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TSR69
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Sin317
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Im happy, my 20 swiss francs have become 245 during the WC ...
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Jul 2010 18:03 Post subject: |
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| iconized wrote: | Today, the day after, I still have a foul taste in my mouth.
It is not the lost finale but the horrible play by the Dutch, I am very disappointed  |
Nothing to add.... the whole WC i was waiting to see some good football from the dutch and now it's all over and i didnt see it. Worst part isnt that we lost the final but that we didnt play football this WC.
I will feel for a couple of weeks i guess....
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ixigia
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N.Korean Footballers Publicly Humiliated
| Quote: | North Korea's national football team were given a marathon public reprimand after losing all three of their World Cup matches, including a 0-7 rout at the hands of Portugal that has been blamed on leader Kim Jong-il's inept orders, Radio Free Asia reported Monday.
Citing unnamed North Korean sources, RFA said the team were made to stand on a stage at the People's Palace of Culture on July 2, just three days after they returned from South Africa, and subjected to ideological criticism for six hours. The team's two Japanese-born players, Jong Tae-se and An Yong-hak, were exempt from the session.
Around 400 officials including the vice minister of the Workers' Party, Sports Minister Pak Myong-chol, other athletes and sport students were apparently part of the audience. Ri Dong-kyu, a sports commentator for the North's state-run Korean Central TV, pointed out the mistakes of each player.
"Coach Kim Jong-hun and the team's athletes were made to stand on a stage and other North Korean athletes and students took turns criticizing the players. At the end of the session the team members were made to criticize their coach," RFA quoted a source as saying.
This video clip released by onbao.com shows the North Korean national football team leaving a North Korean restaurant in Beijing on June 28 on their way home after the World Cup in South Africa. /Courtesy of onbao.com This video clip released by onbao.com shows the North Korean national football team leaving a North Korean restaurant in Beijing on June 28 on their way home after the World Cup in South Africa. /Courtesy of onbao.com
A source in Sinuiju said the theme of the session was "criticizing the betrayal of the trust of Kim Jong-un," Kim Jong-il's son and heir apparent. Coach Kim was probably reprimanded because somebody had to take the blame." The source added there are rumors that he was expelled from the party or sent to work at a construction site in Pyongyang."
A South Korean intelligence source said, "In the past, North Korean athletes and coaches who performed badly were sent to prison camps. Considering the high hopes North Koreans had for the World Cup, the regime could have done worse things to the team than just reprimand them for their ideological shortcomings."
North Korea made it to the World Cup for the first time in 44 years. In November last year, North Korea gave the entire team special honors, while Kim Jong-un paid a personal visit to the team's training camp to cheer them on. Earlier reports said the rout by Portugal was due to direct orders from Kim Jong-il for the players to switch to a reckless offensive strategy. |
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/07/28/2010072800601.html
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BLaM!
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Jul 2010 21:13 Post subject: |
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It was justified. 
OK,no more jokes..they sure are crazy .. but some teams deserve this,like France.Some players don't take seriously playing for national team.
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ixigia
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Oct 2010 14:46 Post subject: |
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Paul the octopus dies
| Quote: | Death's inescapable tentacles have curled themselves around Paul the octopus, the cephalopod sage who won worldwide fame over the summer by correctly predicting the results of a host of World Cup matches.
Paul the 'psychic' octopus predicted the winners of all Germany's World Cup clashes, and then the victors in the final, by selecting one of two boxes, each loaded with a mussel food treat and marked on the outside with one of the teams.
Stefan Porwoll, the manager of the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre in Germany that the tentacled psychic called home, said Paul appeared to have died peacefully of natural causes during the night.
"We are consoled by the knowledge that he enjoyed a good life here and that the care provided for him by our dedicated displays team could not have been bettered," Porwoll said.
Staff at the centre said his death was not entirely unexpected, since common octopuses generally live only a couple of years. "His success made him almost a bigger story than the World Cup itself," Porwoll said. "We may decide to give Paul his own small burial plot within our grounds and erect a modest permanent shrine."
He added: "While this may seem a curious thing to do for a sea creature, Paul achieved such popularity during his short life that it may be deemed the most appropriate course of action."
Paul will achieve lucrative immortality in commercial enterprises ranging from special clothing lines to a mobile phone application, and will feature in a documentary to be released early next year.
His final prediction was that England would win the right to host the World Cup in 2018. |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/oct/26/paul-psychic-octopus-dies-football
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ixigia
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Dec 2010 18:28 Post subject: |
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Spanish football players on dope?
| Quote: | Madrid – Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, who was at the centre of the biggest cycling doping scandal so far in 2006, was thought to have retired from the world of sports.
“I was lynched,” Fuentes told the daily El Mundo in May. “A lot of harm was done to me, and it cannot be repaired. I am starting from zero as a family doctor. I don't have any interest in sports.”
Fuentes may not have honoured his pledge, as he has now been detained in another major doping probe.
The Canaries-based practician is among 14 suspects charged with being part of a doping ring that allegedly supplied athletes with banned substances.
The suspects include the 2009 steeplechase world champion Marta Dominguez.
Fuentes may not really have retired as a sports doctor, but remained involved behind the scenes, advising sports professionals in exchange for lucrative payments, police suspect.
The detainees allegedly used forbidden methods such as transfusions of athletes' own blood as well as forbidden substances such as the blood booster erythropoietin (EPO) and anabolic steroids, according to police.
Fuentes, however, has consistently protested his innocence to doping charges.
Fuentes had already been linked with a huge doping scandal in 2006, when the so-called Operation Puerto targeted cyclists, officials and doctors over blood doping.
Famous riders such as former Tour champ Jan Ullrich were sacked by their teams, while Alejandro Valverde and Ivan Basso served competition bans.
Fuentes – allegedly known within the doping ring as “Asterix” – was not sanctioned, because Spain had not yet introduced its current anti-doping legislation. However, the case has been reopened and the doctor now faces trial.
Fuentes – a trained gynaecologist and former athlete – was among a group of doctors who put in place a programme called biological following, which contributed to the success of Spanish athletics in the early 1980s.
At the time, Fuentes defended the use of blood transfusions and anabolic steroids to help sports professionals recover the strength they lost in training and contests.
Fuentes had begun working for the Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA) already in the 1970s. The athletes he prepared included his wife, Cristina Perez. When she tested positive for doping in 1988, Fuentes had to leave the federation.
Documents discovered in the Operation Puerto indicated that Fuentes may have been involved with athletics in recent years as well. Some even claim that he has cooperated with the most powerful Spanish football clubs. |
| Quote: | Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes and five others have been charged in the most recent Spanish doping case, Operation Greyhound, but have been released from custody. Fuentes immediately flew to the Canary Islands.
The six, including former mountain biker Alberto Leon, were arrested on Thursday. They were indicted on Sunday for crimes against the public health after testifying before a judge in Madrid. All were allowed to leave without bail.
Fuentes' lawyer, Julian Perez Termplado claimed that his client was innocent of any involvement. “He has nothing to do with any of this, he is only dedicated to his work as a physician on the Canary Islands,” he said, according to as.com.
The current investigation appears to be mainly focused on track and field. Most of the names released in the previous Operacion Puerto probe were of cyclists, but it was also rumoured at the time that footballers were also involved.
Fuentes himself has apparently now further encouraged those rumours, as he is said to have told fellow cellmates over the weekend, “If I told them what I know, then goodbye to the World Cup and European championship.”
The Spanish national team are the reigning European and world champions, having won the titles in 2008 and 2010 respectively. |
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/fuentes-indicted-in-spain-but-out-of-jail
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http://www.iol.co.za/sport/cycling/doctor-doping-rears-his-head-1.1000007
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