![[0168] Messi(ah)](/comics/2010-05-27-[0168]-messi(ah).png "[0168] Messi(ah)")
So, who’s already looking forward to the World Cup in South Africa? Since there will be a story arc about a different topic going on during its course, I wanted to do at least a football related strip in anticipation of it.
My tip for the winning team of the World Cup is Spain. Spain does not only have some of the best individual players, but they also work together brilliantly as a team, as can be seen by their Euro 2008 title and their impressive record during the World Cup qualification round. They won all 10 games in their group, which included such strong teams as Bosnia and Turkey.
Sandra and Cloud are obviously not thrilled about Woo’s performance as their goalkeeper, but I’m sure England could only profit from putting him in before a penalty shootout. 😀 <– *has just eliminated half of his English readership* 😉
Someone has an alternative version of “… and easily leaps Philipp Lahm’s tackle.” ? I’m not really happy with the way it sounds, but I’m lacking the English football vocabulary.
- Justin: Lionel Messi takes the ball…
- Justin: Brilliant one-two with Andrei Arshavin!
- Justin: Feints right… and avoids Philipp Lahm’s sliding tackle.
- Justin: And Messi shoots!
- Justin: Oh no! The ball bounces off…
- Justin: … and slowly rolls towards the goal.
- Justin: Goooooooooooooooooal!!
- Woo: ?
- Sandra: We need to sign a new goalkeeper!
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Maybe the should have told him that if he catch the ball from there he would could get some food.
That at least would have motivated him xD
“The ball is full of fish”
8D *GRAB*
I can’t but wonder who’s at the other goal, then. 😛
Let’s switch Cloud with Tidus and Blitz!
So this Justin kid… Larissa’s current smooching partner?
Not this half! XD
I can see that corner of the final frame (with woo looking at the ball, thinking “?”) becoming an avatar in short order 😀
hmm maybe i could do that … but i don’t know how 🙁
Yes.
‘Tis Soccer, you silly European people! Pick up the ball to call it Football!!! (Yay for stupid Americans!)
I’m Spanish. I’d like us to win :D, I’m quite looking forward to the World Cup indeed.
Dotted football uniforms = AWESOME. I like this page very much.
When I played soccer as a youngster, we called it a “slide tackle”.
I thought coons were supposed to be good at sports …
;D
Heh, funny one. Maybe they should get a shiny ball, to give Woo some incentive.
@Laura: I’m brazilian, but I agree La Furia has a good team for South Africa
How about “… and easily avoids Philipp Lahm’s sliding tackle.”?
@ Professional Mole: At the other goal? It’s going to be Sid and Shadow. They about equal Woo, I think.
btw, I love the fact that Sandra finds the time to bite her nails in the middle of a scoring shot. 😀
Go Mexico! i can dream…
bro that dream will be a reality. Mexico has been strong 09-10. We might as well be possible of winning. W00t for MEXICO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“…dodges a tackle from Philipp Lahm…”
How does that sound?
Woo! Woo. Woo? Woo, woo, shhh…. The ball is full of fish. No! No! … The ball… Is full. Of fish. Tasty fish.
Get the ball. Get the ball woo! don’t let the fish ball get past you!
<- is slightly crazy tonight.
hahaha nice 🙂 and with “easily leaps” i would just say “evades” or “avoids,” but that’s just me
Is it just me, but is this the first time Powree used old-school screentoning? (The polka dots.) I’ve only noticed cross-hatching in the past.
Nevermind, I wish I could delete that comment, I looked back through the archive, and there’s been screen toning for some time now. This mostly white comic was the first time I noticed it was all…
I’m excited about the world cup. But that’s be cause I’m South African – wooooo!
P.S. This is my first post. Love the comic. I just needed to butt in when my country was mentioned. 🙂
I’m not too excited about the world cup, even though I’m South African.
Maybe it’s because I don’t actually like sport that much?
(PS./ Pako, which province you in?)
@ DarkStarZN: Alberton, Gauteng
I thought I was the some of SA’s readership. Happy to see I’m wrong.
Not so much interessted in football/soccer but I won’t spoil it for you guys ^^
I don’t understand the fascination about that sport but thank god people are different and like different stuff 😛
Well, Woo seems not to be very interested either XD
Woo: “Hmmm? … What am I supposed to do with that thing?”
btw: nice movement-drawing Powree did here.
If its not a “tackle” its most likely a “slide,” I learned English in the US so my football vocabulary lacks also =P
I might have been able to recognize the players’ names if I was still living in the EU, but I can catch on somewhat.
Also, could Cloud become jealous of Justin at some point, I wonder?
The Europeans do in fact have a game which is remarkably similar to what we in the U.S. call “Football”. They call it “Rugby Football”, or “Rugby” for short. No idea what I’m talking about? Go rent Invictus. Also note that the game is starting to catch on in the U.S. now. It won’t take the place of our current primary games, at least not on the professional level, but there’s a definite solid player base.
Incidentally, I hear the newest soccer balls no longer have the black-on-white pentagon pattern. They are once again starting to look like volleyballs, but in bright colors like orange rather than white or brown. That black-on-white pattern we’re all so familiar with was originally introduced so the ball could be seen on black-and-white television.
Messi looks a lot like Gregor from KICKERS – coincidence?
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y103/mrdzul/gabans/Kickers1.jpg?t=1242303696
Sandra has a lot of potential to be a good player rather than Cloud, I think!
Awww, Woo is adorable!
How about changing the word ‘tackle’ to ‘block’? ( I know NOTHING about soccer / football!) 🙂
Great expressions on everyone in this strip. Woo’s looks like he hasn’t a clue what they expected him to do with the ball. Kinda like they forgot to tell him just what his job as goalie involved. 😉
How about dropping the word ‘easily’, to me it doesn’t seem to quite fit there. Possible other phrases could be:
“… and steps over Lahm’s tackle…”
“… slides past Lahm…”
“… avoids Lahm’s outstretched leg…”
We could probably guess from the drawing that he’s jumped over.
Actually, they need A goalkeeper.
Right now they have a raccoon. Slight difference.
I’d leave the wording as it is because even professionals get their terms mixed up when they’re talking live.
Ps.
My football knowledge can be shown by the fact that it wasn’t until Justin didn’t use Sandra’s real name that I realised that he wasn’t using anyone’s real name. I know the rules and that’s only because I was forced to play it at school.
Don’t worry, Woo. I’d be a little hesitant to step in front of a quickly-moving ball that’s bigger than my head as well.
I don’t know if we’ve seen Cloud play?
On second thoughts: I see what you mean. I missed Cloud in panel one.
Rugby has been around awhile state-side. You just have to look for it. My (then small) college had a team 20 years ago. The team members all had bumper stickers on their car that read: “Give Blood…Play Rugby!”
Fortunately for all of us, Arshavin and Messi won’t play in the same team, because they look like a pretty deadly combination.
Any way, with Russia unfortunately not going to the WC, I think we Dutch have a pretty decent chance of winning too (no more of those medling kids!), if our team can finaly keep up their game beyond the group round. Spain may have done well at Euro 2008, but they disappointed at the following confederations cup. All in all, I think it’s pretty open.
Too bad Lionel Messi won’t play for Spain because he was born in Argentina.
Yes. I was showing Powree a photo of, well, Lionel Messi, as model for his hairstyle.
The ball is not quickly moving, but rolling slowly.
@Alsritt: Well, as others have sort of mentioned around the subject… we already did that about 150 years ago and came up with Rugby 😉 … which I think was developed even before proper association football (what you inexplicably call “soccer”… whose idea was that?) came along and set the template for professional sports championships 😉
I’d be quite interested to see American teams joining the international rugby championships. Let’s find out if those NFL guys really are as ripped as their outfits make them appear when all they’ve got on is a rough cotton shirt, shorts, studded boots and a gum-guard 😀 Who knows they might actually turn out to be really good – they’ll be used to the funny shaped ball and drop kicks already.
Nice re-establishment of Sandra as tough (after all the recent emotional bits). All of Cloud’s training seems to be for one-on-one confrontation, he seems to lack team practice.
By the way, Novil, was it you or Powree who decided that Sandra would usually wear jeans instead of a skirt?
Woo’s reaction to the game reminds me of when we tried my daughter at Pee-Wee soccer. She was very much into horses at the time, and when the coach put her out on the pitch for the first time, she got down on her hands and knees and pretended to be a pony eating grass.
Fortunately, at that stage, the kids all played magnet ball, and nobody scored, but that was the end of her days as a soccer player.
Not that it’s very important to the humor in the strip, but most Americans say goalie instead of goalkeeper. 🙂 Well, at least we did 20 years ago playing out in the yard.
YEAAAAH! I totally share your opinion Oliver! As a Spanish I trust my country’s selection, and I’m sure we’ll have chances (despite Argentina and Brazil always make it difficult for us)
mmmmm not sure about spaing wining the world cup, but messi, will be playing for Argentina, who, by the way, has one of the best offensinve lineups in the world, yeah argentina is a freakin’ factory of footbal genius, they train and sell players to europe all the time, wich they become the star players of their clubs, tevez and messi are are great examples,so yeah , go Argentina!!
I’m not very sure, since I don’t really like sports, but I think the way sport’s names work is the following:
United States Europe
Soccer —————————————— Football
Football —————————————- American Football
Rugby —————————————— Rugby
At least, that are the european names in Spain
why would Woo want to stop the ball if there’s a perfectly good net to stop it for him?
And as an Englishman all i know about football is that penalties are an ABOMINATION! /:(
Seriously the game would be so much better without them 🙂
I didn’t know who the new guy was until I read the comments. Did I miss something? Great comic and I agree, I enjoy the action shots.