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John, Brazil lost because France has a great player. Give some credits to the immense talents of Zizou. Period. To quote Zidane “ l’aventure continue”

Brazil lost because it played a crappy football and that's it.

Guys. France won because all players are from Africa. Yes I am happy to see these guys winning , but I am little bit annoyed to see French racists taking credit for this victory. Believe me I know very well these pretentious cheese eaters…
Tomorrow after the game is over they will forget victory and fall back to their daily discrimination. French people are the worst people in this earth. Salut les connards de Français.

The cup was in Europe.
You can't win all the time.
Brazil is still the leading soccer nation. I hope it continues. Canadian Brazil Fan. The people from the carribean love Brazil and their great football team.
Better luck next time.

"The people from the carribean love Brazil and their great football team."

Are you kidding me?? Great Football Team?? That is hilarious. This team was possibly the most overrated - EVER!! What I saw was a bunch of chunkers who could barely get their asses around the pitch. The play of Ronaldinho was not indicative of the best player in the world - not even in the top 20! Cafu - HA! Kaka - another joke. Unispired play and a deep embarrassment to themselves and Brazil.

Brazil once had a great football legacy but that time is over and the torch has been passed. I expect that Brazil in on the decline and you won't see them back in the finals for years to come. Fitzpatrick is right about one thing: more time displaying some passion and love for the game and a little less time stroking your f**king little egos, worrying about your supermodel wives and advertising contracts would have served them well. These guys looked like f**king zombies on the field. NO HEART, NO SOUL - SOLD OUT TO THE ALMIGHTY $$$, YOU GUYS SUCK!! SHAME ON YOU!!

"The people from the carribean love Brazil and their great football team."

Are you kidding me?? Great Football Team?? That is hilarious. This team was possibly the most overrated - EVER!! What I saw was a bunch of chunkers who could barely get their asses around the pitch. The play of Ronaldinho was not indicative of the best player in the world - not even in the top 20! Cafu - HA! Kaka - another joke. Unispired play and a deep embarrassment to themselves and Brazil.

Brazil once had a great football legacy but that time is over and the torch has been passed. I expect that Brazil in on the decline and you won't see them back in the finals for years to come. Fitzpatrick is right about one thing: more time displaying some passion and love for the game and a little less time stroking your f**king little egos, worrying about your supermodel wives and advertising contracts would have served them well. These guys looked like f**king zombies on the field. NO HEART, NO SOUL - SOLD OUT TO THE ALMIGHTY $$$, YOU GUYS SUCK!! SHAME ON YOU!!

we all love you here, next time the Cup goes to brazil.
We all crying for the lost cup. te desejo saude.

The reality is that Brazil played below their talents from the beginning. The only game in which they resembled a Brazilian team was the Japan game. I'm a Brazillian football fan, but I must admit that even the first-time World Cup Ghana team played better football than Brazil!! - that's if you like the game of football.

What's worst is that losing didn't seem to bother them too much - maybe because they don't live in Brazil anymore.

Their losing had nothing to do with talent, the majority of them especially Ronaldo just didn't care to work!! If the ball was not placed at his feet, he was not about to run for 3 yards to go get it. What's worst is that the Coach allowed that Bulls**t attitude instead of Benching his Ass, which sent the message that: "It's not your contribution and desire to win that get's you on the field, it's your NAME and STATUS"

There are many without his NAME and STATURE that would have played their heart out on the field - instead of taking leisurely strolls and jogs on the field like some Prima Donna!!

They deserved the whipping they got. I just wished it was a first timer like Ghana had done it, to REALLY wake those bought-out Prima Donnas with no National Pride!!!

I sure hope that Coach finds a new job!! - sitting with legs folded under the shed the whole tournament like yet another Prima Donna, like he was too high in the sky to get on his feet and get into the game like that other Brazilian Couch Scolari.

That's the price for arrogance and lazziness folks.

I'm not surpirsed: let's root for Portugal, who is the only club holding the Lusitanian banner at this point.

Brasil once had a great football legacy? Does anyone remember that this is the same group that brought the championship home 4 years ago? And Fitzpatrick, a Scott writting about the performance of Brasil, that is pathetic. Were my dear friend is England, you want to talk about a national embarrasment. Brasil still holds 5 championships and have produced arguably the worlds best players on the most consistant basis. Yes, this year was a disappointment, but there will be a new level of excitment and fever when the current group of young players mature in 2010. Yes the money is obscene and has a definte impact on players from all nations. But I will bet, that there are very few teams in this tournament that played with the national pride Brasil did. They failed, it is something unfortunatly we live with for 4 years, but a national disgrace? Come on John, it's nothing compared to the British killing innocent civilians in the Middle East, now that is a national disgrace, perhaps you should write about that. It is after all is said and done...just a game.

ASSYRIAN LOVE BRAZIL IT's OK

I love it! If the only shame brought down on Brasil is by our team of champions, then we are doing a lot better than I thought! Compared with the shame brought to our US friends by raping a young Iraqui woman and buring the entire family, or murdering a village of innocent poor civilians, or torturing prisoners who may or may not be combatants, then soccer shame we in Brasil can all live with. I still enjoy living in a place where our governement does not listen to the phone calls of every citizen or watch every transaction at the bank. Who would have ever thought that a country in South America would enjoy more freedom than the once powerful now impotent US. They have become whores to oil and they are paying a dear price. It boggles the mind that 70% of American's are opposed to American polices and they are powerless to stop it as politicans are purchased by oil and defense lobyists, I will take Brasilian democracy any day. No everyone, we must place shame and disgrace in it's proper place, in the numbers of lives lost in a shameful war, not the number of goals we failed to score in a few soccer games.

KAKA ... BRAZIL SOCCER PLAYER.........ENGLISH SLANG FOR s**t!!!!!!!...BRAZILS LOSING TO FRANCE...... CONSPIRACY BETWEEN U.S.A. AND THEIR WESTERN POWERS COHORTS!........THIS IS THE FINAL DECEPTION!!!!!!!!........... MOBILIZE THE DONKEY CARTS!!!!!!!!!!....PORTUGAL IS OUR LAST HOPE!!!!!! BUT EL COMMANDANTE PORTUGAL IS A FRIEND OF THE U.S.A. AND THE WEST.......WHERES MY CUBAN DOCTOR..... I HAVE A HEAD ACHE..........FIDEL! FIDEL! IM FEELING LONELY........ TELL EVO I NEED SOME THING TO MAKE ME FEEL DELUSIONAL EUPHORIC.........EL COMMANDANTE .. ITS IN TRANSIT !!!!!!!......HUGO.. NO YOU GO.... NO I,LL GO.........

anyone care for a petroleum based enema????????

They failed, it is something unfortunatly we live with for 4 years, but a national disgrace? Come on John, it's nothing compared to the British killing innocent civilians in the Middle East, now that is a national disgrace, perhaps you should write about that. It is after all is said and done...just a game.

I still enjoy living in a place where our governement does not listen to the phone calls of every citizen or watch every transaction at the bank. Who would have ever thought that a country in South America would enjoy more freedom than the once powerful now impotent US. They have become whores to oil and they are paying a dear price. It boggles the mind that 70% of American's are opposed to American polices and they are powerless to stop it as politicans are purchased by oil and defense lobyists, I will take Brasilian democracy any day. No everyone, we must place shame and disgrace in it's proper place, in the numbers of lives lost in a shameful war, not the number of goals we failed to score in a few soccer games.

WOW - you Brazilians are really coming unhinged there aren't you. Grow up you whining little bitches!! It's a game you retards!! Yes start pointing fingers at the US and Britain - surely they are to blame for your little faggot balls shriveling up. BTW - your country is still in a world of s**t!! You can talk about raping a woman (like that doesn't happen in Brazil!! LOL) or wiretapping but the fact of the matter is WC victory or not you are still living in hell and when the next bought and paid for election puts that dips**t back in office or when the next riot occurs in SP and 40 policemen are killed, go on and blame the rest of the world like you've always done. Dorks!!

THIS WAS EXTRA FUNNY THOUGH:
"It boggles the mind that 70% of American's are opposed to American polices and they are powerless to stop it as politicans are purchased by oil and defense lobyists,"

Yeah your government isn't bought and paid for is it?? LMAO! And I bet more than 70% of Brazilians hate your government and what do you do about it - NOTHING!!

How about 100,000 Iraquis dead? why can't you face up to the fact the the US killers and rapist and it's allies, once great are now reduced to the worlds rabble, unable to win a war and with no mral ground to preach your "family values" or freedom or democracy from. It's pathetic and no matter your insults or comments, the US just does not matter any more, irrelevant. Yankee stay home? You make the world sick with your massive corruption that dwarfs what we have in Brasil. We once needed you and you loved it, we are now self reliant and that pisses all of you off...tough s**t though. We will take our new friends in Venezula, China and India any day, their motive is pure...money. Yours is obvious, Imperialism

"We will take our new friends in Venezula, China and India any day, their motive is pure...money. Yours is obvious, Imperialism"

LMAO!!! Thank you brother!! That was so funny and juvenile I laughed for about 5 minutes after I read it! You are the best man. Thanks again!!

HEY ," LITTLE CHE GUEVARA " YOUR PROPOGANDA STINKS LIKE ROTTEN PIG CARCASS!..WE HAVE A RIGHT TO MONITER PHONE AND BANK ACTIVITIES BY CRIMINALS,TERRORISTS, ILLEGAL ALIENS.FOREIGN NATIONALS. WHO ARE A THREAT TO OUR SECURITY,....AND THE U.S.A. BEING IMPOTENT..... ARE YOU DELUSIONAL...... WHO TOLD YOU THAT!!! THE PARATROOPER WITH NO ENGINE IN HIS AIRPLANE, AND A HOLE IN HIS PARACHUTE! OR WAS IT OLD FIDEL RIDING AROUND IN HIS 1954 FORD......OUR MILITARY IS THE MOST FORMIDABLE IN THE WORLD!!!! YOUR A MOSQUITO IN THE SIGHTS OF A SLEDGEHAMMER!!!! ROCK THROWING LITTLE BITCH!!!!!!!!!

"we are now self reliant and that pisses all of you off...tough s**t though."

You are precious!! Yes Brazil making its own cars and computers, airplanes, shoes, movies!! LOL - goddam you are one funny SOB!!

How come every commentary gets hijacked into some Hate Brasil/Hate USA forum?
This article was about Brasil and the World Cup I was sure when I read it.

Didn't brazil have record for consecutive wins? Does that not indicate a good team. They are older now and did not perform up to their potential but they can'twin forever. Ronaldo is the top goal scorer in the WC. Those are accomplishments.

Italy 3
Germany 3
Brazil 5

come on Portuagal

Thank you for the words of support, it is just beautiful.There's no money that pays

Ha Yankee Brazzil.com trolls trying to talk about football lmao. Only on the internet.

Brazzil.com trolls talking about anything besides football as if they have any idea what the f**k they are actually talking about - LMAO!!

My method of football watching is to expect the worst. And I was thus pleased that my side, Australia, was respectably beaten by Brazil 2-0 instead of 6-0; and made it to round 2 in its 2nd ever World Cup appearance.

The buzz generated in Australia has ignited the grass roots of the game here the football super-powers should be on notice in future as the smaller countries edge into the World Cup in future.

This is all good for the most transnational of games. The only way has been down for Brazil - all part of sometimes viscious ebb and flow of the "joga bonita" but I shudder to think of the next generation will produce...and also what the rest of the world will serve up in 2010.

I really miss Brazil 1982, I am from middle East, but my entire family supports Brazil and especially adore Brazil 1982 with Zico, Socrates, Eder, Falcao, and more. This 2006 World cup was a big chance for Brazil to create another Brazil 1982, but Prierra the stupid coach went and depended on old players instead of using the same players who played and won the Confideration cup. For god's sake they only wanted to break the record of Muller 14 goals so they kept playing Ronaldo in every game while Robinho and other youngsters sitting on the bench. I swear this is the stupidest action a coach has done. I was not surprised at all to see Brazil lost against France when I saw the formations and the players in the pitch. I wish he used Cincinho, Robinho, Adriano, Junniho, Ronaldinho, Kaka from the beginning and used Ronaldo for the end of every match, but instead , he put him, Cafu and Roberto Carlos there from the beginning spoiling every Attack speeds. Oh what a sad fact this is, Brazil with all its stars could not create a real brazilian football, I have never seen Brazil playing Italian style in my life, and that was against Ghana!, Prierra is well-known of his European style of playing he is not really a fan of brazilian football I believe. If Tele Santa was alive and saw what happened in this world cup, he would prefer not to be Brazilian again. Hails to Tele Santa and Screw Prierra.

Why would Brazilians soccer players play hard for team Brazil when they have to go abroad to earn money? Almost all the top stars are playing in Europe because of the money. You can make one bad turn and hurt yourself your career is over. Pele never made any big money playing until he came to the USA, the country many of you love to hate. Professional sport is all about money not love for the game.

Do you know Zidane, Ribery and Henry are French muslims ?

i think the point john was trying to make isnt about winning or losing. its about playing so badly and losing in such an ugly manner, without even trying. remember the facts: zidane is retiring after the world cup and hes like what? 34 years old? and brazil has TWO best footballers of the world in her lineup. one past and one current, not to mention the rest of the european based players in the squad. i remember a friend saying .. our soccer team is the pride of brasil. now that they have lost in this way, its no wonder all the brasil jerseys are on sale across the country.
give john a break, hes just putting things the way they are, the way they appear to be. i still remember the other article he wrote when people were just giving him s**t for saying that brasil was playing badly in the tournament and would lose if they continued playing in that manner. well... facts are facts. and another fact is most brazilians dont really know much about the international football scene.. just mainly brazilian, italian and spanish, leagues. whatever they show on televsion. but the passion of brazilian fans has really impressed me, even though that passion sometimes tends to overrule good sense.

Really, we do not need to be very soccer savvy to realize that Brazil did not deserve to make it to the finals. They were disorganized, non chalant, having a we-are-the-best-f*-the-rest attitude off the field, and as usual, trying to keep secrecy for some fools to buy into the idea that "yes, we have a great team and the best strategy to defeat anyone". C'me on, who was blind here? Those peg-legs knew it was coming... and if anyone expected anything better against a strong team like France, sorry, but were most fans that naive or so passionate that they became blind? Better get some classes with old school like Rivelino, Tostao, Pele, etc. Maybe then we could see some improvement. Unfortunately, passion from the players' part is long gone.

Well, I was not totally surprised when Brazil lost to France, after the initial games, but I was surprised when I noticed that a team carrying so many talented players was not performing up to the expectation in spite of Parreira.

Only Parreira can get a pile of diamonds and turn it into pieces of glass.

Parreira never, ever, fooled me. We conquered the 1994 WC with him because of two things: Romario and a lot of luck.

He is a smart man for many things but a horrible soccer strategist. His team goes to the field without a well designed tactic and he is incapable of changing things during the game when needed. Against France, he reacted on panic instead strategy. He had shown to the world how naïve he is and I bet you that many but many coaches out there shook their heads in disbelief.

f**k mushilman

We need a coach that will take all those pansy-ass rich football players too afraid of hurting themselves for their country (any Brasilian knows the only time we can feel proud of our country is during WC season) and turn them into real football players. By the way, isn't it surprising that one of the best players on the Argentine team, Carlos Tevez, does not play in Europe, but in Brazil? Maybe we need to go back to our roots and begin ignoring those players that have made it big, that are playing for Barcelona or Real Madrid, and instead call upon players from Sao Paulo, like Minero, or from other respectable Serie A clubs (Flamengo, Cruzeiro, Corinthians) whose greatest career accomplishment would be playing on the WC stage, representing Brasil.

For you guys out there that read Portuguese.
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Midia Sem Mascara
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Há duas semanas, manifestei o desejo de uma derrota, de preferência humilhante, para meu país. O leitor já pode imaginar o sorriso imenso e feliz que me iluminou o rosto no sábado passado. Poderia ter dito ao motorista de táxi que tenho sérias razões para torcer pela França. É país onde me sinto melhor que no Brasil, foi onde vivi meus melhores dias e país do qual recebi auxílios que o Brasil jamais me deu. Durante quatro anos, além de uma bolsa, o governo francês pagou religiosamente metade de meu aluguel. A cada início de mês, o carteiro batia em minha porta, abria a carteira e me repassava um generoso pacote de francos, estalando de novinhos. Apanhava depois um porte-monnaie e completava o montante até o último centime. Eu não precisava nem mesmo ir a um guichê para receber meu auxílio-família. Recebia-o em casa. Para isso, tinha de preencher algumas condições. Entre elas, meu apartamento deveria ter alguns requisitos básicos: uma confortável metragem mínima, banheiro e sanitários (o que nem sempre existe ao mesmo tempo em um apartamento em Paris) e determinadas condições de higiene. O governo completava meu aluguel não apenas para que morasse, mas para que morasse bem.

Bem entendido, esse auxílio não era para comprar meu voto. Estrangeiro, não votava na França. Tampouco é uma esmola jogada a quem nem casa tem. É um auxílio para residir. Isto meu país jamais me deu. Nem bolsa, nem complemento de aluguel. Por que torcer pelo Brasil? Torci pela França. Mas apenas mentalmente. Não imagine alguém que fiquei apalermado diante de uma TV gritando "Allez les bleus!" Pra falar a verdade, não consigo suportar uma partida de futebol por mais de cinco minutos. Me soa tão monótona como pornografia. Sempre a mesma coisa: disp**a pela bola, arremetida contra o adversário, gol. Não me é fácil entender como, nestes dias de Copa, milhões de pessoas permaneçam coladas ao televisor para ver, todos os dias... o mesmo filme. Haja pobreza mental.

Torci pela França não pelos benefícios que dela recebi. Desde a primeira Copa que vi, sempre torci por qualquer país que jogue contra o Brasil. Não porque tenha ódio a meu país, nada disso. Mas é preciso acabar com esse anestésico, ministrado de quatro em quatro anos, que faz com que uma nação inteira pare. Não só pare como esqueça as mazelas todas do país, a miséria, a corrupção, o desmando, o desrespeito generalizado às leis, a começar pelas próprias autoridades que por elas deveriam zelar. Há alguns meses, o candidato das oposições, o patético Geraldo Alckmin, fazendo piadinha com sua antiga profissão, dizia que o Brasil precisa de um anestesista. Ora, o candidato parece ignorar que anestésicos temos o ano todo. Quando não é futebol é carnaval, quando não é carnaval é loteria e se não é loteria é o jogo do bicho. A cada Copa, uma dose reforçada, cavalar, de anestesia. Se o Brasil ganha, o país todo, entorpecido, entra em euforia. O doping é geral. Vibram os ricos atrás de suas barricadas, a classe média em seu sufoco, vibra o favelado em sua miséria, o prisioneiro atrás das grades, o mendigo debaixo do viaduto. Se um extraterrestre de longa milhagem em anos-luz aqui chegasse após a conquista da Jules Rimet, não teria dúvidas de ter chegado ao planeta de maior índice de felicidade per capita entre as galáxias.

Quando digo isto, com a velocidade de uma bola rebatida, salta a pergunta: que estás fazendo no Brasil? A pergunta é feita de duas formas. Ora, de modo afável e por curiosidade. Ora, agressivamente, como quem ordena: rua deste país! A pergunta vem de longe, desde quando escrevi meus primeiros artigos, não contra o futebol, mas contra o fanatismo em futebol. Há mais de trinta anos ouço esta objeção e já estive perto de pugilatos em mesas de bar. Quando a pergunta vem em tom irado, tenho resposta pronta: "Meu passaporte é brasileiro, resido em qualquer lugar do Brasil sem pedir autorização a autoridade alguma, saio e entro neste país quando bem entendo e me reservo o sagrado direito de criticá-lo". Esta censura dos fanáticos é mais violenta que a censura das ditaduras. Nas ditaduras, criticar o país sempre é permissível. O que não se permite é a crítica ao poder. Os fanáticos - que nestes dias confundem futebol com pátria - não admitem crítica alguma.

Para os que perguntam com afabilidade, esclareço também com afabilidade. Há 35 anos, fiz minhas malas e saí para não voltar. Acabei voltando. Uma mulher me chamava e todo país é lindo quando há nele alguém que amamos. Fora isto, o preço do metro quadrado na Europa é um poderoso argumento para ficar por aqui. O Brasil, apesar dos pesares, é país para onde se volta. Os exilados de 64, que degustaram em Paris ou Londres o amargo caviar do exílio, juravam só voltar de metralhadora em punho. Mal foi decretada a anistia, em 79, voltaram sem armas nas mãos e com lágrimas nos olhos.

Minhas preces por uma derrota brasileira nesta Copa foram atendidas neste sábado. Obdulio Varela ressurgiu das cinzas, desta vez falando francês. Isto não significa uma ojeriza ao Brasil. No dia em que formos reconhecidos por feitos na área da ciência ou tecnologia, quando a moeda nacional for aceita no estrangeiro, no dia em que brasileiro não mais precisar lavar pratos no Primeiro Mundo, quando analfabetos forem para a escola e não para o poder, nesse dia torcerei pela seleção. Esse distante dia, suspeito que nem meus hipotéticos netos verão. Enquanto isso, é bom ver os leprosos voltando abaixo de vaias.

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"How about 100,000 Iraquis dead? why can't you face up to the fact the the US killers and rapist..."

And thats called WAR....an ESTIMATED 60 to 100 thousand dead iraqi's....in 4 and a half years!!

50+ THOUSAND brazilians are MURDERED EVERY YEAR in brazil....and they don't call that WAR....they call it BRAZIL.

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" still enjoy living in a place where our governement does not listen to the phone calls of every citizen or watch every transaction at the bank."

Watch every transaction at the bank??? Are you kidding?? Brazil is MUCH more stringent in international money transfers than the U.S.....ever recieve more than 10,000 reais in brazil from another country??? It's ludicrous all the documentation one has to provide to banco do brasil/banco central. In the U.S. it's "seamless", you don't even have to appear at the bank when sent LARGE transfers of cash from other countries....in brazil when you receive more than a few thousand dollars get ready for an anal exam!

And freedom?? Ever try sending money to a COMPANY outside of Brazil??? You better be prepared to show documents, not only invoices, etc., but also PROVE that you couldn't have purchased these SAME SERVICES or PRODUCTS here, in brazil!!!

BDB/Banco Central denied a payment I was making to an insurance company in the U.S. for my LIFE INSURANCE a couple of years ago!!! And I'm american!!

Where's the freedom of choice in that?

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"We once needed you and you loved it, we are now self reliant and that pisses all of you off...tough s**t though."

wow..what ignorance! Self-reliant huh? Don't need the U.S.? You're largest customer for exports...by a longshot, the country that spends the most $$'s in tourism....by a longshot.

Self-realiant? Where you getting this info. from bud?? Watching too many Petrobras commercials? LOL.

GOOD SO DO WE!!!!!!!!!!YOUR TO PROBLEMATIC! A NON PERFORMING ENTITY!! UNRELIABLE!!! CORRUPT!!!! DISFUNCTIONAL!!!!!.......BASICALLY WE WOULD BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU!!!!!YOU CANNOT DIFFERINCIATE BETWEEN FACT AND FICTION!!!!!!AND WE CAN DO QUITE WELL WITHOUT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

the above poster is american......

Janer Cristaldo is a bigger idiot than Fitzpatrick, for chrissake! LOL!

I wish people on this site who make comments would treat each other with more respect. I think the webmasters should introduce a sign up system and ban members who needlessly trade insults.

yes i agree..Please people offer some respect to each other..some people their way of proving their points is i guess by using such words.

Sore losers and those who must have a dor- de cotovelo somewhere with Brazilians aside, I say BRAZIL FOREVER!!
AM NOT BRAZILIAN BUT LOVE YOU GUYS!! WONDERFUL PEOPLE.

If you Brazilians put as much effort into improving your country, as you do into watching a bunch of people kick a silly ball around a field, Brazil could probably be transformed overnight. In the company where I work, people were given afternoons off to watch football. And on days where this was not permitted the stupid sods brought in televisions and watched it in the office! This is clearly a serious attitude to doing business. I had to field questions from England as to why the telephones were not being answered and why our office had a 'Mary Celeste' type quality about it. Then I was asked to estimate how many man hours had been lost as a result of this shambles. I told them (my countrymen in London) that Brazilians are basically a bloody shower and will skive off at any opportunity.