Won't you say America definitly got wupped by iran in 98. That was the best game ever?
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that was the best game ever for all Iranian people.
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~Should Iran teach the US a lesson by taking out just one of their facilities?  this should stop them.\n\nGeorgie the Younger loves fools like you.
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Ough! I'm an Iranian! I think Iran's national team deteriorated in the world cup. Noone played well. During the last week, I heared lots of jokes about our Goalkeeper and Ali Daei. Iranians didn't expect those losses! So, I think they'll face the team with anger!
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Iran, already a foregone conclusion, we're on a collision course. A nuclear Iran will be up there right along with the coming of Hitler and the Bolshevik Revolution.  We're in for a pretty rough ride, are u prepared?
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As a Brazilian, I have to say I am very sad that we will play Ghana so soon and only one of the teams will advance. Ghana is the nicest team to watch so far, and the match against the Czechs was the best I've seen in the World Cup. \nAnswering your question: yes, you can beat us and, if you do, Ghana will be my team to the final. Good luck!\n\nYou know, Iran beat the US in 1998, and it doesn't seem it allowed them to play with Uranium. You may have to wait on that one...
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Since I am avid USA fan (let us not mention Iran-USA since I am in therapy to overcome the US performance in France 98) and I have lived in Mexico and seen how crappy the fans are toward the US (and it is nice the we now kick their "culos" most of the time).  I would hope that Iran kicks the living crap out of Mexico and send them to a humiliating defeat as the US did in Japan-Korea 2002.  Go Iran!  (con disculpas a los aficionados del "Tri")
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before i answer , for the first one answered called " lucky ..." something? he said he wished for a payback to Iran since the hostages crises in 1979 ... don't you know that America made them payback ? in 1980 , America pushed it's ally Saddam Hussien of Iraq (he was an ally at that time) to cut the agreement with Iran and claim suddenly and for no reason that the borders should be changed with Iran , and waged a war against Iran that lasted 10 years ! at this war all of the west (by the leading of America) and the arab popet regiems allied to America , all of them aided Iraq with a huge : 1- money 2- modern weapons 3- men to work in Iraq's agriculture and factories while the Iraqi men are at war .... America pushed Iraq to fight the strong Iran ,but aid it very well that a war of 10 years , Iran lost maybe 500000 Iranian's , and destroied economy ...! wasn't that enough for you for a payback ? WASN'T THAT ENOUGH ?????\n\nUSA invade Iran ? i don't think so , becuase the first thing Iran will do is to cut off the gas pipes which transfere oil to europe , also shut down the bay where 1/4 of world oil pass through .\nsecond : becuase Iran is extremely ready for the war , everybody is armed and everybody believe in defending his/her country against USA , so it will be 10 times harder than invading Iraq .\nwhat if USA said lets nuke them down ? never becuase if America did , and that is almost for no reason (why invading Iran? almost no reason) , i say id it did , it will give the excuse to every muslim to act like a terrorist , it will prove the terrorists point of view of that they are defending islam not offending the freeworld , it will unleash hell ..  , and the one to be blamed for this will be US , becuase Iran did nothing to USA ... and that also will cut oil\nso that HORRIBLE scinario will never happened \n\nfor all those reasons i believe America will never invade Iran
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Yes I think Iran has a strong team to make it in 2010. They have developed a good, solid, and consistent system which will continue to bring out players like Mahdi Madhavakia or Ali Karmi and let us not forget one of the best striker's internationally, Ali Daei. IRAN RULES!!!!
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I'd laugh/squeal if it came down to a America/Iran final!
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No, I don't think America should do this. They must learn from their past experiences...(Vietnam, Iraq..). Its the war of OIL. and let me tell you that Iran is not Iraq or Vietnam, and America knows it very well.\nAnd why the hell Americans love to be the global POLICE. They have everything with them(Nuclear weapons), but nobody else could have it. What is this non sense.
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Yes. It has happened before, remember the final game in 1990.
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I know who won the 1984 All Ireland Football Final in America!! It was Kerry who beat Dublin 1-11 to 1-6 in Croke Park on September 23rd.
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You are a smart cookie!  Our fiasco in Iraq has given Iran the guts they needed to challenge the US.  After seeing how we're getting our asses kicked by a ragtag bunch of jihadists, they figured it was time to kick some sand in the bully's face.  And yes, anybody who's been paying attention knows that Saddam didn't want to admit he didn't have WMDs because he didn't want to appear weak to the Iranians.  Just another example of how stupid and self-absorbed some Americans can be.  We stumble into areas of the world where we don't have the first clue what's going on.
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that was a VERY good game. by the final 20 minets you could just see poland sag and give up.  they realy didnt have a chance.\n\necuadore was on fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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As an American I hated it, I was only in the fourth grade at the time, but I hated seeing "my" team get smoked 5-2 by the Canadians, America's biggest modern rival in international hockey in the Olympics immediately following 9/11. But nothing could be worse than how team USA did this year
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I think your intuitions are right about how Americans can't handle facing up to the fact the team USA really sucks.  (I mean the USA CZE match yesterday was a humiliation for all Americans)  But on the other hand, most other countries have been playing soccer for many generations more than Americans have.  The highschool I went to started their soccer program in 1992, and youth soccer in my town didn't start until 1995!  So if you look at it that way, it's amazing that the USA was able to send a team to the WM at all, and maybe in 2 or 3 more generations, they will actually be able to score a goal there.
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I really hope Iran will win. But it will be a very close and exciting game as both teams have way too much pride on the line. Mexico has their reputation to defend, and the young Iranian team has a lot to show for. Perhaps Iran will answer the June 2002 friendly game 2-1 loss to Mexico by winning 2-1 this time. Specially since the Mexican first choice goal-keeper had to fly back home due to the sudden death of his father.  Hope he can get through this sad and tough time and pick himself back up for future games.