quick news round up

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

Chatter from the sidelines

• Messi rejected the award at Copa America So they decided to eliminate it


• FIFA Blatter 'not going to take the risk of travelling' Oh, behave


• FIFPro, the world footballers' union, is to welcome female players as direct members in a bid to fight inequality in the sport. Good news, right?


• Inter should be relegated for Salah debacle - Panerai Wow this is getting messy


• Tebas maintains La Liga will start on 15th August Hah, we'll see


• Who will catch the armband? The search for Real Madrid's next captain


• "Guardiola has destroyed Götze" Eurgh, but Götze is better than Messi, dude


• Barcelona ready to beat Manchester United and Chelsea to Arda Turan's signature How can Barcelona sign players if they're still banned- where will the player play?


• Tottenham Hotspur close to completing Toby Alderweireld move Not so fast because Southampton is threatening to sue. Atletico Madrid has left it too late, according to a clause, and Saints had first option to get him, as understood by contract (they'd pay about £6.8 million for him), but Aletico is all, "Really? I don't understand the question


• Is this Tottenham Hotspur's 2015-16 third kit? It's a nice purple


• Southampton threatening legal action over Alderweireld transfer to Tottenham Better overview here


• Galaxy introduces newest addition Steven Gerrard to fans at halftime He's gotten stuck in immediately. In training, will be playing his first game July 17


• Bastian Schweinsteiger told to make decision on future This piece of news keeps popping up

Pictures
Women's World Cup USA 5- 2 Japan

Credit to the yanks for getting the sport before it was even a 'thing' world wide for women. Title X, right?

All 16 national federations for the teams that failed to get out of the group stage at the 2014 men’s World Cup received $8 million from FIFA. That was $6 million more than the winning national federation will receive at this year’s Women’s World Cup, and that is just the start of the disparity.”

I thought the match was today, LOL at me. Anyway, just as well, the scoreline suggests a slaughter. Not Germany vs Brazil type, but still, if I'd stayed up for that I'd have been annoyed

USA got a hat trick against Japan in sixteen minutes, and The Daily Mail calls it 'a thriller'. LOL

OP: Done! Any cheers, jeers, corrections and commentary pushback, you know the drill! Cheers

Comments

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

FIFA plays a third-place playoff between the two semifinal losers, but since many soccer fans ignore it, our system will too.

Um, what. We don't (at least, I don't) ignore third place playoff at all. Yeah, it's a battle of losers but third place is still an achievement (and a medal).

And no one ever looks at 'dynasty runs'. It's all about titles.

[koyuki]

I think maybe 538 recently wrote an article about the Blackhawks "dynasty" (they're a hockey team based out of Chicago) but it makes more sense because they play for their cup yearly instead of every 4 years... though fuck them. I fucking hate the Hawks thinking about them makes me froth at the mouth in rage. It takes a special kind of fandom to make people *outside* of your fandom hate your team so viciously.

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it would make more sense if they wrote about a club dynasty like Arsenal winning the FA Cup or Barca winning the treble.