At 8/1/10 10:15 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:At 8/1/10 06:10 AM, Auz wrote:São Paulo FC And yes, it'll be one hell of a match.At 7/31/10 12:35 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Well, we still have the local championship going on, so we will play with our "bench players", mostly. And it's the biggest rivalry match this Sunday, and playing without the full team is risky. =/What match will that be? Internacional against?
I've heard of them. A lot of great players come from that club, right?
Yeah, back in the 90. Hey, he even supports us. "My contract with Inter is for the entire life". :)And Pato, Nilmar, Lúcio, and even Dunga played for us. ^^Dunga himself played?
In the 90th minute? Lol, I bet Maradona would love to do that too.
I think they might broadcast it if dutch teams ever participate, but they seldom ever do. Last time we won something big in Europe was in 2001 or something.Ouch, that's a while ago... I never really paid attention, but do the Dutch teams do well in the Champions' League and Europe League.
Nope. They generally do not, although in 2006 or something we had PSV and AZ in the semi final of both cups and both teams were eliminated by a goal in the last minute (121st for AZ). PSV nearly defeated AC Milan back then.
Yeah in 1995/1996/1997 they were probably the best team in Europe. Won the Champions League first, then got to the final the year after and they had all kinds of great players like Patrick Kluivert, Marc Overmars, Edwin van der Sar, Edgar Davids and Frank de Boer. Pretty much half of the Dutch national team was playing there.Wow, all of them in the same team? That's quite a dream team.
It was. Best team Ajax has had in a long time.
Then they were all bought by Barcelona, Man Unt and other major teams in Europe and since then they haven't performed that well in Europe, except in 2004 I believe when they reached the quarter or semi finals of the CL (with Ibrahimovic, Chivu and some other good players).Ah, that... We're used with this in Brazil, most of our great players go to Europe soon after they have their big break. Pato went to Milan with only 18 years!
I thought he came from AC Milan's youth division. But yeah I suppose most Brazilian like to go to Europe. The money alone would be reason enough.
Currently we're still waiting for their 30th championship, but they keep coming in 2nd for the past couple of years =/We came in 2nd in Brazil's championship last year. We've been waiting for our 4th title for 31 years now! :(
Lol :p So is Internacional like an underdog in the Brazilian League?
I'm sure the major European clubs would be very interested if the team performs alright.Which is bad.As i stated above, they never stay in Brazil for that long...
Yeah I guess the Brazilian League might be more interesting if they stayed. Same goes for Holland. If players like Sneijder, Robben, van der Vaart and such were still playing here, we wouldn't be called a Mickey Mouse league anymore.
Hmm now that you mention it...Heh, yeah. We've said here that the octopus isn't the one we should be praising, but the guy who puts the flags on the left side. :P
Personally I was already under the impression that there might be some person manipulating the octopus' pick. Maybe by placing different types of food, but it could be that someone knew the octopus only went to the left. Still, that person would have done a pretty good job predicting Serbia and Spain winning.
Indeed. He might be the brains behind all this.
They could to that, but that would mean the players will have to leave their clubs for quite some time. Unless of course the FIFA also decides to halt all the national competitions, but then we'd need a couple of weeks extra in May and June to finish the leagues.Just like they halt them when we have qualifying matches with the current system. I'd like it.
Hmm yeah now that you put it that way, if they do them all at once it might not make that much difference in the end. It's a pretty cool idea indeed, but I doubt the Fifa will try it considering they're so scared of change.
You would say that travelling by ship might be handy in Brazil, but then again the car is probably much faster if you drive along the coast.True, but our roads aren't that great either. Not all of them have "double tracks", some of them have major holes, some get jammed during busier days, the ones in the North / Northeast are lame... and we have to pay for them. =(
Toll roads? Those are lame indeed, especially if they're not even maintained that well.