Juliano Belletti for support, his eyes closed and his face a picture of sheer anguish. Once again,success had been dangled under his nose and then snatched away in the cruellest way imaginable. All that remained was the stench of failure. In a single moment, the photographer has managed to capture exactly how much winning means to those competing at the highest level and what it means to lose.

Ballack is by no means a failure. If he ever asked the Joy of Six to show him our medals, it would be an extremely short conversation, one that would probably end with us running out of the room crying. Ballack won the Bundesliga four times, once with Kaiserslauten and three times with Bayern Munich. He won the German Cup three times with Bayern. At Chelsea, he won the Premier League in 2010, the FA Cup in 2007, 2009 and 2010 and the League Cup in 2007. He was the German Footballer of the Year three times. There are footballers who would trade in their gold card at Nando's for a fraction of that success. Maybe Ballack is not a nearly man – to say that he is nearly a nearly man would be closer to the truth.

Yet Ballack was so often the bridesmaid in the biggest games. The year 2002 was the most infamous of his career. The heartbeat of a magnificent Bayer Leverkusen side that broke up too soon, the treble was within touching distance for Ballack. Bayer were superb. Managed by Klaus Toppmöller, they had the power of Ballack, the skill of Zé Roberto, the creativity of Yildiray Basturk and the underrated efficiency of Bernd Schneider. This was their time. But they won nothing. They contrived to throw away the title to Borussia Dortmund in the run-in. They lost the cup final to Schalke. Zinedine Zidane then did his Zinedine Zidane thing for Real Madrid in the Champions League final and that was the end of Neverkusen.

Ballack still had to absorb a few more punches, though. No one expected anything from a fairly average Germany side at the 2002 World Cup but in a tournament in which most of the best sides crashed out early, they went about their business quietly enough, forgettable but savvy. Ballack was their only player of any genuine class and he scored the only goal in the quarter-final against USA. The semi-final was against South Korea, the co-hosts, and with the game goalless after 71 minutes, Ballack received a booking that would rule him out of the final for rather cynically stopping a counter-attack. Having taken one for the team, he then Roy Keaned the winner four minutes later, but Germany stood no chance without him against Brazil and lost to two Ronaldo goals.

On it went. Germany, riding a wave of national euphoria, reached the semi-final of their World Cup in 2006 but lost one of the finest games of the modern era 2-0 to Italy. They settled for bronze. Two years later, Ballack dragged them to the final of Euro 2008. They lost 1-0 to Spain.

There was Chelsea's defeat in the 2008 Champions League final to Manchester United. Ballack had arguably been Chelsea's most important player during the second half of the season, finally showing the form that had persuaded them to sign him from Bayern two years earlier, and scored both goals in a crucial 2-1 league win over United in April. But United won the league on the final day.

A year later, Chelsea lost to Barcelona in their Champions League semi-final, a furious Ballack, eyes threatening to pop out of his sockets, chasing the hapless Tom Henning Ovrebo after one last penalty appeal had been waved away in stoppage time.

Ballack's final game for Chelsea was the FA Cup final against Portsmouth in May 2010. He was due to captain Germany at the World Cup a month later. After 44 minutes, Kevin-Prince Boateng went flying in and Ballack's international career was over.

Ballack was a serial winner and a great player, but he never found a way to lessen the significance of surrounding incompetence, misfortune and the maliciousness of fate. 

[Suhaas]

Good read about  Michael Ballack  from the guardian...

 

 

There is a great photograph of a distressed Michael Ballack during the penalty shoot-out in the Champions League final in 2008. Taken just after John Terry had squandered the chance to win it for Chelsea, Ballack is caught slumping to the floor, his legs turning to jelly, his hands holding on to Frank Lampard and Juliano Belletti for support, his eyes closed and his face a picture of sheer anguish. Once again,success had been dangled under his nose and then snatched away in the cruellest way imaginable. All that remained was the stench of failure. In a single moment, the photographer has managed to capture exactly how much winning means to those competing at the highest level and what it means to lose.

Ballack is by no means a failure. If he ever asked the Joy of Six to show him our medals, it would be an extremely short conversation, one that would probably end with us running out of the room crying. Ballack won the Bundesliga four times, once with Kaiserslauten and three times with Bayern Munich. He won the German Cup three times with Bayern. At Chelsea, he won the Premier League in 2010, the FA Cup in 2007, 2009 and 2010 and the League Cup in 2007. He was the German Footballer of the Year three times. There are footballers who would trade in their gold card at Nando's for a fraction of that success. Maybe Ballack is not a nearly man – to say that he is nearly a nearly man would be closer to the truth.

Yet Ballack was so often the bridesmaid in the biggest games. The year 2002 was the most infamous of his career. The heartbeat of a magnificent Bayer Leverkusen side that broke up too soon, the treble was within touching distance for Ballack. Bayer were superb. Managed by Klaus Toppmöller, they had the power of Ballack, the skill of Zé Roberto, the creativity of Yildiray Basturk and the underrated efficiency of Bernd Schneider. This was their time. But they won nothing. They contrived to throw away the title to Borussia Dortmund in the run-in. They lost the cup final to Schalke. Zinedine Zidane then did his Zinedine Zidane thing for Real Madrid in the Champions League final and that was the end of Neverkusen.

Ballack still had to absorb a few more punches, though. No one expected anything from a fairly average Germany side at the 2002 World Cup but in a tournament in which most of the best sides crashed out early, they went about their business quietly enough, forgettable but savvy. Ballack was their only player of any genuine class and he scored the only goal in the quarter-final against USA. The semi-final was against South Korea, the co-hosts, and with the game goalless after 71 minutes, Ballack received a booking that would rule him out of the final for rather cynically stopping a counter-attack. Having taken one for the team, he then Roy Keaned the winner four minutes later, but Germany stood no chance without him against Brazil and lost to two Ronaldo goals.

On it went. Germany, riding a wave of national euphoria, reached the semi-final of their World Cup in 2006 but lost one of the finest games of the modern era 2-0 to Italy. They settled for bronze. Two years later, Ballack dragged them to the final of Euro 2008. They lost 1-0 to Spain.

There was Chelsea's defeat in the 2008 Champions League final to Manchester United. Ballack had arguably been Chelsea's most important player during the second half of the season, finally showing the form that had persuaded them to sign him from Bayern two years earlier, and scored both goals in a crucial 2-1 league win over United in April. But United won the league on the final day.

A year later, Chelsea lost to Barcelona in their Champions League semi-final, a furious Ballack, eyes threatening to pop out of his sockets, chasing the hapless Tom Henning Ovrebo after one last penalty appeal had been waved away in stoppage time.

Ballack's final game for Chelsea was the FA Cup final against Portsmouth in May 2010. He was due to captain Germany at the World Cup a month later. After 44 minutes, Kevin-Prince Boateng went flying in and Ballack's international career was over.

Ballack was a serial winner and a great player, but he never found a way to lessen the significance of surrounding incompetence, misfortune and the maliciousness of fate. 

 

:(

 

Great player Little Kaiser
 

[TheWall]

ucl qf draw

bvb vs real


bayern vs utd lol.1q


chelsea vs psg
barca vs atletico

[Suhaas]

ucl qf draw

bvb vs real


bayern vs utd LoL.1q


chelsea vs psg
barca vs atletico

 

 :)