2014 FIFA World Cup Brasil™ - Europe vs. America

[Dave]

http://i.imgur.com/K0bI2Fu.jpg

[Flip]

:lol:

 

Seen so many of those, but that's the best one yet. Old man happy as hell

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

Kamara's is the best.

[Robbo]

http://www.kickoffnigeria.com/news/46082/nigeria-skip-training-over-appearance-fee

 

 

Nigeria skip training over appearance fee

Nigeria skip training over appearance fee

 

Posted: 27 June 2014 Time: 01:54 am

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Nigeria canceled a scheduled training session on Thursday after a meeting to demand World Cup appearance bonuses dragged on till late.

 

The Super Eagles were due to train in Campinas at 6pm on Thursday, but with their bus ready to leave, the squad failed to turn up.

 

Media Officer Ben Alaiya explained that the players were 'in a meeting' and would come out for training after.

 

An hour later, the bus was re-parked with officials saying training had been cancelled.

 

KickOffNigeria.com understands that the players wanted to be paid the appearance fee agreed with the federation for making it past the World Cup group stages.

 

Prior to the meeting however, the NFF Geneural Secretary Musa Amadu, had left São Paulo for Nigeria.

 

A federation official told KickOffNigeria.com that he had left to get more money to prosecute the not round.

 

"Funds were only released for the group stages, so he has gone to get more for the second round," the official said.

 

However, Amadu is not expected to return before the round of 16 fixture against France.

 

The squad are due to leave for Brasilia on Friday afternoon ahead of their last 16 meeting against France. It is not yet certain if they will travel.

 

 

Honestly

 

[triggs]

http://www.kickoffnigeria.com/news/46082/nigeria-skip-training-over-appearance-fee

 

 

Nigeria skip training over appearance fee

Nigeria skip training over appearance fee

 

Posted: 27 June 2014 Time: 01:54 am

Print this article

 

Nigeria canceled a scheduled training session on Thursday after a meeting to demand World Cup appearance bonuses dragged on till late.

 

The Super Eagles were due to train in Campinas at 6pm on Thursday, but with their bus ready to leave, the squad failed to turn up.

 

Media Officer Ben Alaiya explained that the players were 'in a meeting' and would come out for training after.

 

An hour later, the bus was re-parked with officials saying training had been cancelled.

 

KickOffNigeria.com understands that the players wanted to be paid the appearance fee agreed with the federation for making it past the World Cup group stages.

 

Prior to the meeting however, the NFF Geneural Secretary Musa Amadu, had left São Paulo for Nigeria.

 

A federation official told KickOffNigeria.com that he had left to get more money to prosecute the not round.

 

"Funds were only released for the group stages, so he has gone to get more for the second round," the official said.

 

However, Amadu is not expected to return before the round of 16 fixture against France.

 

The squad are due to leave for Brasilia on Friday afternoon ahead of their last 16 meeting against France. It is not yet certain if they will travel.

 

 

Honestly

Oh ffs. Hope France beat them 10 nil

[Neil]

Bunch of mercenary pieces of shit.

[LucaAltieri]

Since when do players get paid for international duty anyway?

[Segun Oluwaniyi]

Every other group of players gets paid on time, but the Nigerians simply ask for what they agreed to (and what every other team promptly receives) from an FA that has been proven to be corrupt on multiple occasions and they are MERCENARIES! Keshi went several months without pay, ffs, while the leaders of the FA become fat rich men. Don't fool yourself.

 

Every single team in the tournament is paying it's players. It is a wild coincidence that the only teams having problems with this agreement are the ones that ALWAYS have problems with this agreement.

[Mr. Snrub]

Skipped training because they're all about 45 and fucking knackered.

[mrmojorisin75]

liverpool are at a serious crossroads with the biting here surely?  the last biting one they could and i'm sure would argue that they stuck by him as way to rehabilitate himself from the first (with them) mistake

 

but what are they going to say now if they decide to stick with him?  it won't matter because the subtext will be "he's worth a lot of money, money > principles"

[KaKa]

Every other group of players gets paid on time, but the Nigerians simply ask for what they agreed to (and what every other team promptly receives) from an FA that has been proven to be corrupt on multiple occasions and they are MERCENARIES! Keshi went several months without pay, ffs, while the leaders of the FA become fat rich men. Don't fool yourself.

 

Every single team in the tournament is paying it's players. It is a wild coincidence that the only teams having problems with this agreement are the ones that ALWAYS have problems with this agreement.

 

Preach.

[Trumpet]

I think his ban is justified. The only thing I disagree with is him not being allowed to even train. That basically means a 4 month ban, is a 6 month ban, if you can't even kick a ball with a professional trainer. There is a FIFA License A holder poster on RAWK and he says, if he is caught in a football stadium even in Angola let's say, or with a football trainer..FIFA could remove his international clearance and that's the end of his professional career basically.

 

One thing that bugs me though, is that Pepe for example, had head butted 2 players in his career before (Not to mention actively kicking the living of that Getafe player). He did headbutt a third one in this WC (Muller), and FIFA only gave him a one game ban. Aren't both Headbutting and Biting considered violent conduct ?

Or when Poulsen punched Rosenberg in the stomach in Euro 08 qualifiers a few years ago, he only got a 3 game ban. Totti spitting on Poulsen (I reckon Spitting is  the lowest of acts. He got 3 game ban right?) was just an international ban. Totti, my favourite player ever just some examples.

 

Not defending Suarez. He is a knob and an idiot and a mental patient. But hope from now on, other violent conducts who can be actually more life-threatening get the same punishment. As for Suarez, I worry for his health and hope he gets the right help. Would be sad if such a gifted player ends up committing suicide or such. He clearly needs help and he got it from Dr. Peters at Liverpool this season where he was totally controversy-free, f*** knows what happened to him in Uruguay camp again. Be it in Barcelona or Liverpool, I hope he uses this ban to fix his head.

 

Glad Algeria made it. Would have been a travesty if Russia pulled it off. Decent round of 16....fancy Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Greece, France, Germany, Argentina and USA to make it to the last 8.

[loki679]

Would be sad if such a gifted player ends up committing suicide or such.

 

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with Liverpool fans?

[Trumpet]

^ That was the Iranian in me, we're among the most dramatic people on earth  . He appears to be a very emotional and unpredictable type of person and you never know they could do in one crazy moment, hence my suggestion. That aside, I wish I could have a sit down with his wife and see what actually goes through his mind. He probably bites her as well. now that's understandable. It's just bat s*** crazy. I mean, it's something you may do when you're in elementary school and then get punished and learn and never do it. I once bit a fellow school-mate at age of 15 during a fight I was being battered in (and that was the end of the fight, it worked)...got suspended from school for a few days and never ever got into a fight ever again in my life. I can't wrap my head around how an adult, watched by the whole world, can't grasp the same concept. Something isn't right in his head. Fine lines and all that.

 

What has astonished me in all this, is the country of Uruguay. I am bemused by them. Hearing they are blaming the world, media, Colombia, and Liverpool in their press ! If anyone has ever been to Uruguay here, would love to hear some insight about the culture there. They are challenging North Korea with their "Us against the world" mentality based on this debacle.

[aussiemag]

^ That was the Iranian in me, we're among the most dramatic people on earth  . He appears to be a very emotional and unpredictable type of person and you never know they could do in one crazy moment, hence my suggestion. That aside, I wish I could have a sit down with his wife and see what actually goes through his mind. He probably bites her as well. now that's understandable. It's just bat s*** crazy. I mean, it's something you may do when you're in elementary school and then get punished and learn and never do it. I once bit a fellow school-mate at age of 15 during a fight I was being battered in (and that was the end of the fight, it worked)...got suspended from school for a few days and never ever got into a fight ever again in my life. I can't wrap my head around how an adult, watched by the whole world, can't grasp the same concept. Something isn't right in his head. Fine lines and all that.

 

What has astonished me in all this, is the country of Uruguay. I am bemused by them. Hearing they are blaming the world, media, Colombia, and Liverpool in their press ! If anyone has ever been to Uruguay here, would love to hear some insight about the culture there. They are challenging North Korea with their "Us against the world" mentality based on this debacle.

 

They are bat shit crazy the Uruguayans. We had two play off qualifiers over there in 2001 and 2005. Both times thousands of them stood outside the Australian hotel, beeping horns and banging pots and pans, to make sure the Australians couldnt sleep. They then booed through our national anthem, hurled abuse at our players on the bus. Recoba then declared that Uruguay "have a divine right to play at the world cup" and that Australia are nobodies.

[mrmojorisin75]

the peppe comparison is an interesting one, it wouldn't surprise me if the Uruguayan FA use it heavily in their appeal process if that's possible

 

i totally agree as well, headbutts and elbows (standing not jumping) should be treated exactly the same as biting and if they're crucifying suarez then they should have peppe on the cross next to him tbh

[aussiemag]

the peppe comparison is an interesting one, it wouldn't surprise me if the Uruguayan FA use it heavily in their appeal process if that's possible

 

i totally agree as well, headbutts and elbows (standing not jumping) should be treated exactly the same as biting and if they're crucifying suarez then they should have peppe on the cross next to him tbh

 

my problem with biting is that it has the potential to spread disease and infection. On that alone it is worse than head butting and elbowing.

[mrmojorisin75]

the peppe comparison is an interesting one, it wouldn't surprise me if the Uruguayan FA use it heavily in their appeal process if that's possible

 

i totally agree as well, headbutts and elbows (standing not jumping) should be treated exactly the same as biting and if they're crucifying suarez then they should have peppe on the cross next to him tbh

 

my problem with biting is that it has the potential to spread disease and infection. On that alone it is worse than head butting and elbowing.

 

that's the most extreme outcome though lets be honest, an elbow could very easily result in damage to sight and the end of a career for example, headbutts similar if done properly

 

i'm saying treat them the same, they're all violent conduct that have nothing to do with making a challenge where damage can be accidental

[aussiemag]

You make a good point. It depends on the severity of the violent act. Suarez has left teeth marks, whilst Pepe has barely grazed heads.

[mrmojorisin75]

You make a good point. It depends on the severity of the violent act. Suarez has left teeth marks, whilst Pepe has barely grazed heads.

 

it shouldn't depend on the severity of the act tbh, if you throw an elbow and get lucky by not seriously hurting someone you should get the same punishment as someone who succeeds with the intent of his elbow (or bite or whatever)

[Incognito]

I think the ban should be closer to 12months of international football rather than hit at club level as well. 4 months of not going to a stadium is ridiculous, how about these people that cause all sorts of trouble and FIFA don't do shit about them in countries? The hooligans in Brazil and England, the Barra Bravas in Argentina etc. I think the punishment is to harsh in the sense that he's done it in the World Cup. He should be banned from it, the qualifiers and then the Copa America. That's enough, hits him where it probably hurts him the most, not being able to represent his country for 12months in two big tournaments.

 

I think it should be 6 months minimum. Who are the hooligans in England btw?

He forgets English clubs were banned ftom European football for 3 years because of hooliganism.

Or maybe he didn't know.  It was a long time ago[emoji106]

[TaylorJ_01]

South Korea have been the most disappointing team in it. How utterly rubbish.

[BlueStar]

I don't know how Liverpool, Suarez or Uruguay have the audacity to complain about anything.  "I'm really mad with the bans I get when I bite people, they're disproportionate/too long/too far reaching"

 

Stop fucking doing it then!

 

"He wasn't playing for Liverpool at the time, why should they be punished?"

 

Pistorious wasn't competing for South Africa when he shot his lass either, it doesn't mean they have to let him out so it doesn't unfairly impact on their medal hopes.  Maybe if Liverpool had disciplined him internally for past indiscretions rather than throwing him a t-shirt party when he racially abused someone and blaming the media and the FA for his ban length last time he bit someone he might have been more inclined to learn his lesson?  Blame your player for doing something stupid enough in a global competition to get a world ban from football.

 

"But I'd rather be bitten in the shoulder than stamped on/elbowed/have my legs broken.  This incident here shows it's disproportionate"

 

I imagine many people would rather be spat on than take a yellow card challenge.  I imagine most people would rather someone pissed on their chest while denying the holocaust than have their leg broken with a clumsy foot in.  Funnily enough there's no precedent for what punishment you get when you sink your teeth into the third walking lunch of your career in the middle of a World Cup game.  Thanks to Suarez we now know the answer.

 

"It's just because of who he is!"

 

To an extent, yes. It might have been viewed slightly more sympathetically if it was a moment of out-of-character madness, but it's perfectly within character.  Followed by no contrite apology and pleas for forgiveness, but two fingers up at the game, "These things happen, the other player is a disgrace for making a meal of it, it's nothing."  Or do the media and FIFA pick on Suarez because they don't like his haircut, or his star sign? This is the media that awarded him Football Writer's Player Of The Season like three weeks ago, aye?  Maybe if there's a conspiracy against Suarez and Liverpool by those running the game he should stop doing stupid shit that makes it extremely easy for them to unfairly persecute him?

[TheGuv]

^ That was the Iranian in me, we're among the most dramatic people on earth  . He appears to be a very emotional and unpredictable type of person and you never know they could do in one crazy moment, hence my suggestion. That aside, I wish I could have a sit down with his wife and see what actually goes through his mind. He probably bites her as well. now that's understandable. It's just bat s*** crazy. I mean, it's something you may do when you're in elementary school and then get punished and learn and never do it. I once bit a fellow school-mate at age of 15 during a fight I was being battered in (and that was the end of the fight, it worked)...got suspended from school for a few days and never ever got into a fight ever again in my life. I can't wrap my head around how an adult, watched by the whole world, can't grasp the same concept. Something isn't right in his head. Fine lines and all that.

 

What has astonished me in all this, is the country of Uruguay. I am bemused by them. Hearing they are blaming the world, media, Colombia, and Liverpool in their press ! If anyone has ever been to Uruguay here, would love to hear some insight about the culture there. They are challenging North Korea with their "Us against the world" mentality based on this debacle.

 

They are bat s*** crazy the Uruguayans. We had two play off qualifiers over there in 2001 and 2005. Both times thousands of them stood outside the Australian hotel, beeping horns and banging pots and pans, to make sure the Australians couldnt sleep. They then booed through our national anthem, hurled abuse at our players on the bus. Recoba then declared that Uruguay "have a divine right to play at the world cup" and that Australia are nobodies.

 

 

Easy to see how Suarez is a nutter then and why his countrymen defend his actions

[MW]

The fact he's done it 3 times suggests that he's got serious mental issues if he does that instinctively. He should probably see a therapist