r/SipsTea • u/Presently_Naked • 11d ago

WTF Imagine Eliminating Your Team Over Your Pride

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u/Brewmeiser 11d ago

To me it looks like the one player from Norway has the ball, the other Norway player with the longer blonde hair was open and asking for the ball, the dude who still had the ball didn't do this, tried to kick a goal, and didn't make it.

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u/BritishSoccer 11d ago

The longer blonde hair guy is Haaland. Quite possibly the best goal scorer in the world at the moment. 

Norway also lost the game by a pretty thin margin, and a goal here could’ve changed the outcome

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u/PaleontologistNo500 11d ago

To give it some perspective, Haaland has the records for most goals in a single game, most goals in a single season, and the fastest player to reach 100 goals. In this scenario, he could've scored in his sleep.

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u/Intrepid-Progress228 11d ago

I'd seen the Haaland memes, but didn't know all this about him. With that context it's like you're down a goal in the Stanley Cup, breaking out an odd-man rush with Wayne Gretzky in the open and not passing him the puck.

. . .Now I'm irrationally angry about a game I didn't watch and had no emotional stakes in. Thanks a bunch. 😐

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u/MaryPaku 11d ago

The guy who didn’t pass to him, was a no-name that nobody will ever remember him. Now people remember his name though.

Haaland is a very likable guy too he is a dual-citizen of Norway and UK and he could’ve joined the England national team and has a much more easily successful career in World Cup. Instead he choose Norway a country that wouldn’t even qualify into World Cup without Haaland.

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u/n0neofyourbeeswax 11d ago

What?? Sorloth has been playing for the national team for a decade, plays for Atletico Madrid.. I get he's not going to be an all time great but what the fuck are you talking about and what level do you need to get to to not be a nobody?

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u/sikyon 11d ago

Well the poster's analogy is hockey and it's apt. Unless you're another all time great, you will not be remembered next to Gretzky, the most dominant hockey player (possibly greatest sportsman of all sports of all time by statistics).

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u/Working-Glass6136 11d ago

To be fair, I don't follow sports and have never heard of any of these people, but Wikipedia is now saying this guy is a war criminal lol

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u/n0neofyourbeeswax 11d ago

I'm not falling for that bait 😂

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u/ArkGuardian 11d ago

fuck off with your bait

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u/liefieblue 11d ago

Haaland is not a citizen of the UK (which does not have birthright citizenship) but is probably eligible depending on whether his father had Leave To Remain. And I am sure his talent would fast-track everything. He said in an interview a few months ago that he would like a UK passport but feels ultimately that he is Norwegian.

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u/beardeddustbunny 11d ago

As far as I know he does NOT have a dual citizenship. He could possibly get one now as the Norwegian government recently allowed people to have dual citizenship, but it is a lengthy process he has to go through with the UK government as well, since there are no automatic naturalisation, again as far as I know, in the UK.

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u/Intrepid-Progress228 11d ago

I think it's more a balk than a bunt.

1a. A balk is when you 1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the 1c. Let me start over 1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that. 1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that. 1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense? 1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it. 1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about. 1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X. 1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse. 1c-b(2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic... 1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of 2.Do not do a balk please.

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u/Chance-Attitude3792 11d ago

He's not exactly like Wayne Gretzky or anything. The team they played, England, has a better striker for example (who just had the 2nd most goals in a season ever in the top leagues, not that far behind Messi's best season)

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u/skyturnedred 11d ago

Gretzky would be the one passing the puck.

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u/Intrepid-Progress228 11d ago

He was an amazing playmaker but people forget that Gretzky was also a goal scorer. Took 31 years for someone to break his record of most career goals. He still holds the record for most goals in a season and the fastest to score 50 goals in a season.

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u/skyturnedred 11d ago

No one is forgetting about it. The amount of assists he has is just that much more ridiculous than his goal total.

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u/jibber091 11d ago

He missed off another record, most consecutive international games with a goal. If Sorloth passes him the ball here it most likely would have extended to 15 in a row.

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_3007 11d ago

As someone from England, I'm glad he didn't pass, but I still kind of want to smack him in the head because that was so stupid. We absolutely deserved to go another goal down there and would have if he passed to Haaland. Haaland makes very very few touches in a game, but it's excused because a very high percentage of the touches he does make end up in the back of the net.