Lose a Game, Attack FIFA’s Website

How do you know 4,2 million Koreans have sent those emails? Perhaps it was just a couple of Koreans, who have sent repeated emails.

Every country has a few stupid fans or stupid players like Eddie Johnson, who said “We’re here for war. We came here to battle. We came here to represent our country.”, while the State Department is trying hard to improve the US image in the world.

We should not hold a grudge against the US team or the US fans. Most of them have been great.

with that much passion for your team you cant blame supporters from countries eliminated to want to vent there anger. the problem is their anger is often vented at the wrong people, mainly the opposition and there supporters and teams. you wouldnt beleive the people who came on the australian blog and ripped apart any supporters comments and positive thoughts to vent there own anger and verbally abuse our supporters.

it was disgraceful that fans cant see that there teams players, tactics somewhere somehow might be to blame and not the oppositions supporters and players. all anger should be vented perhaps in a way that there comments are factual and not just abusive.

but most of all, fans of losing teams. please think about how you would want the fans of losing teams next world cup to react against you and your comments if its your country that wins. being dispointed is a fact of life, but why not go out and get drunk and party hard instead of ruining this glamorous event for winning teams supporters.

by the way – as much as its a religion in some countries, at the end of the day its only a game and always will be a game no matter how much you analyse the game. so just enjoy it. win lose or draw.

korean fans must remember spanish in 2002.
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It wasn’t a co-ordinated email attack. It was simply some idiot who started off a chain mail which told recipients that if 5 million emails were sent in protest to FIFA, a rematch would occur. 4.2 million hopefuls is pretty impressive :)

Yes Koreans can be overly nationalistic compared to other countries, but you won’t see them turn into alcohol-fuelled mobs of hooligans smashing people after their loss (to see this, wait for England to bow out)

Hesseh,

I was wondering when someone was going to mention that :)

Its funny because this is quite contrary to some news articles Ive read about Korean supporters on the past few days — according to Stadium employees, the Koreans would be the best supporters to have around on a match, because they would keep order and even help cleaning (!) after the match was over.

Sorest losers ever.

Really guys, being new to the sport is no excuse to act like complete idiots. More so when your team’s only accomplishments has been because the very thing you are mad about this time around.

I respectfully submit my comments in reference to the many American fans that put down the team,coach, and primarily the sport of soccer, making comments that it is a game followed by the immigrants that have come to the US. Hello people who do you think your pass comes from, Italy, Germany, England, Poland, Russia, Israel, all the Asian countries, and finally all the hispanic and south American countries. Furthermore in baseball most of the good players and pitchers come from foriegn countries, hello, wake up, soccer is developing in the last ten years a lot, 4 specific stadiums as of todasy, with four new teams and stadiums within the next four years. sorry soccer is here to stay. one other question, name any American soccer players that have had shady pasts with steriods or drug uase like the football and baseball players ?

I’m currently teaching English in Korea. This being my first real experience in following the World Cup, it was a blast to watch the Koreans come out in full force for each and every match. For the Swiss game in particular, every stadium was packed out, the bars were full, and the streets were silent.

That being said, the loss was devastating for them. For a country that has worked hard over the past 30 years to become a rising economic force, much of their pride these past four years circled around their spectacular achievments in the 2002 World Cup (although I’ve heard a few calls went their way then).

Having watched the game with my Korean and expat friends here, I am not surprised by the mass email effort. Even now, over a week since the game, replays are broadcast and calls are questioned. Was it a close call? Sure. But the fact remains that their team did not put up a single point in the game. A fact that many Koreans seem to dismiss.

I enjoyed troy’s comment. It’s only a game.

Ze, the reports are definitely true. Korean fans are pretty much the only fans in the world who actually CLEAN UP after a game. Sorest losers ever, Carlos? At least they don’t resort to nasty and mysogynist images like the Swiss, who began selling t-shirts that had a swiss player raping a korean player. I think Chris is absolutely right – Koreans fans are at the very least not alcohol fuelled mobs of hooligans. That means a lot!

Hello, im here showing my deepest disagreament about the game between portugal and france…i feel tht portugal get always out cuz of these referees who do not!! play well and most of all arranje penalties to make the “bigger and better” teams win…thats disgusting and people should be revolted and fight against CORRUPTION IN THE WORLD CUP!!!!

[...] I suppose I should be grateful I don’t read 2channel (the most popular discussion forum/site here in Japan — see Wikipedia’s 2channel entry here which mentions the site’s relationship with things Korean) or whatever the equivalent is in South Korea, sites where I’m sure there’s more flaming and epithet-throwing than reasoned discussion. And I want to be clear that the discussions I’m referring to on these blogs are, as far as I’ve seen, free of racist remarks and for the most part lacking in extremist rhetoric. Rather what I’m seeing is a growing tendency to harp on the many manifestations of Korean pride — much of which, to be fair, does leave itself open to being mocked or derided (to wit, the South Korean reaction to their exit from the recent World Cup) — to the point where you start to ask whether the blogger is simply calling it as he/she sees it or whether there’s an additional axe to grind. [...]

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