Thursday, June 17, 2010

The World Cup is here - Yippeeee!

I absolutely love & adore the World Cup. My life is lived in 4 year increments from World Cup to World Cup ... as though I'd been born on Feb 29th. I am having a ball (pun intended!)

It must be said that my favourite goal of the games so far was that of Maicon in the Brazil - North Korea match. The guy kicked it in from such an impossible angle, I was actually seating back waiting for the goal kick, only to notice the celebration. Kudos.

The season has been relatively goal-less; a situation that has been blamed on the Jabulani (the ball) which has been stated as baing too light. At first, I thought this was a whole lot of rubbish from sore losers until I came to realise that 3/4 of the crosses aren't finding their marks (and actually end up way too far on the other side of the field) and also noticed that a number of shots on goal end up above the bar. There must be something with that ball. A near miss by Adidas?

My team (after all African teams (which seem to be putting all they have behind attaining an early exit from the games))is France. They've had a most lack lustre performance but let's watch and see. It's like I was saying about SA jana, if they're loosing, they may as well do so, so we can concentrate our cheers on more deserving teams!