Breathtaking Africa
Keeping in my mind the performance in current world cup, and the past ones which I have seen, one thing I am pretty sure about - as Cricket's future lies in the Indian sub-continent, Football's future clearly lies with Africa.
If one would have seen Ghana-Czech match, and the Ivory Coast-Holland match, s/he would agree with my point of view. Why only these matches, or this tournament, I have been seeing this right from Italia 90 days, when I first saw a Football world cup. African's skilled ball maneuvering and passes are a treat to watch.
If Italia 90 belonged more to Cameroon and Roger Milla than Germany, and Schillachi, the last one in Korea and Japan was as much of Senegal as that of Brazil. The whole Nigerian Football team was wiped out in an air crash in the 1990s and still they regrouped and won the African Nations Cup.
Senegal were more impressive in their campaign in 2002. They defeated defending champions France in their opener, and this defeat dented latter's confidence so much that they couldn't put a single goal in the whole tournament and exited in first round. The irony was that the most of these Senegalese players played club Football in France's Football league.
Then they drew with Denmark and Uruguay, knocked out Sweden in last 16 with a golden goal, and unluckily lost out to impressive Turkey in quarter finals with a golden goal.
Having said that, I believe Europeans have the most overrated teams in the world, with England the most. They have never lived up to their hype. I always found them mediocre. Without Rooney, they are just the same.
Holland have never even flattered to deceive, and couldn't even qualify last time. Even with the stars like Marco Van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit, they couldn't qualify to next round in Italia 1990. They just have Euro 1992 win to talk about.
Italy have given up on attacking Football. Defense is their main stay now. The style of Roberto Baggio, and Schillachi have been dumped in the relics. Portugal is clearly overrated, and so is Christiano Ronaldo. He needs to stop playing to the galleries, and Fuigo, I am afraid, is a spent force.
Germany, has improved. Certainly from the last Euro and World Cup, in terms of performance. Hope they keep up the performance.
What more, even you can see that key players playing for the European sides are imported ones - be it Zinadine Zidane or Thierry Henry, and many more.
So we need to keep a watch on Africa!
If one would have seen Ghana-Czech match, and the Ivory Coast-Holland match, s/he would agree with my point of view. Why only these matches, or this tournament, I have been seeing this right from Italia 90 days, when I first saw a Football world cup. African's skilled ball maneuvering and passes are a treat to watch.
If Italia 90 belonged more to Cameroon and Roger Milla than Germany, and Schillachi, the last one in Korea and Japan was as much of Senegal as that of Brazil. The whole Nigerian Football team was wiped out in an air crash in the 1990s and still they regrouped and won the African Nations Cup.
Senegal were more impressive in their campaign in 2002. They defeated defending champions France in their opener, and this defeat dented latter's confidence so much that they couldn't put a single goal in the whole tournament and exited in first round. The irony was that the most of these Senegalese players played club Football in France's Football league.
Then they drew with Denmark and Uruguay, knocked out Sweden in last 16 with a golden goal, and unluckily lost out to impressive Turkey in quarter finals with a golden goal.
Having said that, I believe Europeans have the most overrated teams in the world, with England the most. They have never lived up to their hype. I always found them mediocre. Without Rooney, they are just the same.
Holland have never even flattered to deceive, and couldn't even qualify last time. Even with the stars like Marco Van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit, they couldn't qualify to next round in Italia 1990. They just have Euro 1992 win to talk about.
Italy have given up on attacking Football. Defense is their main stay now. The style of Roberto Baggio, and Schillachi have been dumped in the relics. Portugal is clearly overrated, and so is Christiano Ronaldo. He needs to stop playing to the galleries, and Fuigo, I am afraid, is a spent force.
Germany, has improved. Certainly from the last Euro and World Cup, in terms of performance. Hope they keep up the performance.
What more, even you can see that key players playing for the European sides are imported ones - be it Zinadine Zidane or Thierry Henry, and many more.
So we need to keep a watch on Africa!
posted by Unknown at 11:07 AM
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