Friday, June 11, 2010
FIFA
I'm continuing my World Cup obsession by blogging about it. Today was the kick off day for World Cup 2010 South Africa. Just to keep everyone up to date: today South Africa played Mexico in the kick-off match, and it ended a tie 1-1. Not a bad showing for the South African team considering that they come into the tournament ranked lower than Mexico. Also Uraguay pulled off a 0-0 tie with France today. Now, for all you out there who don't know. I hate France. I hate France more than any other team in the World Cup. Here is why. France knocked out the Republic of Ireland from the world cup on a HAND BALL goal during the qualifiers and the call didn't get reversed. Ireland was robbed, and since that is my mother's homeland, they would have been my 2nd team to root for after the US. So naturally anything that happens bad for France, is good for me. So tomorrow is the day of all days. The match of all matches. The USA vs. England match is tomorrow. Pre-game coverage starts at 1:30 on ABC. So I have to go to a wedding tomorrow. It's a day wedding. I am excited for the wedding. I am also excited to make friends with the bar tender so he or she puts the game on at the bar. My whole media related portion of this post is to say the the ESPN commercial leading up the match is epic. I saw it 3 or 4 times today while watching RSA vs. MX and UR vs. FR. It has such a great build up, and I think that if they were playing that more and more, and not just on ESPN there would be a lot more hype about the match. More over, I love that the world is involved in watching one sport, for one month. I LOVE the FIFA WORLD CUP!!
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I thought I was the only one in my class watching the World Cup I am glad I am not. But to be honest I have to say the Uruguay vs France game was horrible none of them got me excited I was going for Uruguay. You should watch one of the trailers I have on my page is about soccer is the first post I did it. Check it out.
ReplyDeleteDont worry, i am also a World Cup fanatic as well. I have watched all of the games for at least a half of more. Soccer can be very boring at times, but not in the FIFA World Cup, every single second has a lasting image about the players and the countries they represent. I love how players play with pride and determination no matter what the score so that they can they played with pride at the World Cup. Fans around the world are just too crazy to let the World Cup go by unnoticed. This is the one event where most countries can compete and qualify to compete in one of the more prestigious events in sports history. I'm glad you felt that France played bad, because they didn't deserve a point they way they played that game. But oh well, LETS GO USAA!!
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