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Reflections on a Romp

June 17th, 2006 | By: JP | 114 Comments »

Holy Crap. What a pounding…

With so many things to say, here are a few salient observations:

1) I think I remember Argentina beating Mexico 6-0 on the way to its 1978 title (though I could be wrong here). If so, that’s a great omen;

2) Abbondanzieri has so far seemed like an entirely different person than the one suited up for the preliminaries (though he hasn’t been tested);

3) On this blog, we’ve referred to Messi / Tevez as the offensive, off-the-bench ‘ace up the sleeve’ - Today they scored 3 goals in approximately fifteen minutes…How do you think an opponent must feel if they’ve managed to contain Argentina’s starters for, say, a half and then have to look up and see those guys on the sidelines?;

4) Assuming Argentina pounds Holland - it seems we’ll play either Mexico or Angola in the next round (much better than Portugal);

In general, I’m still having trouble digesting that this team could be this good…We need to put up an impressive showing against Holland and I’ll start to begin to allow myself to feel confident…We need to beat Holland to avoid falling into Brazil’s bracket.

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By sergio | June 19th, 2006 at 5:43 am

yeah JOE! take a chill pill..

its all good..

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By LLC | June 19th, 2006 at 5:49 am

I cannot believe what I am reading… Argentinian’s Cheat!
I reckon they go to Drama Classes right after Football training.. these guys are big women, and fall over even when no one is near them..

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By Sam | June 19th, 2006 at 6:22 am

When I Poseted my original comment about ppl not welcomed here, I meant idiots who are trying to trash the blog and talk stupid and nosense. If you guys come in and talk straight football, then its perfectly fine…. Be class acts, not jerks.

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By Sam | June 19th, 2006 at 6:32 am

I am not from Argentina, However, My mom is Argentinian and my dad is American and I was born in California. I Have been to Argentina once in my life, and my mom always talked to me about Maradona and I grew up watching him as I fell in love with him game. I watched him play few games for Argentina here in the US. Since then, I am a devoted Argentian fan…..If Argentina wins the WC, I will be the happiest man on earth, and I would not trade that for anything in the world.

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By Sam | June 19th, 2006 at 6:41 am

OH YEAH, Is Maradona the greatest fan in the whole world? What a guy, he gets booked for a speeding ticket in Germany because he is trying to get to the match against S&M before tip off… Then, during the game, cameras show Maradona jumping up and down while 30 pounds of jewlery juggle around his neck….Not only that, he visits the team before the game as well as at half time to give them some prop……. Maradona is a true fan, and he has to be the greatest fan in the world.

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By bhutti | June 19th, 2006 at 7:21 am

Skywalker, while I do share your of relief over Robben’s likely exclusion from wednesday’s game, I feel that his presence would have been a good test for our defence.

As you rightly said, the only way teams can trouble Argentina is by pressurising with speed on the flanks. It would have been a good chance to see how the defence acquits itself against such challenge had Robben and Van Persie played.

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By Robin Rock | June 19th, 2006 at 7:40 am

i think the Brazilian fans in my country are jealous that they did not display such great football. Go Argentina !!!!!!

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By JP | June 19th, 2006 at 8:41 am

Vick:

I think you’re right about Crespo and it would be great to see Aimar play since he’s the most deserving of the players that didn’t have a hand in erasing Serbia & Montenegro. I would probably take Ayala out at the half as well.

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By CTL | June 19th, 2006 at 9:28 am

Argentina played a super game against a shell-shocked S&M team. A true lesson on how to play football, and a leaf from Brazil’s playbook. However it would be wiser to err on the side of caution and not get too carried away.

Remember Euro 2000 when Holland slammed six goals past Yugoslavia (Savo Milosevic of S&M played in that match too!) and people were predicting great things for Holland…but what happened?

They went out on penalties to a surprise Italian team. While its good to be optimistic and hopeful, but don’t count chickens before they hatch.

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By maxilopez | June 19th, 2006 at 12:54 pm

MARADONA has criticized PEKERMAN many times this year. Is he a fan? Yes. But he wants to be forgiven!

I would like to see Pekerman’s attitude when Diego came to see the players.

Diego is a child everybody killed by the drug system, everybody knows this. Otherwise we would not forgive him being Fucking Fidel Castro’s friend…

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By AURELIUS | June 19th, 2006 at 2:03 pm

We must not get carried away. A draw against Holland would suffice.There are still frailties at the back that are yet to be tested thoroughly (mores the pity Samuel v-v Colocinni Placenter v-v Scaloni).

A cliche 1 game by 1 game. The Serbian team were in disarray lets not forget(I hope Serbia with Vidic back will show they are a excellent footballing nation in Euro 2008).

I have to say I stil think Riquelme is coasting games saving himself for the KO stages.

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By skyguard | June 19th, 2006 at 3:40 pm

hello argentinas,
writing from Turkey and suporting for argentine for the world cup.
I’ve a request….I saw the team on TV that were singing a song at the hotel just before the opening of the cup…..
I loved the song to much but I couldn’t find anywhere the song and the lyrics of it….
Please help me….

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By kostas | June 19th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

@skyguard… this song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXlNNzSz_5g&search=ohhh%20Argentina
or this?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ02fluSDXc&search=vamos%20Argentina

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By sergio | June 19th, 2006 at 4:42 pm

i like pekerman’s idea to rest so many “starters”..

after all game against holland is wed and next game is saturday or sunday.. thats very little time to rest/get well!

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By sergio | June 19th, 2006 at 5:42 pm

also pekerman knows that with a tie argentina is first in the group..

pekerman has no choice but to field a team made up largely of backups and pray that ayala, sorin and maxi don’t get injured….

three days is not enough time to rest beetween games…

not sure why there are only three days between matches..seems a bit insane..

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By Essa | June 19th, 2006 at 9:20 pm

Go Argentina! They are playing like a team. They deserved to win the WC.

I hope Holland does not play dirty soccer like the way they did with Cote D’Ivoire. It was disgusting! Learn to play fair and win fair.

Martijn….. For your comments there is only one answer.. Argentina should shut you up with the score of 4-0.

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By Louie | June 19th, 2006 at 10:32 pm

MExico VS Argentina…

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By LLC | June 20th, 2006 at 7:25 am

Carrie you talk out of your arse!

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By magic genie | June 20th, 2006 at 8:47 am

Holy Crap what a pounding. That is what you will be writing after you have played the English in the finals!

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By SAM | June 20th, 2006 at 8:52 am

Magic ! Thank you I guess, at least we will be in the finals.

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By skyguard | June 20th, 2006 at 9:41 am

@kostas…….Thanks…The first one is exactly what I was looking for….Any info about the lyrics..!!!

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By kostas | June 20th, 2006 at 12:58 pm

@skyguard :

ohhh Argentina
es un sentimento
no puedo parar,
ole,ole,ole ole,ole,ole,
ole,ole,ole,ola
ole,ole,ole
cada día te quiero mas…

Posted from Greece

By Sheesh, Get Off Our Back - FIFA World Cup 2006 - Brazil World Cup Team Blog | June 20th, 2006 at 5:52 pm

[...] It’s clear Argentina are the clear favorites now. By a wide margin. No other team could affort to have Messi and Tevez sitting on the bench. Now, if Argentina wins a game by just 1-0 or 2-0, you know what you have to do. [...]

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By skywalker | June 20th, 2006 at 6:44 pm

The above song was made famous by Maradona…

But personally, I think the Terrace song from the 86 WC also made famous by Maradona and the rest of the team is better… It goes something like ‘Argetina is going to be champions. Argentina is going to be champions. To all those who doubted us…. ‘ (I forgot the rest of the song but sounds great in spanish)…

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