The Official 2010 Football & World Cup Thread

 

Nice review and conclussions Alex, I agree with you in many of it, especially about Shakira singing for (South Africa WTF?!!!) and I do love to talk about football always.

 

And what you said above, I'm really worry about the tactic that most teams will take in the years to come. First Inter and now Spain shows that you can bore out the crowd and win WC. I'm really worry about it. I follow the Euro and the America's Cup since I'm a little boy and those tournaments ends quite fun actually, there's not that much presure like in the WC and the teams feel more free to screw up so they do attack and don't get too scared in the process.

 

For me, the best teams in this WC was Uruguay and Germany, they not only played a well defended game (Uruguay suffer the ausences of the true warriors Lugano and Fucile against Holland) but they really had a great attacking team, well balanced and fast in the transition. Forlán was the one controlling the timing in URU and Müller, Lahm and Ozil in GER. Both suffer of important ausences in semifinals and that's why we had those ugly teams in the final.

 

I do believe that Del Bosque didn't do a good job. His decisions surrounding the Barcelona core team (Puyol, Pique, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta and Pedro) weren't that accurate. "El Niño" Torres didn't was at his best performance and he keep it almost all games, putting Villa away from the box, but luckily Villa did manage himself to find some space. Casillas been the captain was really a mistake, the leader of the team was evidently Puyol, he was the one speaking and in fact, he is older and he is captain of Barcelona. But then, Llorente didn't do too much and Cesc wasn't at his best also.

 

Argentina had a great attacking team and it's suppose to work when you can break a deffense, you can recieve a couple of goals but make more. They didn't, Germany was superior and in the time for changes, Maradonna showed that he wasn't prepared for the task. Pastore get in to do nothing and Otamendi shouldn't be there, he commited the foul and then let Müller to head alone the ball in the first goal. Argentina had a lot of potential, Tevez and Agüero were in good form but ussing Higuaín from starting was a mistake. Let's see if they can make a comeback, because they deserved it, they played with soul and heart, but they lack of smart strategy against big teams like GER.

 

Well, I wrote too much... I leave you for comments.

 

We are not talking about fighting, any Sumo fighter could tear down any single human being, but they aren't  athlettes, com'on...!!!

 

I can assure you that Landon Donovan is faster than most of the baseball players, we are talking about different kind of sports. I was just saying that it isn't that accurate your statement. Most of the profesional football players are really athlettes, the problem is that silly actions of diving around the field. In the Premier League (in England) nor the referees nor the crowd aloud the players to be sisis... they made "boooooo" to all of the players who dive. But the premier League isn't England, and that's sad...

Hey, Holland made it to the final without a single suspended, you can see that there was something wrong with the referees...