Memories of World Cup 2010

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Memories of World Cup 2010
442 - 12 July 2010 11:42


Now the curtain has come down on the 2010 World Cup, we thought it would be nice to share our abiding memories of the tournament with you...


Gary Parkinson - Editor, FourFourTwo.com

Best game
I'd love to say Slovakia v Italy, but I didn't see it: I was covering Paraguay 0-0 New Zealand. Of the 50-odd games I did see, perhaps the best story was the oddly enjoyable Germany-England match. History in the making, it was statistically quite an even game, packed with drama – That 'Goal', England's plucky semi-fightback, Germany's skilful assassination – and tactical intrigue. I took no pleasure from England's defeat, but I took plenty from Germany's performance.

Best goal
The magnificence of its pointlessness only improves Quagliarella's chip as Italy crashed out. Sublime in thought and execution, especially as his team-mates had just let loose the chains on All Hell.
 


Best moment
Iker Casillas's tears as Iniesta & Co. celebrated the World Cup-winning goal. Having led from the back by almost single-handedly keeping four clean sheets in the knockout stages, the captain richly deserves the honours bestowed upon him.
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Funniest moment
Tempting to go for Rob Green's fumble – oh come on, it was hilarious - or Yakubu's miss. Or John Terry hurling himself in front of Slovenia's late shots like an Essex-sent missile. Or Heskey lumbering on to conquer the Germans. But that would be to ignore the comedic tour de force that was the French squad's refusal to train and Domenech's impromptu recital of a handwritten ransom note from his own players. Highlight: that coach's Fawltyesque throwing away of his FIFA accreditation as he stormed from the deserted field.

Biggest surprise
Capello's v-sign to the media in playing a 4-4-2 (actually more like a 4-2-3-1 but let's not carp) against Slovenia. "Our sources have told us it'll be a diamond," said the crisp salesman. "I've told you, as your manager: You're playing on the left wing, son," said Capello to his captain.

Biggest disappointment
Spain. Such abundance of talent and domination of possession should yield far more than four successive 1-0 wins in the knockouts. It worked for them, but it didn't do anything for me. This was a laboured World Cup win on a par with France in 1998, and although that side had Stephane Guivarc'h instead of David Villa, the new Barcelona man's five goals all came in matches where he'd started playing off the plainly unfit Torres - illustrating the great paradox at the heart of the clamour for 4-2-3-1: you need a superb, on-form line-leader, or you're going to struggle. Few in Spain might agree today, but a few in England need to bear it in mind while naming their No.9.

Player of the tournament
It's much harder to argue with FIFA's choice of Diego Forlan than it is to argue with wazzocks who haven't seen him since his spell at Old Trafford. Some of those wazzocks hold down highly-paid jobs as alleged experts. They need to lose those jobs. 


Young player of the tournament
Again, FIFA made the right call in ennobling Thomas Müller. Fast, accurate, savvy and adaptable, he epitomises the future of forward play. 


Lesson I’ve learned
It's possible to get by without much sleep, as long as you have the support of a good family, both at home and at work.

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Hugh Sleight - Editor in Chief, FourFourTwo

Best game
Germany 4 England 1. Goals, drama, controversy, brilliance - it was a game with everything. Worth 12 hours in a coach to and from Joburg to see it. We'll still be talking about it in 40 years time when Sepp Blatter Jr again refuses to introduce goal-line technology.

Best goal
Technically, Luis Suarez's curler was the best, but my favourite has to be the Shearer-at-Blackburn-esque effort from Asamoah Gyan against the US. Defenders bouncing off him like it was a cartoon, followed by an old-fashioned larrup.

Best moment
Tshabala's opening game scorcher to assuage doubts that the hosts would get roundly stuffed in every game. And Michael Carrick's very respectable mum suddenly blasting out "I'm England til I die" against Germany.

Funniest moment
France's disintegration. They made England's players look like wise old owls. At what point do you decide to sacrifice potentially your only shot at the World Cup because you don't really like that bloke over there because he's slightly younger/posher/less like Patrice Evra than you?
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Biggest surprise
Germany's football. Even accounting for never writing off the Germans, no one expected such irresistible football. Who knew that Holland were the new Germany and Germany the new Holland?

Biggest disappointment
Rooney, Torres, Ronaldo and the other stuttering stars.

Player of the tournament
Xavi. Throughout the tournament, all the talk was that Spain hadn't really played well. Jesus. If only England could not play well as well as that! At the heart of this truly great team are the smart feet and sharp brain of Xavi.

Young player of the tournament
Vladimir Weiss looks about 12 but excelled for Slovakia, Thomas Muller and Mesut Ozil were both exceptional but I'm going for Gyan again (even though he's 24...). He led the line brilliantly. His great misfortune was that England didn't top their group and give him the chance to double his goal tally against ’JT and Upsy‘.

Lesson I've learned
That an awful lot of players win 100 caps these days.

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David Hall - Editor, FourFourTwo magazine

Best game
Japan vs Paraguay. Just kidding. Ghana vs Uruguay had it all. It was football with heart and soul… and a bit of cheating. It had the lot.

Best goal
The first one of the tournament scored by South Africa’s Siphiwe Tshabalala. Had the whole office out of their seats and buzzing about the start of the World Cup.

Best moment
Wesley Sneijder running to a TV camera to celebrate his goal against Brazil. A big star with a bit or personality. That’s what we like.

Funniest moment
Seeing France’s bizarre World Cup build up (kart racing, road cycling and mountain climbing anyone?) degenerate into a farcical sulk-off between players and management.

Biggest surprise
Diego Maradona. Aside from the expected fractious comments aimed at everyone from the Argentine press to Bastian Schweinsteiger, he conducted himself with a level of decorum that I certainly didn’t expect. It was a shame. I thought he’d chin at least one FIFA official.
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Biggest disappointment
England. I had the dubious pleasure of attending England vs Algeria, the highlight of which was buying a vuvuzela. Yes, it was that bad.

Player of the tournament
Wesley Sneijder. Coming off the back of a treble-winning season with Inter, tiredness didn’t appear to be an issue for the Dutchman who pretty much ran the show for Holland. Winter breaks or not, he had a long few months at the office and consistently delivered.

Young player of the tournament
Mesut Ozil. We had identified him as one to watch long before the World Cup started and our prediction rang true. Silky skills, great vision and surprising turns of pace made him one of the most complete midfielders at the tournament.

Lesson I’ve learned
To never again get excited about England’s chances going into a major tournament. My anticipation and disappointment were significantly heightened by becoming FourFourTwo’s editor in January of a World Cup year. It was a rollercoaster… mainly travelling downwards.

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Gregg Davies - News Editor, FourFourTwo.com

Best game
Slovakia 3-2 Italy. Fascinating final 15 minutes, in which the holders looked dead, buried and set to bow out with barely a whimper, only to rally out of nowhere and finish a single goal short of qualifying. Super-sub Kamil Kopunek scoring with his first ever touch at a World Cup finals and Fabio Quagliarella’s delightful late chip added to the late drama.

Best goal
Okay, so it may not have been everybody's pick for goal of the tournament, but I really enjoyed Nicklas Bendtner’s leveller for Denmark against Cameroon. A simple but brilliant move from the back, featuring two inch-perfect deliveries from Simon Kjaer (diagonal 50-yard effort) and Dennis Rommedahl (pin-point square pass across the penalty area).

Best moment
The last-gasp goalline madness between Ghana and Uruguay ending with Luis Suarez’s handball and Asamoah Gyan squandering the chance to rewrite African football history books from 12 yards. ;))

Funniest moment
It's difficult for it not to be the French, with a pair of shambolic performances against Mexico and South Africa sandwiching their laughable conduct off the pitch. Some solace for the Republic of Ireland, but not much.

Biggest surprise
Brazil hitting the self-destruct button the one time they faced adversity in the tournament. Having cruised through to the quarters, Felipe Melo - sorry, Wesley Sneijder’s equaliser was all it took for the Samba Boys to lose both the plot and their heads.
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Biggest disappointment
Wayne Rooney, above the plethora of big names who didn’t dazzle. With a season behind him that had filled England fans with so much anticipation, the forward looked like a lost soul in South Africa, one shot against Slovenia that struck an upright aside.

Player of the tournament
Without David Villa’s goals Spain wouldn’t have come close to going all the way. But my vote goes to Diego Forlan – carrying his team and his country through to the last four, and one of the few players to truly master the wretched Jabulani ball.

Young player of the tournament
Thomas Müller. Two caps and no goals before tournament began. Now five goals in eight appearances, netting his fifth goal of the competition against Uruguay with only his sixth shot on target of the tournament. Badly missed against Spain in the semi-final.

Lesson I’ve learned
Bet against Paul the octopus at your peril. :))

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James Maw - Features Editor, FourFourTwo.com

Best game
Holland’s quarter-final victory over Brazil had everything - some great football, some atrocious defending and three - count ‘em - THREE moment of madness from Felipe Melo which resulted in Ronaldo advising him via Twitter not to return to Brazil.

Best goal
Having lost their opening match to Switzerland, Spain were labouring a tad in the opening stages of their second match against Honduras. That was until David Villa embarked on a powerful run down the Spanish left – cutting inside and beating three men using a combination of power and guile before working the ball onto his right foot and driving it into the top corner.

Best moment
Slovakia’s victory over Italy will live long in the memory, and the highlight was undoubtledly Kamil Kopúnek’s 89th minute goal. It was his first ever touch of a football in a World Cup finals and earned his country their first ever finals win. Oh, and it knocked the reigning champions out…

Funniest moment
Argentina’s Gabriel Heinze giving a television camera an almighty whack after inadvertently smashing his face into it moments before. :hammer:

Biggest surprise
Fabio Capello’s use of substitutes during the Germany match. The baffled look on the faces of everybody in the packed southwest London watering hole in which I watched the match when England’s biggest goal-threat Jermain Defoe was replaced by Emile Heskey was hilarious, yet telling.

Biggest disappointment
The reaction to Luis Suarez’s last minute handball against Ghana (above). I felt the way so many fans and pundits were willing to just accept this blatant act of cheating as ‘part of the game’ and the popular insistence that ‘anybody would do it’ is a damning indictment on the modern game. If the punishment isn’t enough to dissuade the offence then the punishment isn’t severe enough. Bring back hanging, or failing that, just award a goal for blatant and deliberate handball on the goalline.
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Player of the tournament
Maybe I’m just being contrary, but I felt Bastian Schweinsteiger displayed a consistent level of subtle brilliance as Germany marched to third place. The way he was so willing to sacrifice himself for the team by playing in a more disciplined and withdrawn role than he plays at club level is worthy of high praise (Steven Gerrard take note).

Young player of the tournament
I’m not sure you can look beyond Thomas Mueller. For a player of his age and relative inexperience to so quickly become an integral part of such an impressive football machine is not something you see often. His willingness to support both the fullback and centre forward set him apart from most attackers in the tournament.

Lesson I’ve learned
That honking a vuvuzela at full blast in a small kitchen in an abandoned office building at gone 10 on a Friday evening will make a noise not dissimilar to those heard in Jurassic Park.

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Chris Hunt - Journalist, FourFourTwo.com’s man in South Africa

Best game
Germany 4-0 Argentina. Just to see the look on Maradona’s face at the press conference afterwards. He just didn’t see it coming and he still has no idea why it happened.

Best goal
For the emotion and for the occasion, it would have to be the first goal of the World Cup. Hammered into the net by Siphiwe Tshabalala, it gave South Africa an unexpected lead over Mexico in the opening game. The crowd went crazy and anyone who was in the stadium at the time won’t forget the experience.

Best moment
Frank Lampard’s goal against Germany – well, it was my best moment when he scored it and my worst when the referee continued to play the game without reaching for his whistle.
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Funniest moment
When Joan Capdevila went down like an extremely heavy saco de patatas, it was Portuguese defender Costa who took the rap, but the TV replays showed a foot of clear air between to the two players, leading fans around the world to believe that it may have been the work of the ‘elbow of god’.

Biggest surprise
The form of the Germans from their opening game even surprised the majority of their fans in South Africa, who had been conned into thinking they were crap by Joachim Löw. It’s just a shame this brilliant young team didn’t show up when it really mattered against Spain. It promised to be the game of the tournament but ended up an intriguing game of cat and mouse.

Biggest disappointment
The performance of the French, who even managed to give those past masters of infighting, the Dutch, a lesson in how to destroy your team’s chances from the inside.

Player of the tournament
A hard call as several players have unexpectedly shone at this World Cup, but I would say Arjen Robben. He may have missed the opening games, but along with Wesley Sneijder he has been a constant danger and the inspiration behind Holland’s charge to the World Cup final.

Young player of the tournament
Pivotal in Germany’s run through the tournament, my vote would go to Mesut Ozil.

Lesson I’ve learned
That the Dutch have reached the final of the World Cup wearing Nike shirts made from recycled plastic bottles. Apparently it takes eight bottles to make each shirt. Imagine what Johan Cruyff could have done with a shirt made from plastic bottles – although he probably would have demanded one with a different sponsor’s logo on it!

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Highs and lows of the World Cup
Soccernet - July 12, 2010

Here we break down the best and worst parts of the World Cup from all of Soccernet's finest writers.

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• Harry Harris
High: A new winner of the World Cup, a first for Spain, in the first African tournament was the highlight. And Andres Iniesta deserved to score the winner, as one of the world's most gifted midfielders.
Low: Cheats' Charter. Suarez's handball and the celebration that followed, the ball crossing the line, the offside Tevez goal, FIFA waking up to new technology after it distorted the 2010 finals. Also, Messi, Kaka, Rooney and Ronaldo, the world's so-called best forwards scored one between them. The weight of expectation weighed too heavily.

• Richard Jolly
High: Germany's demolition of Argentina was wonderful: the intelligent application of a perfectly-devised plan, with precocious players such as Thomas Muller and Mesut Ozil providing the highlights. Without winning the World Cup, they changed perceptions of German football.
Low: Some of the criticism levelled at Paraguay was unfair and undeserved. Yes, they rarely scored but, lacking a world-class winger or creative midfielder, the players of a small nation nonetheless displayed a real ethic in the country's finest ever World Cup.

• Phil Ball:
High: Outside of Spain's first world title, there was a sense, for the first time ever, that the host country mattered. Instead of focusing on WAGs spending obscene amounts on shopping sprees, both the BBC and Spain's TELE 5 tried to show us something of South Africa, its people, its history.
Low: The whole French farce of course, and the inability of over-paid footballers to put their privileged situations into some sort of perspective. I also disliked the Uruguayans' petty reaction to defeat in the semi-final. As they say, get a life.

• Uli Hesse:
High: Watching other people watch Germany versus Argentina. Some just stared at the screen, absolutely motionless and with their mouth open, as if they had been hypnotised.
Low: Realising that not even the two preposterous refereeing decisions on June 27 (Germany vs England, Argentina vs Mexico) will lead FIFA to completely reconsider its absurd line on instant video replays.

• Roberto Gotta:
High: The way Germany moved all over the pitch once they had the ball - with Bastian Schweinsteiger and Sami Khedira providing intelligent service from central midfield, the resilience of Diego Forlan, whose endeavour and skills deserve to make him one of the stars of the competition and the clinical finishing of David Villa.
Low: Football is not just what the players do out on the pitch. It is also enriched by the atmosphere, and the horrible vuvuzelas may have made for a typical South African experience but only managed to obliterate the rest, and best, of the stadium experience. No chants or anthems could be heard during the matches.

• Eduardo Alvarez:
High: The final between two teams that had never won the tournament before. Both sides managed to integrate their offensive approach with the ability to compete, two factors they traditionally struggled to reconcile.
Low: The stubborn refusal of FIFA to increase the use technology. There's too much at stake to keep looking backwards.

• Ernst Bouwes
High: Wesley Sneijder doing a 'Maradona '94'-celebration after his equaliser against Brazil. The vuvuzela-racket reminded me of the Eastern European sirens from the seventies. How nostalgic!
Low: Because of the bleak football in the first week I never got in the right mood. The whining about technological aids got very boring.

• Paul Marshall:
High: Kamil Kopunek lobbing reigning champions Italy out of the World Cup and little Slovakia - improbably - into the second round.
Low: Aside from the French farce and the eternal nuisance that is the vuvuzela, seeing many an empty seat inside stadiums was a real let down.

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• Andy Brassell:
High: Miroslav Klose's second goal against Argentina (Germany's fourth). The best moment from the best team to watch in South Africa, Klose's smooth finish from Mesut Ozil's cross capped a trademark flowing move. A friend of mine watched this in a London pub, and said people stood up to applaud as Klose's shot bulged the net.
Low: Cameroon. Widely expected to be Africa's best hope in the continent's first World Cup, they were hugely disappointing and the first team to be eliminated. Their shock opening loss against Japan was mainly down to a bizarre selection by coach Le Guen which saw Samuel Eto'o on the wing and Alex Song and Achille Emana left on the bench, and they never recovered.

• Sam Kelly
High: By some distance, being in Montevideo when Uruguay played their first World Cup semi-final in forty years. Everyone was so proud of their team, despite the defeat. It made me wish the English press could have been there too, to get a sense of perspective.
Low: Watching England vs Algeria in a Buenos Aires bar with two good friends - one American, the other Argentine. I probably don't have to describe to you the kind of ribbing I got from the two of them.

• Matthias Krug:
High: Germany's refreshingly attacking style until the semi-finals, Shakira's Waka Waka dance, as well as the fact that Africa was able to put on a fantastic World Cup finals.
Low: Defensive, cautious football, epitomised by the likes of Italy - surely one of the worst defending champions of all times. And Paul the 'psychic' octopus; no octopus can know so much about football.

• James Martin
High: Hard to think of a moment more exciting than Landon Donovan's 91st minute goal against Algeria that sent USA into the second round when they had looked like being sent home.
Low: Refs seemed to be hallucinating in the penalty area all tournament, but no call was worse than Frank Lampard's goal that wasn't given.

• Andrew Hush
High: Whether it was scoring or setting up goals, or taking corners and free-kicks, Diego Forlan did it all for Uruguay. Against Netherlands, he even donned the captain's armband before almost inspiring his country to an unlikely final berth.
Low: The lack of to-and-fro. Too few teams came back to win games in which they had trailed. By and large, if you took the lead, you won and that created a depressing sense of inevitability.

• Jayaditya Gupta
High: Bastian Schweinsteiger vs Argentina. There was plenty of talk about the kids but the 25-year-old Bayern Munich midfielder, with 81 caps under his belt, bossed this show like a true seasoned pro.
Low: England vs Algeria. My third goalless draw in four games; I have never seen a team play so much below their potential. And Algeria were not exactly sizzling either.

• Andrew Warshaw
High: Germany's perfect demolition of Argentina, a collective display of defensive togetherness, midfield supremacy and attacking ruthlessness which defined Joachim Low's tactical ability and defied his country's traditions of efficiency and just doing enough to win. A special mention too for New Zealand's memorable campaign. Who would have thought they'd end up unbeaten?
Low: A combination of Lampard's goal-that-wasn't, France's ugly dressing room spat and, most of all, Ghana's gut-wrenching elimination that took the stuffing out of the entire tournament.

• Firdose Moonda
High: A country with a smaller population than that of Johannesburg rose to number four in the world. Tiny Uruguay dazzled on the big stage and each of Diego Forlan's five goals were breathtaking.
Low: Cameroon's Indomitable Lions meowed like kittens, Nigeria's Super Eagles' wings were violently clipped, Ivory Coast's Elephants only stomped on North Korea, Algeria were outfoxed and Bafana Bafana's boys never became men. Africa's teams sorely disappointed.

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• Martin Williamson
High: The sheer child-like joy on the faces of rank outsiders New Zealand when Winston Reid equalised deep into added time to earn his country their first World Cup point. And coming after Australia's drubbing by Germany, the headline in next day's Sydney Morning Herald: "Australasia 1 Slovakia 1".
Low: The World Cup was ruined by a commercial decision to go with the Jabulani ball. The abiding memory of 2010 will be endless overhit crosses and shots sailing miles over the crossbar. It might be technically brilliant but it was practically useless.

• John Brewin:
High: The drama of the closing minutes and subsequent penalties during Uruguay vs Ghana were unmatchable. Suarez's handball, Gyan's inexplicable spot-kick miss and then the same player's heroism in taking the first penalty of the shootout. And Sebastian Abreu's deciding penalty capped it in nerveless style. It was a privilege to be there.
Low: The first arrival at Ellis Park of many more to come brought with it a sense of danger that has thankfully not been repeated since. The sight of stadium security staff on a walk-out strike and in full insurrectionary mood was troubling both from a moral and a safety point of view.

• Jon Carter
High: Paul the octopus and the giant dung beetle from the opening ceremony off the pitch, while on it, New Zealand gave everything - both human and animal -a shock when they drew all of their three group games, making history in the process.
Low: The embarrassment of France and Italy, as former finalists, and the failure of the African nations (barring Ghana) to advance from the groups. Some horribly dull games - Uruguay v France and Japan vs Paraguay - will not live long in the memory.

• Dale Johnson:
High: John Terry finally being exposed for who he truly is at his famous press conference. Rather than a leader of men, a leader of no one but himself. Let's hope Fabio Capello ends his England career before next month's friendly against Hungary. That, and Siphiwe Tshabalala's superb goal for South Africa in the curtain raiser.
Low: The constant drone of the vuvuzela which, contrary to popular belief, is not the sound of sport in South Africa. Which is why it has now been banned by rugby. I'd prefer to be stung by a swarm of bees.

• Dom Raynor
High: Joachim Low's attack-minded Germany breathed life into a tournament that was in danger of being suffocated by massed defences. Their four-goal dissections of both England and Argentina were a joy to watch.
Low: Mark van Bommel's rule-bending performances.

• Tom Adams:
High: The mad final minutes at Soccer City when Uruguay denied Ghana a place in the semi-finals. Suarez's handball, Gyan missing a penalty before scoring in the shootout and Sebastian Abreu applying a cheeky coup de grace. Pure, unmitigated drama.
Low: England vs Algeria. A dismal, dismal performance that exposed the mental frailties and technical ineptitude eating away at the heart of Fabio Capello's England. A complete waste of 90 minutes, topped off by Wayne Rooney insulting the supporters that had travelled so far to watch him play.

• Brett Taylor:
High: The jovial South African people will provide the lasting memory of this tournament and Siphiwe Tshabalala's goal in the opener was the single moment that best captured their support and catapulted their joyful enthusiasm to new heights
Low: Luis Suarez's goal-line handball was a horrible moment for everyone outside of Uruguay. I don't blame the player himself - anyone would have done the same - but the subsequent result was just one of those unjust set of circumstances football can throw up that leaves you feeling sick in your stomach

• Mark Lomas
High: Ghana reaching the quarter-finals was hugely important for African football in what was an otherwise disappointing showing for the continent in South Africa. Asamoah Gyan's last-ditch penalty miss was heartbreaking but the Black Stars players were rightly treated like heroes on their return home.
Low: France's farcical exit was an utter embarrassment and by deciding to strike the players disgraced themselves, but worse, shamed the football-following public at home. A complete shambles.

• Robin Hackett
High: Siphiwe Tshabalala's goal against Mexico. The opening game provided excitement and hope, with the hosts and underdogs putting in an attacking performance and receiving due reward through Tshabalala's spectacular strike. If only all the underdogs had played with such spirit.
Low: England vs Algeria. All that was disappointing epitomised: a team set up solely to defend, a disjointed and dispassionate England side failing to create chances and one of the pre-tournament stars - Wayne Rooney - turning in his worst performance in years.

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klo TS sih ...
sementara moment yang paling dramatis yaa saat menit 119,36 match antara Ghana vs Uruguay itu ..., sampe lanjut drama adu penalti

best match, saat pembawa bola German dan teman-temannya menghempaskan pasukan tango Argentina ..

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best match, saat pembawa bola German dan teman-temannya menghempaskan pasukan tango Argentina ..


ini nih yang bikin kaget luar biasa
kirain bakal england aja
ternyata ada yang nyamain parahnya
kekeke

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moment terbaik: pas belanda akhirnya bisa membalikkan keadaan mengalahkan brazil :D :D
terus yang paling menyedihkan pas inggris kalah 4-1 dari jerman, andai aja gol lampard disahkan posisi imbang 2-2 pasti masih ada kemungkinan inggris menang hehe

jepang juga tuuh, aaah sampe adu pianlty lawan uruguay, sayang kalah diadu pinalty padahal pas permainan 120 menit bagus banget, pertahanan solid jepang , sayang wakil asia ini kalah
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best game
jelas jerman vs argentina. messi who?

best goal
wah susah neh ada banyak yang keren
gol2nya forlan rata2 oke
van brongos juga mantap abis
tapi kayanya sih gol iniesta di final deh
gol yang paling bikin mungkin sluruh penghuni dunia meledak n berteriak (halah)

best moment
casillas nangis sambil nutup muka sesaat setelah gol iniesta di final
mengharukan bgt
pernah baca dimana gitu pas masi sma, kalo casillas itu pemain madrid terakhir (waktu itu akhir 90an) yang punya mobil. jadi dia ke t4 latian gitu naik bis. bener2 sederhana n ga banyak omong tapi aksinya...

funniest moment
liat aksi2 fans yang bener2 total dukung timnya

biggest surprise
tim jerman dengan cara mereka memainkan bola
paul the octopus
perancis ternyata parah abis

biggest dissapointment
wasit..!!!
pengen kasi namanya anjingku nanti, Reff
the three lions or should they be named the three kittens?
ama temen2 UI bali, duduk ditengah2 diantara 1000 lebih orang, chantting ga cape2 sampe kedudukan 3-1, pulang dengan suara serak n keujanan
kasarnya pemaen2 belanda. de jong malah praktek total kung fu...

player of the tournament
Xavi
kebayang zidane di masa jayanya
enak bgt liatnya
uda ada yang liat statistik Xavi di castrol index blm?
well, you should...

young player of the tournament
oezil ama muller
perlu ada cek ktp deh kayanya buat mereka berdua
bener ga si tuh masi muda?
kaya uda bertahun2 maen di liga2 top eropa mereka

lesson i've learned
ga berharap terlalu banyak lagi ama inggris
kalo paul masi idup n ngeramal lagi, nurut ama pilihan dia
FIFA ternyata payah juga yah...
sepakbola emang harus tetep seperti akarnya. a beautiful game...

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iyaaaa , kenangan nya adalah : FIFA belom bisa memperbaiki wasit secara keseluruhan, banyak keputusan yg kontroversial, apalagi pas final belanda vs spanyol, penonton banyak kecewa ama kinerja wasit walaupun diPD kali ini masih banyaj wasit yg bagus
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[derry07cantona]

vuvuzela...
nyamuk...
bangkai...

nonton bola apa parade trompet seh?

[Ucup Carrick]

nonton sama kaum kelas menangah kayak di warung depan warnet langganan ama warung mie aceh...terasa kekeluargaan...dan akrab...

[sellamanyaunited]

vuvuzela...
nyamuk...
bangkai...

nonton bola apa parade trompet seh?

huahahaha iya om kayak suara nyamuk kasian pemain bola dilapangan kurang darah smua diisepin nyamuk sebanyak itu haha

parade terompet yg kurang marching bandnya aja oom haha :ui3:
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[Oom Panda]

Best Moments...
- Kebersamaan... baik sama keluarga, temen, pasangan, or sama orang yang ga dikenal sekalipun... Terlihat banget di setiap Pagelaran Piala Dunia. ini yang gw suka...
- Got the Vuvuzela... Damn, itu benda bener2 bising banget... sayang diembat ma ponakan gw.. :hajar2:
- 2 tim yang ane pasang di awal Piala Dunia, 2-2nya masuk final.. So, no matter who wins.. I'm totally HAPPY!!!

Sedangkan dari gamenya sendiri... Waktu gw ma bokap mencak2 teriak2 plus digeplak pala gw gara2 tendangan penaltinya Gyan gagal di detik terakhir perpannjangan waktu kedua!!! It's amazingly hillarious moments for us...

And Finally the most memorable moments in this WORLD CUP... Gw menangin tarohan Iphone ma Bokap... hahaha... Sorry Dad, i just Robbed you... hahahaha.... Easy win... ahahahahahaha....

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kagak ada nyang mo nemenin nih .... ;))

btw, page # 1 edited with pics ... :D

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catatan lain yg tertinggal dari Afsel ... ;))
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10 takeaways from the World Cup
ESPN.com, David Hirshey - July 9, 2010



OK, so it isn't over yet, but before the final vuvuzela blows Sunday, here's what we can take away from this tournament in which favorites went home early (and in bulletproof cars), superstars discovered love children, and an octopus was hailed as a genius.


1. Spain showed us how to counter the counterattack

Jogi Low's lucky periwinkle sweater didn't stand a chance. In a game of "now you see it, now you don't," Spain whistled the ball around the park at a hypnotic pace -- forward, sideways, backward, forward, sideways, backward, you are getting sleepy -- and waited for the inevitable opening to come. The players would still be out there pinging it about in their "passing carousel," as Sir Alex Ferguson refers to Barcelona's one-touch triangles, if Carles Puyol hadn't grown impatient and catapulted himself into the air to spear a ferocious header into the net. (By the way, Carles, Gene Simmons called. He wants his hair back.)

Then, after all that metronomic passing, the goal comes from the most elemental of soccer plays: a set piece. It's this kind of dual threat that will give the Dutch nightmares. Spain not only dismantled the confident, high-octane Germans but it did so in a style that could be best described as "possessed." The Spaniards held on to the ball as if it were the Rimet trophy itself, with Xavi and Andres Iniesta finding spaces that are not readily apparent to the human eye. And they did it while using their third or fourth different formation of the tournament.

Spain could even afford to leave struggling starlet Fernando Torres on the bench, using sprightly Barca forward Pedro on the right side of midfield. La Furia Roja's versatility and industry took awhile to emerge from their chrysalides after that shocking opening defeat to the Swiss (the Swiss!). Now the Spanish are playing at their highest gear and Low is right to call them "the best team in the world." Although the Netherlands might have a thing or two to say about that.


2. The Dutch don't need to play Total Football to total you

The Netherlands has, so far, looked like a prosaic shadow of its former swashbuckling self, yet it's one very important win from changing the national psyche. With two lost finals ('74 and '78) and one flameout ('98 semis), the label of "Big Game Choke Artists" could finally be laid to rest. The Total Football glory days of Cruyff-inspired magic are as far removed from this Dutch side as is the requisite pregame frolicking in hot tubs with female fans.

The Oranje don't even have the panache of the Euro-winning Van Basten/Gullit/Rijkaard juggernaut of 1988 or the kind of Dennis Bergkamp genius that lit up their '98 World Cup run. But maybe the soccer gods have decided to reward the Netherlands for its life-affirming body of work because how else do you explain Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben, a couple of talented munchkins by modern-day standards, scoring goals with their gleaming heads and why 35-year-old goal-shy defender Giovanni Van Bronckhorst is launching surface-to-air missiles from somewhere near the Cape of Good Hope.

Even with the Netherlands' affinity for theatrics, hissy fits and the flying leg whips of Mark Van Bommel and Nigel De Jong, there's a feeling of destiny with this team. It's as if the Dutch realize that it's their responsibility to finally shuck off the weight of being the Best Team Never to Win the Cup and are prepared to do what it takes -- even if that means abandoning their legacy.


3. If you want to win the World Cup, don't play in the EPL

Heading into the semifinals, there were just seven card-carrying English Premier League players left from the staggering total of 117 that began the World Cup. I don't buy the excuse that the brutal EPL/Champions League/Europa League schedule left the players too jaded. Just look at the Bundesliga, where the entire electrifying German squad plies its trade. The German season is just as long as England's and Bayern Munich went all the way to the Champions League final with four of its stars -- Robben, Van Bommel, Philipp Lahm and Bastian Schweinsteiger -- displaying no apparent signs of fatigue in the World Cup.

Inter Milan, the team that beat Bayern in the Champions League final, sent almost its entire starting lineup to the World Cup, including Dutch firebrand Sneijder, who has led the Netherlands into the final for the first time since 1978. And is there a better World Cup feeder club than Barcelona, with seven of its players making up the core of the Spanish side? Arguably the biggest flops of the Cup have been Wayne Rooney and Nicolas Anelka. Remind me: Where do they play their club ball?

If anything, the EPL is just a tougher, more physical league, but hurly-burly doesn't necessarily translate into quality -- or World Cup success.


4. The U.S. isn't a superpower -- yet

Once again, the World Cup proved that Americans are catching up to the rest of the world when it comes to maniacal fans, near-homicidal outrage over blown calls and creating "remote offices" in local pubs around the nation.

That said, the U.S. won only one game. Against Algeria. In the 94th minute. It lost to a Ghana team ranked about 20 places lower in the world rankings. That might have been enough for a lovefest from David Letterman and Jon Stewart, but perhaps the U.S. can aim a little higher next time and lure Oprah out of retirement in four years -- or at least Larry King.

Making the knockout rounds no longer should be cause for celebration in the U.S. but rather should be an opportunity to explore why the team didn't get further. After all, if the Germans could rebuild a program that won three World Cups from the ground up, maybe it's time for Sunil Gulati, president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, to pull on his lederhosen and find a new mountain for the U.S. to climb. We need a national team structure that fosters technical development (rather than trophy accumulation) at the youth level, coherent scouting (i.e., integrating Hispanic talent into the pool), and a well-organized feeder system that allows for top U.S. players to hone their games overseas.

Until the U.S. does what every soccer-playing nation does at some point -- import coaching talent with World Cup pedigree -- it's forever destined to play in the margins, and we'll have to be content with the occasional shocking result, such as beating Spain in the Confederations Cup or taking a point from England in the group stage. The U.S. should be capable of ratchetting up the level in 2014 and beyond. But it's not going to happen by just going on late-night talk shows.


5. The Jabulani is just a soccer ball with dimples

As much as Robert Green and Julio Cesar would like to blame adidas' scientists for their career implosions, it's not the ball but shoddy technique that turned them into flailing jokes. Just another case of poor workmen blaming their tools; anyone who claimed that the reason there were so few long-range goals in this World Cup was thanks to the dipsy-doodle swerves of the Jabu should be sentenced to a lifetime of watching the YouTube video of van Bronckhorst's 41-yard unmanned drone that screamed on a straight line into the intersection of the post and upper 90. Or Japan's free-kick wizardry against Denmark. And if the ball is so difficult to strike accurately from distance, how did Diego Forlan, who curled in a trifecta of free kicks, become the first player in 20 years to score three goals from outside the box?

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6. "Goal-line technology" needs to be more than an annoying catchphrase

Referees blew all sorts of calls this summer, their screwups more irritating than anything involving Heidi and Spencer. These flashpoints serve as an ode to the broken-hearted: Argentina's egregious opening goal against Mexico, Spanish players encroaching the penalty area on Paraguay's spot kick, Frank Lampard's not-so-phantom "goal" against Germany, and, of course, Maurice Edu's "offside."

Sepp Blatter, FIFA president and king of looking the other way, softened his hard-line stance on computer-aided refereeing in the sport, though you get the feeling he's only pandering to the media. The U.S. will win back-to-back World Cups before FIFA acknowledges a flaw in its grand design.


7. However, we don't need instant replay

Call me a sadist, but on a personal level, the drama and emotion of Edu's disallowed goal against Slovenia proved why the game should stand as it is currently laid out. Camera angles don't necessarily tell the whole story -- Seen the Zapruder footage recently? -- although the technology would surely get abused by fear-struck refs who would second-guess their decision-making thanks to the eye in the sky.

In the modern, tactics-dominated game where, thanks to massed defenses, goals are so precious -- there's been an average of only 2.24 per game in this tournament -- it's important that we count all the legitimate ones. But although it's one thing to have technology to determine whether the ball crossed the plane, that's where we have to draw the line, so to speak. In other words, no instant replay for offside calls, thank you very much.

The outrage I felt at the end of the Slovenia game reminded me why I love soccer so much over the stutter-start NFL or America's pastime, which takes longer to watch than the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Getting every decision correct is boring (just ask Congress). I'd much rather feel burning anger or righteous indignation during a World Cup than nothing at all.


8. You can't be both a cheat and a hero :))

Luis Suarez had a reputation-enhancing World Cup until he stuck out his hand and became the spawn of Satan for denying Ghana, the darling of the tournament, its rightful place in the semifinals. Even though Suarez did what just about any soccer player in his position would have, he made the mistake of not showing any remorse when Asamoah Gyan's penalty kick clanged off the crossbar and Uruguay went on to win the game. Instead, he acted as if he had just scored the winning goal of the World Cup final, allowing his teammates to parade him around the field on their shoulders. Although karma caught up to Los Charruas in their defeat by the Netherlands, Suarez's postgame bravado turned a simple act of gamesmanship into a morality play. He now gets a starting spot on the All-Hands Team lineup, joining Diego Maradona, Thierry Henry and Paul the oracle octopus.


9. Well, you can be if you're Diego Maradona

The Argentina manager's transformation from porcine, drug-addled cheat to lovable, dapper guardian of Joga Bonito has been nothing short of remarkable. We remember the qualifying campaign, full of trademark Diego volatility: running over a photographer's foot with his car, vile tirades at journalists and the pretournament whimsy of demanding state-of-the-art bidets in his hotel suite. Those of us expecting men chasing after him with a big butterfly net in South Africa were dead wrong. Maradona was all sweetness and light, coaching the Albicestes in his own freewheeling, attack-happy image until it all unraveled against Germany and he went back to looking like a man whose tactical acumen seemed to consist of wearing the same suit and grasping the same rosary beads.

Sure, his game plans were naive, but his passion for the job was infectious. Every player got a hug and a kiss postgame regardless of the result, and the media embraced him in a similar way, forgiving his career transgressions and scraggly facial hair. Perhaps it's because Maradona had been usurped in the shame department by Suarez, or maybe he's no longer the same maniac we once knew and secretly loved. Now, the Argentine players, including Lionel Messi, with whom he has endured a difficult relationship, want him to stay. No one expects to see Maradona coaching in 2014, but we can surely hope.


10. Countries should hold national inquiries into their soccer teams before the World Cup

Although France and Nigeria provided plenty of entertainment off the field, they'd have been better served on it by leaving their farcical talents at baggage check. Newly elected Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan went so far as to withdraw the Super Eagles from international competition for two years after the team flamed out -- only to have the bad luck of receiving a FIFA threat to wipe them off the face of the soccer map. Meanwhile, French President Nicolas Sarkozy demanded that outgoing clownish manager Raymond Domenech testify before a closed-door meeting of the National Congress to explain why Les Bleus brought dishonor to their country. He even rescheduled policy meetings to rendezvous with Thierry Henry, one of the leaders behind the team mutiny. After a long and mostly glorious career in Europe, Henry is expected to retire -- sorry, I mean play -- for the Red Bulls, and Sarkozy's last words to him were reportedly, "Here's your chapeau, what's your hurry?"



David Hirshey is the co-author (with Roger Bennett) of "The ESPN World Cup Companion: Everything You Need to Know About the Planet's Biggest Sporting Event."

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6 big questions for upcoming season
ESPN.com, Zach Benabid - July 12, 2010


With the World Cup done and dusted, it's time to start thinking about the upcoming club seasons in Europe. Official kickoffs for the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A are about a month and change away. In the meantime, the transfer market will fuel more than a few rumors (they don't call this the "silly season" for nothing) and players will switch allegiances. Here, then, are five big questions for the new season.


1. Which youngsters will take the next step toward superstardom with a move to a big club?

One of my favorite parts of World Cup summers is watching young players come into their own on the world's biggest sporting stage. This summer was particularly bountiful with standout youngsters, my favorites being Germany's Mesut Ozil and Uruguay's Luis Suarez. The success experienced by these youngsters is bad news for their club teams (Ozil's Werder Bremen and Suarez's Ajax), which will have to fend off (or welcome) big offers from Europe's elite clubs. Ozil, for the time being, has pledged his loyalty to Werder Bremen, but Suarez seems destined for a move to England.

Other standout youngsters from South Africa 2010 who likely will be enticed to bigger clubs include Japan's Keisuke Honda and Mexico's Giovani Dos Santos.

If a few of the names mentioned above move to some of Europe's elite clubs this summer, it will be interesting to follow how each handles the brighter spotlight. After all, impressive World Cup performances from young stars don't always yield great club stints. Let's not forget Lukas Podolski's struggles after the 2006 tournament.


2. Will Wesley Sneijder leave Inter?

After performing brilliantly at Inter this past season, leading the club to a historic treble, the Dutch No. 10 used the World Cup stage to reassert, in case anyone had forgotten, his incredible quality and value. Sneijder's value and visibility will never be higher than it is right now, so if he were to have any desire for a move away from Inter, now would be the time to do it.

Rumors of a potential Sneijder departure already have begun to swirl. One rather absurd one actually had him returning to the Bernabeu and the club that unceremoniously scrapped him just a year ago. Manchester United also reportedly made a bid for Sneijder's services, but he turned the Red Devils down.

But the best move for Sneijder is to remain in Serie A. Despite his tremendous footballing ability, he is neither lightning-fast nor very strong, and he seems like the type of player who would be eaten alive in the English game. The Italian style of play suits him and provides a pace in which he can thrive.

Nevertheless, Serie A has lost much of its cachet over the last five years and is no longer a destination for big stars, which Sneijder has become. He might have dedicated himself to Inter and the team's president may have put up a "not for sale" sign over his Dutch treasure, but if the offers roll in, it's not hard to imagine that under the right set of circumstances we could see Sneijder playing elsewhere next season.


3. Does Jose Mourinho have the pieces to create an all-conquering Madrid?

At Inter, the Special One enacted a quick two-year plan to success. He came in, continued to dominate Serie A in his first year and then restocked for the treble triumph after shopping for the players he wanted. And while some of the success can be attributed to the free spending of owner Massimo Moratti, there is something to be said about the ability to manage large sums of money to bring in the right players. We've seen Real Madrid try to spend its way to titles in the past and fail on multiple occasions.

It will probably take Mourinho a couple of years to get it right at Madrid, too. Madrid's defense is not overly impressive, and at the moment the team lacks a true midfield No. 10, a conductor such as Mourinho had in Wesley Sneijder last season.

Sure, Xabi Alonso and Lass Diarra are players he likely will get a lot out of, but you get the feeling the manager needs to make some major changes to the squad and make this team his own before we see any real results.


4. Can anyone stop Barcelona?

Barcelona was the most talented team in Europe even before the arrival of David Villa, who signed with the club right before the World Cup. With Villa, the best just got better. And even with the Zlatan Ibrahimovic question still unanswered -- will he stay or will he go? -- it seems as though Barca once again will be an unstoppable force in Spain and Europe. (Then again, I thought the same thing of Chelsea when it brought in Andriy Shevchenko four years ago.)


5. Which superstars will bounce back from an underwhelming World Cup?

I expect the majority of the world's superstars, who were so utterly underwhelming at this year's world cup, to bounce back once they return to the familiarity of the club season. Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba and Lionel Messi (yes, even the great Messi disappointed in South Africa) are sure to come roaring back from anemic international campaigns and rule the world of soccer once more. But one superstar who might have a hard time bouncing back is Kaka.

Kaka has not had a great season since he carried Milan to the 2007 Champions League title. Gone are the gliding runs through the midfield and the strength on the ball that defined his playing style. And while most superstars will be returning to clubs where they are the center of attention, Kaka will return to a Real Madrid team where he must defer to Ronaldo. Not exactly an ideal situation for a bounce-back season.


6. Why in the world did Rafa Benitez leave Liverpool to take the Inter job?

After Mourinho's departure, Inter became the least attractive big job in the world. This has nothing to do with the quality of the squad, mind you. What makes it so unattractive is the fact that nothing Benitez could do (or will do, for that matter) will match what Jose the Great did.

Go ahead, Rafa, win the Serie A title and Champions League titles. Don't forget to capture the Coppa Italia, too. Clearly, he has the toughest act to follow, perhaps in the history of soccer. While Benitiez had his issues with Liverpool's management, the fact is he has only one place to go at Inter -- and that's down.


Zach Benabid is an assistant editor for SportsNation and ESPN.com who covers Serie A and European leagues for ESPNsoccernet.