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Look at this bollocks. This, believe it or not, is a list of the slogans on the side of the official team buses...

Angola - “Angola lead the way – our team is our people”
Argentina - “Get up, Argentina are on the move”
Australia - “Australia Socceroos – Bound for glory”
Brazil - “Vehicle monitored by 180 million Brazilian hearts”
Costa Rica- “Our army is the team, our weapon is the ball. Let’s go to Germany and give it our all”
Côte d’Ivoire - “Come on the Elephants! Win the cup in style”
Croatia – “To the finals with fire in our hearts”
Czech Republic – “Belief and a lion’s strength, for victory and our fans”
Ecuador – “Ecuador my life, football my passion, the cup my goal”
England - “One Nation, One Trophy, Eleven Lions”
France – “Liberté, egalité, Jules Rimet”
Germany - “We are football”
Iran - “Stars of Persia”
Italy – “Blue pride, Italy in our hearts”
Japan - “Light up your Samurai spirit!”
Korea Republic - “Never-ending legend, united Korea”
Ghana – “Go Black Stars, the stars of our world”
Mexico - “Aztec passion across the world”
Netherlands – “Oranje on the road to gold”
Paraguay – “From the heart of America… this is the Guarani spirit”
Poland – “White and red, dangerous and brave”
Portugal – “With a flag in the window and a nation on the pitch. Força Portugal”
Saudi Arabia - “The Green Hawks cannot be stopped”
Serbia and Montenegro - “For the love of the game”
Spain – “Spain. One country, one goal”
Switzerland – “2006, it’s Swiss o’clock”
Sweden – “Fight! Show spirit! Come on! You have the support of everyone”
Togo – “A passion to win and a thirst to succeed”
Trinidad and Tobago - “Here come the Soca Warriors – the fighting spirit of the Caribbean”
Tunisia – “The Carthage Eagles… higher and stronger than ever”
Ukraine – “With our support, Ukraine cannot fail to win!”
USA - “United we play, United we win”



This is the USA bus - the only one not to have the national flag on the side, to avoid it getting blown up.

Not so incognito if you know what it looks like...

Hey,

We don't need the flag on the side of our bus. It's sacred! It can't be defaced by those Euro hooligans.

We suck anyway. Good.

Sin,

U.S. apologists with a Royals-(insert team here) game on the radio, while watching their kids play soccer.

RadioFan wrote:We suck anyway. Good.

Did I read that correctly on the Yahoo! World Cup page...Team USA is ranked #4 in the world right now?

actually, they just dropped down to a tie for fifth... but yeah. they're kinda good.

Mac22 wrote:actually, they just dropped down to a tie for fifth... but yeah. they're kinda good.

I'm familiar with some of the veterans on the team...Reyna, Pope, McBride. Is this team this highly rated because of the new wave of young players they have?

the results are actually calculated on games from the previous 8 years, but with more weight to more recent games... so the US has steadily moved up the chain as they have begun to erase some of their horrible showings pre-98 world cup.

but yes, their results are definitely a result of the new youth, but also from the greater amounts of americans that are playing abroad.

I think the US team is overrated at #5, I think they are a top 20 team but not a top 10 or top 5.

A.C. Crut wrote:I think the US team is overrated at #5, I think they are a top 20 team but not a top 10 or top 5.

I've seen a few of the qualifiers and friendlies the last couple of years. I can't say that I'm blown away what I've seen. I don't think a top 5 team in the world should struggle with Jamaica or Honduras. If they win their opener with the Czechs, that hopefully will get them through to the quarterfinals. I'm not holding my breath that they'll be able to beat Italy. We should at least expect them to make it to the knock-out round. It's a scary proposition that if they advance to the round of 16, they could face Brazil in the first game.

why the fuck is blue a significant color for italy? green/white/red? sorry...

Screw_Michigan wrote:why the fuck is blue a significant color for italy? green/white/red? sorry...

Most of National Italian sport teams wear blue shirts because of a game early last century: in 1911 the Italian team (the shirt was white) met Hungary in a match, one of the better teams at the time. That day they wore a blue shirt, in honor of the Savoia royal family and of the King of Italy (blue was the color of the Savoia flag). Since they won, they decided to wear a blue shirt as the official shirt.

Germany used to wear green as their away shirt because their first international was against Ireland, apparently.

Mac22 wrote:

Screw_Michigan wrote:why the fuck is blue a significant color for italy? green/white/red? sorry...

Most of National Italian sport teams wear blue shirts because of a game early last century: in 1911 the Italian team (the shirt was white) met Hungary in a match, one of the better teams at the time. That day they wore a blue shirt, in honor of the Savoia royal family and of the King of Italy (blue was the color of the Savoia flag). Since they won, they decided to wear a blue shirt as the official shirt.

Congrats. You get an orange pie.

Chalk that up as another piece of useless knowledge.

IndyFrisco wrote:
Congrats. You get an orange pie.

Chalk that up as another piece of useless knowledge.

can't help it... i'm a history teacher... i have more than i know what to do with.

A.C. Crut wrote:I think the US team is overrated at #5, I think they are a top 20 team but not a top 10 or top 5.

I'll be impressed when the can win in Mexico City. Until then, they have no business being mentioned with the elite teams.

Mac22 wrote:

IndyFrisco wrote:
Congrats. You get an orange pie.

Chalk that up as another piece of useless knowledge.

can't help it... i'm a history teacher... i have more than i know what to do with.

Those who can't do....

;)