Comments on: Brazil 2 – 0 Vietnam

By: rvg

rvg — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:48:40 +0000

[quote comment="21789"][quote comment="21668"]Funny how you waited until Italy got a poor result in order to defend yourself from my comment that was made over a week ago; almost as if you don’t have any other material to defend your team with…[/quote]

I do have a life you know, I was vacationing with my sister and cousins.

Viva Selecao Brasileira![/quote]

Uh huh, and I suppose that it is just a coincidence that your vacation happened to end on the same day that Italy got it’s first poor result at the tournament.

By: rvg

rvg — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:42:36 +0000

um, newsflash buddy, you are NOT currently the reigning world champions and it has been several years since you held that title. My original comment that Brazil IS overrated is based on the current team, which is why I said “Brazil IS overrated,” and not, “Brazil WAS overrated.” The current Brazilian team does not deserve the rather high rankings that it is still receiving. All Brazil fans seem to still be stuck on past glory that ended over half a decade ago.

By: Gremio

Gremio — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:19:53 +0000

[quote comment="21668"]Funny how you waited until Italy got a poor result in order to defend yourself from my comment that was made over a week ago; almost as if you don’t have any other material to defend your team with…[/quote]

I do have a life you know, I was vacationing with my sister and cousins.

Viva Selecao Brasileira!

By: Gremio

Gremio — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:19:01 +0000

[quote comment="21667"]The indication of how good a team is comes from overall performance, not individual games.[/quote]

We have 5 world cups, the best overall performance in the history of football.

I rest my case.

By: Gremio

Gremio — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:17:14 +0000

[quote comment="21760"]Pretty sure Brazil just got hammered by Argentina 3-0. So Brazil still doesn’t have a gold medal, lost to the first good team they played, and has had rather poor results for the past few years. Overrated? Definitely.

Italy is not the perfect team, but at least they don’t embarass themselves and then claim they are the best in the world. When they lost to the Netherlands in Euro 2008, they were missing their best player, and Holland’s first goal was arguably offside. Luca Toni scored a perfectly legitimate goal against Romania that was deemed offside. Italy went on to beat France and then lose in a shootout to the eventual champions. You call that a poor performance?

I rest my case.[/quote]

Brazil’s goal was arguably onside and they had a stupid referee. He is Uruguayan and gave us two freaking uncalled red cards, only on the first one would I have given a yellow.

By: rvg

rvg — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:10:26 +0000

Pretty sure Brazil just got hammered by Argentina 3-0. So Brazil still doesn’t have a gold medal, lost to the first good team they played, and has had rather poor results for the past few years. Overrated? Definitely.

I rest my case.

By: rvg

rvg — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:17:18 +0000

Funny how you waited until Italy got a poor result in order to defend yourself from my comment that was made over a week ago; almost as if you don’t have any other material to defend your team with…

By: rvg

rvg — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:15:39 +0000

The indication of how good a team is comes from overall performance, not individual games. Brazil is playing well in the olympics so far, but they have yet to play a team that is actually good (and, for that matter, to actually win the gold medal). Italy’s loss to Belgium doesn’t change the fact that Italy’s performance over the past several years has greatly exceeded that of Brazil. I mean, seriously, who loses to Venezuela?