With the world cup coming up I thought, lets share my most vibrant WC memories, please post yours as well. The Good: Argentina - the Netherlands 1998 WC Quarterfinal The Argentineans started this tournament and until the game had not disappointed. We had probably our best team since the mid 70s (maybe bar 1990) and had a coach who had shown he could get it done. Both teams played an attractive game with Dennis Bergkamp scoring the winner in the closing minutes with one of the prettiest goals ever scored on such a stage Nederland - Argentinie WK 1998 The Bad: Brazil - the Netherlands 1998 WC Semi-finals If I would have included European championships this would have been an easy choice (2000 semis against italy, missing a total of 6 penalty kicks). However this game hurts me the most for the simple reason that I thought (and still think) that we had the best team in that tournament and we got robbed. NL outplayed Brazil for large portions in an open game and got raped by the ref (who was some arabian dude who shouldnt be reffing at that stage anyway) when a clear injury time penalty appeal was mysteriously turned down. Brazil won with penalties (big suprise huh) and went on to lose to france in the final. Brazil-Netherlands The Crazy: Portugal - the Netherlands 2006 WC Quarterfinal Match started of with a few fouls and ref Sergey Ivanov quickly showed that he was going to show cards a few times and a few times not but that giving cards were totally unrelated to fouls. With all the players realising that you could get a yellow anytime and that most flagrant fouls would pass unpunished it resulted in the most vicious game I've ever seen with a total of 4 reds and like 18 yellow cards. The Netherlands vs Portugal: The Fouls
Good to see another dutch fan on the board I agree with all of those videos. You mentioned the Italy game in 2000 worse international tournament moment/memory for me ever!
Wicket is from the netherlands, not an American who roots for another team . The bad- entire 2006 world cup for the US.
The Good: 2002 England v Argentina World Cup Finals Round 01 The Bad: Portugal vs England Penalty Shoot out 2006 World Cup
USA - PORTUGAL 1 ROUND WORLD CUP 2002 USA 3 Portugal 2 2002 World Cup 2nd Round USA v Mexico USA-Mexico
Not so many memories to share. So I guess the 1998 World Cup falls under all those categories for Chile (since I wasnt alive for 1982 WC) Good: Chile v Italy '98. We had the game won and just outplayed them. Dumb fuckin penalty should have never been called, but we ended up drawing 2-2. Also good was Jose Luis Sierra's free kick against Cameroon. Just a sick goal Bad: Chile got paired up with Brazil in the Round of 16. It wasnt pretty.
As I posted on TMB, only memory for few. June 29, 1950 USA defeats England 1-0, in what is still considered the greatest upset in World Cup history.
One of the greatest. The greatest has to be Uruguay beating Brasil in the final of the same world cup in front of 250,000 people. The Brasil team had world cup champions shirt under their kits.
the good: USA beating colombia in 1994 the bad: US vs Germany qtr finals 2002 the crazy:GK Higuita (flamboyant Colombian goalie and cokehead) getting the ball stolen from him after he tried to show off by Roger Milla of Cameroon and scoring the go ahead goal in OT at 1990 WC in the round of 16
Yes and no, England was the prohibitive favorite. It was like a club team, that you see practicing at the local high school, beating the current US squad. Again being lazy, from Wiki "At the time, the English considered themselves the "Kings of Football", with a post-war record of 23 wins, 4 losses, and 3 draws. Conversely, the Americans had lost their last seven international matches (including the 1934 World Cup and 1948 Summer Olympics) by the combined score of 45–2. The odds were 3–1 the English would win the Cup, and 500–1 for the U.S.[4] England had Stanley Matthews available, whom they considered the best player in the world at the time, but he had not played with the English team in the three international matches prior to the World Cup (in fact, he had joined the team late, having been touring Canada as part of another group of English internationals). As such, the selection committee (consisting of one man, Arthur Drewry, then president of the English/Wales Football League and later the president of FIFA), opted to stay with the team that had just defeated Chile. As there were no substitutes allowed in those days, Matthews watched the game with the other reserves. Meanwhile, the American team consisted of semi-professional players, most of whom had other jobs to support their families. Walter Bahr was a high school teacher, and others worked as mail carriers or dishwashers.[5] Not only that, but the team had been hastily assembled, and had only been able to scrimmage all together once, and that was the day before they left for Brazil, which happened to be against the touring English team featuring Matthews.[6] Three players, Joe Maca, Ed McIlvenny, and Joe Gaetjens, were added to the roster just prior to that game.[7] "We have no chance," recently-appointed coach Bill Jeffrey told the press.[8]"
Since I've been alive, for the U.S. The Good: USA - MEXICO 1/8 FINAL WORLD CUP 2002 The Bad: USA vs. Czech Republic The Crazy: Round 2. Italy vs USA 1-1 (Fifa Highlights)