the 370Z.com OFFICIAL football (soccer) thread

[cow]

Collection time!! *

It's funny looking at these as, by looking at the kits, you can tell the time period I stopped buying them for a while & then picked up the "habit" again.*

Sorry for the crap quality of some of these pictures.*



The bottom three are knockoffs. The left one is from Little Italy & the middle & right are from eBay-- I got the middle one first & threatened the guy with negative feedback if I didn't get a better fake (look at the scudetto badge-- it's backwards).



I always seem to shoot my load off pre-ordering new France kits & somehow get something slightly jacked up about them.*

The top middle left is the 2006 WC strip, but the number isn't the same design as the match-worn ones. Same for the current one (bottom center). Also, the current one doesn't have a number on the front, but, being I pre-ordered it.... (I may buy a new one-- at least I'll get the Goal Club points.) *The two white 2010 WC kits I got because, as always, I pre-ordered the shirt & Ribery was still wearing #22, then when the squad was announced, he'd switched to #7. *Fiancee got the right one for my birthday.*



La Liga collection-- not a Real Madrid fan, but I wanted a Zidane strip, so I bought one. I have the same Barca one twice, but one's long-sleeved & has Iniesta on the back. The other was a gift from NikeTown in Seattle. *I love the color of the jersey-- it's so ugly it's awesome.*



miscellaneous others:






Again, sorry the picture quality is so crap. *Had I more time, I'd have used my DSLR.*

[phelan]

holy ****, puts mine to shame. i have like....5. i honestly on got the cash to splurge on things like this recently.

[cow]

I was on full scholarship in college, so I had money to burn. Lol.

[cow]

For some reason, I decided to check FIFA.com & this was the cover story:

Zinedine Zidane - FIFA Classic Player

[phelan]

zizou!!!

think nasri really is the heir to zidane? he dazzled the first part of the season but fell off recently.

[cow]

Nasri hasn't been scoring goals of late, but he's still been playing well & facilitating others.

He's definitely not on Zidane's level yet-- no one I've seen in my life is. Messi scores tons of goals, but I credit a lot of that to the system combined with his individual brilliance. Really, Xavi is the only player currently able to control a game like Zizou, but he doesn't really "carry" a team.

Zidane just looked so god damn effortless. I really miss watching him.

[cow]

It's hard to quantify "best player" arguments. As soon as I posted the above, I remembered that in the past three seasons, Messi has scored like 474847574747574828373 goals.

[Jon@AAMComp]

Originally Posted by cow

Nasri hasn't been scoring goals of late, but he's still been playing well & facilitating others.

He's definitely not on Zidane's level yet-- no one I've seen in my life is. Messi scores tons of goals, but I credit a lot of that to the system combined with his individual brilliance. Really, Xavi is the only player currently able to control a game like Zizou, but he doesn't really "carry" a team.

Zidane just looked so god damn effortless. I really miss watching him.

Well put. It bothers me when people compare Messi to Zidane or Maradonna in their prime. As you mentioned before, Zidane in particular was one of the best on field tacticians to ever play the game. The way he could read and adjust to the game was absolutely astonishing. Both his left and right feet were exactly the same, and he could punish you with either one (Who can forget that volley during the champions league final against Bayer Leverkusen) Nasri's on his way, although he tends to drift out to the wings more than Zidane did, but I credit that to Arsenal's flowing style of play, where any of the players can pop up out of position, but still be just as effective. I think the closest we have to Zidane is the highly underrated Wesley Sneijder of Inter. I've been a fan of him since he was a kid at Ajax, and his abilities were on display during the Champions League run last year as well as the WC Final. As good as Sneijder is, I don't think there will ever be another Zidane.


On a more disturbing note:
Explosives found near Dortmund stadium - ESPN Soccernet

[cow]

Originally Posted by Jon@AAMComp

I think the closest we have to Zidane is the highly underrated Wesley Sneijder of Inter. I've been a fan of him since he was a kid at Ajax, and his abilities were on display during the Champions League run last year as well as the WC Final. As good as Sneijder is, I don't think there will ever be another Zidane.

Sneijder reminds me a lot of Francesco Totti when he was at the peak of his powers.

Originally Posted by Jon@AAMComp

On a more disturbing note:
Explosives found near Dortmund stadium - ESPN Soccernet

I saw that. I'm really glad everything was caught.

I wonder what the motive was, though.

[phelan]

i'm glad they noticed. the guy who did it is apparently in custody already.

[Jon@AAMComp]

Btw, Cow, what a kit collection! I think I have a total of 7 shirts including 3 Chelsea, 1 red England 2010 Away, 1 02 Brasil, 1 Euro 2008 Germany, and one Bayern. Nothing compared to your collection!

I like that image you posted on my profile too, thanks!




Milan derby weekend! I like both sides actually, can't choose between the two! Slightly biased towards Milan over Inter because I used to love Paolo Maldini.

[phelan]

i think i have 3 arsenal + jacket, 1 usa away, 1 japan away, 1 manchester united training shirt (bought it for cheap haha)

the rest are actually bball jerseys

[cow]

Post pics of your collections. I'd love to see them.

[phelan]

ill snap some when i get home tonight

my RvP jersey from last year is still my favorite.

[cow]

I have RVP as this year's away, but it came in the day he was switched to #10. It might be my fault the yellow is bad luck.

:-(