Neymar is done. Team doctors as well as scolari confirms its a broken vertebra

not gonna lie, i thought there was some embellishment there initially cus i've seen him fall down pretty easily on some challenges

but broken vertebrae...gotdamnnnnnnnnn

hopefully he recovers sooner rather than later
its gonna be a long road to recovery

Damn- there goes Brazil's hopes of winning the WC at home. Their attacking threats are not the same with Neymar out. Fred has been mostly useless this tournament. I wonder how they'll rejig the formations to compensate. But losing someone who's already scored 4 goals and is an emotional lift every time he runs at defenses- I'm not sure how Brazil can recover.


For anyone still skeptical, here's a BBC link:

BBC Sport - Neymar: Injured Brazil forward ruled out of World Cup

OH MY FUCKING GOD


/life

I hope this serves as a lesson to the other players who dive like crazy. Neymar is one of the best players out there, but the guy is basically one of the biggest divers and is the epitome of "the boy who cried wolf".

Sometimes when you dive and writhes around in agony, you're not surprise that a card is not pulled out the one that he gets hurt for real.

look at Julio Cesar, he moans in agony and pain like he just broke his leg and needs to be stretchered off, yet was good enough to take the penalty kick the next moment.

Germany was brilliant! and the keeper! amazing! :lol at the last save people were calling it the nazi salute save :lol

didnt get to watch the Brazil game until now (just finished the first half) brazil is just dominating but Colombia is clearly very skilled too

taking a risk posting in here when i dont want the end of the brazil game spoiled for me ;)

No Thiago Silva and no Neymar for a German team seemingly running on all cylinders. I'm going to pull a pastarocket and ask some questions!

Can Brazil "rally around Neymar" to beat the stacked Germans?
Will Germany smell blood and try and end the game early?
Will the Oranje poop the bed against a pesky Costa Rica side? Does CRC have a few more upsets for the WC fans?
Will Argentina finally break out of their funk and actually play a good game for once?


Tuesday can't come soon enough!

Okay where can I buy a Hulk jersey...

HOLY SHIT NEYMAR I thought he was faking it to waste time!!!

OMG wow Brazil is down some great players its going to be tough against germany

http://i.imgur.com/JldOypy.gif

Hmm ... Can Brazil win without Neymar? Match won't be quite as exciting now :(

I don't have a screenshot

but here's what Juice tweeted... of course, it has since been deleted..

can't blame him tho, I think everything thought the same thing

to be honest he didn't do much this game imo. Luiz did the most in terms of getting the ball away from colombia and setting up opportunities + he scored

granted that was just for this game but hopefully he'll be able to pick up the slack and its not like the rest of the team sucks

I actually went into this match thinking...if Brazil loses omg..the country will riot...

hell if Colombia tied it and then won in PK..i fear for the safety of everyone on the pitch

Losing to Germany wouldn't sound as bad...

Anyways. this picture.. lots of things wrong. Fifa really needs to look at how to properly load someone onto a stretcher. Even though they had no clue it was a broken back. just flipping Neymar onto the stretcher is just not cool

http://img.fifa.com/mm/photo/tournam...8_full-lnd.jpg

yeah i never understood those stretchers with the rigid raised sides they should be able to lay flat


Costa Ricas coach whining about Robben diving

BBC Sport - World Cup 2014: Arjen Robben diving worries Costa Rica coach

soccer - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 Video Conversion.

I WILL READ YOUR MINNDDDDDDD

They didnt just flip him into the stretcher, he was rolled in, which is the proper way when there's fear of a spinal or vertebrae injury. They also had a clue of what was injured which is why they loaded him like that in the first place.

fair enough

but are they not suppose to strap the guy down?

Usually you want to stay flat and basically have zero movement. The last thing you'd want is it heave the guy which could cause some major damage to his spinal cord. But on his own, there was really no need for straps because he would probably be in too much pain to move.

To be fair, almost everyone they load onto those stretchers is completely fine.

We're fucked, basically. Might as well hand the Cup to Germany.

Unless, of course, Fred and Hulk can actually start playing well. I doubt it, though, they've been traffic cones so far.

Or David Luiz

amazing game he had

I knew Neymar was hurt because he lied on the ground still. Usually when he's embellishing shit like a pussy he's rolling all over the ground.

I give robben props for at least admitting that he dives. And its true he did get fouled at the end of the first half that was a bad no call as both Mexican defenders fouled him. Moreno actually broke his leg fouling robben actually. Plus robben had plenty of opportunities to go down and get a penalty but instead jumped over the defenders in the game.

Go argentina!

it was harder fought than i imagined