l'equipe has this pretty nerdy yet entertaining game going on on their instagram, where they post 16 bit diagrams of legendary goals from past world cups, and ask you to guess the name of the goal scorer and the year

they posted 4 so far

goal #1
http://photos-g.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-ash/929097_1509542765934438_1357968159_n.jpg
this one is cake

goal #2
http://photos-f.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-prn/10349654_661005680643725_279310853_n.jpg
this one was just a tad less obvious, still got it

goal #3
http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-ash/t51.2885-15/10369497_508228972638502_224027513_n.jpg
this one stumped me

goal #4
http://photos-g.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-prn/10401701_664453850276406_1377389645_n.jpg
they haven't posted the answer for this one yet, I thought I had it, but looking at replies on instagram, I'm afraid I was wrong...

post your guesses (for you french impaired people, dotted lines are for runs, solid lines for passes/shots)
or maybe just talk about your favorite world cup moments from the past

damn that was a great strike

I hadn't paid attention to the jersey colors...
Gio's strike was awesome, but I think Hagi's was even more impressive.

Granted, it's the only one I have any idea about though.

EDIT: I didn't even notice they give you the time of the goal to help you get them.

(and benny prolly...)

I'm assuming in 92 Lilian Thuram?

Thuram's was more to the right and the play started with him picking the Croatian defender's pocket close to the penalty area, not from the midfield like this one

that was a crazy goal to see live.

i hope they do more. joe cole and maxi rodriguez in 06 come to mind.

until the world cup...I'll post them here

I would think #3 is almost impossible for anybody in our age range (from 20 to 40) to figure out, but apparently it's a really famous goal
hint: part of why it's famous is it was referenced in a cult UK movie

#2, you should get, c'mon

Joyful crying Dutchmen everywhere, and a pack of 4 sad Uruguyans. SO GOOD.

Can you guys post links for 3 and 4 cos i dont remember the goals folk have mentioned.

Also before even looking i assumed they would do the bergkamp goal against argentina, surprised they didnt.

Edit i just looked up a vid and owen goes right and not left to finish off the goal. Maybe its roger milla?

as benny and brooklyn said, #4 is Giovanni Van Bronckhorst in the semi vs Uruguay in 2010
#3...the hint I gave above was Trainspotting. It's Archie Gemmill for Scotland vs Holland in 78.

And they may do Bergkamp, they're doing one a day until the World Cup begins. They said they were going to make them more difficult too (which is kind of a bitch since Archie Gemmill is already obscure enough to me...)

i guess it'd be called anterograde amnesia with football where i really struggle to remember games/goals the more recent they are. Anyway good series

I'm still excited about the world cup, obviously, but not nearly as much as I was in my younger days...so I will remember France and teams I hate on, but have more trouble with teams I'm sort of indifferent about.

from 06? or was that 10? just a bunch of lines all over the damn place.

vs Serbia if I remember correctly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1axsnMRbbo

that'd be pretty awesome if you did

I only very vaguely remembered that scene

http://photos-c.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-prn/10369309_1410526102567466_562682766_n.jpg

there seems to be an emerging consensus in the replies to it, and it's not what I had in mind

Remember seeing it on a highlight VHS I had as a kid.

that was my senior high school year and I had to work to prepare for baccalaureat (the French SAT), so I had to pick and choose the games I could watch. I didn't watch any Italy game because, well, fuck them, so I have no recollection of this goal whatsoever.

pretty spectacular goal, though.

http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpf1/t51.2885-15/10358228_1413229265630496_1024671418_n.jpg

as I was cheating looking at the replies again, I realized I suck at remembering the world cups France didn't do well in (or didn't even make it to)

#7
http://scontent-a.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t51.2885-15/10387912_517339198392895_1854083559_n.jpg
did not remember this at all...

#8
http://photos-g.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xpa1/929108_718526038210382_775304107_n.jpg
figured this one out at first glance

>#8
>http://photos-g.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xpa1/929108_718526038210382_775304107_n.jpg
>figured this one out at first glance

Bergkamp in 98.

Gary Lineker against Poland, 86.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFISx1j0kak

my man sing sang his name *every single time* he called it. SHA BA LA LAAA. every time. I could not stop laughing.

http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xap1/t51.2885-15/926781_1430622613874831_1511113484_n.jpg

they're getting tougher...I cheated again, peaking at the answers. Most repliers have no clue and are just throwing random names out there, but two gave the right answers. I had no recollection of this goal, it's a nice one.

I get hung up on two things with most of these: the time stamps and trying to tell England apart from Germany.

And it's not the Pele goal because he chipped both the defender and the keeper.

it's a pretty goal, sure, but a goal scored in the group stage has to be out of this world to be legendary, imo, like say Al Oweiran vs Belgium.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrOLGifnMJk

the randomness of a bunch of Australian teenagers dedicating a song (or rather a hook) to THE STRONGEST OF THEM ALL is what makes it so great

in any case, your muhrica 'gendaizing is always entertaining to me, so carry on

http://photos-a.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xap1/10424679_903835226312440_20526008_n.jpg

first glance status

Maxi v. Mexico, yeah?

Maxi, half volley. What a strike

1, 4 and 10 have been relatively obvious for me....the rest are still fun to go watch.

http://photos-h.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xpa1/926195_396025103869831_1957568470_n.jpg
tough cookie here...I thought it was Lothar Matthaus vs Yugoslavia in 1990, but I was wrong

white uniforms, seems like little dudes are black (or is that not on purpose?)

the attention to details is amazing. and yes, it is on purpose...but it's not Ghana.

I figured it was Nigeria with the white kits. That goal was WAAAAYYY into stoppage time.

with my fiend-like obsession over all things world cup these days, I've been re-watching the Spain and Brazil games from our '06 run...

first of all, do you know how fucking amazing it is these things are up on youtube in their integrality? I can't get over how cool it is. I even get the French broadcast with Droopy ass Arsene Wenger and my man Jean-Michel Larque (both really good color guys).

these 2 games are a 'definitely top 3 maybe GOAT' France two games stretch for me (for the record...contenders would be Italy+Brazil 86, Croatia+Brazil 98, Portugal+Italy 00 or maybe Spain+Portugal 00, and these two). in my nostalgia fueled, hazy memory, they were both Zinedine Zidane masterpieces...the truth is, Big Pat was the hero in the Spain game like he was in the previous one vs Togo, w/a special mention for Scarface who punked Beria all game long. for Zizou, this game was just a stepping stone; he got stronger and stronger as the game went along, culminating in this splendid third goal to cap off the night ("et s'il allait marquer? ET S'IL ALLAIT MARQUER?"), a sign of thé brilliance to come.

and brilliance was it ever...honestly, no hyperbole, I can't think of a more scintillating stretch of play than Zinedine's performance in the Brazil game from roughly the 20' mark in the 1st half. He was everywhere, demanding the ball constantly and making magic happen on almost every touch. trademark dribble moves, sombreros, one touch passes in the perfect tempo, 40 yards bombs across the pitch right on the money, and even multiple defensive takeaways. pure dominance, punctuated by a pitch perfect free kick to Henry (who made up for a real stinker vs Spain in that game, btw).

man, it was so good to be a France fan back then.

Him, Pep, Bielsa, Klopp, Simeone, Ancelotti, Conti - I'd love to hear how those guys watch a game and what they see developing.

in the Brazil game, he pointed out in the first 10 minutes (at a time where Brazil was really dominating ball possession, to the tune of 70/30) how it was kind of a mirage, and that France looked superior physically, winning the 50/50 balls whenever they had to, and was going to take over eventually

next thing you know, we're pretty much confiscating the ball for the rest of the game

he'll drop some good insight now and then, but mostly the color guy will keep trying to bring stuff out of him, asking him long questions and he'll come back with one-worders.
Granted I haven't watched too much TF1 this side of 2010 so perhaps the guy has gotten more dynamic but I'ma need proof.

he definitely doesn't say much, lets Larque do most of the color stuff, but when he talks, he's on point
and his demeanor *is* funny in a sad clown sort of way

You essentially laid it out: he controlled the entire game for the final 70+ minutes. It was incredible to watch, need to re-watch the mastery.

I was really young for Maradona's big year....but I can't imagine him controlling the game like that.

It wasn't just Brazil neither. Every game was a masterpiece. That header against Italy should've gone in. I can't see any player in this tournament that has a chance to do something like that this year. I'm resigned to the fact we may never see something like that ever again.

The best way I can describe it....it's like he was seeing the game from the zoomed out camera angle that the audience sees. Everytime he has the ball....he makes the perfect decision....finds the open space (or creates the open space) Like he's looking at the game from a blimp. It's easy for the audience to see where the ball should go. Not so easy at field-level. And some of the most beautiful stuff was the subtler decisions too. Not just the popular hilite material. You really have to rewatch the games to know how special it was.

http://photos-c.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xpf1/10362175_1497837517115290_1219682993_n.jpg

had no clue...they're going for a lot of 1st round goals, so it's tough
great goal, though

Not that I saw it live. I watched the Ireland game at fucking 1 AM at The Abbey then crawled home and got up to watch some other match that wasn't memorable and they kept playing that goal over and over and over again. This is also the goal, if I'm not mistaken, that sparked the debate about modern ball technology being bullshit and anti-goalie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJp_pAvVFDM

Edit: I also remember, other than getting up ass early or staying out super late to watch the games, that it was insanely hot in Chicago during that world cup and just being drenched in sweat in the back of cabs at like 7 AM for a few weeks straight.

but I was on vacation in Negril, Jamaica for the opening game (our first trip with the future mrs...back when I had some disposable income)
I watched it with the entire hotel staff, nobody else cared (the guests were mostly Americans)
of course, they were pulling hard for Senegal so they gave me all kinds of BUMBAACLOT shit when they won
but after that, they hooked me the fuck up...and how mad can you stay when you're here, really http://www.rockhousehotel.com/assets/img/hotel/page_headers/escape.jpg

I was back home for the second game, watched it halfheartedly on an extended lunch break at work, and then I kind of gave up on that whole world cup, as I was too disgusted at the absurdity of Zinedine Zidane getting hurt during a stupid friendly vs the home team

http://photos-a.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xpf1/10413101_1480341622203176_1120686108_n.jpg

Great goal; but I forgot it was cole; I thought it was Gerard until googling it

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~3897765,00.html

And I can clearly remember running around in circles after it happened.

#1 too. but I can't get the others.

And he got the red later to boot, really memorable game for some reason, remember it more than the final

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZgfkXwIga8

http://photos-c.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xfp1/10358334_1461133540792682_1184756578_n.jpg
this is an absolute classic

http://photos-f.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xpf1/10349675_762712910439221_108538863_n.jpg
and this is another one

Marius Tresor '82 and Saeed Owairan '94.

wasn't sure anybody but me and possibly benny would figure out the Marius Tresor one
that was such a breathtaking goal (given that Marius wasn't exactly known for goal scoring prowess)

http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpa1/t51.2885-15/10375868_286864954819965_226575111_n.jpg
again, first glance status

http://photos-a.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xpf1/10413965_907873049239520_1216482726_n.jpg

did not remember this one, even if I figured out what team scored it

Took me to figuring out if that was Chile or Costa Rica, then had to go re-watch that goal. Bad keeping.