This is not your father’s Japanese team: when just a few years ago most of the players played in Japan, fourteen players play their club football in Europe.
Share your thoughts!
Reader Interactions
22Comments
Comments are closed.
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Our messy unity will be our strength.
With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.
How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.
Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.
All hail the time of the bunny!
You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.
Democracy cannot function without a free press.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
When I was faster i was always behind.
The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
In after Baud. Damn.
Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.
There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.
the 10% who apparently lack object permanence
Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.
Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.
Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.
rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius
Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.
Bark louder, little dog.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
Amir Khalid
And Brasil are already one up. That was quick.
NickT
Sadly, it isn’t grandfather’s Brazil either. I guess nothing is.
Randinho
Japan’s defense appears to be your father’s Japanese team.
MattR
Figure this is the right place to ask if anyone else is having issues with the HD feed of ESPN. Trying to watch the “normal” feed and it is painful. How did we ever survive 10 years ago?
Randinho
@MattR: It’s cut out a couple of times, but seems okay now.
red dog
This sport has so many critical qualifying games for one cup or another that any relevance left my mind many years ago and I am pre-boomer. If it keeps people so busy they can’t bomb me then I’m all for it.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@efgoldman: Next year in Sochi. Bring your skates and skis.
MattR
@Randinho: Still out for me :( Serves me right for saying nice things about Comcast recently.
Amir Khalid
And it’s 2-nil to Brazil. Japan don’t seem to have the finishing to stay in this match.
Thlayli
I just turned it on at the start of the second half. Is Kagawa playing?
Randinho
@Thlayli: I believe so, but he appears to be invisible.
Hawes
You know, my father owned neither Brazil nor Japan. I’m not sure who your dad is.
NickT
@Hawes:
Cthulhu-sensei has noted your interest in his corporate holdings and will be sending some friends of his over for a friendly chat in the near future.
burnspbesq
@MattR:
I’m willing to make a small wager that ESPN isn’t causing the problem. Pretty much every World Cup-related infrastructure project is behind schedule, over budget, FUBAR, or some combination thereof. Next year is likely to be a public relations disaster for Brazil, and the 2016 Olympics could be even worse.
? Martin
@efgoldman: And full of lies! How can they have a confederate cup without a team from Alabama, suitable hooded and armed?
Yatsuno
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): I’m wondering if the IOC isn’t taking a good hard second look at the Sochi games after the anti-gay law passed the Duma. They made China change their anti-HIV laws before the Beijing games under threat of pulling them. It would be a nightmare if they did but I have to think there will be some kind of pressure there.
@Randinho: :: hugs Randinho ::
Hi. :)
Amir Khalid
Three – nil! Not a surprising result, but a more even match than one might have expected not so many years ago.
MattR
@burnspbesq: That was why I asked. ESPN2 was bradcasting in HD so I was curious if there was soemthing with the feed from Brazil or with my cable company. Given Randinho’s response, I have a feeling it was both.
And isn’t that part of the purpose of the Confederations Cup? To give the upcoming World Cup host a chance to do a dry run and see where work still needs to be done (I have read that Brazil is having issues, but I seem to remember reading the same thing 4 years ago about South Africa)
? Martin
@Yatsuno: If we send a team from Gayistan, would they have to break their law and acknowledge it?
I propose that Congress allow the confederate states to secede as they are desperate to do, but only on the condition they name themselves Gayistan and send an all-gay team to the Sochi Olympics. I think everybody wins there.
pseudonymous in nc
@MattR:
Yeah, 2010 wasn’t all peachy, but the infrastructure was in place. Let’s put it this way: this will be the last World Cup in a while where the world actually gives a flying one about the host nation. There is a lot of goodwill towards Brazil finally getting its chance, and it’ll be ready one way or another.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@pseudonymous in nc:
1950?
scott
A Neymar that can finish!