Tag Archives: Soccer

Oct 14 2011

Spanning the Twitterverse: Friday Fun Tweets

Spanning the Twitterverse to bring you the constant variety of tweets
The thrill of the retweet and the agony of the unfollow
The human drama of the twitter timeline
This is CadChica’s Wide World of Tworts

Ahh Friday how I’ve missed you. I always look forward to greeting you. And, of course, writing about you.

Friday. Just saying the word relaxes me. And it should you too! Because it is Friday Fun Tweet time.

Week in and week out Friday Fun Tweets tends to be one of my most popular posts. People love to read the fun, interesting or even the ‘shake my head because I can’t believe they tweeted that’ tweets. That is Friday Fun Tweets in a nutshell. And here we go. As always, if there’s a link in a tweet, click on it as it’s part of the context of the tweet.

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 “FUN” NFL TWEETS

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 “FUN” COLLEGE FOOTBALL TWEETS

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 “FUN” SOCCER TWEETS

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 ”FUN” BASEBALL TWEETS

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TWEETS OF THE WEEK

We had 5 finalists in this competition. This isn’t “little-league where everyone’s a winner and gets a trophy for participation. No. There can only be 1 winner. Our 3rd, 4th and 5th place contestants, in no particular order:

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1ST RUNNER UP

If for any reason our winner cannot fulfill the duties….

Just kidding. I had a hard time choosing the winner of our Tweet of the Week competition. This one was oh so close….oh so close but, it is our 1st runner-up:

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WINNER

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner. Can I get some fries with that? All I can say about our winner is it’s about time a deep-snapper wins at something.

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CadChica Sports

Aug 15 2011

Spanning the Twitterverse: City to Cartwheels?

Spanning the Twitterverse to bring you the constant variety of tweets
The thrill of the retweet and the agony of the unfollow
The human drama of the twitter timeline
This is CadChica’s Wide World of Tworts

I took a few days off from posting this weekend. Oh I made sure to get my Friday Fun Tweets in but I needed a little break after the last week or so.Combine fighting sickness with blogging about a couple of topics beyond the normal “tweet-centered” post I normally do, definitely required rest. After those issues, I took some time off and am back in full force with some tweets from the World’s Favorite-est (is that a word?) Sport: Futbol/Soccer/Football.

Yes, it is that time of year everyone. The EPL (English Premier League)  & German Bundesliga started this weekend. Spain’s La Liga powerhouses Barcelona & Real Madrid played to a 2-2 draw in their Supercup match on Sunday (Yes, Messi scored. All is right in the world.) Italy’s Serie A is set to kick off in less than 2 weeks. It’s a bit of sports-bliss for me. Ahhhhh.

I have tweets of course. And included is a tweet with a video link that made me laugh and laugh and laugh today. Penalty kicks? You’ve never seen one like this. Trust me. But first we have these:

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The EPL did start this weekend. And the first set of games ended with Manchester City playing newcomer Swansea City today. Didn’t particularly care either way but I do enjoy reading tweets from people who are funny, yet still live and die with their teams.

Duane Rollins is the Managing Editor of Canadian Soccer News. And he is an unabashed Manchester City fan. City lives in the shadow (my words not his) of “perennial” champion Manchester United. City spent quite a bit of money this offseason so expectations are high. (Who am I kidding, aren’t they always high at City?) Anyway, I decided to “follow” Mr. Rollins today to see what his reactions would be about the game today. He didn’t disappoint, especially his last one below regarding City’s newest addition, Kun Aguero.

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Sports Illustrated’s Georgina Turner has two tweets in today’s post. The second one is my tweet of the day. But this one I included because somehow she compared soccer to Everybody Loves Raymond. HA!

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Kei Kamara from Sporting KC in the MLS is a tweet-quote dream. He’s taken to posting pictures of his food. Why did I feel this worthy of including here? Because he posted it at 10 o’clock at night. My kind of guy: breakfast for dinner. (Click on the link to see the picture.) 

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Messi scored against Real Madrid. True it wound up being a 2-2 tie, but Messi scored. If there was a better quote about Messi than below, I would love to know what it is. This one below, is pretty good.

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TWEET OF THE DAY

As promised above, this is truly a laugh out loud kind of video on the link. Click the link listed in the tweet below. Think a goalie can ever psyche out a penalty kick taker? Think again.

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CadChica Sports

Jul 18 2011

Spanning the Twitterverse: World Cup Tweets & Choking

Spanning the Twitterverse to bring you the constant variety of tweets
The thrill of the retweet and the agony of the unfollow
The human drama of the twitter timeline
This is CadChica’s Wide World of Tworts

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Quite a few things have gone on over the last few days. One of which was the Women’s World Cup final. Being a soccer fan, of course I watched it. Sort of. I watched it via computer so needless to say it was a little delayed. I listened, thankfully, to the radio. For what it’s worth, Ian Darke from ESPN is a fantastic commentator, but listening to ESPN’s Tommy Smyth on the radio was phenomenal. No bias from him. Just straight up honesty and passion all rolled into one. LOVED it.

Anyways, Here are some tweets, funny or interesting, from the last couple of days, without much commentary from me.

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I do have to add a little explanation on this one. I live in Cougar Country. Not BYU or any other college/university. I live where Washington State fans live (no, not Pullman either). One of the things that bonds Cougar fans is seeing the WSU logo. See, during college football season, it has become a tradition of sorts for the Cougar logo to show up at the pre-game television broadcasts for ESPN’s College Game Day. It started many years ago with one guy waving the flag and has snowballed from there. It doesn’t matter where “Game Day” is, the flag flies; even if it’s SEC country.

Well, the WSU logo was seen by the world (via Twitter) thanks to a kid doing….well, whatever you want to call it. That is what the tweet below is referring to, followed by the aforementioned video. ** If I had a yellow card, he’d have been shown TWO for it. (Just kidding…maybe.) ** 

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AND THE WINNER IS…

Twitter. The first tweet sets the stage on Friday, July 15th.

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Why so many new accounts? Soccer perhaps?

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The Japanese, in winning the World Cup, probably caused the tweets per second record too.

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It is here where I feel compelled to a personal point of view. There was a lot of talk today about whether the US women “choked” or not. Most of this talk was done by people/media who do not normally follow soccer. Or, it was done by people who, rather proudly, express their disdain for the sport. On both levels, their opinions are null and void. However, there were some within the soccer sphere who actually said they choked.

My opinion, and mine alone, is no they did not. The debate in question referred to the TEAM choking. The team as a whole did not choke. Certain individuals? Perhaps so. But the entire team that actually played on the field? Not even close. If the entire team had choked, Abby Wambach would have missed her penalty kick. Hope Solo would not have stopped the one penalty kick that she did. An entire team choking means that everyone had to have screwed up. That wasn’t the case.

I believe there were several contributing factors to the loss, from what I observed. The mental aspect of that game cannot be ignored. A world stage that you have worked your whole life to get to has to require a great amount of mental exercise amidst the sheer ebb and flow of the game itself. Make no mistake, it was a roller coaster of a game.

The physical nature of exerting yourself over that period of time worked against both teams so that cancels out. But combine that with the mental aspect and that’s just a huge undertaking. Shannon Boxx marked Japan’s star Homare Sawa for most of the game. Although Sawa did score late, for most of the game she wasn’t the factor she had been in prior games. Why? Because Boxx played her butt off in tracking Sawa. That was no easy task in any way, shape or form. When I saw Boxx step up to take that first penalty kick, I knew by looking at her that she was zapped mentally and physically. Did that put pressure on the other US players? Possibly, yes. But, the fact that Boxx “looked” drained, tells me that the physical aspect played into the outcome as well as the mental.

However, there is one point that, while acknowledged, isn’t mentioned as a factor and I think is a mistake. The misses. Chance after chance after chance the US had only to be denied by the post or the goalkeeper, Ayumi Kaihori. The US had 27 shots, 6 on goal with 4 actual saves. That many shots and the best you can do is 1 goal in 90 minutes? That is HUGE. How frustrated do hockey players get when they shoot at the goal time after time after time only to have the goalie ‘stand on his head’? Very frustrated. Sooner or later, you begin to think “What in the world do I have to do?”. It messes with you mentally. It messes with you physically when you’re trying to figure out how to “make” the shot go in instead of just relaxing and kicking it like in practice. Easier said than done I’m sure but if you’re thinking about what’s happened plus “thinking” about how to score on penalty kick, you’re “thinking” way too much.

Does that mean they didn’t handle it and choked? As I said earlier, the TEAM did not. Certain individuals, that’s up for debate. But you cannot even begin to broach “choking” without looking at all factors. And of course, the subject of which you are talking: TEAM vs Individual.

Japan won. End of story.

CadChica Sports

Jul 11 2011

Spanning the Twitterverse: Baseball, Football, Soccer & TotD

Spanning the Twitterverse to bring you the constant variety of tweets
The thrill of the retweet and the agony of the unfollow
The human drama of the twitter timeline
This is CadChica’s Wide World of Tworts

Distracted with writing my piece on Athletes & Social Media, I neglected to do the normal Spanning the Twitterverse the last few days. Interesting stuff in the twitterverse the last few days. Baseball winding down to the All-Star break. NFL still in lockout mode. Women’s World Cup holding an amazing game between the US and Brazil. And of course, the Tweet of the Day. So let’s span.

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BASEBALL

In honor of the All Star three-day extravaganza that kicked off tonight with the Home Run Derby, I bring you these little gems:

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NFL MEDIA

Yes, we visit Liz Mathews again for our signs of NFL media withdrawals during the lockout portion of this post. She is joined today by Andrew Brandt, who tried to get a window seat, only to be shot down by the airline rep. Why? Because of the lockout, of course.

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WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

Truth time! I did not watch the amazing game between the US women’s soccer team and Brazil. I know, I know. How can a soccer fan like me not watch it? Well….I was working. AND….I kind of forgot about it. ** hanging my head in shame now ** Seriously though, I WAS working. It was just by sheer chance that I caught the replay of Abby Wambach’s goal and the PK’s.

This means, however, that I missed most of the brilliant tweets (just guessing that there were some). It would’ve been virtually impossible to backtrack through all of those tweets to find the really great ones. I did find the first one yesterday (the power of Twitter on display) but my favorite by far is the one from former Rutgers player, Eric LeGrand, today. True it’s not exactly about the women’s team but they are inspiring him as he continues to strive toward regaining mobility after being paralyzed during a game last year against Army. If the US women can inspire him even more, then that’s AWESOME!

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TWEET OF THE DAY

I have never met Lisa Horne. Truth be told again (what is it with me and truth tonight?), I honestly didn’t know who she was. Until Twitter. Discovered her randomly through Twitter and began following immediately. She is one of the few in sports media who get it; one of the better ones at FOX Sports. Twitter is a communication tool; interaction with others. She replied back to me on a few tweets and well, now, she’s probably sick of me but she still replies. For that, AND of course her tweet below, she gets my TWEET OF THE DAY.

CadChica Sports

Jun 15 2011

Spanning the Twitterverse: Soccer, Mavs, NHL & Plagiarism?

Spanning the Twitterverse to bring you the constant variety of tweets…the thrill of the retweet…and the agony of the unfollow…the human drama of the twitter timeline..This is             CadChica’s Wide World of Tworts

SOCCER

A really funny tweet that sums up the feelings of the U.S. Men’s national team after last night’s stinker against Guadeloupe. A win yes but man, it was STANKY.

NBA: MAVS

I honestly wonder what would possess people to do this, but they’re good for a laugh, eh?

CANUCKS AND HISTORY

Since I’m in the Pacific Northwest, you know I’m cheering for the Canucks. Besides, anything Boston and sports, count me out!!! Nevertheless, game 7 of the Stanley Cup? Count me in. And with this stat, GO CANUCKS!

NOT EVEN SURE WHAT TO CALL THIS ONE

Media vs media. Seems to happen more often now with Twitter. Can’t see it happening on Facebook but with Twitter, it’s so much easier to get your “story” out there. That being said, check these out, make your own decision, and probably just let it be. MY TAKE: If Dan LeBatard is irate about this whole thing, then he should complain to the ESPN bigwigs about it or QUIT. Unless of course he likes that hand that feeds him (aside from The Miami Herald), in which case, he’ll continue to keep his mouth shut with ESPN. Not a fan of LeBatard and never will be, but if accusations are true, he should threaten ESPN with quitting, and threaten to sue Woody Paige. Otherwise…….

And another media reviewer commenting on this story:

Comment chosen at random by me from a Woody Paige search:

I would say that those are my thoughts too but I don’t want to plagiarize so I won’t. Those are @eastcoastdog’s thoughts, not mine. Although I do happen to agree partially but not wholeheartedly so nobody can accuse me of stealing his work. No sir. Not me. All credit to @eastcoastdog.

CadChica Sports