Congos Espana!

Finally Spain became the world champion at the end of the dirty final match against the Netherlands. So many fouls , fee kicks, yellow cards in that match, oh my God, it was a real pain to watch the match. Although the match was between Red (Spanish) and Oranje (Holland), the match was dominated by yellow (cards). It's more painful now after everything ends. I am yet to come out of the FIFA hangover, being awake till late night for the last one month have changed all my daily schedule, still I don't feel sleepy till 3 or 4 am in the morning and can't get up before 11 or 12 noon. The new semester gonna start in a few days, have to get back to the regular schedule very soon!

Flying Dutchman vs Spanish Galleon!

The much awaited day has come finally. The unstoppable Dutchmen and Spanish Raging Bulls will be fighting to become the world champions for the first time in Johannesburg. Both the teams look equally strong, the Dutch are continuing their winning streak whereas the Spanish lost one match to the Swiss at the group league stage. The Spanish have been playing a bit defensive except the last match probably. They played an excellent match against the Germans, proving themselves equally good in both defense and attack. I hope they will continue that same spirit tonight. The Dutch are no worse in both attack and defense. Players like Sneijder, Robben, Van Persi are in their best forms ever. Although I had similar expectations from Spain vs Germany match, Germany disappointed me very much. They played like retards, they were not even at 10% of their form against Argentina. I felt as if they were morally down with the predictions of the Octopus. I hope such superstitions won't overcome the top two teams. No matter you lose or you win, you should show your fighting spirit till the last second. Last night Uruguay showed that spirit, I really loved watching the match specially Forlan. Although the Germans managed to win, Uruguay team looked much better. Of course we should not ignore the fact that Germany dared to play the match with three of their best players Klose, Lahm and Podolsky sitting at the bench. Anyway hope tonight will be a memorable day in the history of football, my heart is with both the teams.

Germany vs Ghana: Post match celebrations were awesome :)

It was a pretty good match. Although Germans won it, Ghana also gave a good fight. Ghana is playing consistently good football in this world cup no matter how many times they have won or lost. They made couple of good attempts last night specially the one which was saved by defender Lahm. That would have been a goal for sure if Lahm had not come in between. The Germans started celebrating after the end of the match as it guaranteed their position in then ext round. But it was not clear which will be the second team from that group who will make it to the second round since the match between Australia and Serbia was still going on. It ended just a few minutes after the the first match and then it became clear that Ghana is the second team which has qualified to the second round. Immediately after that celebration started in both the camps in Johannesburg. The Ghana players took off their jerseys and were running around the field with their national flag in hand. It was a superb atmosphere there, a very rare occasion where both the teams celebrate after the match which did not end in a draw :)

Good to see England qualifying into the 2nd round

It's good to see the England football team qualifying into the second round of FIFA'2010 world cup. After the first two matches where England did not play up to the mark, today they bounced back against Slovenia and won it by 1-0. Since I am going there next week, I am pretty excited about their win as the football spirit will still be alive there. I really love the crazy European football fans. Last time I was in Germany when Euro cup 2008 was going on in Austria and Switzerland. I went to Vienna just one day before the match of Germany and Austria. And the fans of both the teams were cheering for their teams on the streets, pubs and all even before the start of the match. I really loved the kind of atmosphere there. Hope to see similar crazy football fans in UK as well. Till then please keep the winning spirit alive, England.

Well done NZ!

Yet another setback for "World Champion" Italy. After the draw against Paraguay, today also they are in a similar situation, a draw 1-1 against New Zealand. New Zealand did a superb job with a fantastic goal by Smeltz in the 7th minute itself. Italy would have found them nowhere if they had not got the penalty chance which they successfully converted to make the score 1-1. Paraguay from this group has already made into top 16 after their win over Slovakia today. Let's see which one from NZ and Italy make it to top 16 from this group. It's now time for the super Sunday match which is starting within three hours from now.....

Fifa WC going crazy this time....

Fifa WC going crazy this time, with some of the most favorite teams going down against low profile teams. Specially the Europeans have disappointed us a lot e.g. France, Spain and England. Germans, who have already suffered couple of blows before the kick off with captain Ballack ruled out are however doing a great job compared to the other leading European teams. Their lost to Serbia is unacceptable to me, it was the God damn referee who won against them, not the Serbians. Hope Germans will make it to top 16 and will keep their fighting spirit alive. From England, its nonsense to hope for something better. No matter they win or they lose, the way they are playing is simply horrible. In spite of having couple of big shots like Rooney, Lampard, Gerrard, Terry they are playing very discouraging football. Spain's loss was the most unacceptable although they gave a good fight, could not convert so many opportunities. I still have hope from them anyway. France looks dead, may be due to awful team management or something else. Holland seems to have made entry into top 16 after their second consecutive win yesterday. Argentina seems to be playing as expected, looks quite good. This time I am surprised to see the African teams like Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria playing much better football than teams like England. These African teams hardly give up till the last second. I watched Ghana and Cameroon's match yesterday against Australia and Denmark respectively and they looked very very promising. Hope that they will keep that spirit alive and teach a good lesson to our favorite Europeans. Looking forward to Brazil vs Ivory Coast today..the Pepsi day :)