Continuing my posts on FIFA World Cup-2006, we have reached the round-of-8 with Spain being the biggest casualty so far. The French play a game reminiscent of their game at France-98 & the biggest news is Zizou back in form … sadly the greatest player of my generation(during my teen-years to be precise) would retire from professional football at the end of Germany-2006 … He had been condemned to be consigned to memory after tha game against Spain but he has risen like a phoenix & proved his legend is greater than the moment … anyways the victory over the perennial under-achievers of the World Cup i.e. Spain means that the French are up against Brazil … Ronaldo’s back in form but Kaka & Emerson may miss the game 
… while my mind says Brazil’s gonna win this game, my heart beats for the French(primarily coz of Zidane ,Vieira & Ribery)
The first quarter-final pitts Germany(buoyed by great support at home) against Argentina(who have been probably the best at this tournament) … the only sad part is that this shud have been the final on 9th July … The 2 teams have met each other twice at the World Cup(the finals at Mexico-86 & Italia-90) with them tied at 1 game apiece … I have been a supporter of both these teams(supporting them at EURO & Copa-America) but to watch my two favourites team battle against each other pains me 
… Messi has spoken of keeping the ball on ground considering the two tall German central defenders i.e Metzelder & Mertesacker … this one’s gonna be a cracker of a game … I am damn sure that today’s winner will win on 9th July … may the best team win
The other 2 quarter-finals are between Italy v Ukraine(blah) & England v Portugal … I wonder why Sreejith supports the Italians … I find them so boring(except the game against Ghana where they really played well) … England vs Portugal … damn the English have it so easy … 2 important Portuguese players out(Deco & Costinha) & 5 more on yellow cards & to cap it all Cristiano Ronaldo’s injury status isnt clear … Scolari’s got a really big problem on his hands … but I guess he will come up with some good gameplan(after all he’s won his all matches as a coach at the World-Cup)
My predictions for the quarters
Italy beats Ukraine(1-0 … will be a boring game probably)
England beats Portugal 1-0(probably becoz of a freak goal 
)
Brazil beats France 2-1(plz plz I shud be wrong here)
Argentina vs Germany – may the best team win 
PS 1 — ESWC-2006 has started
PS 2 — The team frm India were drawn in Team-3D’s group (probably the best in the USA) … sadly they wont be attending due to visa problems
PS 3 — I wonder where’s Tipo … Bushi(aka Aziz) says he went home but I remember Tipo telling me that his parents wont be home till August
PS 4 — BF-2 craze gripping many guys .. thankfully I am unaffected by it
PS 5 — This is the END
June 30, 2006 at 11:26 pm |
you’ve got to play bf2, its asimov(awesome) + the more the merrier
July 1, 2006 at 2:51 am |
Zizou is old.. He is gonna screw it up big time. The French are gonna lose.
Brazil’s gonna have its revenge for WC 98 finals. This is the end.
July 1, 2006 at 5:00 am |
@fuzzy
Kaka will be replaced by Juninho
and Gilberto is raring to play in the first team. I dont see any problems for Brazil.
@spawn
The one man who will be raring for revenge is Ronaldo
July 1, 2006 at 8:10 am |
bastardo … germans … they beat argentina … lucky bastardos :grrr:
July 1, 2006 at 8:12 am |
i think brazil will win easily
July 1, 2006 at 8:14 am |
and the eng v port shd be interesting from a tactical point of view
i wonder what scolari would do w/o deco and costinha … he will have to do something else gerrard and lampard will run all over there
but lampard in shitty shitty form so …
July 1, 2006 at 8:15 am |
and i guess bf2 must be good …
July 2, 2006 at 4:32 pm |
“I wonder why Sreejith supports the Italians ” – because i like them! Passion has no rationality. And i didnt think their 3-0 routing of Ukraine was boring. Unlike the games involving the famed english attack. Bring it on germany.