Jai Jai "Hanson"

[So Warped]

Do you want to read about Germanys zonal defence?
Brazils Offensive plays?
Spain's 15 minute time out?
How the clock is counting down on Italys hopes of kicking a point for goal?
How Henry form Arsenal United might be joining Real Barcelona?
How Argentina will be using their set plays to get an extra 10 yards nearer to the goal line?
How England will be punting from their own goal line in a desperate attempt to win a game with Peter Crouch?

:Yanks:Wanna read about Soccaaah Y'all?:Yanks:

Jai Jai Hanson will be giving exclusive analysis of all the games she has seen, here on Oddthought.

[Jacx]

Oh good, I looks forward to the "EXPERT" analysis

[Santo]

I'm all sitted down, and waiting to listen....

[Uganja]

:smartass: I have copyright issues with that name

[Alf uckem]

phew, ithought uganja was doing commentary, i think jaijai knows more about footy than our young pop star

[Ridgeback]

*bump* especially for jj to post her analysis

[JaiJai]

OK I've watched about 4 games so far and here's what we've got:

England vs. Sweden

The world cup was stunned last night as England advanced to the next round with a 2-2 tie against sweden. Ok not stunned but it sounded good. :ice: In the final 5 mins of the game england scored when that one player (Joe something) I believe err wait that time is was Jerard, bounced the ball off his chest right into the net, and it was almost a sure win at a score of 2-1. But..with only 15 seconds left on the clock in the last quarter of the game, The ball kinda bounced off an england player and off a swede, then off the fingertips of the goalie guy, and Yes you guessed it Sweden scores!! *raaaaaawrrr*
So the game goes into the extra time they do at the end (injury time or something) and of course Sweden kept pushing the ball out of bounds and basically killed the 3 mins left. And u got it , the game ended in a Tie. 2-2 England hasn't beaten sweden since 1968, but at least now england doesn't have to play Germany, they get to play Equador in the next round :D

[Ridgeback]

perfect! SW will be proud :orign:

[Santo]

It was everything i always dreamt it would be.

[JaiJai]

:orign:

Ok the game I REALLY wanna talk about is the USA vs. Italy eh hem...

The yellow and red cards were flying in this game..
For those of you who dont' know what those are, these cards are handed out if a player commits a foul. Its the referee's discretion as well. If you get 1red or two yellow in one match then you not only get sent off of that game, but are out for one game following also. So they are a no no , especially in the world cup.

Well that brings us to the italy/ usa game :blank:

First Italy scored.. rah rah bah.. So the score was 1-0. USA played pretty good but couldnt' seem to get the ball in the goalie net and then finally.. Italy scored FOR the usa lmao.. I think they call it an Ungoal or something but the italians accidently hit it into Usa's net. Unfortunately that's the only point USA got during the game :blush:

One of italy's players elbowed Usa's Mcbride in the face (he even started bleeding) :blank: And so Italy got a red card taking him out of the game, now they are down to 10 players. Then usa got a 2nd yellow card on a guy and they lost him, making both teams have 10 players each. Then!! Usa lost Another guy in a bogus call from the refereee, and now usa is down to 9 men! (that referee should be fired)

Those italian players were funny.. anytime a usa player barely touched them, they'd fall down and roll around. You even thought they might start crying, and it looked like a ploy to get the referee to hand out yellow and red cards.

Both teams offense sucked, defense wasn't too bad, but neither team played that well imo. :no3:

IN the end.. it was a Tie, or draw?? 1-1 both teams advance and tomorrow Usa plays Ghana and Italy plays uhmm.. Czechs i believe

[Ridgeback]

Excellent. You should be on the TV with this expert analysis!

[Jacx]

classic reporting...thank u lady mofo...


"Both teams offense sucked, defense wasn't too bad, but neither team played that well imo"


the best commentary i ever saw

[So Warped]

http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_75.gif

It's almost like being at the game itself......

[Colander]

LOL is all I can bring myself to say right now

[wats_up]

We were already through :orign:

Gerrard time for a song

"Steve gerrard gerrard,
He can score from 40 yards,
Hes big and hes fuckin' hard,
Steve gerrard gerrard"
(sung to the tune of Que Sera, Sera)

Head, aka a Header

no quaters in football :P

wtf happened to ur rep

[Uganja]

wow your so cool.

*bows in awe*

[JaiJai]

I realize the world cup produces an extraordinary amount of Testosterone, but eh hem....c'mon guys, this is my thread , no fighting :no3:


*goes off to make sparky a rusty blunt scissor ball removal thread of his own* :ice:

http://forum.oddthought.com/showthread.php?p=31769#post31769

[JaiJai]

Last night's game.. Holland vs. Argentina can be summed up with one word:


B-O-R-I-N-G *yawn*

One thing liverpool was watching the *ginger haired* man.. cuz he might be bought by them soon oooooOOoohhh
(heard that through a reliable source) hehe

game ended with a score of 0-0
One thing i noticed though, those players on both teams had some good skillz, and there wasn't hardly any yellow cards. Next!


Let's hope ghana and usa is more exciting tonight :D

[JaiJai]

June 25 England vs. Equador

Halftime Update

Stadium at full capacity, england makes up 97% of the crowd

0 - 0

Game was in 12 mins before I turned it on, Both teams are playing pretty good defense

Only one yellow card so far, when an equador player tripped Gerrard..he thought he got away with it, lol the look on his face when the whistle blew was class :no3: oops

Hargrave (sp?) got kicked in the leg and was still down at halftime.. I think it prolly hurt pretty bad, he looked miserable.

Not alot of action yet.. there was a couple free kicks

One thing I notice about England's team, they don't get all drama queen when someone pushes them, trips them etc.. Yet equador guys have been rolling around on the field quite abit, kinda like italy does :w00t2: Ref's not buying it tho :ice:

be back after game ends :England:

(no draws allowed in knockout games)

[JaiJai]

England vs. Equador Update Continued...

England wins and moves on to the quarter finals! :w00t2:
End score 1 - 0

2nd half was way more exciting, alot more moving the ball forward
Hargraves was back in, so he wasn't hurt too bad :orign:

The winning goal happened when england's Beckham got to make a free kick @ 59 mins in. That kick was awesome.. it went up over the wall of guys, and kinda curved in to the edge of the goal, equador's goalie didn't stand a chance. :no3:

What i noticed was that England was setting up alot of good plays, but was having some trouble with the final kick into the net. They also were doing well at regaining the ball, as a matter of fact, Equador barely had control of the ball throughout the whole game, they looked pretty desparate after about 80 mins in :Shutit:

England also has a really good goalie, I think he pulled a muscle when he dove for a ball late in the game, but it didnt' stop him. :orign:

One last thing I gotta talk about.. England's Rooney.. geez that guy has skillz. Awesome footwork, and he seems pretty dedicated. LOL when the referee called a foul and rooney stood right in his face for a sec.. he looked so badass. But at the 3rd quarter ish.. when the dogpile happened with rooney, the commentator said "Rooney would run through a brick wall for a scoring opportunity" and I believe it, he's got talent. :orign:

IN the end, England knocked Equador out and advances to the quarter finals!
:fanclub:


** we got to see Beckam barf on the field.. poor guy was hot and dehydrated they said, but I coulda went all day without watching him puke.

** also, that one referee looks like prince charles :unsure:

[Jacx]

oh jusus im cracking up...i was a bit dissapointed (not with the win of course just the lack of stikers)..but thats just made me smile lots

ME thinks BBC need to hire you lady mofo, legend

[Ridgeback]

Very nice game analysis there JJ :orign:

I'm just waiting for the analysis of the portugal / holland game now :w00t2:

[JaiJai]

Aussie vs. Italy

Arrrghhh! I'm so ticked off right now, but here we go.

Italy won 1 - 0

By 90 mins there was still no score..so the game went into stoppage time *3 mins* In the last 3 seconds, the italians faked a penalty right near their goal, so they got a penalty kick, and totti scored. GRRR that was so bogus and the Italians have faking penalties down to an art, I dont care how Hawt those guys are, Grrr@ them.

Italians got a red card at approx 60 mins in, so they played most of the last half one man short. In all fairness, it shouldn't have been a straight red card, because he wasn't the last man in and it didn't prevent a goal, but ref called it so Materassi was out. No team has scored with a man down in the last 22 matches.. but I guess when u fake a penalty it raises your chances. :Shutit:

In my opinion, Aussie's played an excellent game. They were fit and really good at keeping the ball in their possession. Seemed like the Italians played most of the game defending, but aussies still had a hard time scoring.

Buffon, Italian goalie, made some really good plays.

If the win was based on how well they played.. Aussies shoulda had it. And the fake penalty kick really ticks me off :unsure:


Italy advances to quarter finals :bye:
**The Italian team are still a bunch of hotties tho :ice:

edit: P.S. ridge, I didn't see the portugal/holland game lol

[Jacx]

ME thinks there is some passion in this lady muhahhahaha

shes called it right again"!!

[Uganja]

These are great Jai Jai :D

[NKVD]

Can't wait for the next one. They're class

:fanclub:

[JaiJai]

Ty jacx, jay, ridge and Nv :orign:

Argentina vs. Germany: Quarter finals game

Final Score 1 - 1
Penalty Kick phase Germ 4 Arg 2

Germany wins and moves forward to play the winner of the Italy/Ukraine game

Weather was great for the game, mid 60's, nice breeze.
Stadium had about 65,000 german fans

This game was somewhat boring to me, nothing spectacular happened imo. Both teams were equally in control of the ball and in defending their goals. I think Argentina might have played a bit better of a game tho.

One play was exceptional, although it didn't end up as a score. One of Germany's doods rushed in at the 18 yard line , and he bounced the ball off his head, it barely missed the net but was a great play.

There was only one yellow card in the first half, and I don't think any in the
2nd half. At halftime score was still 0 - 0.

In the beginning of the 2nd half, at about 49 mins in... Argentina scores. Nothing spectacular, guy kicks ball into net, score! :w00t2: now it's 1 - 0

Then the next exciting thing happened at 80 mins in, when Germany scored the equalizer with only 10 mins left of the game. The goal was pretty cool, it bounced right off the german guy's head and Bam! went right in. :w00t2:

At 90 mins , score was still tied, so it went into the two 15 min OT rounds.. Still no score after 30 mins. The guys appear tired.

Since it's Quarter finals.. we have to have a winner, no draws allowed. So now we move into the Penalty kick phase. This is where each team is allowed 5 kicks.. with only a goalie defending his domain. Whoever scores the most, wins. Germany goalie was amazing, he seemed to know right where the ball was going, shutting argentina out 2 out of 4 of their kicks. Germany didn't miss one at all, so the game ends when argentina missed theirs. Germany Wins it. Rahhhhhh! :german:

But wait...what's this? Some players from both teams are having a push n shove fest on the field. tsk tsk.. bad sportsmanship :ice: It ended quick enough though.

Halftime report**

I thought i'd pass along that they announced Randy Walker, Northwestern University football coach of Chicago died of a heart attack last night at age 52.

And...

*Italy off field news* Former Juventus player Gianluca Pessotto remained in critical condition after leaping from a building in an apparent suicide attempt.

That's all :bye: Ukraine vs. Italy in an hour :w00t2:

[Alf uckem]

awesome jaijai

[Dymond]

somebody call me?

[Jacx]

another classic

thanks baby, i missed the game as i got a unexpected invite to go to the races...seeing as its something i never done before, i went for it, and won 4 out of the 7 races...but was still gutted i missed the game, so thanks again for the comentary :)

[JaiJai]

As much as I hate to .... :blank:

England Vs. Portugal
0 - 0
Portugal wins penalty kick phase
Advances to Semi Finals

Just gonna give a few highlights...

Neither team scored.. had 30 mins of OT then Penalty kick phase.

Early in the game .. about 52 mins in, Beckham went out due to his leg injury (he shed a few tears cuz he had to leave game)
Then Rooney got a straight red card for stepping in a Portugal players crotch :oops: and he was sent out of the game.

England played the rest of the game with one man down. Only team to score with one man down was Italy.

Portugal's player "Petitte" got a 2nd yellow card so he's out next game.

Portugal had scored once, but the offside rule voided the goal.. didn't count.

England's "Lennon" who went in for beckham seems to do a good job.

Seems the commentators are blaming England's coach.. saying he didn't put his players to good use and take advantage of their particular skills *shrug* I don't know if that's true?

That's it really.. Portugal advances

Edit: Also, i have to give kudos to Portugals goalkeeper.. he was spot on.

** one more thing***

I seen Mick Jagger in the audience :ice:

[Uganja]

*sheds a tear*

[skippy440]

As much as I hate to .... :blank:

England Vs. Portugal
0 - 0
Portugal wins penalty kick phase
Advances to Semi Finals

Just gonna give a few highlights...

Neither team scored.. had 30 mins of OT then Penalty kick phase.

Early in the game .. about 52 mins in, Beckham went out due to his leg injury (he shed a few tears cuz he had to leave game)
Then Rooney got a straight red card for stepping in a Portugal players crotch :oops: and he was sent out of the game.

England played the rest of the game with one man down. Only team to score with one man down was Italy.

Portugal's player "Petitte" got a 2nd yellow card so he's out next game.

Portugal had scored once, but the offside rule voided the goal.. didn't count.

England's "Lennon" who went in for beckham seems to do a good job.

Seems the commentators are blaming England's coach.. saying he didn't put his players to good use and take advantage of their particular skills *shrug* I don't know if that's true?

That's it really.. Portugal advances

Edit: Also, i have to give kudos to Portugals goalkeeper.. he was spot on.

** one more thing***

I seen Mick Jagger in the audience :ice:


:bye2: :cry: :England:

[JaiJai]

Thank you guys for the compliments...
I had a request to recap the Germany vs. Italy game so here goes:

Germany vs. Italy
Italy wins 2 - 0 (grrr again, none of my teams are winning) :blank:

The game while unspectacular throughout.. was actually a good game, if that makes sense. Nothing great happened until the end, but I have to admit, both teams played pretty darn good today.

sidenote: Italy got called on 10! offside rules.. and Germany only 2 :no3:

While Im really ticked off at Italy for their winning tactics against the usa and against australia ... they seemed to play straight up today...meaning no fake fall downs and whiney baby rolling around on the ground grabbing themselves in order to get free kicks this time. :D

Those guys all worked hard to score, alot of moving the ball forward, especially in the 2nd half. By the end of 90 mins, the score was 0 - 0. So the game went into the two 15 min OT. As of 29 mins and 11 seconds there was still no score, and we were sure it would go into penalty kick phase...

But then Italy snuck one right into the very edge corner of the goal... making it 1 - 0 . While i sat here thinking there's not enough time for Germany to score the equalizer.. Italy scored again!! I was shocked.. 2 goals in the last minute of the OT phase! :hellno: :cry:

The crowd was intense.. Italy fans screaming and celebrating, German fans sat still stunned and silent.

Italy won their game fair and square ... THIS time.

Italy moves on to play the winner of tomorrow nights game (july 5th) between France and Portugal.

I don't even know who I chose to win now.. I dont' like any of the 3 remaining teams really :dunno: If I HAD to choose one, even though they eliminated England, i'd probably say Portugal, they seem like a good fair team.

Happy 4th of July to the Yanks!! :Yanks:

[marott]

man, that italy game made this the best 4th of july ever, it was an awesome game, and really intense.

[Santo]

:fanclub: As usual great comment. Thank you a lot, you have help me enjoyed a game i already love in whole new different perspective. There is so many "expert" commentaries you can hear before it gets old. I even got to be one of those experts once (on Korea/Japan) i wrote for a small newspaper in a small city, and finding a fresh thing to say about a game that everybody has something to say, is not always easy, keep it up JaiJai, and as i said thanks! :urock:

[JaiJai]

Portugal vs. France
France beat Portugal 1 - 0

Ya know, the game was pretty dull in my opinion.
France scored.. game ended at 90 mins + 4 mins injury time
Simple. :smartass:

At first I wanted Portugal to win, but during the game I realized I was indifferent to who did. The teams I was rooting for have all been eliminated and now it's just a matter of watching the ending of a long, exciting championship of a sport I only took interest in this year. I ended up feeling a sense of "muahahhaa* when France won, cuz Portugal had beaten england out :w00t2:

The extent of my knowledge of soccer was limited to the occasional games of my niece and nephew that I go to, and for the most part it was me taking pics of the kids and cheering them on no matter what was really going on out on the field :ice:

Being engaged to a Brit, especially a livid "footy" fan.. I have been exposed to alot of soccer talk and it sparked my interest. As the tournament progressed I found myself becoming quite addicted to the sport and I think I'll end up a die hard fan of the game , sorry Boo :blushing: lol

I used to be like alot of ppl, thinking soccer was kind of a wussy type game and american football was the "real man's sport". But I've got alot of respect for the soccer players, they run 90 mins straight, no time outs at all. Takes a fit person to be able to do that. And it takes alot of skill and good strategy to score, avoid yellow/red cards, penalties n fouls, the offside rule, etc... that's why alot of games end 0-0, because it's harder than it looks.

Takes a bit of occasional acting too *points at Italy* la la :bye:


Neways: Saturday is the 3rd place game between Germany and Portugal
Sunday is the championship game between France and Italy

[JaiJai]

Ready for this???









Are you sure???








Ok then>>>
















Italy won the world cup during the penalty kick phase !!








Nuff Said :ice:

Cya in 4 years :bye:

[Dymond]

Portugal vs. France
France beat Portugal 1 - 0

Ya know, the game was pretty dull in my opinion.
France scored.. game ended at 90 mins + 4 mins injury time
Simple. :smartass:

At first I wanted Portugal to win, but during the game I realized I was indifferent to who did. The teams I was rooting for have all been eliminated and now it's just a matter of watching the ending of a long, exciting championship of a sport I only took interest in this year. I ended up feeling a sense of "muahahhaa* when France won, cuz Portugal had beaten england out :w00t2:

The extent of my knowledge of soccer was limited to the occasional games of my niece and nephew that I go to, and for the most part it was me taking pics of the kids and cheering them on no matter what was really going on out on the field :ice:

Being engaged to a Brit, especially a livid "footy" fan.. I have been exposed to alot of soccer talk and it sparked my interest. As the tournament progressed I found myself becoming quite addicted to the sport and I think I'll end up a die hard fan of the game , sorry Boo :blushing: lol

I used to be like alot of ppl, thinking soccer was kind of a wussy type game and american football was the "real man's sport". But I've got alot of respect for the soccer players, they run 90 mins straight, no time outs at all. Takes a fit person to be able to do that. And it takes alot of skill and good strategy to score, avoid yellow/red cards, penalties n fouls, the offside rule, etc... that's why alot of games end 0-0, because it's harder than it looks.

Takes a bit of occasional acting too *points at Italy* la la :bye:


Neways: Saturday is the 3rd place game between Germany and Portugal
Sunday is the championship game between France and Italy


Jai Jai...mark me another die hard American fan too! My soccer experience was watching my daughter play and coaching knucklehead 8 year old boys (including my son). However I was hooked from the first game and it gave me a chance to sit my son down with me and let him watch how the big boys play the game. Its funny though because even from 8 year olds to professional soccer some of the concepts remain the same. Move the ball downfield, pass to the open man and get the ball centered for the goal. But it was beautiful to watch all the myriad ways to do this, and the ball handling at this level is phenomonal!! Its hard to keep an 8 and an 11 year old interested for 90+ minutes but they could appreciate the great passes and awesome shots on goal!

Thanx FIFA for a great World Cup.

[Buddha]

As the tournament progressed I found myself becoming quite addicted to the sport and I think I'll end up a die hard fan of the game , sorry Boo :blushing: lol


Pfft...
We have'nt gained a YIT but instead gained a BIT:unsure:

[JaiJai]

Yay! Dy and lol boo, don't forget to add the "ch" :ice:

My niece n nephew soccer pics:

Max:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/tweesa/maxsoccer.jpg


Alexis:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/tweesa/lexysoccer.jpg

[Buddha]

lol boo, don't forget to add the "ch" :ice:



Those of us that know you well know the "ch" is not in ya

[Dymond]

LOL I'll scan mine and put them up although my daughter never did get hers done this year

[So Warped]

Cya in 4 years :bye:

2 months, the European Championship qualifiers start.
I want a review of every game played,Jai Jai:blank:

[Metall_fan]

We ought to have Jacx commenting football games that he sees here in the States. I am afraid he'll just fall asleep if he tries to watch baseball.