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Football Thread 2011/12 |OT6| doicare about injuries?

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Yurt

il capo silenzioso
^Footballfan is already my favourite poster.
Rikkun said:
You have like the worst mancrush ever, I already told you that so many times. :(
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You're just jealous of his nose Ricky!
Awesome Animals said:
That's what's up. Someone post a cool gif for me.
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bjaelke said:
Speak for yourself.
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I know right ^.^
 
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Clydefrog

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Yurt said:
Man crushes and no one mentioned this guy? For shame.

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How can something so ugly be so beautiful? A beast in pink.




An American supporting a side outside of the top 3 makes you the coolest poster on this thread by default.





Male-shep Vanguard.
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lol @ spoiler

my friend looks a lot like chiellini and is actually a good football player to boot.
his favorite italian team is Milan
and i'm so jealous of his luck with the ladies.. the guy gets any woman he wants. it truly must be those looks. :(
 
Facism

Facism

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Dibbz said:
Looks like Santos might be back in a few weeks (months in Arsenal time).
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watch out he might be fat when he comes back. He had a tendency to pile on weight after injuries/before preason at Fenerbahce. He missed about a quarter of the leauge games for us due to being unfit.
 
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Milchmonster

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spidye said:
come on guys. he's not as good as hummels but he's certainly not bad.
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I didn't say that, I'd be okay with Hummels + Badstuber. What I don't get, though, is why Badstuber is the one guaranteed to start. Sure, Hummels' first few matches were rather bad for him but it's not like Badstuber blew everyone's mind in his first few matches. If Hummels got that kind of support from Löw, I'm certain that no one could argue against Hummels.
 
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elsk

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Milchmonster said:
I didn't say that, I'd be okay with Hummels + Badstuber. What I don't get, though, is why Badstuber is the one guaranteed to start. Sure, Hummels' first few matches were rather bad for him but it's not like Badstuber blew everyone's mind in his first few matches. If Hummels got that kind of support from Löw, I'm certain that no one could argue against Hummels.
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He's a Bayern player. That's about it.
 
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Grover Cleveland

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FootballFan said:
Hey guys and gals

My very first post here on GAF, and i want to make sure its on the Glorious Football thread.

So here goes:

Barcelona are the greatest team of all time and you know it. Hate it or love it.
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Had this been posted a year or two ago, I'd consider it a valid (wrong, but valid) statement. Any team that is ten points out of the lead in its own league cannot possibly be considered greatest of all time.


So amazing troll job! Such great work, from a rookie at that!

Welcome aboard, kid.
 
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sneaky77

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Grover Cleveland said:
Had this been posted a year or two ago, I'd consider it a valid (wrong, but valid) statement. Any team that is ten points out of the lead in its own league cannot possibly be considered greatest of all time.
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How are they not the greatest of all time? Yeah they are not going to win the league this yr, but the run they put in the last few yrs surely puts them up there as "all time" teams. And no I am not a Barcelona fan.
 
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Wilbur

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sneaky77 said:
How are they not the greatest of all time? Yeah they are not going to win the league this yr, but the run they put in the last few yrs surely puts them up there as "all time" teams. And no I am not a Barcelona fan.
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Yeah they are up there, not the greatest of all time yet though. Teams like Madrid in the 50s/60s, Liverpool when they won everything in sight, they're as deserving as Barca
 
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Messi

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FootballFan said:
Hey guys and gals

My very first post here on GAF, and i want to make sure its on the Glorious Football thread.

So here goes:

Barcelona are the greatest team of all time and you know it. Hate it or love it.
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Welcome aboard.

This is not the best way to go about things :p But I am glad to have more Barca support. There seems to be a growing section of Madristas in here recently.

Btw, how do you feel about olivia wilde?

Edit: Can femshep have 'relations' with Miranda or Jack in ME2?
 
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Dibbz

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Vaporizer said:
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What time is it?

Five past Friedel

shamelessly stolen from my brother.
Facism said:
watch out he might be fat when he comes back. He had a tendency to pile on weight after injuries/before preason at Fenerbahce. He missed about a quarter of the leauge games for us due to being unfit.
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When he joined Arsenal I was looking for vids of him. One I saw was him going down to a local chippy :p

He doesn't look like the fittest guy around but I thought he was great with the ball. Confident, doesn't panic on the ball, passes well. Mind you Gibbs played great on the weekend as well, although he can never stay fit so it will be good to have most of our defense back.
 
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Rikkun

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sneaky77 said:
How are they not the greatest of all time? Yeah they are not going to win the league this yr, but the run they put in the last few yrs surely puts them up there as "all time" teams. And no I am not a Barcelona fan.
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You can't be the greatest team of all time if other teams achieved more than what you achieved.

You know, RM, Milan, Juve, Ajax, Man Utd...
 
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GorillaJu

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I have a complete playthrough for FemShep Vanguard Renegade, ManShep Infiltrator Paragon, and FemShep Soldier Renegade.

I'm going full on bitch mode in ME3. Fem Infiltrator Renegade.

And I thought ME and ME2 were both great games. But I see and understand the argument that as a sequel, ME2 regressed more than progressed Mass Effect as a franchise. It just seems weird to me to look back, and see that the first game in the series had the most freedom - normally things open up as you go further along, not close off.

Either way I can't wait for ME3. I'm downloading the PSN version, it comes out at afternoon time here so should have a whole evening to start the addiction off strong!

Rikkun how the shit is Man Utd in your list and Liverpool isn't? 5 European Cups mofo
 
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Wilbur

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They definitely are but it's much too early to be saying greatest of all time.

What I'm interested in is where Pep goes if they lose the title; does he sign on and have renewed hunger or does he leave? Does he stay and rebuild team after team after this golden generation is gone?
 
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elsk

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Kicker: Badstuber interview (from January I believe)

He’s a lateral thinker, Holger Badstuber (22) says about himself. He already went through quite a lot of things in the few years of his life so far. His father died, he hit the ground running at the FC Bayern. This left its mark on him. Here’s a guy who doesn’t look for the limelight.

It is difficult to write a story about a person without talking about the most important things with him. But Holger Badstuber has his principles. He doesn’t want to talk about the early death of his father in March 2009.

“I think this is a private matter, and I want to keep this to myself”, he says.

But someone who had to bid farewell to his father at the age of 19, just four weeks after he signed his first professional contract with Bayern München, had to cope with hard times.

“His death put a mark on me of course”, Badstuber says. But that was obvious, of course. “There are many people who are good for a laugh, but that’s not really the way I am”, the defensive player states. His coach Jupp Heynckes confirms this, too: “Holger is very serious and has an old head on young shoulders.”

Hermann Badstuber, who was youth coach as SSV Ulm and VfB Stuttgart among others, and who died of cancer at the age of 53, was the most important person for his son. When he says today: “I have started very early to practise passing with the left foot and worked for years to hone my skill, as passing is one of the foundations of playing football and one should start practising that as early as possible”, then one can imagine that his father always urged him on. “The willpower and the dream to become a professional footballer was already there when I was only 10 years of age”, Holger Badstuber recounts. But he had to do without a lot of things.

When he was 10 years of age, the boy from the town Rot an der Rot in the Allgäu went to the VfB Stuttgart, when he was 12, he switched to the youth academy of FC Bayern. All the time he lived in Rot, and so his parents drove him almost every day to Stuttgart (150km) and later to Munich (130km) for many years. “I was prepared to invest a lot of time. Long car rides, not being able to meet friends, strict schedules for the weekends. I had to forgo a lot of things”, Badstuber says. “But football had top priority for me.” This shows that the defender has been serious for a long time.

This shows in his talks with journalists as well. Holger Badstuber always appears highly focused, as if he closely listens to his coach who prepares him to play against a Zlatan Ibrahimovic or a Wayne Rooney. All the time he nods to the statements of his vis-à-vis, commenting them with a “yes” to show how he follows the intentions of the questioner. Even here, the young man wants to do everything right, and that when he already did so many things right in his life.

His path is a storybook career. Professional player with 19, starter with 20, double winner and world cup participant with 21. “I always knew where I wanted to go”, Badstuber states. He feels an overwhelming ambition within himself. But: “Sometimes I’m a bit too ambitious”, he admits. Heynckes, too, thinks that his Number 28 often overdoes his self-criticism and that he’d be better off with a slightly more relaxed attitude. “That’s true”, Badstuber agrees. “But it was worse earlier on. I had to learn not to think about football all the time. One has to relax and unwind once in a while. Now I’m doing things a little bit different from two years ago.”

But still complacency is but a foreign concept for him and he finds it difficult to find praising words about himself. It is always possible to do things better, faster, more focused. Badstuber’s mind is always in action, he questions many things where other people would go the path of least resistance. “I’m a person who thinks about many things - on the pitch, but also in normal life. Other people probably don’t do that, people who live for the day, who don’t reflect on things as much. I’m quite the opposite of that. One could say I’m a lateral thinker. That’s what my father gave me to take along. Sometimes people wonder what I’m thinking about all the time.”

While in Qatar, the defender looked past the playing field, too. “Of course one perceives how the common workers have to drudge day by day in the heat of the summer under the worst climatic conditions. You can see a lot of wealth here, but also the most glaring opposite. The gap is pretty large.”

Such complicated thoughts can be a hindrance in the business of football, though. A person who always questions things, who lacks the superficial and testosterone-driven manners of the average football player, sometimes can stand in his own light. Badstuber, who finished school with a vocational diploma (Fachabitur), knows contemplative situations, but he is not a person to bury himself in such moods or to run away from them. The German international works together with a mental coach, but he also exchanges views with Philipp Laux, the psychologist of the Bayern team. “He has a good influence on me. For me this belongs to the preparation for a match.”

Badstuber appreciates the conversations as they give him insights how an outsider sees things and they help him focus on the things that are important at this moment. “One reflects, one listens to different perceptions. That’s very important for me. I’m a person who wants to do it this way.” This kind of exchange also helped him to get over the phase in the last season when injuries and loss of form pushed him out of the starting eleven. “This time was very important for me, because I got to know this side of football, too - especially how the media deal with you in such a time. Just as fast as they put you onto a pedestal, they slam you. But I learned the lesson. I returned after the bad year and I’m more confident now.”

The experts agree: Badstuber has a great future ahead. When there were doubting voices about the German international from the Bayern board in the last Spring, the new coach Heynckes laid down the law: “When he was put into question, I challenged the Bayern board right from the start and told them that I would see to it that Badstuber would play top football again and would deliver top performances again under my tutelage.” All important persons in the football environment enthuse about the youngster, and he has bright prospects with Jogi Löw, too.

Still the populace doesn’t share this positive image. “I’m probably not the person who looks for the limelight. People are different. That’s why people don’t see much of me and don’t know much about me. But the most important thing is to deliver top performances, then one can convince even the last doubters. I always got great feedback from the coaches of the national team and at Bayern, and this made me proud. I played many important matches and the people who are important for me know what they have in me. It just takes a while to convince the populace.”

Badstuber has grand plans. He doesn’t want to relinquish his starting place anymore. “I know what I can do and where I want to go. With 22 years of age, my development hasn’t ended yet. I have a very positive outlook and want to win more titles.” Does he want to win them for a certain person? Badstuber: “I want to keep it secret to whom I dedicate things.”
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Messi

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Wilbury said:
They definitely are but it's much too early to be saying greatest of all time.

What I'm interested in is where Pep goes if they lose the title; does he sign on and have renewed hunger or does he leave? Does he stay and rebuild team after team after this golden generation is gone?
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Is the golden generation over if he wins everything but the league? I don't think so. I really hope pep stays.
 
pulga

pulga

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FootballFan said:
Hey guys and gals

My very first post here on GAF, and i want to make sure its on the Glorious Football thread.

So here goes:

Barcelona are the greatest team of all time and you know it. Hate it or love it.
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To take a cue from the Gaming side:

lol juniors

If ya wanna be the best of all time, you gotta have the most trophies son.
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Oh yeah.
 
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Yurt

il capo silenzioso
Messi said:
Is the golden generation over if he wins everything but the league? I don't think so. I really hope pep stays.
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Even if he wins nothing, I'm pretty sure he's going to stay!
Clydefrog said:
my friend looks a lot like chiellini and is actually a good football player to boot. his favorite italian team is Milan and i'm so jealous of his luck with the ladies.. the guy gets any woman he wants. it truly must be those looks. :(
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That must be really awkward for him
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Also, it's the nose. Confirmed by Rikkun's theory!

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Clegg

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FootballFan said:
Hey guys and gals

My very first post here on GAF, and i want to make sure its on the Glorious Football thread.

So here goes:

Barcelona are the greatest team of all time and you know it. Hate it or love it.
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Welcome!!

What is your opinion of Olivia Wildes frighteningly masculine jaw?
 
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Dibbz

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Wilbury said:
I don't mean this year but when Xavi and Puyol are gone and Messi nears 30, will he be there for that?
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I don't think it matter if he will be there for that. Under his reign Barca have cemented themselves and their style of play into the history books. Their grip on European football might loosen but there culture, their style, their ideology will remain. Their youth players and academy is not going to crumble over night. They may not produce players of the same quality as the players out there right now but football is like that. It works in cycles. Their dominance will end one day and another team will take over. That just football.
 
Y

Yurt

il capo silenzioso
Spurs, Arsenal or Chelsea?

IMO It's unlikely he's going to replace Wenger or go back to Chelsea.

..QPR?
 
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rvy

Banned
FootballFan said:
Hey guys and gals

My very first post here on GAF, and i want to make sure its on the Glorious Football thread.

So here goes:

Barcelona are the greatest team of all time and you know it. Hate it or love it.
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Oh, juniors.

Awesome Animals said:
To those playing the FIFA Street Demo, your level caps at five, and make sure you go into the world tour!
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: (

When I brought up FIFA Street, nobody gave a shit and kept yapping about Mass Effect fields. FML. Must be the Fedor avatar, I'm a pariah.
 
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