Author Topic: 2022 World Cup GDT  (Read 6383 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline imref

  • Posts: 42504
  • Re-contending in 202...5?
Re: 2022 World Cup GDT
« Reply #400: December 18, 2022, 01:15:52 PM »
My soccer fan friends tell me Messi has always been in Maradona’s shadow despite arguably being the better player. I assume he’s an equal now.

Offline imref

  • Posts: 42504
  • Re-contending in 202...5?
Re: 2022 World Cup GDT
« Reply #401: December 18, 2022, 01:27:26 PM »
Just saw that the estimated viewership was 1.4 billion (with a B) :shock:

Online Natsinpwc

  • Posts: 25667
Re: 2022 World Cup GDT
« Reply #402: December 18, 2022, 02:02:53 PM »
My soccer fan friends tell me Messi has always been in Maradona’s shadow despite arguably being the better player. I assume he’s an equal now.
He's a much better player I believe.  Maradona just happened to come up big on the big stage.


Offline welch

  • Posts: 16289
  • The Sweetest Right Handed Swing in 1950s Baseball
Re: 2022 World Cup GDT
« Reply #403: December 18, 2022, 03:45:16 PM »
That was a hell of a game. One of the few World Cup games that have the intensity of the Premier League.

Offline English Natsie

  • Posts: 439
  • It's baseball, Jim, but not as we know it...
Re: 2022 World Cup GDT
« Reply #404: December 18, 2022, 05:51:29 PM »
He's a much better player I believe.  Maradona just happened to come up big on the big stage.

Many Argentinians appear not to be able to overlook that Messi was brought-up outside Argentina.

Have a good 2023 (or should that be MMXXIII... :lol:) everyone.

Over and out..;)

Offline imref

  • Posts: 42504
  • Re-contending in 202...5?
Re: 2022 World Cup GDT
« Reply #405: December 18, 2022, 08:18:31 PM »
just watched the award ceremony, incredible. My son said someone posted on tiktok from a balcony in buenos aires, there was a roar across the city when Argentina won.

edit: here it is: https://social.cbinary.sk/@9gag/109537749471340618

Offline imref

  • Posts: 42504
  • Re-contending in 202...5?
Re: 2022 World Cup GDT
« Reply #406: December 18, 2022, 08:21:48 PM »
Many Argentinians appear not to be able to overlook that Messi was brought-up outside Argentina.

Have a good 2023 (or should that be MMXXIII... :lol:) everyone.

Over and out..;)

They'll get over it. This is a good watch:


Offline Ali the Baseball Cat

  • Posts: 17647
  • babble on
Re: 2022 World Cup GDT
« Reply #407: December 19, 2022, 10:31:47 AM »
Good WC.  I would not have picked 3/4 of the semifinalists  :D

Offline imref

  • Posts: 42504
  • Re-contending in 202...5?
Re: 2022 World Cup GDT
« Reply #408: December 20, 2022, 03:36:26 PM »
This was almost about the worst possible disaster for Argentina that one could have imagined:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11557189/Argentina-stars-forced-duck-nearly-knocked-open-bus-overhead-cable.html

Offline Ali the Baseball Cat

  • Posts: 17647
  • babble on
Re: 2022 World Cup GDT
« Reply #409: December 20, 2022, 04:14:18 PM »
 :shock:

Oranje would have been sliced in half at the waist

Online Natsinpwc

  • Posts: 25667
Re: 2022 World Cup GDT
« Reply #410: December 20, 2022, 05:04:14 PM »
Nothing works right in Argentina.