Fernando sporting the spandex!!!

[Nando Vallart]

 

[OzziePete]

YOU were the one to tell me about the city's reputation! Say G'day to Ronaldo and the 'girls' for me...Serioulsy tho, a good move for you?

 

[Nando Vallart]

YOU were the one to tell me about the city's reputation! Say G'day to Ronaldo and the 'girls' for me...Serioulsy tho, a good move for you?

Not the city, but the football club!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_FC
The one that is "teaching" your club how to "play" They're saying they will send Richarlyson to teach you guys how to play :evil4: Do a little research about this player

Ronaldo is playing at my team now, Corinthians... I'm not sure if that was a bad move or he did that intentionaly, but it's a major joke around here... :laughing7:

 

[whyachi]

For the random of it,

 

[OzziePete]

YOU were the one to tell me about the city's reputation! Say G'day to Ronaldo and the 'girls' for me...Serioulsy tho, a good move for you?

Not the city, but the football club!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_FC
The one that is "teaching" your club how to "play" They're saying they will send Richarlyson to teach you guys how to play :evil4: Do a little research about this player

Ronaldo is playing at my team now, Corinthians... I'm not sure if that was a bad move or he did that intentionaly, but it's a major joke around here... :laughing7:

I doubt we'll see any Sao Paolo player come here too soon. We've had a shocking season and we've got a new coach next year with some misgivings about the guy's ability to pick up the team at all. The new coach reckons he's gonna get some South American No. 10 to spark up our midfield counter attack, but we ain't holding our breath. The comp finished yesterday with the Grand Final between Sydney and Melbourne, went to the extra time then a penalty shootout, so it was BIG match. Having been there when Australia had to do that to beat Uruguay in 2005 for a WC spot in Sydney (one of the most painful but greatest nights in my life btw), I understand how emotional that sort of finish is to handle. Good way for the A-League to finish..

 

[Nando Vallart]

Cool! Hope your team goes fine and you can get Richarlyson, he'd completaly color your team up :laughing7:

 

[OzziePete]

Cool! Hope your team goes fine and you can get Richarlyson, he'd completaly color your team up :laughing7:

Ha ha. Just Wiki'd Richarlyson to find out what you are talking about..... sorry mate, we've already got at least one defensive centre midfielder, and also a left back...as for gays in our team, I have no idea. The players I have met seem straight enough, but that's no good indicator either. I really don't think if one or two of them were gay, that it would worry the team too much.  All the players have their legs and other parts of their body waxed, which is a worry though, lol.. :laughing7:

 

[Nando Vallart]

All the players have their legs and other parts of their body waxed, which is a worry though, lol.. :laughing7:

I knew that football in Australia had to have something wrong... You are supposed to be a rugby guy!

 

[OzziePete]

All the players have their legs and other parts of their body waxed, which is a worry though, lol.. :laughing7:

I knew that football in Australia had to have something wrong... You are supposed to be a rugby guy!

Australia is strange with how we follow sports.
Rule 1. is generally we follow anything we are winning at. Like, say when Mick Doohan was winning Motorcycle GP titles every year, all the talk was about 4 stroke vs. 2 stroke, though most of us knew nothing about what that really meant.  :laughing7:

Rule 2. is National 'jingoism', where a national team of any sort of sport can suddenly win nationawide acclaim if they win a World Championship at it! When we went after the America's Cup decades ago, then won it in 1983, hell, our nation stopped. Though most of us have been nowhere near a12 metre yacht, let alone a yacht at all.

Rule 3. is to protect your State's past colonial heritage.
Our Southern States (Victoria, South Australia & Tasmania) have long played AFL Football as well as Western Australia. They are fervent about it & know little about Rugby Union or Rugby League or care about those codes of football for that matter. In regards to Football (soccer), those States will tolerate ie, so long as it does not threaten anything to do with the AFL. As we have put in bids for the FIFA World Cups in either 2018 or 2022, the AFL have sensed they'll be told to stop their competition in mid- winter when it is busy, so the World Cup can clean up the stadia and prepare for the WC (if we get one). The southern states media outcry was only matched by the northern states outcry when NSW and Queensland found out the same applied for their beloved Rugby League!

NSW and Queensland are bastions of Rugby League and are very territorial about it. It used to be that the AFL football was played in each southern state at a state level, until they got themselves nationalised, and placed teams in Sydney (NSW) and Brisbane (Qld) and had a national comp. The Rugby League, in the meantime, sought to become 'national' by placing a team in  Victoria.  Football (soccer) is somehow squeezed in between all this pushing and shoving for stadium use and when we have tried to assert the use of a stadia or complained about the poor state of the pitch because the RL players turned it into a cow paddock, they've just shrugged and told us to get used to it. Now we have a chance (albeit slim) of getting the WC & have basically told them to get used to it if it happens, they are getting nervous. FIFA's financial strength is about all that could stand up to the might of the AFL - FIFA and the IOC are about all the AFL are scared off, everyone else gets told to get lost by them.

Rugby Union (your Rugby) was a late starter to professionalism but their Super 14 comp is very attractive. They now have a team in Western Australia & will soon have a team in Victoria too. But these Super 14 teams are franchised regional teams, no history behind them and they need a lot of marketing in new markets to get the fans in. The ARU is also quite financial, but they have in the past been a basket case that needed reviving. If that happens again there won't be such help forthcoming, although the ARU has the 'old school tie' network helping them in sponsorship and business circles. Their main heritage is also in NSW and Queensland states, but their local state and city comps are just about dead in the water (still quite amateurish). All the good players play for one of the Super 14 teams.

Rule 4. Other codes call Football  'soccer' as a derogative term and really rub it in. They also believe that only effimeninant males play the sport & also used to call it 'wogball' because a lot of the Post WW2 refugees to Australia set up ethbic communtiy clubs and had football competitions to help them assimilate into Australian life. Unfortunately they made the mistake of not knowing their place and became too successful for their own good. They ended up reviving 'old country' rivalries, causing disturbances at Football games & the code of football became known as 'wogball'. However, now we have a lot of ethnic people playing all codes of football and no one code can lay claim to being more Aussie in participation rate demographics than any other.. & the ethnic based Football clubs have just about passed into history since the A-League has started up 5 years ago. A-League teams are franchise based and very professional, compared to what came before them. But Football needs to improve... and keep imroving. WE need to win silverware on a global scale, we need for our Socceroos to play well all the time & the Rules 1 & 2 need to be engaged so the nation as a whole can embrace Football! Will it happen? A:  :dontknow:, possibly not in my lifetime...


BTW the reason why the football players shave/wax their legs is to help with massaging after a workout/game and to help with minimal chafing, as they run and sweat A LOT. Whether any of them is doing a Beckham too, I have no idea!