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Don't blame them. That's caused by brazilian refs. Pretty much every brazilian team and player does that. If you watch Oscar's first games you'll notice he used to fall quite a bit. And he wasn't known for diving in Brazil. You have no idea how much some players can dive here, hahaha.

Torres movement and positioning are looking a lot better these days. And he's winning many headers. Kudos to him.

Funny you said that. I've always thought of Corinthians as the brazilian Man Utd in the way they're always being helped by the ref.

Oscar is a Sao Paulo fan. Corinthians and Sao Paulo are rivals. I bet Oscar would do anything to score against them. If anything, I would play Oscar for that reason.

Cassio is having the game of his life today. I've never seen him performing like this.

I don't live in SP. I don't hear any fireworks here. Well, we told the guys here Chelsea was better but Corinthians should not be underestimated. We'll need to play at least moderately well to win this.

Just got home and turned on tv. How are things going so far?

It's getting close. I'll take a nap and I'll be back by the time the match begins. GO BLUES!

It would happen once every 2 years. The calendar would be the tricky problem. I know things are more complicated than that, but a man can dream. As a fan it's hard not to get excited at what the CWC could be. Let the clubs and fifa sort out the problems.

Probably not. But I've been wrong before

If supercups and CWC are both shit, why not try to merge both to make something good out of it? I'm all for it.

@Strike As good as your idea is, I'd like to see at least one more european team joining the tournament. Maybe a match between Europa League champions from those 2 years to decide the 3rd team. If that was to be applied this year we would have: Barcelona, Chelsea, Atl. Madrid (?), Santos, Corinthians, Sao Paulo (?). Now this would be something I would be eagerly awaiting to see.

My dad always said the biggest mentality changes he's gone through were when he was a teenager and then when he made it to the thirties. I've heard some others speak of similar ages of changing so I'm not surprised I didn't see anything major going on with me. edit: I joined university at 17. I got my first job that year aswell. Driving wasn't big deal for me. And maybe it's worth saying I had to support my mom emotionally since her divorce when I was 13. You may say I'm a bit different from most ppl, I guess. @Strike That would be 200% better than the way we have it now.

I don't know, I've always been more mature than people my age. I like to think I didn't have that much to improve as some of my friends had.

I'm 23 but I don't feel like I've changed much since 5 years ago. Just sayin'

Tell Henrique about it, hahahaha.

Oh, boy. Poor estonians

Do people really think you guys live in igloos? I had no clue. edit: the hockey part is true, I really do relate Canada and hockey. And maple. Maple syrup. And a lot of foreign people living in the big cities. All in all, I rate Canada very highly.

I get your point, however, I don't think anyone with an IQ higher than 70 thinks Brazil is ONLY samba and football. And if there is, he's a moron, why bother?

But we can't choose the way other's stereotype us. @, I get pissed off when people say shit like: Throw anutha shrimp on da barbie. Struth Crikey We don't talk like that. And when they believe we all surf and live on the beach and ride kangaroos to work. It's not just Brazillians that get annoyed by stereotypes @ Yeah, but that's why I don't get pissed off. I know things are just like that for every country. edit: and there are worse things than football and samba to be remembered of, hahaha. No offence.

Brazilians seem to get offended for people relating us to football and samba. I don't get it. I mean, when people mention Germany - you think about beer. Italy - pizza or that gesture when they get their fingers up and together. French - bread, Paris, those caps which names in english I don't know. Mexico - sombreros, mexican food etc. Swiss - chocolate and watches. Spain - bullfighting. Even though those are the first things that come to my mind, I don't think those countries can be resumed/summarized to that or those are their most important traits. It's just the way they're perceived in other parts of the planet. There's nothing wrong about being remembered by samba or football, if anything, it just shows our excellence in those regards.

True, sadly. I know it wouldn't be fair and I have no idea how it would work out, but maybe if Libertadores, Sudamericana, UCL and Europa League champions and runner-ups went to CWC together it would get WAY more interesting. It would truly feel like a championship.

I do not disagree about the difference level between european and south american football. But what kills CWC for me is its duration. I mean, Corinthians and Chelsea had to play one single game to reach finals, it makes the CWC feel so cheap and boring.

Lucky you. I wish I didn't speak portuguese so I could not read what they wrote there. Actually I'd have to be blind aswell, even if you don't speak portuguese, you can see they said Emerson Sheik > Hazard and Danilo = Juan Mata. 'nuff said.