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I find it absolutely disgraceful Colo didn't get a call tbh, especially looking at like you say some of the dross in that defence. Milito is held together with glue these days ffs, only in there because of the club he's contracted to.

 

Prefer he didn't get called up as a purely selfish view as a Newcastle fan, no injuries and a nice rest through the summer.

 

Aye but Colo doesn't do injuries.

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The Brazil squad only has 1 player who scored 10+ international goals. Why is Hulk not in the Brazil squad?

 

Cuz Robinho, Pato and Neymar are better.

 

Mind I don't know why Fred is there, the Brazil managers seem to love a token domestic striker thrown in. I'd have taken Nilmar ahead of him too.

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Aye but always get a sense of pride seeing one of our players turn out for a top class footballing nation like, even though it was a joke, was still class to see Jonas at the WC.

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The Brazil squad only has 1 player who scored 10+ international goals. Why is Hulk not in the Brazil squad?

 

Cuz Robinho, Pato and Neymar are better.

 

Mind I don't know why Fred is there, the Brazil managers seem to love a token domestic striker thrown in. I'd have taken Nilmar ahead of him too.

 

I would of taken Hulk & dropped Fred or one there boring midfielders. Hulk played well last season.

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I've only read about Lucas (SP) so I hope he gets some minutes.  Suprised the Internacional guy, I forget his name, wasn't given the call ahead of Fred bearing in mind he seems likely to move to Spurs and is only 21 whereas Fred isn't going to improve between now and the World Cup.

 

Been meaning to attempt to watch some of the Brazillian Serie A over the summer but I find it really hard going with all the theatrics & general pace of the game being fairly slow.

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I find it absolutely disgraceful Colo didn't get a call tbh, especially looking at like you say some of the dross in that defence. Milito is held together with glue these days ffs, only in there because of the club he's contracted to.

 

Prefer he didn't get called up as a purely selfish view as a Newcastle fan, no injuries and a nice rest through the summer.

 

Aye but Colo doesn't do injuries.

 

True but luck always runs out and him sitting on a beach somewhere gets my vote right now :)

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I find it absolutely disgraceful Colo didn't get a call tbh, especially looking at like you say some of the dross in that defence. Milito is held together with glue these days ffs, only in there because of the club he's contracted to.

 

Prefer he didn't get called up as a purely selfish view as a Newcastle fan, no injuries and a nice rest through the summer.

 

Aye but Colo doesn't do injuries.

 

True but luck always runs out and him sitting on a beach somewhere gets my vote right now :)

 

Beach?!?! He'll back in Argentina shooting bears and shit man. Colo is a real fucking man.

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I find it absolutely disgraceful Colo didn't get a call tbh, especially looking at like you say some of the dross in that defence. Milito is held together with glue these days ffs, only in there because of the club he's contracted to.

 

Prefer he didn't get called up as a purely selfish view as a Newcastle fan, no injuries and a nice rest through the summer.

 

Aye but Colo doesn't do injuries.

 

True but luck always runs out and him sitting on a beach somewhere gets my vote right now :)

 

Beach?!?! He'll back in Argentina shooting bears and s*** man. Colo is a real f***ing man.

 

:iamatwat:

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I find it absolutely disgraceful Colo didn't get a call tbh, especially looking at like you say some of the dross in that defence. Milito is held together with glue these days ffs, only in there because of the club he's contracted to.

 

Prefer he didn't get called up as a purely selfish view as a Newcastle fan, no injuries and a nice rest through the summer.

 

Aye but Colo doesn't do injuries.

 

True but luck always runs out and him sitting on a beach somewhere gets my vote right now :)

 

Beach?!?! He'll back in Argentina shooting bears and s*** man. Colo is a real f***ing man.

 

:iamatwat:

 

While life on the field has been uneasy at times, Coloccini has at least settled well in his new city. Although, in the North East, he can not take part in his favourite pastime – game hunting.

 

“I love it here in England. I live in Newcastle with my family. I’m learning English, a little bit every day and a lesson every day. Hopefully next year I will learn a little bit more. I do get noticed, when I go shopping to the MetroCentre or out, but everybody here is respectful and they respect my privacy.

 

“One thing I can’t do which I would like to is hunting, which I did when I was in Argentina. Here I don’t know the laws and the rules. I hunt pheasants, rabbits, then I eat them. There is a rifle that we go hunting with, my family, which is passed down through the generations.”

 

Three points would be the catch of the day this evening, and Coloccini strikes a positive note on the club’s future, even if the present seems bleak.

 

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/newcastleunited/sundaysun/tm_headline=if-tevez-scores-blame-coloccini-8217-s-father%26method=full%26objectid=23058105%26siteid=61634-name_page.html

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Julio 'Giz the Falklands back you pirates' Grondona reckons a few teams are going to be fucked in prep for the Copa due to the ash cloud shenanigans going on in S.America.

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In FFT's 'Brazil in Crisis' mega-feature, they keep mentioning Lucas (SP) in the same breath as Ganso and Neymar. As a three, they could be marvellous.

 

Read the same thing in World Soccer a few days back. Seems to be rated, even though they reckon the Argies will have the Copa America like

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Volcano looms over Copa America

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The cloud of ash spewing from a volcano in Chile grounded more flights Tuesday from Uruguay to Australia and threatened to delay the start of South America's soccer championship.

 

The schedule of next month's Copa America could be altered if the ash cloud from Chile's volcano keeps disrupting flights.

 

"We're watching it closely and it's for sure that teams are not ready to come to Buenos Aires," Julio Grondona, president of Argentina's soccer federation, told Argentine broadcaster Radio 10. "The tournament starts July 1 and we hope that within five or six days the problems with the ash will not exist."

 

The main international airports in Argentina and Uruguay were closed, and across the Pacific more Australian flights were canceled because of ash from Chile's Cordon Caulle volcano.

 

Organizers of the Copa America weren't the only ones worried. The club-level Copa Libertadores had talked of delaying Wednesday's match in Uruguay between Brazil's Santos and Uruguay's Penarol because of lack of flights, but the Brazilians managed to arrive Tuesday. The second leg is June 23 in Sao Paulo.

 

The Santos players had a special visitor ahead of the final -- Pele. The Brazilian great stopped by the team's training center and talked to the players.

 

The final is a showdown between the two clubs that won the first four editions of South America's top club tournament. Santos is trying to win its third Copa Libertadores, the first since Pele was the team's biggest star in 1962 and '63.

 

All eyes will be on 19-year-old Santos forward Neymar, who is being compared with Pele. He has five goals in the competition and is usually a threat whenever he touches the ball, often breaking in from the wing and slicing through defenders.

 

Pele joked with Neymar about his Mohawk hairstyle, saying he was copying his hairdo from the 1958 World Cup. Pele showed an old magazine photo in which he was sporting the same hairstyle.

 

Neymar will team with midfielder Elano, both on Brazil's national team for the Copa America. The tournament opens July 1 in La Plata, Argentina, with the host facing Bolivia. The final is July 24 in Buenos Aires.

 

The governing body of South American soccer postponed the draw for the Copa Sudamericana -- the continent's No. 2 club tournament -- from Tuesday until Thursday. It said some club representatives were having trouble reaching Paraguay.

 

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/6660736/volcano-alter-copa-america-schedule

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In FFT's 'Brazil in Crisis' mega-feature, they keep mentioning Lucas (SP) in the same breath as Ganso and Neymar. As a three, they could be marvellous.

 

Lucas Moura looks the business, he'll go on to big things.

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