Good Monday morning my lovelies. More World Cup news:
Paul The Octopus is ready to retire.
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5:40PM
After 114 minutes every player on Team Holland had been yellow carded, all except for one. After 116 minutes The Red Furies player #6 scored a goal. Spain's Andres Iniesta celebrated his winning goal by saluting a player who recently died.
After scoring he took off his jersey to reveal a t-shirt underneath with the following written:
"Dani Jarque siempre con nosotros,"
Translation:
"Dani Jarque always with us"
"Espanyol defender Jarque suffered a heart attack before a pre-season game in Italy in 2009. He never played club football with Iniesta, but they were the same age as they rose through the Spanish national team ranks. The diminutive midfielder may have earned a yellow card for the gesture, but what better way to pay tribute to a lost friend." Soon after his goal, one of The Flying Dutchmen, the only player by the way not to have been given a yellow card began to complain to the referee and was ultimately then given a yellow card! There were only 2 minutes remaining on the clock for the Dutchies to score.
.......And so: The Spain Reign! LA FURIA ROJA have won their first ever World Cup!! Viva Espana!
To quote the commentator: "DESOLATION FOR THE DUTCH! A BITTER PILL FOR THEM TO SWALLOW BUT ABSOLUTE ECSTASY FOR THE SPANIARDS."
FINAL SCORE:
"WORLD CUP 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP FINALS"
NETHERLANDS VS. SPAIN
0-1
The awards presentation took place. The Dutch Royal family was there to hand out silver medals to Team Netherlands and to congratulate the players for a job well done, including one for the team's coach who promptly removed it from around his neck once leaving the podium.
Following that, The President of South Africa and FIFA presented the World Cup trophy to Team Spain. Ole! Ole! Ole!
To quote the boys of summer: "The game was fixed!"
To quote the boys of summer: "The game was fixed!"
They took off their jerseys moments ago & said to me:
"Housekeeper can wash these now."
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4:44PM
Today was the finals:
The question: Did the Spain Reign or Did Orange Rule The Field?
Answer: In the first half, 5 yellow cards were given! 3 to the Dutchies and 2 went to the Red Furies. By the end of the 1st half neither team scored.
By the end of the 2nd half, still no goal.
The game has gone into overtime. It's already been 107minutes and #3 Netherlands player has been red carded.
"Housekeeper can wash these now."
****UPDATED****
4:44PM
Today was the finals:
The question: Did the Spain Reign or Did Orange Rule The Field?
Answer: In the first half, 5 yellow cards were given! 3 to the Dutchies and 2 went to the Red Furies. By the end of the 1st half neither team scored.
By the end of the 2nd half, still no goal.
The game has gone into overtime. It's already been 107minutes and #3 Netherlands player has been red carded.
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Cocaine Princess here.
Yes my lovelies you read the title to my post correctly! By now you've all heard about that seer sucker octopus, right? The ink filled creature has made his prediction who will win the World Cup. So, do you agree with his prediction?
Paul has been making quite a bit of news for being spot on correct but now if you can believe it, he's been receiving death threats. Yes my lovelies, again you read that correctly, an octopus has been receiving death threats. If you can hear me I'm giggling. Good grief! The article is here.
That isn't the only news involving the psychic octopus. He now has a rival, and he's got wings. Meet Mani the Parakeet.
The bird from Singapore is predicting Holland is going to win the 2010 World Cup. That article is here.
Now onto the game!!
The 2010 World Cup kicked off in South Africa on June 11th, 2010. 736 players representing 32 teams were competing for the World Cup trophy in games held in ten stadiums across South Africa. This year's cup has been unlike no other because of the teams we thought would make it didn't AND who can forget about the referring controversy? Even worse, those frigging vuvuzelas! Sheesh they were frigging annoying!
It's Sunday July 11th, 2010 and the day has finally arrived: THE FINAL GAME OF THE 2010 WORLD CUP. It will be played in Soccer City, Johannesburg.
VS.
"Prior to this game, the Netherlands and Spain had never met each other before in the main tournament stages of either a World Cup or a European Championship and neither team has ever won a World Cup final before."
I ask you my lovelies, who are you cheering for? Team Netherlands or Team Spain? There's no need to tell you what team my house is cheering for: The Flying Dutchmen Baby! Like I really have much of a choice especially now that the boys of summer are staying with me, right? I didn't realize how superstitious the boys are:
On Friday housekeeper was doing laundry and the boys refused to give her their sacred orange jerseys. Seriously it was like watching a game of tug o' war. They explained they've worn them each time their team played and therefore consider it lucky. They honestly believe if housekeeper put their lucky jerseys in the washing machine before Sunday's big game their orange team would have bad luck. But wait, their superstition doesn't end there:
Along with wearing their jerseys while watching the game back home in Houston they drank Fanta and made a request before they arrived we would supply them with the drink. Each time Team Netherlands won, they were in their lucky shirts and drinking Fanta {including their last match that secured them into the finals}. So, I passed along the message to housekeeper.
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find that drink up here? According to housekeeper:
"Next to impossible, missy jr! I go crazy looking for it!"
Poor housekeeper was on a 2 day scavenger hunt trying to find the stuff. She was able to locate it in one of those private corner /newspaper stores in the city and bought what looks like a lifetime supply because there's so many in the fridge right now, there's hardly any room for my delicious Diet Dr. Pepper!
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There was quite an amusing article in the city's newspaper. One of the sports reporters who is covering the game from South Africa came up with his own FIFA ranking called:
“FIFA, SHMIFA”
"The comprehensive fake ranking of the World Cup’s teams is 90 per cent based on the subjective calculations of one small brain working out of a bunker in the northern suburbs of this city. An octopus contributed the other 10 per cent. No. Not that octopus."
1. CHILIE: If soccer was invented by a hyperactive 8-year old, this is how it would be played – non-stop offence leavened with UFC-style violence. We’d like to think that Toronto tear-gassing at the U-20 World Cup played some small, helpful role.
2. SOUTH AFRICA: Anyone who was here for the tournament remembers three days. The three days you played.
3. GHANA: Unwise to cheap you on this list, since every cab driver in this country is keeping score of who is, and who isn’t, for Africa.
4. URUGUAY: If we promise never to mention cannibalism again, can we be friends?
5. SPAIN: Stop complaining. How many trophies does one country need?
6. NETHERLANDS: Football is a simple game. Pass the ball. Pretend you like each other. You finally figured that out.
7. GERMANY: Mueller and friends. Does that hurt? The truth usually does.
8. NORTH KOREA: Now you can tell the proletariat you were top ten at something. Or, at least, now you can tell them that, and it’ll also be true.
9. UNITED STATES: Thanks for proving the sport’s relevance in our backyard. And for your fans.
10. SLOVENIA: Gave us the tournament’s best game, a frenetic 2-2 draw with our southern cousins.
11. ARGENTINA We hate being fooled. But we can’t stay mad at Diego. Or Messi, who didn’t score, but delivered.
12. SLOVAKIA: For proving that no one – not even Italy – gets to swagger into the knockout rounds on reputation alone.
13. AUSTRALIA: After the way you were manhandled in that opener against Germany, props for even showing up for the second match.
14. SOUTH KOREA: The only side on which all players run all the time. The goalkeeper puts up about 8 km a match.
15. SERBIA: They have the win over Germany to cling to. But of the teams with real quality here, the biggest disappointment.
16. MEXICO: Got slightly splattered with beer flung by your fans when you scored the tying goal in the opener. Now we’re even.
17. PORTUGAL: Be honest. Don’t you feel silly about calling that truce with Brazil?
18. HONDURAS: Canada probably could’ve gone goal-less here, too. So maybe next time you want to scootch over and let someone else give it a go.
19. IVORY COAST: You know that ‘Africa’s Greatest Hope’ plaque we gave you a while back? Can you mail it to Ghana?
20. PARAGUAY: A respectful nod for resilience. And that’s it.
21. SWITZERLAND: You’ll always have that victory over Spain. And the two dreary bores that followed.
22. BRAZIL: How about we all stop handing this thing to you guys six months before the tournament starts. Okay, we’ll start doing that after the next one.
23. ENGLAND: It’d be cruel fun to laugh at your pain, if we ever had a chance to do anything else.
24. ALGERIA: Sorry? You were? Didn’t even notice you.
25. DENMARK: Ditto. You need a better explanation? All right. You had good hair.
26. GREECE: You keep qualifying for these sorts of things. Why not start playing like you want to enjoy them?
27. NIGERIA: It wouldn’t be the first team that deserved to be disbanded. It’d just be the first one that doesn’t play in Toronto.
28. ITALY: You were awful. But now that you’ve bombed out, you’re our new sentimental favorite. Poor old Italy. That sounds nice.
29. CAMEROON: Along with North Korea, the only team here who didn’t notch a point. You did realize this was in Africa, right?
30. JAPAN: That dreadful quarterfinal with Paraguay consumed 120-plus minutes of several hundred million lives. Combined, that time that could have been used to invent a viable alternative to fossil fuel.
31. NEW ZEALAND: Stop talking about being undefeated. You had three shots on goal. Three. Shots. This isn’t rugby.
32. FRANCE: I admit it. I hated you. Watching you flounder made me feel bettter. Let’s start over next time. Leave Thierry Henry at home.
1. CHILIE: If soccer was invented by a hyperactive 8-year old, this is how it would be played – non-stop offence leavened with UFC-style violence. We’d like to think that Toronto tear-gassing at the U-20 World Cup played some small, helpful role.
2. SOUTH AFRICA: Anyone who was here for the tournament remembers three days. The three days you played.
3. GHANA: Unwise to cheap you on this list, since every cab driver in this country is keeping score of who is, and who isn’t, for Africa.
4. URUGUAY: If we promise never to mention cannibalism again, can we be friends?
5. SPAIN: Stop complaining. How many trophies does one country need?
6. NETHERLANDS: Football is a simple game. Pass the ball. Pretend you like each other. You finally figured that out.
7. GERMANY: Mueller and friends. Does that hurt? The truth usually does.
8. NORTH KOREA: Now you can tell the proletariat you were top ten at something. Or, at least, now you can tell them that, and it’ll also be true.
9. UNITED STATES: Thanks for proving the sport’s relevance in our backyard. And for your fans.
10. SLOVENIA: Gave us the tournament’s best game, a frenetic 2-2 draw with our southern cousins.
11. ARGENTINA We hate being fooled. But we can’t stay mad at Diego. Or Messi, who didn’t score, but delivered.
12. SLOVAKIA: For proving that no one – not even Italy – gets to swagger into the knockout rounds on reputation alone.
13. AUSTRALIA: After the way you were manhandled in that opener against Germany, props for even showing up for the second match.
14. SOUTH KOREA: The only side on which all players run all the time. The goalkeeper puts up about 8 km a match.
15. SERBIA: They have the win over Germany to cling to. But of the teams with real quality here, the biggest disappointment.
16. MEXICO: Got slightly splattered with beer flung by your fans when you scored the tying goal in the opener. Now we’re even.
17. PORTUGAL: Be honest. Don’t you feel silly about calling that truce with Brazil?
18. HONDURAS: Canada probably could’ve gone goal-less here, too. So maybe next time you want to scootch over and let someone else give it a go.
19. IVORY COAST: You know that ‘Africa’s Greatest Hope’ plaque we gave you a while back? Can you mail it to Ghana?
20. PARAGUAY: A respectful nod for resilience. And that’s it.
21. SWITZERLAND: You’ll always have that victory over Spain. And the two dreary bores that followed.
22. BRAZIL: How about we all stop handing this thing to you guys six months before the tournament starts. Okay, we’ll start doing that after the next one.
23. ENGLAND: It’d be cruel fun to laugh at your pain, if we ever had a chance to do anything else.
24. ALGERIA: Sorry? You were? Didn’t even notice you.
25. DENMARK: Ditto. You need a better explanation? All right. You had good hair.
26. GREECE: You keep qualifying for these sorts of things. Why not start playing like you want to enjoy them?
27. NIGERIA: It wouldn’t be the first team that deserved to be disbanded. It’d just be the first one that doesn’t play in Toronto.
28. ITALY: You were awful. But now that you’ve bombed out, you’re our new sentimental favorite. Poor old Italy. That sounds nice.
29. CAMEROON: Along with North Korea, the only team here who didn’t notch a point. You did realize this was in Africa, right?
30. JAPAN: That dreadful quarterfinal with Paraguay consumed 120-plus minutes of several hundred million lives. Combined, that time that could have been used to invent a viable alternative to fossil fuel.
31. NEW ZEALAND: Stop talking about being undefeated. You had three shots on goal. Three. Shots. This isn’t rugby.
32. FRANCE: I admit it. I hated you. Watching you flounder made me feel bettter. Let’s start over next time. Leave Thierry Henry at home.
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Even though my team, TEAM BRASIL didn't make it to the finals and win the cup, no worries because they will in 2014. GO BRASIL BABY GO IN 2014!!
To all my loyal and dear readers/soccer fans out there who have been taking the time to read my World Cup posts, I thank you from the bottom of my latin heart. Enjoy today's game.
May the best team win and we shall see who that is very soon.
XOXOXOXO,
Cocaine Princess
To all my loyal and dear readers/soccer fans out there who have been taking the time to read my World Cup posts, I thank you from the bottom of my latin heart. Enjoy today's game.
May the best team win and we shall see who that is very soon.
XOXOXOXO,
Cocaine Princess
