World Cup 2014

[Lord Pounder]

Apparently Argentina can hold at will when it comes to corners.

And why can't we hit the damned goal?

You really can't complain about favorable officiating at all in this match, sorry.

Tell that to Schweinsteiger and the new nostril he has under his eye.

[Crown]

Deserved winners, well done Germany!

[Lord Pounder]

As the meme said:

Brazil had Nemar, Argentina had Messi, Holland had Robben. Germany had a team.

[Block]

Apparently Argentina can hold at will when it comes to corners.

And why can't we hit the damned goal?

You really can't complain about favorable officiating at all in this match, sorry.

Tell that to Schweinsteiger and the new nostril he has under his eye.

Yeah, that's never a card, especially if you haven't already given Schweinsteiger a double yellow for all of his dirty tackles and Howedes a straight red. Germany was the better team and the officiating was fair in trying to not influence the game one way or the other.

[Crown]

End of an era. The Brazil team demolished, the Americas yield to a European champion on American soil. Amazing.

[Edi]

Congratulations Germany!

Damn but that was a nailbiter. Beautiful goal by Götze.

[Lord Pounder]

Messi best player of the World Cup? No offence but he wasn't even the best Argentina player, in my opinion that was Romero.

[wautd]

Congrats to ze Germans

[Vanas]

Not a big follower of the World Cup, but Germany deserved that one. Good on them.

[Spekio]

Congratulations, we couldn't have the "hermanos" win a world cup here.

[Gandalf]

This has been perhaps the best World Cup I've ever watched. Germany had a well earned victory, Brazil learned a lesson in humility, and Australia lost by less than it usually does. Arguably, the real winner was football.

So, what's the ongoing effect on Brazil? They've just spent a fortune on stadiums and such, so when will that be recouped?

[Borgholio]

This has been perhaps the best World Cup I've ever watched. Germany had a well earned victory, Brazil learned a lesson in humility, and Australia lost by less than it usually does. Arguably, the real winner was football.

So, what's the ongoing effect on Brazil? They've just spent a fortune on stadiums and such, so when will that be recouped?

Hopefully the 2016 Summer Olympics.

[mr friendly guy]

Kid will be set for life

What's the betting (um bad pun there) that the kid's family didn't have that much savings in the first place given his dad is a problem gambler.

But congrats to the Germans.

So, what's the ongoing effect on Brazil? They've just spent a fortune on stadiums and such, so when will that be recouped?

In regards to the ongoing effect, I would say that it would depend on two factors

1. Success of the games
2. Financial costs.

Arguably one is more important and that depends on how you measure success. If we use the Beijing Olympics as an example, the success was in showcasing to the world what China could do in terms of organising the games, and not so much in how many medals they won. So despite the criticisms of how money could have been better spent (it did turn a profit) it did succeed in its task and got a lot of average citizens on side. In Brazil's case, arguably its more about winning the World Cup than showcasing how well they can organise a sporting event. Since they didn't win, straight off the bat Brazil is in a bad position. They can salvage things if they manage to say, look we turned a profit and stimulated the economy etc. I have no idea how successful that would be.

[Spekio]

So, what's the ongoing effect on Brazil? They've just spent a fortune on stadiums and such, so when will that be recouped?

In regards to the ongoing effect, I would say that it would depend on two factors

1. Success of the games
2. Financial costs.

Arguably one is more important and that depends on how you measure success. If we use the Beijing Olympics as an example, the success was in showcasing to the world what China could do in terms of organising the games, and not so much in how many medals they won. So despite the criticisms of how money could have been better spent (it did turn a profit) it did succeed in its task and got a lot of average citizens on side. In Brazil's case, arguably its more about winning the World Cup than showcasing how well they can organise a sporting event. Since they didn't win, straight off the bat Brazil is in a bad position. They can salvage things if they manage to say, look we turned a profit and stimulated the economy etc. I have no idea how successful that would be.

Oh you silly foreigners.

We built massive stadiums for cities that do not even have a team for ridiculously inflated prices. We are never recouping it. Let's not talk about the 60% of infrastructure the government promissed that was not ready for the world cup. I like the sport and I was trying hard to separate the event with the massive shit that went arround prior and during said event.

I think our president is not going to be re-elected. I'm certainly not voting for anyone in power the next election this october.

[mr friendly guy]

Well Beijing claimed to make $170 million USD while Sochi made $22 million. From what Spekio says, Brazil looks nowhere close, although I have no idea how profitable hosting World Cups are. Plus Brazil don't have the consolation of a good performance (at least by their standards) to take away the pain.

[Gandalf]

Well Beijing claimed to make $170 million USD while Sochi made $22 million. From what Spekio says, Brazil looks nowhere close, although I have no idea how profitable hosting World Cups are. Plus Brazil don't have the consolation of a good performance (at least by their standards) to take away the pain.

A surprising amount of money goes to FIFA, so it's not directly comparable to the Olympics.

[mr friendly guy]

Well Beijing claimed to make $170 million USD while Sochi made $22 million. From what Spekio says, Brazil looks nowhere close, although I have no idea how profitable hosting World Cups are. Plus Brazil don't have the consolation of a good performance (at least by their standards) to take away the pain.

A surprising amount of money goes to FIFA, so it's not directly comparable to the Olympics.

So its harder to make money on a World Cup. That just makes it worse.

[Havok]

Between this and the Ravens, I want to punch Thanas on GP.

[salm]

Damn it, i shouldn´t have switched from beer to cuba libre. And who the fuck came up with the brilliant idea to have the finals on sundays?

[Havok]

You mean the day that like billions of people don't work?

[salm]

I mean the day before the day that like billions do work.
They could have chosen a day billions of people don´t work that is also a day before a day that billions don´t work. But I guess they had to reserve that day for the finals of the losers.

[Thanas]

Between this and the Ravens, I want to punch Thanas on GP.

Don't forget Vettel and Rosberg.

[Alferd Packer]

Well, maybe Vettel in the second half of the season. I mean, his luck has to change at some point, right?

[Thanas]

Yeah, ask Mark Webber if the luck of the guy with the bad car changes.

[Welf]

Kid will be set for life

That is hilarious.

I mean the day before the day that like billions do work.
They could have chosen a day billions of people don´t work that is also a day before a day that billions don´t work. But I guess they had to reserve that day for the finals of the losers.

It sucked for Europeans, but for the Americas it was a perfect time between 11 and 17 o'clock. And we got lucky, for the Asians it was something between Sunday, midnight and Monday morning 7 AM.
And after all, it's only really a problem if the people who pay you are not tired themselves from watching and are around to check on you and if you have to stand up at 4:30 because your flight leaves at 6:15. (Full disclosure: My day sucked. But worth it).