**Official 2014 FIFA World Cup Thread**

[GSG]

Fake Bo Pelini ‏@FauxPelini 21m

.@FIFAWorldCup As part of your investigation into whether Suarez bit that guy you should review the video where Suarez bit that guy

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGeZxgatmRs

[Notre Dame Joe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGeZxgatmRs

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did Thunderlips ever get a spinoff?

[Bigred_inSD]

dude must be sore for cash. We have a minor league hockey team and a couple years ago we got some pump up ads with hogan in them

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I can't wait to beat ze Germans.

[GSG]

I don't like soccer, as most of you know. I'd rather watch the USA vs Germany from Beerfest.

 

But, I love the United States, so I'm rocking my red, white, and blue polo and my stars and stripes socks today at the office!

 

USA! USA! USA! USA!

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If you don't love it, leave it, USA #1!!

 

- Ricky Stanzi

[GSG]

Ghana Throws 2 Of Its Best Players Off The Team Hours Before World Cup Game

 

 

Ghana stars Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sully Muntari have been kicked off the World Cup team hours before the Portugal game, the Ghanaian football association has confirmed.

 

According to team beat reporter Gary Al-Smith, the midfielders were involved in a training-ground altercation two days ago.

[Bigred_inSD]

One was already out today due to yellow cards, but this and the deadspin article about the match fixing with Ghana and they've officially reached dumpster fire status

[GSG]

I feel like the USMNT needs a more American-y kit.

 

Something like this:

 

 

 

Cowboy hat optional

[GSG]

 

FIFA Hits Luis Suárez With Four-Month Ban

 

[GSG]

I guess it's pouring rain in Recife. FIFA officials are inspecting the pitch right now

 

 

Retweeted by Andy Katz

Cindy Boren ‏@CindyBoren 34m

This is a member of FIFA testing the pitch, not John Cleese. http://bitly.com/1nH7DW0

 

[GSG]

 

The Brazilian City Where The U.S. Is Playing Germany Has Flooded

 

[GSG]

Fake Bo Pelini ‏@FauxPelini 31s

GERMANY vs. USA: WHO TO ROOT FOR

[wildman]

I thought this was kinda funny:

 

Nick:

 

Say the United States were to win the World Cup. Where would we put the trophy?

 

U.S. Soccer has an office in Chicago and a training facility in California, so they'd probably stick the trophy in a glass case at one of those two places after it made the rounds from bar to bar, with players affectionately rubbing their balls on it. But really, we should fuse the trophy to the top of the Statue of Liberty, to say to the world: THAT'S RIGHT. WE OWN SOCCER NOW. We've co-opted all of your food and all of your music. And now we're taking soccer, the one thing of yours that you never thought we could have or even want. SUCK IT. We shouldn't even give it back for the next Cup (like the Stanley Cup, there's only one trophy, and it gets passed from champ to champ). Just keep it and dare them to come take it.

Say the United States were to win the World Cup. Where would we put the trophy?

 

I would also fuel the world's ire further by having the trophy sell out and do ads for Wonderful Pistachios, Bud Light Apple-AHHH-Rita, and Dr. Pepper. Really degrade the trophy… smelt it down and fashion into a Lombardi Trophy and etch USA CHAMPIONS OF KICKY FOOTBALL on it.

 

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/why-tim-duncan-will-never-be-loved-like-michael-jordan-1595388824

 

since it's soccer. My guess it would be placed in a pawn shop somewhere