Come on guys, don't tell me you didn't have the same feeling before the event. We all thought the Brazilians were too good for the home side or any other team including France and Italy. They had a couple of Fifa Player of Year winners, world reknowned dribblers and even their subtitutes were world class players. That was how much depth they had in their squad.
About a month before the event, the FAs were naming their squad. As usual I was interested in England's preparation since I am a Premiership hard core fan. It was understandable when Sven wanted to include Owen (even though he wasn't fully fit) since he's the #1 target man for the team. But what confused me was why Sven included Theo Walcott, a teenager who has never played for Arsenal, only had a couple of games with the England squad and never has he proven to everybody that he was worth playing for the England team in the World Cup. Why the fuck did Sven include Walcott when Defoe was ready to play and represent his country???
Then came the World Cup, and after a couple of games Owen was already injured. Sven had Rooney, Crouch and Walcott. Instead of using Rooney and Crouch, he opted for Rooney and 5 midfilders. I know England has many world class midfilders (Gerrard, Lampard, Beckham and Hargreaves) but Rooney wasn't a one man show kind of guy. He is used to playing behind another striker like Ruud. This was the main reason why England fucked up, Rooney couldn't adapt to his new role/position. To add from bad to worse, Rooney stepped on a Portugal player's balls real hard and then he was back stabbed by his Man Utd teammate C.Ronaldo which made the ref had no choice but to send Rooney to the changing room.
Brazil on the other hand had a great group stage. They had a good run until the quarter final stage when they faced France. Somehow they couldn't convert the many chances that they had. Henry was the 'man' for France as he forced Brazil out of the competition for good.
To be honest, France didn't play as a recent World Cup winner in the group stages. They looked as though they were going out in the second round but somehow in the game versus Brazil, Zidane stepped up and steered his team to the semis and finals. Even though Zidane turned into a rhinoceros and attacked Materazzi, Zizou definitely deserve to the Best Player of the World Cup. I think anybody would do the same thing if he/she heard what Materazzi was saying.
Maybe Brazil didn't win the fuckin' World Cup, but this girl definitely got some Cups. Daymmmnnnn.
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