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    Quote Originally Posted by Call of Doughty View Post
    From TSN's the reporters aired yesterday morning......ouch! "Ok......so you are going to take the 3rd penalty kick"....."ummm nope"...

    Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated

    My thumb is down to coach Louis van Gaal and the Netherlands, whose color is orange but whose liver is lilly. van Gaal said he asked two players to take the first penalty kick in the shootout against Argentina and was rebuffed twice. If those unnamed players indeed did decline, it represents turtling of the first order. But van Gaal also deserves blame. He asked players to take the kick. He didn't tell them. Since when did sports - especially the World Cup - become a democracy? Penalty kicks in the semifinal shouldn't be a show-of-hands thing. Brazil was humiliated by Germany, but the Netherlands embarrassed itself without any help.
    You must be new to the game of soccer lol.

    In world cup penalty kicks, (at least with the dutch) it's usually a matter of volunteering. If people can handle the pressure, if they are not hurt that kinda thing. for the most part it's the "expected" people shooting, but the order is never really the same. Vlaar was a weird one for sure. But if a player declines because he feels he isn't gonna make a good shot, it's probably not a bad thing that he isn't shooting.

    Anything tsn reports in terms of soccer is absolute garbage anyway, so I wouldn't put any stock into any of their articles.

    I've read the dutch reports on it all, and I'm okay with the way it went down. I won't bother you with details, since its pretty much pointless.

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    In other news,

    did any of you know that Messi does steroids? Or at least used to...

    And that perhaps that may be why he is "better" than the rest?

    true story

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    Thats a little out of context.

    He used HGH when he was a kid (around 10 years old) cause they discovered that he had a growth hormone deficiency.

    Messi is twice the player Robben is. And I'm a huge Robben fan. I have a Robben Chelsea jersey. That was well before he became 'famous'.

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    If he didn't take those he would be a midget, or however that's called.

    Messi is overrated though. He only shines against lesser defense. When it's best of the best (world cup) he disappears.

    I've watched Robben since he was about 16. He, in my opinion is the best player in the world.

    I'd even put Ronaldo ahead of Messi.

    And it's funny that Maradonna, Argentina's best player of all time thinks its a joke that messi won the award as well

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    I think Messi thinks its a joke too.

    I think Robben should have gotten it as well. That doesn't mean I think Robben is a better player than Messi.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch View Post
    In other news,

    did any of you know that Messi does steroids? Or at least used to...

    And that perhaps that may be why he is "better" than the rest?

    true story

    so you're hating on the guy because he was born with a disorder? you're making it seem like he took steroids to gain an advantage, the guy was dirt poor and barca offered to pay for all his medical expenses. what do you expect him to do? messi was definitely not the best guy at this tourney, not denying that, i probably would have given it to robben if he wasn't flopping every game. james rodriguez gets my vote

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    Dutch is just making himself look bad. Not worth it to respond.

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    Quote Originally Posted by praba View Post
    so you're hating on the guy because he was born with a disorder? you're making it seem like he took steroids to gain an advantage, the guy was dirt poor and barca offered to pay for all his medical expenses. what do you expect him to do? messi was definitely not the best guy at this tourney, not denying that, i probably would have given it to robben if he wasn't flopping every game. james rodriguez gets my vote
    no I don't like him, cause I don't like him. He's overrated

    plain and simple.

    but in any other sport that would be illegal stuff

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Ev View Post
    Dutch is just making himself look bad. Not worth it to respond.

    ow there is Dobberforum's most knowledgable poster again. We better end it here then.

    I should call you the pope. You are holier than any of us

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    ow there is Dobberforum's most knowledgable poster again. We better end it here then.

    I should call you the pope. You are holier than any of us
    Funny coming from some of your posts in here.

    Moronic stuff as usual.

    Pyramid schemes, Robben is better than Messi. When does it end?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Ev View Post
    Funny coming from some of your posts in here.

    Moronic stuff as usual.Pyramid schemes, Robben is better than Messi. When does it end?
    you truly are the most undereducated person on these boards.

    you might want to familiarize yourself with stuff before you make statements like that.

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