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I think he meant you can't say the player wanted to break the other player's leg, per say. He wanted to hit him, that's for sure, but how much damage did he expect/intend to do? That's hard to know. Still should be punished, don't get me wrong. If you are taking the risk of breaking someone's leg by yourself you should see heavy punishment, even if what you had in mind was some bruises and scratches.

Maybe he was so psychologically damaged by the bite that he's got Stockholm syndrome

Using his foot is also unacceptable. But in the scale of unacceptable things, it is lower than biting. Unless we're talking about kicking someone with no ball involved, then it is about the same. But I was talking about those cases when a players is already doing a sliding tackle, for example, and when he notices he won't reach the ball, he hits the other player "just because". His first motive was legit, but frustration with the game or for not being able to reach the ball with that tackle made him decide to hit the opponent. That's one thing. Most violent plays we see fall into that, tackles, elbowing, you name it. His bitings incidents are totally different. He wasn't challenging for the ball in any of them, they were gratuitous aggressions, totally uncalled for. In addition, he chose to do it in the most bizarre and out of the place way he could find, which makes everything even more shocking. As a law student or lawyer yourself you should know that the means you choose to commit a crime and the circumstances are taken in consideration too. It's not only about potential damage. It also matters whether it is your first incident or your third, fourth... And you also know when someone behaves in a manner one would question his sanity, he should undergo some sort of psychiatric evaluation. It is not authoritarianism, he brought it upon himself. He should be only allowed after being cleared from a psychiatrist in order to protect other players. Who's to know when will he attack again. The part where you question why 9 and not 10, why 4 months and not 6, I agree with. However that is not exclusive to Suarez, that could have been asked in many other cases. Punishment in football seems to be chosen with a heavy dose of subjectivity, unfortunately. I think how they sentenced Suarez was reasonable though. By the way, he IS sort of a criminal for biting people.

I see where you are coming from. There are some tackles and other stuff way more dangerous to other players than a bite, stuff that could result in broken bones or worse, and we have seen cases when things like that were done intentionally and we haven't seen any punishment as hard as this. Although all that is true, a bite is so out of the game. A violent tackle still resembles something we expect to see on the pitch. Biting is so primal and out of place, there's really no excuse you can give for that. Also, it's the THIRD time. It's not like he just snapped for a second. He's done it before and he has been punished before but he keeps doing it. It HAS to stop. They should have obliged him to see some psychiatrist on top of the punishment. He should only be allowed to return when that same psychiatrist says he's able to play like a sane human being. That should be done to players like Pepe (among others) too.

What about Ronaldo? Ronaldo and Zidane were to their era what Cris and Messi are nowadays. It's no coincidence that Ronaldo and Zidane consider each other the best players they've ever played with. We'd be lucky if Eden and Neymar could fill their shoes.

@Barbara, 1- When are you going to send me new songs? (this is especially true if you do know more songs like Lifehouse - I'll keep the change) 2- Who's gonna be the best performing player at the WC? 3- Will you accompany me to the mysterious wedding today? In addition, when are we singing all night on skype again?

How big is football in Korea? How do e-sports (like Starcraft 2 tournaments etc.) compare to traditional sports? (Football, Basketball etc.) in Korea? Is it as big or almost as big as those conventional sports or is that a myth?

Yeah, maybe. But still an understandable mistake. I could see myself in his shoes translating something from a portuguese player slightly wrong due to minor differences in speech that I wasn't aware of. As a native speaker you would never imagine yourself not being able to translate at least an overall idea of what's being said accurately, even if you consider you're listening to a variant of your native language.

He was complaining - Ele estava reclamando (formal) / Ele 'tava' reclamando (informal) / Ele reclamava (this could also be used, very very subtle difference in meaning though). He wasn't complaining - Ele não estava reclamando (formal) / Ele 'num' 'tava' reclamando (informal) / Ele não reclamava (Same as above).

Actually it kinda makes sense that he wasn't complaining precisely because the coach was making a lot of changes. Oscar understands now that this is the way it works in Europe, especially at top teams playing in a lot of different competitions as we did, there is just way more squad rotations than in Brazil. In general, the starting eleven in brazilian clubs is a lot more fixed than the typical top european team, especially for a player like him, who was used to being pushed into every single game because he's always been regarded as a special player in every club he played for. What he meant is despite being uncomfortable with this kind of situation, he understands why it is so, thus he hasn't been complaining.

Regarding Parreira: I think the european portuguese speakers are not used to "num", which is how brazilians will sometimes pronounce "não" when they're speaking really fast as Parreira was. He said "ele 'num' tava reclamando". It's crystal clear to us because we're used to it, but if you think about it, he says it really fast, maybe it's not as easy for non-brazilians.

Niall lucky bastard. Fuck him.

It just wasn't meant to be. I mean, how many times do we see a player scoring after assisting himself with the aid of the bar? When it has to go in, it will go in no matter what. They were better and luck was also on their side tonight. We should just focus on improving for next season and hope our best players come to the decisive games rested and fit. In addition, Courtois has been a beast for their entire campaign. Bring him back asap.

Where were these people saying someone else should be there instead of Hazard before the game? It's easy to say that after the damage is done, no one could know that. Besides, conceding a goal very seldom can be attributed to a single player mistake and this is not one of those rare cases. There are more players at fault than Hazard. Be cool people.

This goal was SO stupid.

That would have been an exquisite goal.

Anyone with those stream links?

Just had a feeling. Were you with a group of friends?

@Stingray, did you go to any party on 26.04.2014 by any chance?

@Stingray, would you (or anyone reading this) know any website (other than europa.eu) where I could read and learn stuff regarding European Union from a political-legal perspective? I'd be particularly interested in articles about how supranational laws and directives interact with national laws and/or European Union vs. National Governments legal cases. It may be written in Portuguese, English or Spanish. French could work too but it would be too troublesome.

Maybe the aliens are trying a new bermuda triangle on the region.

I just wish I could skip graduation though. I still gotta finish law school before getting my lawyer card and truly being able to work as a lawyer. That should happen around august I suppose

I passed the national exam to become a lawyer!!!!! SO FUCKING HAPPY

Now you may try League of Legends, the worst community known to mankind.

I'd say many of those scenes are not directly related to the World Cup, a lot of them were taken from the protests that happened last year (I recognized videos from that time amongst everything there), which were about the raise in public transportation tickets cost and corrupted politicians. But if I understood correctly, it tries to convey a message that a large number of abuses took place in order for us to host the WC. If that is the case, it is true indeed. They're trying to "clean the house" before the guests come. For that purpose, policemen are being pushed to enter favelas and kill/arrest criminals/drug dealers and in addition, some people are losing or lost theirs homes so that we could build stuff needed for the WC in their place. Sure the government is going to refund those who lost theirs houses, but it usually takes time and they usually pay a lot less than those houses were worth. Besides, they usually do it to poor people, who already got things bad enough. Also, people are upset because all that money could have been better spent as @Rmpr said.