Once Again!!

Once again, I can't stop blogging about the ongoing World Cup which just saw two casualties crash out of the running for football's greatest prize-Portugal and Germany. I had expected Germany to win the cup as they had dumped their boring style of play for an entertaining and pulsating style but fate was not in their favour when they got dumped by a defensive minded Italy who deserved to be in the finals. I had supported Portugal as it was the underdog against France and it hasn't won a world cup in its previous World Cup adventures. It will have been nice to see Portugal to lift the cup but the team was destined not to see the finals.

It's down to 2 teams-France and Italy. Both teams who were not mentioned in the same breath as Brazil, Argentina, Spain or even Germany are suddenly in the limelight. Who would have expected 30 year old veterens to lead France to a World Cup Final or a scandal plagued Italy to reach the finals? I guess the footballing gods must have been sick to see Brazil lift the World cup for the record time and decided to let other team take the honours this year. I for one need some team besides brazil to lift the boys. No disrespect to the samba boys. They play an entertaining brand of football with a huge talent at their disposal but they just didn't deliver the goods on the big stage and their golden boy, Ronaldinho failed to live up to his reputation as the world's best footballer.

I have also realised that the teams I support for the particular matches(not all of them la) seem destined to lose. England,Holland,Portugal,Argentina and Germany. I really hope Italy will win and if they happen to lose this time, it's not my fault!!!The football gods feel that Italy is not destined to lift the cup.