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Sunday December 18, 10:00 AM Eastern on Fox

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  • There’s a possibility that I got a last minute miles flight to Buenos Aires that goes into Newark tonight and out JFK tomorrow night.  Hello Newark! …and goodbye Newark!

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Argentina look the better side going into the match but hard to bet against any team that has Kylian Mbappe. Truly a matchup for the ages but I will go with Argentina. Messi finally has a national team squad that look up to the task of helping him win the World Cup.

3-2 AET, Enzo Fernandez winner.

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There’s a possibility that I got a last minute miles flight to Buenos Aires that goes into Newark tonight and out JFK tomorrow night. 

Hello Newark!

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…and goodbye Newark!

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Hello Manhattan!

4-4 - going to PKs then 4-2 some one 

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https://footballwhispers.com/blog/the-5-highest-scoring-world-cup-finals-of-all-time/

 

World Cup final statistics

21 – World Cup finals have taken place

13 – Different countries have made it to the final

5 – World Cup finals have been won in extra time

2 – World Cup finals have been won on penalties

1 – World Cup final has finished 0-0 (Brazil v Italy, 1994)

3 – Finals between Argentina and Germany, the most competed between the same nations (1986, 1990 & 2014)

12 – World Cup wins for European nations, more than any other continent

2 – Times that the World Cup has been successfully defended; Italy (1934 & 1938) and Brazil (1958 & 1962)

5 – World Cup final wins for Brazil, more than any other nation

I was rooting for Chaos, Croatis v Morocco, but, instead I will root for France to win a great game.

I've never been in the Southern Hemisphere. I have been to France many times. I have driven past the stadiums in Lyon & Nice and been on the train right next to PSG's stadium.

I reckon that is enough reason for me.

11 hours ago, Napoleon said:

There’s a possibility that I got a last minute miles flight to Buenos Aires that goes into Newark tonight and out JFK tomorrow night. 

Hello Newark!

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…and goodbye Newark!

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Hello Manhattan!

I'm a bit confused. You are heading to the game? If so, awesome. 

It is your duty to provide pictures of the lovely ladies inside the stadium.

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4 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

I'm a bit confused. Are you heading to the game?

I’m headed to Buenos Aires to watch the game either with friends or in one of the big fan zones where tens of thousands of people watch together on a jumbotron.

If we lose, it will be a bummer, but there won’t likely be as much violence & destruction near the obelisk as there was in 2014 because…

When the game ended in 2014, it was mid-July (equivalent of mid-January in the northern hemisphere) and although the temps were mild (upper 50°s to mid 60°s), it was already dark. 

In 2022 the game is 3 days before the summer solstice and kickoff if at 12pm local time. (Fortunately there will be a cool front, so temps won’t be in the 90°s.)

BUENOS AIRES FORECAST 

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Rain would be a bummer.

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I will also see many friends for the first time in 5 1/2 years. I will also eat ice cream, steak, amazing “Jamón y Roquefort” empanadas with filo dough from El Cuartito, while also drinking copious amounts of Malbec, Fernet y Coke, and hopefully my friends pre-bottled gin & tonic concoctions. 

45 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

I’m headed to Buenos Aires to watch the game either with friends or in one of the big fan zones where tens of thousands of people watch together on a jumbotron.

If we lose, it will be a bummer, but there won’t likely be as much violence & destruction near the obelisk as there was in 2014 because…

When the game ended in 2014, it was mid-July (equivalent of mid-January in the northern hemisphere) and although the temps were mild (upper 50°s to mid 60°s), it was already dark. 

In 2022 the game is 3 days before the summer solstice and kickoff if at 12pm local time. (Fortunately there will be a cool front, so temps won’t be in the 90°s.)

BUENOS AIRES FORECAST 

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Rain would be a bummer.

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I will also see many friends for the first time in 5 1/2 years. I will also eat ice cream, steak, amazing “Jamón y Roquefort” empanadas with filo dough from El Cuartito, while also drinking copious amounts of Malbec, Fernet y Coke, and hopefully my friends pre-bottled gin & tonic concoctions. 

Gotcha. I thought you were going the other way, from Argentina to Qatar, for the game. 

Safe travels. Did you stay at the TWA Hotel at JFK last night? It’s pretty cool.

Nope, landed in Newark (from DFW) and stayed at my sister’s place in Manhattan.

Not as cool, much better last minute price. 

2 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

I was rooting for Chaos, Croatis v Morocco, but, instead I will root for France to win a great game.

I've never been in the Southern Hemisphere. I have been to France many times. I have driven past the stadiums in Lyon & Nice and been on the train right next to PSG's stadium.

I reckon that is enough reason for me.

You've been to France and you don't want to root against them?  France is beautiful and has some of the best food and art in the world, but the people are assholes.  

2 hours ago, Napoleon said:

I will also see many friends for the first time in 5 1/2 years. I will also eat ice cream, steak, amazing “Jamón y Roquefort” empanadas with filo dough from El Cuartito, while also drinking copious amounts of Malbec, Fernet y Coke, and hopefully my friends pre-bottled gin & tonic concoctions. 

No communal grass-water?

🧉🧉🧉

6 minutes ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

You've been to France and you don't want to root against them?  France is beautiful and has some of the best food and art in the world, but the people are assholes.  

We spend our time at the beach down around St Tropez.  They are nice there 

There's a rumor going around that almost the entire French team is sick with a virus. Would suck if true.

1 hour ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

You've been to France and you don't want to root against them?  France is beautiful and has some of the best food and art in the world, but the people are assholes.  

"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole.  If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."

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32 minutes ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

There's a rumor going around that almost the entire French team is sick with a virus. Would suck if true.

rabiot was out for the flu in the mar game so it wouldn't be shocking.

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2 hours ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

 France is beautiful and has some of the best food and art in the world, but the people are assholes.  

My experience with the French during travel there has been quite the opposite of that. First trip my brother made there was a backpacking trip. He had a Texas flag sewn on his pack and while sitting in a train station he was approached by an older gentlemen that recounted a story about being saved from execution by the Germans right after D-Day by U.S. soldiers that were accompanied by tankers with Texas flags on their antennas or painted on their tanks. My brother cut the patch off and gave it to him.

Walked from the Belgium border to Paris in 1990. With my brother we wanted to see the battlefields. Never had an issue with the French. Could camp out, get fed, all good. 

We would not be the nation we are without them. 

And it is not the Malvinas. 

Go France. 

5 hours ago, WBT said:

No communal grass-water?

🧉🧉🧉

Back when Swine Flu hit Buenos Aires in about 2009, my flatmate (Lesbian Jewish girl from North London who had an affinity for Chinese tomboys) and I were talking about the whole mate thing where normally it is no big deal to share mate with a coworker with a cold sore (a.k.a. “herpes”).

Anyway, she had been teaching kids one day, filling in for someone, and she asked the kids how H1N1 / Swine Flu / Infuenza Porcina could be spread. 

Some of the kids guessed the touching of hands, a few others actually sharing mate, but none of the kids guessed that you could no longer safely kiss every person you see on the cheek.

Argies aren’t the smartest knives in the drawer. 

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Having been to France many times, and never having an issue with them, I can say they are some of the best people in the world. If you think they are assholes, you either don't know or aren't really trying while you're there.

 

Either way, Go Argentina. I'm pulling for Messi.

This virus could decide the final.  All of the French CBs are now sick and Rabiot still hasn't full recovered which suggests the CBs won't be anywhere near 100% for the final.

3 hours ago, Scary Stranger said:

They should have brought their essential oils!

Como Salsa Golf!

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1 hour ago, Captain Ron said:

Interesting news coming out of the French camp. Benzema is healthy. He wasn’t replaced on the roster, so he would be eligible to return. 

https://www.marca.com/en/world-cup/2022/11/29/638610e746163fe9508b45dd.html?intcmp=MNOT23801&s_kw=1

I already think that France should be favored by a 2 to 1 margin without a Ballon d’Or level player coming off the bench if they somehow find themselves stymied. 

Where is Jeff Gillooly when you need him?

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There are a few things to the story:

FIrst - Benzema is not even in Qatar, but back in Madrid training with RM. 

Second - He has been cleared by the club for full training and play, so he could return to Qatar and play for France.

Now that being said, he came out on Instagram with statement that said he would not return to play, so it becomes a moot point.

 

Now I absolutely agree that Benzema has business returning/playing. The team has their stride, he would destabilize it if he returned.

 

No problem with the French. French Canadians on the other hand are the absolute worst.

Rolling with Argentina on Sunday.  Just think they're healthier and have a better all around game.  I'd certainly hate to bet against France though.  But, going with blue.  

Having been to France many times, and never having an issue with them, I can say they are some of the best people in the world. If you think they are assholes, you either don't know or aren't really trying while you're there.
 
Either way, Go Argentina. I'm pulling for Messi.

My exact experience as well. Zero issues, and really a shit ton of fun to hang out with.
3 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Would you believe it if I told you that @Napoleon will be rooting for ... Germany?

Nein!

Give me 

France

Argentina

ET

Argentina 

2-1 final. 

On 12/15/2022 at 12:23 PM, Napoleon said:

I’m headed to Buenos Aires to watch the game either with friends or in one of the big fan zones where tens of thousands of people watch together on a jumbotron.

If we lose, it will be a bummer, but there won’t likely be as much violence & destruction near the obelisk as there was in 2014 because…

When the game ended in 2014, it was mid-July (equivalent of mid-January in the northern hemisphere) and although the temps were mild (upper 50°s to mid 60°s), it was already dark. 

In 2022 the game is 3 days before the summer solstice and kickoff if at 12pm local time. (Fortunately there will be a cool front, so temps won’t be in the 90°s.)

BUENOS AIRES FORECAST 

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Rain would be a bummer.

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I will also see many friends for the first time in 5 1/2 years. I will also eat ice cream, steak, amazing “Jamón y Roquefort” empanadas with filo dough from El Cuartito, while also drinking copious amounts of Malbec, Fernet y Coke, and hopefully my friends pre-bottled gin & tonic concoctions. 

I will be there with you in spirit. Vamos Argentina. Let us (or me) know if the quality of the coke is still amazing. 

Just got back from Paris and it was a wonderful environment mingling with their fans earlier this week. So what the hell, go France!

Some sights of Buenos Aires…

Large artist drawing a chalk portrait of Messi on the pedestrian section of Avenida Corrientes (El Obelisco is in the distance of the second photo.)

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Festive decorations in the Carrefour Express as the slightly plump girl in front of me waits to buy a bag of frozen French fries in her fake Messi jersey.

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And ad for something with members of the team.

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A much more interesting ad on the street for something… probably female skin.

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One of many famous Generals on horseback. (This one happens to be Gen Alvear, whose son was the first mayor of what is now known as Buenos Aires and whose grandson was a president.)

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The church next to the famous Recoleta Cemetery.

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And what I got for changing US$200 with my buddy’s friend who works for the National Congress. (When I arrived in 2007, the official exchange rate was US$1 to AR$3.1. When I left I late 2014 it was US$1 to about AR$9, but the street rate was about AR$15.)

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Yesterday the official rate was about US$1 to AR$172, but we got US$1 to AR$318.

in 2007 I would have changed my US$200 for AR$620. Yesterday I got…

😳 AR$63,600 😳

My Argentine buddy hasn’t been back since 2019 (he’s married to an American and lives in the U.S.) and he couldn’t believe how ridiculous it was either. 

21 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

Interesting news coming out of the French camp. Benzema is healthy. He wasn’t replaced on the roster, so he would be eligible to return. 

Can he play center back?

 

Word out of French camp that giroud took a bad knock in practice and hurt his knee pretty bad. Along with the flu going around the team, seems like god is intervening on Messi’s behalf. 

If Giroud did go down, then as not ideal as it is, that’s a strong vote for putting Benzema in if actually available. 

fucking fuck. 

It's crazy that France could still win this even with so many starters out

It was announced today that everyone trained today and no one is out for tomorrow.
Just now, CooterBrown said:


It was announced today that everyone trained today and no one is out for tomorrow.

Well they were missing 5 dudes even before the cup started. Benzema, Kante and Pogba just amazing how deep they are

3 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

Well they were missing 5 dudes even before the cup started. Benzema, Kante and Pogba just amazing how deep they are

Their early talent identification and youth development is the reason why they are kicking so much ass as well as several other countries. 

France produces way more talent than they can play and that has made several other countries better due to dual nationals. 

The US is only about 30 to 40 years behind France.

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