Brazil Advance To Copa Final Thanks To 3 Things
Tuesday, 10 July 07, 10:23 PM · Comments(11)
I only have one thing to say. Brazilians all over the world better be thanking 3 things. God, the goalpost, and, what my Uruguayan friend calls, some "crooked"
referees.
First off, if God wasn't watching over the Brazilians, they probably wouldn't have advanced. Secondly, if it wasn't for the goalpost, yes, the Brazilians wouldn't have made it to the final.
When Pablo Garcia, the former Madrid player, struck the ball for his penalty, I thought Uruguay had knocked off Brazil and made it to the final. But, thanks to the goalkeeper's best friend, they didn't.
And when the last pk was taken by a Uruguayan, who had to make the penalty in order to keep his country alive, AS Roma goalkeeper, Doni, had taken at least 3 steps out of his goal, before the ball was kicked.
That is a no-no, according to FIFA rules and regulations. So, I thought that Uruguay would have to retake the penalty, but the head ref said no. That moment, reminded me of the 2005 Champions League Final between Liverpool FC and AC Milan. One of Milan's players had a to take a penal, but, then Liv'pool keeper, Jerzy Dudek, had also taken 3 steps off his goal-line to block the penalty taker and make Liverpool the Champions of Europe for 2005.
What are your thoughts on this whole situation?
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It's unfortunately true, in the end Uruguay shot it's self in the foot. But at least I hope people recognize this team and La Celeste as a good squad, they deserve it.
Ok. how about the penalty kick on vagner love in the first half minutes before brasil`s first goal? it would be 2-0. game is over.. as we say here in Brazil "IF" doesn`t play ball. The fact everybody
knows...
I think Brazil does not deserve to be in the final . Uraguay was the best team on the field and they were cheated at the PK.So football is not fear ,hopefully Mexico will teach them how it's done .
The Brazilian know they do not deserve the semi finals.
Goalpost? Did you forget that Brazil hit the goalpost twice? Pablo Garcia wouldn´t even need to kick his penalty if the goalpost was so Brazilian-friendly... And yes, Lugano (as always) made a
penalty on Vagner Love when it was 1-0 and another one over Vagner when Julio scored the 2nd goal.
The pk's to the goal post were not favor towards the goalie, but the lack of accuracy from the shooter. As far as the last kick goes, the shot may have gone to hte middle because the goalie spooked
the shooter by moving, causing the centralized shot, as opposed to the side.
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Brazil can certainly thank a somewhat "blind eye" that was turned on Doni in their favor. But Uruguay could have sealed it up with the earlier missed PK.
It could have been by some kind of grace or will that they advanced, but I felt that Ruiz and his team did a pretty fair job calling this one (much to my surprise). No game changing penalties or red
cards. Is the error of omission (i.e. not calling questionable fouls) better than the error of addition (calling things that are not fouls)? I would argue yes. Regarding the final penalty shot, I
would say that the steps off the line is one of the looser FIFA rules/regulations that is not only very difficult to enforce without really messing with the player's heads but also not a
game-changing rule in the first place. He had the rest of the goal to shoot for and chose nearly dead-center. Such is football. Plus it could be argued that the ref had plenty of other chances to
give an advantage to Brasil that he didn't. I think it was fair.