De Futebol
July 13th, 2010 | 
Author: The 2010 World Cup is in the books. Spain defeated Netherlands 1-0 to win their first title. I was happy for the Spanish side but I was sad Brasil didn’t win.
Spain became the first team lose their opening round match and go onto win the World Cup.
So much for the press template.
A friend of mine at the radio station where I work asked me what did I think about the World Cup.
I told him it was a chippy match. The Dutch played dirty because they couldn’t keep up with Spain’s superior speed.
It was down right dirty futebol. Especially De Jong’s foot to the chest of the Spanish player.
This should have been a straight card.
The ref had his head up his butt on that one.
My friend is a former professional wrestler.
We both are air personalities.
I am the a futebol freak and Seth is a former professional wrestler working together. Then throw into the mix Ross a hockey nut and Dave a straight-laced news guy makes the radio station kinda wild.
The news guy and myself are the only true futebol nuts.
The ESPN idiots and the clowns in the press are having a cow that Rooney, Messi, and Kaka didn’t score.
Rooney entered the World Cup tourney broke down. He was part of the walking wounded. Rooney has been hurting since September 2009.
This is the direct result from playing futebol year round.
Hey, give the guy a rest.
Kaka was not the primary scorer on the Brasil side. Kaka was the point guard to use hoops terminology. His job was to distribute the ball to Robinho, Elano, and Fabiano.
Kaka’s role and I repeated his role was to dish out assists.
Don’t doubt me on this.
This was Dunga’s system.
The stoops at ESPN were either blind or were stuck on their template.
What killed Brasil in the match against Netherlands was Elano was hurt.
Without Elano, this enabled the Dutch to marshal their forces to stop Robinho and Fabiano.
With a Elano healthy, this would have opened up the pitch.
Instead of a two-pronged attack, Brasil would have three go to guys.
Yet, this doesn’t take away from the boneheaded stomp on the ankle by Mello.
You can’t lose your cool in times of crisis.
I am not saying if Mello didn’t do the unforgivable sin Brasil would have won but he did kill Brasil’s chances of mounting a serious comeback.
Brasil played team ball.
They were not a team of stars.
The Brasil press went nuts on this.
Globo Esporte and UOL wanted the likes of Ronaldinho and Ronaldo to play. They blamed Brasil’s defeat on the lack of stars.
Yet, the stars of 2006 stunk the joint out.
They were fat, out of shape, and drugged out.
These stars lost in the quarterfinals too.
Brasil lacks two players.
One is a money player.
This is the cat that can take over a match and score.
A dude who can carry a team on his back like Pele.
A Pele comes along only once in a million years.
Yet, if Kaka, Elano, Robinho, and Fabiano can play together for another four years Brasil will be almost unbeatable.
The second is a stopper on “D”.
Dunga knew what he was doing.
He was fired or quit according to what source you read was because he didn’t placate the Brasil press and the CBF.
Dunga should not have been fired.
This was stupid.
England needs to fire Capello.
Fire the entire team and rebuild from the ground up.
The English side was overrated.
Germany will be a force to be reckoned with in 2014.
Spain is a one hit wonder.
The Netherlands had their chance.
Argentina needs to fire Maradona.
Argentinos will need to replace Tevez and whole slew of players.
Maradona is fun for quotes but a futebol mind he is not.
Hire a real coach.
Try Europe.
Uruguay was a huge surprise to many.
Not me.
Uruguay had to go through the qualifying route to make it to the World Cup.
The Uruguayans are for real.
Suarez and Forlan are for real.
This squad is made up of some real good young studs.
Forlan scored five goals.
All in all, it was a fun World Cup.
South America proved they can hang with the big boys of Europe.
The power is shifting from Europe to South America.
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Tags: 2010 World Cup, Argentina, Brasil, CBF, De Futebol, De Futebol Brasil, Dunga, Elano, England, ESPN, Fabiano, Futebol, Germany, Globo Esporte, Kaka, Maradona, Messi, Netherlands, Robinho, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Rooney, Spain, Tevez, UOL
Spain deserved their win, although Robben could have killed them in the 90 minutes itself, but it would have been complete injustice.
Am glad Forlan has won an award, he was the man of the world cup with some brilliant goals, so was Muller of germany as he impressed with his timing. As for hiring coaches I think its better to take someone from the national level itself rather than from other countries, as only a man from the same country can feel the pride and passion for one’s country when playing in such a competition