So, I'm not a massive football fan but ever since the last
World Cup in South Africa 4 years ago, I've absolutely fallen in love with the
tournament. I love the community spirit it brings and the fact that everyone
plays for the place that they call home. I also love the way it gives teams
that you never would've heard of, or players you've never seen play before, the
chance to shine, even if they don't get through to the next round, they're
given their time to shine and that's amazing.
It's also good because players can surprise and teams can
surprise, like the infamous Spain vs Netherlands game that was shocking to
everyone, considering the fact that Spain are the defending champions and they
lost 5-1 to the Netherlands in their first match of the tournament! It shocked
the lot of us but that's what makes it so awesome to watch, to see the talent
that you didn't expect to see :) This was then topped off by Spain's shocking loss yesterday against Chile, 2-0 which was just madness for many. For me, having adored Spain last World Cup it was heart-breaking to see them lose but hats off to Chile! And that's completely and utterly what's to be loved about the tournament - you can never quite make the right prediction :D
I also loved the game on Sunday between Bosnia and Argentina.
Bosnia, as they described before kick off at 11pm, is a country that has
struggled with war in the past few years and the fact that they've managed to
get a team together and qualified through to the World Cup which has given
their people something to celebrate for and be happy about, is just phenomenal.
What was yet still phenomenal is that if there hadn't been the accidental own
goal three minutes into the game Bosnia and Argentina would've drawn. For
all you non-footie people, the reason why this is such an awesome fact is that
the other team are a World Class team with World Class players. Most people
have heard of Messi, who is without exaggeration, a footie legend, and those of
you more tuned to football would've heard of Aguero. Yes, the second goal was
scored by Messi but just take a look at the amount of times Bosnia, a new team
to the World Arena, managed to stop World Class players like Messi from taking
their chances. It was brilliant to hear!
I'm sorry for rambling for so long about individual matches
but the point is, it really brings out the team spirit in everyone and though
most people wouldn't support one team, they can still appreciate the amount of
effort and the amount of skill it takes for smaller countries and teams to be
able to take on all of the big teams and that's what I love especially about
the World Cup :D
Do any of you guys like football? Let me know! :)
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