Now that the World Cup is over...
A Final Summary of My Thoughts and Feelings:
Favourite Players:
1) Fernando Torres--a great player and a very interesting personality, just try looking up articles on his life. Need I say more?
2) Aaron Lennon--England-Portugal. That was the only England match I saw, but when he came on he really did get involved. Sped things up too.
3) Owen Hargreaves--Yep, there's only one of him. England-Portugal. I can't really tell whether or not he was good 'cos I don't watch football and I don't play it either, but he was working really hard on that pitch and giving it all he had. I feel that the effort must have been worth something, anyway--although I know that it's awfully naive of me--he seemed like a nice guy.
4) David Villa--I think that now I'm being totally irrational (and ignorant) here. This must all be due to my overly avid ardour concerning miners and little old hick towns in Spain (but then who wouldn't be charmed by them?). Also, from what I can tell from the pictures, he has a disturbing resemblance to my autistic brother when he grins (and the brother in question is a thirteen year-old who looks like an up-sized seven year-old), so I guess it's just all the strange thoughts floating about my unconscious mind. Funny.
5) Zinedine Zidane--don't know much about his playing, but that head-butt was fabulous, it was THE MOMENT of the game--but rather stupid too.
(more below)
6) Philipp Lahm--looks like a sparrow
7) Miroslav Klose--looks like a fox terrier
My Moment: Zidane's 111th minute header in the finals.
On the grand finale:
My sister, my dad and I were all awake at two in the morning and sitting in front of the TV. My sister said that she was so disoriented when our dad first woke her up, she thought it was time to go to school, but then it didn't seem right--until she remembered and realized that it time for the party.
The match: pretty okay. All right.
The HEAD-BUTT: My dad was like WOW and so was my sister and I was like ...huh? what? I was so busy going up and down to get a glass of water that I only caught the replay. The announcers were pretty stunned too. It seems as if Materazzi just caught Zidane back a little and then said something to him before running on ahead of him. And then Zidane just went on walking behind him until he caught up, then he ran in front of Materazzi and lowered his head and POW! knocked the other guy over. Materazzi took a few inches into the air and fell backwards.
After seeing that, we were all discussing it. My dad commented that it was so strong and sudden that it must have given Materazzi the shock of his life.
Quote: He was just like, PUNG, must have given him the shock of his life.
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He was like an animal there, no facial expression...(the rest is kinda woolly in my head)
Really, I thought that it was quite scary seeing him like that, so much for being a "Zen Master"--that's what our papers dubbed him before that morning. He was, yes, like a rhino or something. That head is DEADLY, my dad commented that he had a very strong, hard head--"as hard as ebony". And I could see that his vein were practically POPPING out of his head. It was strange that afterwards, when he was sent off, he was totally disoriented and was like, you can't send me off...
Later, all of us agreed that the head-butt was the best moment of the entire match...pity it got the guy sent off though.
Favourite Players:
1) Fernando Torres--a great player and a very interesting personality, just try looking up articles on his life. Need I say more?
2) Aaron Lennon--England-Portugal. That was the only England match I saw, but when he came on he really did get involved. Sped things up too.
3) Owen Hargreaves--Yep, there's only one of him. England-Portugal. I can't really tell whether or not he was good 'cos I don't watch football and I don't play it either, but he was working really hard on that pitch and giving it all he had. I feel that the effort must have been worth something, anyway--although I know that it's awfully naive of me--he seemed like a nice guy.
4) David Villa--I think that now I'm being totally irrational (and ignorant) here. This must all be due to my overly avid ardour concerning miners and little old hick towns in Spain (but then who wouldn't be charmed by them?). Also, from what I can tell from the pictures, he has a disturbing resemblance to my autistic brother when he grins (and the brother in question is a thirteen year-old who looks like an up-sized seven year-old), so I guess it's just all the strange thoughts floating about my unconscious mind. Funny.
5) Zinedine Zidane--don't know much about his playing, but that head-butt was fabulous, it was THE MOMENT of the game--but rather stupid too.
(more below)
6) Philipp Lahm--looks like a sparrow
7) Miroslav Klose--looks like a fox terrier
My Moment: Zidane's 111th minute header in the finals.
On the grand finale:
My sister, my dad and I were all awake at two in the morning and sitting in front of the TV. My sister said that she was so disoriented when our dad first woke her up, she thought it was time to go to school, but then it didn't seem right--until she remembered and realized that it time for the party.
The match: pretty okay. All right.
The HEAD-BUTT: My dad was like WOW and so was my sister and I was like ...huh? what? I was so busy going up and down to get a glass of water that I only caught the replay. The announcers were pretty stunned too. It seems as if Materazzi just caught Zidane back a little and then said something to him before running on ahead of him. And then Zidane just went on walking behind him until he caught up, then he ran in front of Materazzi and lowered his head and POW! knocked the other guy over. Materazzi took a few inches into the air and fell backwards.
After seeing that, we were all discussing it. My dad commented that it was so strong and sudden that it must have given Materazzi the shock of his life.
Quote: He was just like, PUNG, must have given him the shock of his life.
&
He was like an animal there, no facial expression...(the rest is kinda woolly in my head)
Really, I thought that it was quite scary seeing him like that, so much for being a "Zen Master"--that's what our papers dubbed him before that morning. He was, yes, like a rhino or something. That head is DEADLY, my dad commented that he had a very strong, hard head--"as hard as ebony". And I could see that his vein were practically POPPING out of his head. It was strange that afterwards, when he was sent off, he was totally disoriented and was like, you can't send me off...
Later, all of us agreed that the head-butt was the best moment of the entire match...pity it got the guy sent off though.
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