FIFA World Cup 2006 - Part 1
The FIFA World Cup has come to a great finish, with a lot of surprises springing up and over-enthusiastic fans collapsing, grieving the loss of their favourite teams. As is the norm, the bad news first. This tournament has, directly or indirectly, disappointed millions in Germany and many more around the globe.
England. They came, they saw, they concurred - their team is not worth the World Cup final. Wonderful support in the form of faithful fans, beautiful girlfriends and wives (the only positive, I must say), their chances of winning the Cup were hyped. The height of it all, other than Peter Crouch, was Rooney being made to sit in oxygen chambers to speed up his recovery from injury. Without him, they thought England was doomed. With him, Portuguese Ricardo Carvalho's groin was.
Teams slated to reach the finals limped out in the quarter-finals itself. Brazil were hot favourites to lift the Cup; lifted the French's hopes of a second title instead. The players looked nowhere close to their menacing best, the way they play for their respective clubs. Buck-teeth Ronaldo looked like a fattened calf, though he was not overweight. Other disappointments were Ronaldinho, Kaka, Adriano, Carlos, Cafu, Emerson ...... you get the idea.
Then comes Argentina. Sorry, there went Argentina. They played beautifully, passed with style, won convincingly and attempted the penalties like my school team. Surprisingly, the only Argentinian to play in the finals was Camoranesi - for the Italians. Can't blame them though; the Germans were plain lucky in a match that clearly didnt belong to them.
Female fans were busy wiping away tears and botched eye-liners after Beckham, C. Ronaldo, Kaka, Ballack, Messi didn't go through to the finals. But the Italian team is supposedly making up for all the pretty faces missed on the field. A negligible portion of the world female population not affected till now is the one that considers Patrick Vieira hot.
Other sections of society disappointed by the World Cup are the legal Sex-workers. Analysts predicted a mad-rush at local brothels, with all the macho, roudy football (male) fans pouring in from around the world. They say football and sex go hand-in-pant. But it hasn't quite been like that. The only balls some of them got to see were the Adidas Teamgeist. So prostitution being a legal profession in Germany didnt really set pants unzipping. Life does have a cruel way of laughing at
us.
England. They came, they saw, they concurred - their team is not worth the World Cup final. Wonderful support in the form of faithful fans, beautiful girlfriends and wives (the only positive, I must say), their chances of winning the Cup were hyped. The height of it all, other than Peter Crouch, was Rooney being made to sit in oxygen chambers to speed up his recovery from injury. Without him, they thought England was doomed. With him, Portuguese Ricardo Carvalho's groin was.
Teams slated to reach the finals limped out in the quarter-finals itself. Brazil were hot favourites to lift the Cup; lifted the French's hopes of a second title instead. The players looked nowhere close to their menacing best, the way they play for their respective clubs. Buck-teeth Ronaldo looked like a fattened calf, though he was not overweight. Other disappointments were Ronaldinho, Kaka, Adriano, Carlos, Cafu, Emerson ...... you get the idea.
Then comes Argentina. Sorry, there went Argentina. They played beautifully, passed with style, won convincingly and attempted the penalties like my school team. Surprisingly, the only Argentinian to play in the finals was Camoranesi - for the Italians. Can't blame them though; the Germans were plain lucky in a match that clearly didnt belong to them.
Female fans were busy wiping away tears and botched eye-liners after Beckham, C. Ronaldo, Kaka, Ballack, Messi didn't go through to the finals. But the Italian team is supposedly making up for all the pretty faces missed on the field. A negligible portion of the world female population not affected till now is the one that considers Patrick Vieira hot.
Other sections of society disappointed by the World Cup are the legal Sex-workers. Analysts predicted a mad-rush at local brothels, with all the macho, roudy football (male) fans pouring in from around the world. They say football and sex go hand-in-pant. But it hasn't quite been like that. The only balls some of them got to see were the Adidas Teamgeist. So prostitution being a legal profession in Germany didnt really set pants unzipping. Life does have a cruel way of laughing at
us.
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