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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1640319" data-attributes="member: 812">Nothing that helps them win football games, obviously. Maybe they're spending too much time rehearsing for their Addidas commercials.Again, evidently it takes more training than any other team was able to put in to this tournament.Your argument is that the Greeks are a crappy team. You offer as evidence the fact that they scored two goals on the same maneuver. This is obviously nonsense, because given the EXACT SAME opportunities, only TEN TIMES as often, the Portugese were unable to score a single goal.So suggesting that this is a simple tactic that anyone can learn only begs the question -- why were the Greeks so spectacularly better at it than the Portugese?And if your argument to that is, "The Portugese were practicing lots of things," then the only sensible conclusion is that whatever things they practiced were the WRONG things for this game. And a team that can't figure out how to play against another team is a team that doesn't deserve to win.You may be right. It might be true that offensively the only thing the Greeks could do was score more goals than their opponents. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I would say, even if corner kicks were the ONLY offensive play the Greeks could succeed with, that STILL puts them ahead of the Czechs, the Portugese and the French -- none of whom came up with ANY offensive plays they could succeed with. I say that ONE is better than NONE. Infinitely better, if you want to get mathematical about it.Why aren't you ashamed of the French or English or other "star" teams that are supposed to be so good? Why take your ire out on a bunch of hard-working players who were smart and determined enough to carry out a plan against what are supposedly the best players in the world?Oh, well, unfounded predictions about the future lend a lot of weight to your argument. Now you've got me convinced. At least we know you aren't bitter.Right. Because one would expect if, say, the Czechs won, then Portugese people all over the world would be celebrating like mad. Now you're just getting silly.</blockquote>

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