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30 to 40 years behind when? Because we certainly aren't 30-40 years behind them now. That would mean we are on the cusp of winning our first WC.

France has been cranking out talent for decades. We aren't even close to doing that yet. We are just now starting to turn on the talent spigot.

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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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So we just need the Julia Childs of soccer to show up and we good?

8 hours ago, Napoleon said:

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. 

It’s maddening that Argentina is such an economic basket case and they suffer ridiculous currency devaluations like that regularly. They don’t have cartels and gangs like in Mexico and Central America strangling legitimate businesses (even with that the MX peso has not depreciated like the Argentine currency). You don’t expect a country with its background and composition to be a mess economy.

I’m ready.

 

In case anyone  was wondering, fuck Argentina.

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Fuck Tom Herman who is probably Argentine.

Allez Les Bleus! Un de plus, faisons ceci!

Lineups are out and it looks like the standard starting xi for France. I guess the Giroud injury News was overblown. No Benzema on the bench. 

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Let’s go Argentina! Let’s go Messi! Bring the 3rd Jules Rimet trophy back home!

DiMaria in seems like a mistake - but maybe Scaloni wants someone who he knows can finish at the biggest stage.

Either way - somebody gets a third star and a Jules Rimet copy to keep.

Vamos vamos Argentina

2 to 1 odds an Argentine player starts the game already rolling around on the ground clutching his shin

Just now, Cheeseweasel said:

Fuck the cheese eating surrender monkeys. Let’s go Messi. 

France did give the Statue of Liberty to America.  Go France!

Di Maria start is interesting. Wonder how much run he gets. 

2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Di Maria start is interesting. Wonder how much run he gets. 

when he got Messis ball and crossed it. I was like oh yea that’s why he in 

Wow, kind of dangerous from Varane.  That could have easily gone wrong for an OG.

France better step it up before they get their ass kicked. 

Always a double standard in the box where outfield players go at it with no call but breathing on the keeper gets the whistle.

Wind knocked out of him?

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Great job by Molina there

di Maria looks good.  I wonder how long he'll be able to last.

Are the French fucking hungover or something? What the fuck is going on? Might be time to join the game in progress, dudes.

Just now, Macklemore said:

DiMaria has been very good so far

Fantastic.

Argentina look the better side in the midfield, too.  If this press keeps working, it's only a matter of time before they get a goal.

Unless this is soccer rope a dope France looks pretty shaky so far

Every single mother fucking time that fucking dumbshit Hernandez touches the ball it turns into an Argentina chance. Jesus Christ dude, get your head out of your ass. 

I thought Messi was going to bury that off the pullback

Argentina is playing with their hair on fire. I cannot imagine it will be always to keep this up. 

Giroud crowd surfing there

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