Mentioning about 2002, so many memory comes out.
It was the first time world cup in Asian. Fans in Asian didn't need to fight with time difference, but I was preparing the final examinations in the university. I watched a lot of matches in the canteen with crowd and text books on the hand. And it was the first time China got through to the world cup. But what you could expect that team. 4:0 losing to Brazil, 3:0 to Turkey and 2:0 to Costa Rica, they even hadn't a real shoot in those 270 minutes.
"Golden goal" was still implemented. Thanks to referee and this rule, South Korea eliminated Italy. I do believe, inside human being's inside, we are cheap. At the moment when "golden goal" was used, I hated it and complained. But now, I kinda miss it. The only reason for this is we never appreciate what we have at present.
I am sorry I was so into memory. Let's talk about yesterday's matches.
There were three matches yesterday, and the only one I watched the whole was England vs USA. It was not a fantastic match, but I enjoyed it. As we all know, this two team were not good at in techniques. So the strategy was very direct, forward!!! However, this did not matter, the match included everything making it fun, history, revenge, familiarity, dramatic, intensity.
There is a funny news to share. 60 years before, at 1950, USA met England in the world cup. At that moment, England was very strong, and everybody believe that USA would lose for sure. But surprisingly, USA won at 1:0. At that moment, the communication was not that easy and newspaper was very small with a single page devoted to sports, so the reporter send a telegram back to his newspaper office in England. Everybody in England pre-assumed England should win, so they thought the the 1–0 scoreline was a typing error and so it was reported that England had won on a scoreline of 10–0. Therefore, now, before the match, the median in USA said they would send the video of the victory match of USA to the whole English people to inform them.
History won't happen again, in today's society, we share the news immediately. Like what happened yesterday of English goalkeeper, he did a huge mistake to let the ball go to the net. Cameras from different direction caught every detail from 360 degree angle and presented to all spectators in front the high-quality screen. Poor guy lives at bad time. And what he did at that moment will be showed on youtube and kicked by millions of people. The captain of England Gerrade called what goalkeeper did was howler, even he said that all English player is behind him. But howler is howler...This man who called Green, in green, lying in green grass, probably at that moment had green tears in his green eyes.
Compared to this match, I was much expected Argentina's one. Unfortunately, Manadona was the only reason to make it fun. He was in suit and screamed to everybody, whatever his players or his opponents, even referees. It was so dramatic. But apart from him, Argentina with Messi was really messy. Defensing was completely disordered, and their famous attacking was not accurate anymore. After they scored, they started to draw back. Is it still the team who is called Argentina? We all doubted. To be honest, I felt in asleep during this boring match.
South Korea won, but the opponent was Greece, which was famous for their ugly playing. They just did what they should do.
Today, I really wish Algeria not to win the first match. Just because I wanna live in a peaceful city.
By the way, during the match between England vs USA, Beckham was sitting besides coach with his gentleman suit. The whole bar burst into strange silence, what's wrong with that? Can you tell me?
The second day, it was more interesting.
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