Spain beat the Netherlands 1:0 and won the 19th FIFA World Cup. Congratulations! The game was sometimes really hard to watch, because there were too many fouls and too many yellow cards. The game was ugly, it was a battle. Neither Holland, nor Spain played for the spectators, the fought to win. And after 90min we had no winner, it took Spain 116min to finally score, just few minutes before we expected penalty shootouts. It must've really been painful for the Dutch fans to see how they lost almost in last minute. What a pity. I really rooted for the Netherlands, but in the end, Spain was the better team and they deserved to win. They're dominating world football in the recent years, it's unbelievable how strong they are. Will they face their downfall in 2012? We'll see. I can't wait for the qualifications to start, I hope Slovenia will qualify.
You gotta see this clip! It's hilarious!!! :-)
I think everyone would like to be Wesley Snijder tonight. The girl below is his current girlfriend and I'm sure she'll console him tonight. Hey, it's not so bad to lose the World Cup finals after all, is it? :-P
THIS IS MY LAST WORLD CUP 2010 POST. It was really an entertaining month for me. I was lucky too see most of the games, if not all of them. Sometimes I stopped watching one, because it was pretty boring, but that was in the beginning, before the elimination phase, Chile - Honduras would be one of these games. But even though some games were not really good during the first 2 weeks, I really loved those days, where I could see 2 games a day and my home country Slovenia was part of all that. I'm always watching the World Cup (since 1990), but when you have your own country participating, it gives you extra thrills. I wish every football fan would have the chance to see his own country be part of the biggest sports event in the world, it's an unforgettable experience. Lucky those from Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Brazil and Argentina! Your teams are almost always qualifying. Nevertheless, I'm happy to be from Slovenia and proud of our young team, that was one of big surprises of the tournament.
ABOUT THE WORLD CUP: Congratulations to South Africa, the World Cup was organized perfectly. You have a great nation with a great future. I really hope we will see more World Cups in Africa in the future. Everything was top, only one thing could've been less dominant: the vuvuzela. I'm happy not to hear the beehive sound anymore, but my girlfriend just bought one (for fun) and I guess, if I misbehave, she'll punish me by blowing that thing in my ear :-P Ok, I admit, I wasn't really bothered by the vuvuzela so much in the elimination phase, that sound somehow became part of the game, it was like white noise. We'll see, how the vuvuzela story continues in the upcoming months.
Like every World Cup, this one also made some people (and pulpas) rise to fame. Diego Forlán became the best player of the tournament, Paul the Octopus Almighty predicted all the games right, the top 3 teams of the tournament were European. New stars emerged like the Uruguayan Diego Forlán, Thomas Müller and Mesut Ösil from Germany, David Villa from Spain, Wesley Snijder from Netherlands and many more. But there were also so called superstars who totally disappointed like Rooney and Messi. Big teams like Italy, France, Argentina and Brazil went home pretty early and surprised everybody, especially those who love to bet. Underdogs like Uruguay, Paraguay and Ghana came pretty far. And who would've predicted Holland in the finals? Well.. I did. :-P But I totally missed Spain, I thought Argentina will go all the way... I was so wrong. But that's football. The most exciting thing in the world (besides sex, hohoho). I'm looking forward to Brazil 2014, how about you?
- How did you like this World Cup?
- What were your best and worst moments?
- What or who surprised you the most?
[Photos 1, 2, 3: Source, Vuvuzela photo by MKL, 2010]
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