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The exciting soccer game for PSP, FIFA Soccer 2005 is a game you should definitely go crazy for. This game is a very good game for the PSP and definitely should go under you're to buy list (or to do list…same thing). Choose your favorite soccer team and battle their rivals in this soccer frenzy game for the PSP. Not only can you play regular season soccer games, but there are over 100 teams you can select from.
Prove yourself if you're a real die-hard soccer fan and play against your friends. You can see which player is better than the other. You can also play international teams such as Brazil, Argentina, Italy, and many many others. The graphics in this game are amazing. You can see everything that is going on in the game. There is even a zoom in if you are having a hard time to see. It is picture-clear. No blurry parts are showed or displayed.
Don't forget about rewinding. If you think you scored a David Beckham type shot and thought your soccer movie was out of this world, you could do it again, and again, until you want to stop. Even though the great is great and amazing, there is one tiny flaw. The bad part of this game is that the loading process takes a very long time. Whenever you're about to play a game, it literally stops the whole game to start its loading process and all you can do is wait and wait and wait for the game to start (before you die of boredom and start sleeping). This may be the only part that keeps you from scoring your goals.
Also, this game lacks more features. Even though you can do the basic things with a new twist, there could be more features added to the game which would make a better game for the PSP. One thing that people should remember before buying this game is that it's a soccer game for the PSP, and nothing more than that. This game may include out-of-this world graphics, but it's just a soccer game and these types of games tend to be short. I mean, you play a game against a team, then another team, and there's nothing left to do but play soccer games. This game comes with everything you can imagine.
From playing the computer to playing your friends, from playing regular season games to playing with international games, this is the game you should buy without even thinking of the price.
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We assume that when an amazing event like “World Cup Soccer” comes around, that what you see and hear is what you get. After all, things look pretty simple: stadiums are built, people go to the game, they come back happy or sad and the best team wins. But is this really the case? And if not, why not? Here are seven myths that you might never have predicted about World Cup Soccer together with the research that backs them up:
- The “Cheering” Myth:
Who doesn't like to join in the passion and noise when one is joined by an army of spectators backing the same team? It turns out that the group cheering may not be as inconsequential as you think. A recent study in the South African Medical Journal reported that spectator noise exceeded limits of permissible average and peak sound levels. There is also significant worsening in the ability to hear after a match and inner ear responsiveness highlights the possible risk for noise-induced hearing loss . So if you are thinking of going to a soccer game, you might want to plug your ears beforehand, especially if you are a fan and plan on going multiple times.
- The “Good Looks” Myth:
There is now a tremendous body of research that suggests that attractive people tend to be more successful. You might imagine then, that this would also be true of soccer players as well. Right? Wrong! In fact, the exact opposite is true in all cases except for one exception — at least in the German premier league . A recent study showed that the more attractive the player, the worse the performance, unless most of the team members are attractive, in which case, greater attractiveness leads to better performance. That suggests that if most of the soccer players on a team are attractive, being attractive is a plus, but if not, being attractive can be a hindrance . It is interesting that the collective power of good looks has the opposite effect of individual good looks.
- The “Safety” Myth:
Directly after the World Cup opening ceremonies in South Africa, there were breaking news reports that Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter was killed in a car accident. This fueled the already cautious world spectators concerns over safety at the World Cup. A survey of 171 foreign visitors to South Africa done in 2007 showed that tourists were in fact very concerned about safety prior to arrival . However, at the ends of their visits, their perceptions changed for the better and visitors were keen to recommend the country to other people. The authors of this article believe that the highly ambiguous and politicized crime reporting leads to this difference between anticipation and reality.
- The “Sportswear” Myth:
If you think it doesn't matter what you wear, think again. A recent study examined whether red shirt color is associated with long-term success in English soccer . The study found the following: across all league divisions, red teams had the best home record, with significant differences in both percentage of maximum points achieved and mean position in the home league table; there is a proven significantly better performance of red teams over a 55-year period. The study concluded that wearing red enhances performance in a variety of competitive contexts. So the next time you're wondering what to wear, you might want to put away that white shirt and put on a red one instead.
- The “Injury” Myth:
Do soccer players suffer the same number of injuries as cross country skiers, swimmers and long-distance runners? A study published this month reported that soccer had significantly more injuries (5.1 injuries/1000 exposure hour) than other sports . However, more runners than soccer players reported overuse injuries typically in the foot. In soccer and running the absence time from sport because of injuries was significantly longer than in skiing and swimming. Overall, it seems to matter what body region you are using, so when playing a “whole body” sport like soccer, be mindful of whole body conditioning.
- The “Goalkeeper Shorts” Myth:
Goalkeepers frequently jump to the side, and their shorts are therefore padded to avoid hip injury. But is this padding enough? No difference of the injury risk was found between goalkeepers wearing padded shorts and those who did not . Although the padded shorts generally reduce impact forces, most perform poorly. The next time you see a goalkeeper jump to the side, I'm sure you'll be thinking about those padded shorts! Apparently shorts made of visco-elastic foam are the ones to get.
- The “Excitement” Myth:
It is undoubtedly a downer, but a fact worth noting; The World Cup soccer 2006 has been shown to provoke levels of stress sufficient to increase the incidence of Acute Coronary Syndrome due to a profound increase in inflammatory substances and substances that constrict blood vessels . So if you're watching the game with someone who seems to be getting stressed about the results, you may want to ask them to calm down before there hearts start complaining too.
References
1. Swanepoel, D. and J.W. Hall, Football match spectator sound exposure and effect on hearing: A pretest-post-test study. Samj South African Medical Journal, 2010. 100(4): p. 239-242.
2. Rosar, U., J. Hagenah, and M. Klein, Physical Attractiveness and Individual Performance – or: Why and When Unattractive Men Are the Better Football Players. Soziale Welt-Zeitschrift Fur Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung Und Praxis, 2010. 61(1): p. 51-+.
3. Donaldson, R. and S. Ferreira, Crime, perceptions and touristic decisionmaking: Some empirical evidence and prospects for the 2010 World Cup. Politikon, 2007. 34(3): p. 353-371.
4. Attrill, M.J., et al., Red shirt colour is associated with long-term team success in English football. Journal of Sports Sciences, 2008. 26(6): p. 577-582.
5. Ristolainen, L., et al., Type of sport is related to injury profile: A study on cross country skiers, swimmers, long-distance runners and soccer players. A retrospective 12-month study. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 2010. 20(3): p. 384-393.
6. Schmitt, K.U., et al., Analysing the protective potential of padded soccer goalkeeper shorts. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2010. 44(6): p. 426-429.
7. Wilbert-Lampen, U., et al., Modified Serum Profiles of Inflammatory and Vasoconstrictive Factors in Patients With Emotional Stress-Induced Acute Coronary Syndrome During World Cup Soccer 2006. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2010. 55(7): p. 637-642.
The World Cup in South Africa is currently showcasing some of the finest soccer players on the planet, but another soccer competition featured a different kind of talent. Over the weekend, a sexy soccer showdown pitted Germany against Brazil. The contestants? Body painted porn stars. Scroll down for pictures.
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Apparently, rants about the World Cup generate a lot of traffic to this blog. With that in mind, one of the things that fascinates me about the World Cup is the orgy of self-examination it produces about when or whether Americans truly embrace futbol football soccer?
From what I can ascertain, there are two clear camps. The enthusiast camp, epitomized by this Daniel Gross essay, suggests that it's just so hard to be a soccer fan in the United States:
Being a soccer fan at World Cup time in America is a little like being Jewish in December in a small town in the Midwest. You sense that something big is going on around you, but you're not really a part of it. And the thing you're celebrating and enjoying is either ignored or misunderstood by your friends, peers, and neighbors. It can be a lonely time.
Jonathan Chait's rejoinder to Gross' essay best epitomizes the rejectionist school of thought. Part of it is a genuine disdain for soccer, a game with lots of flopping and 0-0 ties and is ripe for Simpsons parodies. I suspect that another component is hostility to the trendiness of the game among DC media elites and intellectuals. My local sports radiop station has had a contest to name these people, and come up with "nilrods."
My hunch, however, is that neither of these descriptions fit the American attitude towards World Cup soccer. I've seen elevated but not overwhelming interest in the World Cup. Any honest assessment of soccer would have to acknowledge that the game can be boring for long stretches, punctuated by some moments of genuine excitement and athleticism — not unlike baseball.
The fact is, there are plenty of sports in the United States that occasionally capture the intermittent attention of the casual sports fan, but won't "break through" the sports zeitgeist until and unless the United States fields a successful national team. This is how it tends to work with the Olympic team sports, and it's how it will work with the World Cup. If the United States can advance far in this tournament, Americans will become more interested; if not, they'll switch back to baseball and the NFL draft.
In this approach, the casual sports fan is using a strategy of "rational ignorance" — i.e., not caring until the team is sufficiently successful. This is the kind of thing that political scientists tend to understand, but sports and politics junkies reject as somehow not representing true fandom. But it is how most people think about most things in life most of the time.
Why Israel Cannot Solve Its PR Challenge (or, It's The Message, Stupid!)
I received the following by e-mail:
Why Israel Cannot Solve Its PR Challenge (or, It's The Message, Stupid!)
By Glenn Jasper
I spend my days helping clients develop and implement PR campaigns designed to promote the company in such a compelling way that its key audience will respond positively to what the company is communicating. Ultimately, the goal is always to build momentum and help the company achieve its potential.
So given that professional experience, it should be relatively simple to diagnose the PR problems Israel is having and prescribe a certain program to improve the situation.
And it is simple, but not in the way you might think.
Much has been written over the past few weeks – ever since “The Flotilla Affair” – about the overall weakness of Israel's PR, both when crises hit and in general. And they all brought wonderful examples of how and why Israel's PR has missed the mark.
But I'm afraid they've missed the mark as well.
One example lamented Information Minister Yuli Edelstein's frustrating cell phone contact system. But that is wrong, because fixing Edelstein's voicemail wouldn't help fight the incredible PR machine our enemies have built.
Another article suggested that as long as Israel is not able to separate the politics from the tourism, Jerusalem's tourism industry is going to suffer. But again, that is incorrect. Jerusalem is the center of the religious universe, and as such is going to be the hottest point on Earth for conflict. That is the deal and we must all understand and even embrace that. But this is irrelevant as well, in terms of the larger question about Israel's PR, although we are getting closer to the point.
Another PR complaint over the years has been the lack of Israel spokespeople who are able to speak strong English. Well, we now have Mark Regev at the wheel, one of the best I've ever seen, as well as Michael Oren in the U.S., who is fantastic.
And yet, Israel has had one of its worst PR runs over the last 12 months that it has had in decades. Doesn't this seem strange to you?
How can it be that we did better PR during the post-9/11 phase, when Ariel Sharon – who had trouble speaking “sound-bite English” – was prime minister, than we are doing now, when U.S.-educated Binyamin Netanyahu is at the helm?
When you consider the overall futility of the three above arguments of 1. Logistical ineptitude (the Edelstein example), 2. Brushing aside the negative, in favor of the positive (the Jerusalem tourism example) and 3. Native-English-speaking spokespeople (The Regev-Oren-Bibi example), there is only one conclusion that should be drawn.
It's not about any of these things.
To understand why we are failing, we must first look at why the other side is succeeding. And the answer to that question is simple: A unified message.
It wouldn't matter of Edelstein drank Red Bull 24 hours a day and was 100% available for all requested interviews. Because an hour later, someone from the government opposition will submit to an interview and completely contradict what Edelstein has said.
It doesn't matter that Jerusalem has wonderful views, great restaurants and almost-perfect weather, especially this time of year. Because the world is being told – by Jewish-Israelis – on a regular basis that Jerusalem is a place of conflict, and that the conflict is all the fault of the Jews.
And it doesn't matter that we have our strongest international spokespeople since the days of Golda Meir and Abba Eban.
Because we do not have that item that can often be the difference between success and failure for any PR campaign. In fact, it should be the cornerstone of any campaign.
It is the unified message.
After 9/11, Israel was unified, not only in its condemnation of the attack, but in its message to the world of “You see! This is what we've been going through! Now, do you understand us?”
But time has “healed,” and we have once again descended to our previous disagreements and ideologies. We are not united.
And sadly, if Israel itself is not unified – as our enemies are, for the purpose of destroying Israel – then there will be no unified message, and we will continue to lose the PR battle, even if we are right.
So, please do not waste your time analyzing the PR strategy – or even lack thereof – or tactical approach of the Israeli government. It's not about that. It's the same problem that has plagued the Jewish people for centuries. We can't unify. Even about a message. Even when our future is at stake.
Glenn Jasper is a PR veteran and the General Manager of Ruder Finn Israel, the leading full-service strategic marketing consultancy and public relations agency in Israel. He blogs at http://www.ruderfinn.co.il/.
Look at the New York Times coverage of the recently appointed commission to look into the flotilla incident. In addition to Arab League and Turkish condemnations of Israel we have:
Critics in Israel questioned the powers of any panel less than a full state commission of inquiry. In an editorial published on Sunday, the liberal newspaper Haaretz said the government's efforts at investigating itself looked increasingly like a “farce.”
“The truth that Netanyahu wishes to bring out involves the identity of the flotilla's organizers, its sources of funding and the knives and rods that were brought aboard,” the paper wrote. “He does not intend to probe the decision-making process that preceded the takeover of the ship and the shortcomings that were uncovered.”
It really doesn't matter if Ha'aretz is a lonely voice in Israeli society as a recent poll showed:
In a poll of Israeli Jews after the flotilla raid, 61 percent said Israel should not adjust its tactics to curry favor with the international community, according to Princeton, N.J.-based Pechter Middle East Polls. Eighty-five percent of the 500 polled said that Israel either did not use enough force or used the right amount of force.
Some 56 percent said that Israel should resist calls for an international investigation of the raid.
In addition to Israel's enemies, the Times is willing to lend the voice of a marginal internal critic to undermine the government's case further. This is exactly what Glenn refers to.
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