Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Closing Time, First Round


* South Africa will go in history as the first country ever to host a world cup and fail to qualify past the first round. I don't care that they played well against France: they sucked in the 2 other games and that's why they are out by now.

* Portugal doesn't have a great team. I know they won 7-0, but they still don't have a great team, average at best.

* The whole continent of South America should qualify automatically to the World Cup next time, including Suriname and French Guyana.

* Domenech, the French coach, refused to shake hands with South Africa's coach after the end of the game, proving again that he is extremely rude even by French standards. (clip below)

* Red cards are the new yellow.

* I get very nervous when I see Argentina playing a great game. If they wanna win the world cup they have to attack for 10 minutes and score a goal then spend the remaining 80 minutes with 10 players in defense.

* Stop saying you're shocked by England's poor performance. Just do like me and don't put England among world class team. So not qualifying to Euro 2008 or getting knocked off early in the World Cup becomes a very normal thing. Drawing with Algeria and the US? Sounds perfectly normal to me.

6 comments:

jaraad said...

Thanks for the insight. I didn't know about this clip before. That was rude. For a long, long time England has not been a strong team in world cup so there play was not a shock at all. My own shock was Serbia beating Germany. What is your take about Italy?

Rand said...

Hareega! You were right! Maradona did not disappoint me :D
we.. kicked.. ass..
Also, I couldn't agree more on the South America qualification point, this cup should be South American even if it went to Chile.

F said...

Hareega
Maybe you don't like England, but it doesn't change the fact they are a great team. If you compare them to your favourites, then you'll see they beat Argentina in 6 matches, lost 3 to them and it was a draw in 5.
I think you have something against them, but then, it won't change anything.

Hareega said...

jaraad, Italy's weak performance was not surprising, and they might not make it to the second round. They completely lack a team spirit or the desire to win. They won't last too long.

Rand... you need faith in Maradona, I don't trust his skills or intelligence but I have faith in him.

F... no they are not a great team. They made it to the semi-finals only twice, 1966 and 1990. They failed to qualify to the world cup and the European Championship several times even in recent competitions. They rarely produce a great performace. Sometimes they do, but that would be unusual.

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