2006 World Cup Comes To An End :-(

Miscellaneous Ramblings....

Monday, July 10. 2006

2006 World Cup Comes To An End :-(

After months of waiting and anticipation, combined with a solid month of frenzied game watching, the world's biggest sporting event has come to an end. :-( Needless to say, there were plenty of highlights (combined with some low points ;-) ) that make the Fifa World Cup the sporting event that it is.
One of the nice additions was the discovery of the World Cup Blog website. Every soccer match had a live blogger constantly giving a (often times very humorous) minute by minute commentary on the game. In addition, fans following the game from around the world could leave comments as the game was in progress. Kind of like being in a pub attended by people from around the globe (for better or worse ;-) ). Since I didn't have the funds to be in the FanZone in Berlin, this was a much cheaper alternative - definitely added some different perspectives to watching the game.
Some of the high points:
  1. Germany's (new) offensive style of play
  2. Watching Lionel Messi's (Arg) awesome dribbling skills
  3. Seeing the resurgence of Zinedine Zidane (magical!)
  4. Entertaining 3rd place and Championship games
  5. US vs Italy match (at last the US showing some mettle)


Some of the low points:
  1. Too many cards (anyone remember the Portugal vs Netherlands game?)
  2. Too much diving and playacting
  3. Seeing Zinedine Zidane get red-carded in the final game (you can bet the French papers will be talking about that for awhile)
  4. Brazil getting knocked out in Quarterfinals (didn't see that coming)
  5. US vs Czech Republic match (prayed that wasn't coming)
(Can't weigh in with the best games of the tournament yet, as I still have a couple of games left to get through on my {very hard-working} DVR).
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