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Little Kid’s Soccer Team Dreams of World Cup
My seven-year-old son recently joined a soccer league, a moment of pride for his soccer-playing father and soccer-fan mother and grandmother. Aside from the obvious cuteness factor of watching he and his cohorts chasing one another around in soccer socks and scoring the unlikely goal, I have really enjoyed watching my son learn the meaning ...
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Bye Bye Maradona
Diego Maradona, the Argentinean legend, is not Argentina’s manager anymore. It was about time, to be frank. Dieguito got kicked out after rejecting to make changes to his backroom team. The AFA was not very pleased and simply voted him out. Now to be honest, if that is the sole reason he is not the ...
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July 14: Goodbye South Africa
Tomorrow I go back to New York. It has been exactly 30 days since I arrived in Johannesburg and this World Cup turned out to exceed my expectations on all possible levels. And while everyone is already looking forward and talking about issues and challenges to be faced in 2014 by Brazil, I will go ...
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July 12: What now?
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa is over. Spain have joined the elite seven countries which have won football’s most desired crown (Brazil, England, Germany, Argentina, Italy, Uruguay, and France). 32 teams came and played the most amazing tournament on earth. Matches were sometimes boring, sometimes ugly and others completely amazing and mind-blowing. A ...
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July 11: Spain wins 2010 World Cup
For the first time in history, Spain takes home the World Cup. After a very tough match with the Netherlands, Vicente del Bosque’s men won 1 nill with a beautiful goal from Iniesta, on the second half of extra time. For the Dutch, another disappointment: this is the third World Cup final they reach and ...
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July 10: Baby Lions And The Match No One Really Cares About.
Today was Crics’ last day in South Africa. We took a trip to the Lion Park, a place which – in their own words – is home to more than 85 lions, including the rare white lions, and many other carnivores such as cheetah, wild dog, various hyena species including a variety of antelope indigenous ...
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July 8: Table Mountain, Wine Tasting And Great Food.
Our last day in Cape Town was a lovely. Crics was feeling sick but even like that she was up for visiting Table Mountain and doing some wine tasting, in Stellenbosch (after all, she knows a lot more about wine than I do and would not miss it for the world). Table Mountain is absolutely ...
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July 7: Football is about the moment, not the commitment.
Wise words from my friend Garamba: football is, indeed, about the moment, not the commitment. Spain beat Germany today, 1 nill, and will face the Netherlands in the 2010 World Cup Final. The World Cup in South Africa will have a virgin World Champion and just that in itself is very exciting. Even more exciting ...
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My Last Match.
The arrival of the last game that I will be attending has finally made its way to the present and has passed. I had been feeling a bit ill so we had not done much during the day except rest. It was a sad but sweet moment last night as we arrived the the Green ...
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July 6: Dutch efficiency trumps Uruguayan flair
Since Brazil did not make it into the semis, Crics and I went to Green Point Stadium, in Cape Town, to watch the Netherlands play Uruguay. The atmosphere was great. Dutch fans are a lot of fun and very devoted to the team. But even though this was a World Cup Semi-Final, when we tried ...