Keep an eye on the NK coach. One more goal by Brazil and Kim Jong's Goons will drag him behind the bleachers for a Num Chux party. Below is a team pic of the North Koreans.
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The North Koreans didnt do too badly, great shot from maicon, super tight angle
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Keep an eye on the NK coach. One more goal by Brazil and Kim Jong's Goons will drag him behind the bleachers for a Num Chux party. Below is a team pic of the North Koreans.
You are too funny..
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Tomorrow Spain plays at 1000. Adelante tios!!
Host broadcasters to 'filter' noise
JOHANNESBURG -- TV viewers can take out their earplugs -- the vuvuzelas are going to have a bit less buzz.
Host Broadcast Services, the company that provides the broadcast feed for the World Cup, said Tuesday it has doubled its audio filters to reduce the constant blaring buzz of vuvuzelas.
TV viewers around the globe have complained that the swarm-of-bees sound from the plastic horns is stinging their ears.
"Despite HBS' core philosophy, which is to provide 'realistic' host broadcast coverage reflecting the ambience in the stadiums, additional audio filtering has been implemented," according to the daily newsletter given to rightsholders Tuesday.
The filters also will minimize other crowd noise in the stadiums, such as chants and cheers.
Several broadcasters already had taken their own measures to reduce the drone. French broadcaster TF1 changed its microphones after the opening match between Mexico and host South Africa, replacing them with mics commentators hold close to their mouths to better filter sound.
The BBC, which had received 545 complaints from viewers as of Tuesday morning, said it is considering giving viewers the option of muting ambient noise while maintaining game commentary through its "red button" digital service. Viewers would push a red button on their remote controls to receive the quieter broadcast on a separate channel.
"We have already taken steps to minimize the noise and are continuing to monitor the situation," the BBC said in a statement. "If the vuvuzela continues to impact on audience enjoyment, we will look at what other options we can take to reduce the volume further."
The noise of the vuvuzelas has been the talk of the World Cup, so much so that British bookmaker William Hill is now taking bets on whether the horns will be banned at English Premier League stadiums next season.
"The vuvuzela certainly polarizes opinion, and we suspect that individual clubs will want to put a rule in place to enable them to ban them should they threaten to become widespread," Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe said.
Hill's also is taking bets that the vuvuzelas will be banned by the end of the World Cup. But FIFA president Sepp Blatter has strongly backed the use of the horns since they were introduced to the wider football world at the Confederations Cup test event in South Africa exactly a year ago, and he said again Monday they're here to stay.
The vuvuzelas are something uniquely African, and Blatter said he is not about to ban the music traditions of fans in their own country.
Several players said the din of the horns is having an impact on the field. Netherlands striker Robin van Persie avoided a second yellow card -- and a ban from the next game -- by blaming the vuvuzelas for failing to hear an offsides whistle.
Argentina striker Carlos Tevez said the din of vuvuzelas makes it hard for players to communicate with each other on the field.
"Those sirens or trumpets -- I don't know what they are -- make it very difficult to speak on the field," Tevez said after Argentina's training session Tuesday at the University of Pretoria. "You have to shout and sometimes you run out of breath, you get a bit more tired. They are extremely bothersome."
But van Persie said he doesn't want to see vuvuzelas banned.
"I think we have to respect it, because we are in South Africa, and we need to respect where we are," he said. "This is their tradition. This belongs to them."
In Durban, Switzerland coach Ottmar Hitzfeld scheduled an extra public training session and invited South African fans, knowing they would bring their plastic horns.
Hitzfeld said it was good practice for his players to get used to communicating on the pitch when their voices are drowned out by the constant buzz.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-...s-vuvuzela-free-option-viewers?cc=5901&ver=us
JOHANNESBURG -- TV viewers can take out their earplugs -- the vuvuzelas are going to have a bit less buzz.
Host Broadcast Services, the company that provides the broadcast feed for the World Cup, said Tuesday it has doubled its audio filters to reduce the constant blaring buzz of vuvuzelas.
TV viewers around the globe have complained that the swarm-of-bees sound from the plastic horns is stinging their ears.
"Despite HBS' core philosophy, which is to provide 'realistic' host broadcast coverage reflecting the ambience in the stadiums, additional audio filtering has been implemented," according to the daily newsletter given to rightsholders Tuesday.
The filters also will minimize other crowd noise in the stadiums, such as chants and cheers.
Several broadcasters already had taken their own measures to reduce the drone. French broadcaster TF1 changed its microphones after the opening match between Mexico and host South Africa, replacing them with mics commentators hold close to their mouths to better filter sound.
The BBC, which had received 545 complaints from viewers as of Tuesday morning, said it is considering giving viewers the option of muting ambient noise while maintaining game commentary through its "red button" digital service. Viewers would push a red button on their remote controls to receive the quieter broadcast on a separate channel.
"We have already taken steps to minimize the noise and are continuing to monitor the situation," the BBC said in a statement. "If the vuvuzela continues to impact on audience enjoyment, we will look at what other options we can take to reduce the volume further."
The noise of the vuvuzelas has been the talk of the World Cup, so much so that British bookmaker William Hill is now taking bets on whether the horns will be banned at English Premier League stadiums next season.
"The vuvuzela certainly polarizes opinion, and we suspect that individual clubs will want to put a rule in place to enable them to ban them should they threaten to become widespread," Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe said.
Hill's also is taking bets that the vuvuzelas will be banned by the end of the World Cup. But FIFA president Sepp Blatter has strongly backed the use of the horns since they were introduced to the wider football world at the Confederations Cup test event in South Africa exactly a year ago, and he said again Monday they're here to stay.
The vuvuzelas are something uniquely African, and Blatter said he is not about to ban the music traditions of fans in their own country.
Several players said the din of the horns is having an impact on the field. Netherlands striker Robin van Persie avoided a second yellow card -- and a ban from the next game -- by blaming the vuvuzelas for failing to hear an offsides whistle.
Argentina striker Carlos Tevez said the din of vuvuzelas makes it hard for players to communicate with each other on the field.
"Those sirens or trumpets -- I don't know what they are -- make it very difficult to speak on the field," Tevez said after Argentina's training session Tuesday at the University of Pretoria. "You have to shout and sometimes you run out of breath, you get a bit more tired. They are extremely bothersome."
But van Persie said he doesn't want to see vuvuzelas banned.
"I think we have to respect it, because we are in South Africa, and we need to respect where we are," he said. "This is their tradition. This belongs to them."
In Durban, Switzerland coach Ottmar Hitzfeld scheduled an extra public training session and invited South African fans, knowing they would bring their plastic horns.
Hitzfeld said it was good practice for his players to get used to communicating on the pitch when their voices are drowned out by the constant buzz.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-...s-vuvuzela-free-option-viewers?cc=5901&ver=us
Your viewing tastes are becoming more and more refined as you grow older, clearly. There's a reason they call soccer 'the beautiful game'. I assume you've seen a few very high level Champion's League or maybe Premier League games? No matter, you should see some good games as we get further into this tournament.
The only blemish on the game is the ridiculous diving and embellishment that occurs. It truly detracts from the game for me. Europeans have a strange attitude towards it, saying 'it's part of the game'. Well, if cheating is a part of the game, you don't have much of a game.
TraderNik,
I have played 7 years in french regional league. It's soccer rules that makes it sometimes more strategic to fall than to continue.
I am not talking about the Ronaldo/Inzaghi/Klinsmann outrageous acting, but when you're launched full speed as they are, someone touches your ankle and you're losing a bit of your balance, it is more interesting for you to fall even if you know you can stabilize. This way you gained a free kick and a potential goal occasion for your team, much better than putting a knee on grass, restanding with effort and finally losing the ball to the goal keeper coming full speed. You get the idea. Detrimental to the beauty of the game but statistically adviseable for your team score.
( I need to learn the english vocabulary for technical soccer, lack of words..LOL)
I have played 7 years in french regional league. It's soccer rules that makes it sometimes more strategic to fall than to continue.
I am not talking about the Ronaldo/Inzaghi/Klinsmann outrageous acting, but when you're launched full speed as they are, someone touches your ankle and you're losing a bit of your balance, it is more interesting for you to fall even if you know you can stabilize. This way you gained a free kick and a potential goal occasion for your team, much better than putting a knee on grass, restanding with effort and finally losing the ball to the goal keeper coming full speed. You get the idea. Detrimental to the beauty of the game but statistically adviseable for your team score.
( I need to learn the english vocabulary for technical soccer, lack of words..LOL)
Of course players dive to potentially help their team via free kick or what have you. But it's a matter of integrity, both for the player and for the game. In soccer, it's part of the culture.
In hockey, those who are caught diving are severely looked down upon and ridiculed by the media and fans. The referees also watch replay of the games (as I'm sure soccer referees do as well) and when they notice someone who dived, they are a lot less likely to give that player the benefit of the doubt next time around, even if the player was legitimitely fouled.
It's easier to fall on skates than on your feet, and therefore presumeably easier to get away with diving. Yet you see a lot less diving in hockey than soccer. I believe it all comes down to acceptance on the part of soccer fans and the culture that surrounds the game as being "part of the game", even though it damages the sport's integrity.
Sweet CHF goal. Spain deserves it for playing like sissies when it was time to score...
Now the game should get really interesting..
Now the game should get really interesting..