The final game of the world cup was played today, and sure on paper they deserved it perfectly, Spain winning the last 32 of their 34 matches and the Netherlands winning their last 10 games. However it felt like the wrong teams were playing this final.
The Netherlands have been a pleasure to watch several times before. The 1970s team was a powerful team, total football, Cryuff, Neeskens, Krol, then the 1988 team with their shocking awesome performance and the genius Van Basten and the others with their curly hair. Even in the last Euro 2008 Holland seemed to be on top of the world after destroying France and Italy.
But in this world cup, they won their 3 games in the first round simply because the opponents sucked more than they did. They seemed to lack spirit. Even in the game against Brasil they were a little bit lucky with ball deflections and Filip Melo doing them some favors.
Meanwhile, Spain would have exited from the first round if it wasn't for David Villa. They would have exited from the second round if it wasn't for David Villa. They would have exited from the quarter-finals if it wasn't for David Villa. They won the world cup after scoring 8 goals only by 3 different players. Some teams that were relegated in the second round and quarter-finals scored more goals than them.
None of those 2 teams looked convincing enough to be world champions, in my opinion. Before this game they were the best 2 teams to never win a world cup, besides Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and now Spain the worst team to win a world cup. However there was no cheating, no referee mistakes, no deals made behind the door (I think), so it's all fair and square. Welcome the new World Champions: Espana!
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You didn't write anything since Argentina left the world cup? :)
I agree today's match was boring although Spain's goal was lovely. But came too late. I was way more excited watching the semifinals and earlier matches in the world cup.
"Looked convincing enough" you are absolutely right. Only Argentina was convincing enough .. MUAHAHHAHAHHAH
Same as Jaraad's comment, I almost forgot about your blog since Argentina's %#@^!@$ against Germany.
Maradona lacks humility, he should have got a tactical assistant. Klinsmann proved to be much wiser (4 years ago).
You all have a good point, all what I can say is that Argentina lacked a clear and effective plan on the field, which is quite important to win a game. Otherwise Germany didn't have anything else that Argentina didn't have. They never did. After your team loses you even try to avoid watching any football games.
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