W RLD CUP in South Africa .. It's waving!

SHATTERING!!!
Quarter finals are on and it is really shattering as the final whistle is blown.. match after match. It was Dunga's Brazil yesterday and Maradona's Argentina today, both my favourites, in that order. Both studded with stars... but Messi messed it, while Kaka lost it all. And both, Messi and Kaka, wear jersey number 10.

German's were simply on top of things. They started with a goal and finished it in style with another. In the first half of the game it looked as if impossible to pierce their defence; and that it was so much closer to the centre line, Maradona's men couldn't do it successfully. Couple of times that they did it was called offside and rightly so. German's strategically placed defence line earned them this stupendous victory, with no goals scored against them. While their intelligently planned and flawlessly executed attacks and counter attacks earned them their four goals. Their attacks today showed the same strategy that was executed brilliantly in couple of counter-attacking goals scored, within an interval of 4 mins, against the Englishmen in pre-quarter final stage. There is very less that Argentina did to save themselves their face.

Brazilians yesterday, were not as bad as Argentina today were, but it simply wasn't good enough to get them through. This was the upset of 2010 FIFA w rld cup. With the likes of Kaka and Robinho, they couldn't score the much needed equalizer. That too when they were reduced to 10, thanks to the red card issued to Felipe Melo, it was never going to be easy. While Sneijder did all that was required for the Dutch. Unlike Germans, the Dutch used all tactics to waste time after they got the lead after 68 mins of play.

I was on the edge of the seat for most of the second half of Brazil-Holland match, just waiting for the equalizer which never came. It was different in case of Argentina-Germany. In the first half after the Germans took the lead early on, I was pretty confident of Argentina coming up with an equalizer and then the winning goal as well. But lost all hopes, I guess like many others, quite early on in the second half.

All in all, it is carnival in South Africa. It is waving and all the teams, still in or out of the w rld cup, can sing with me ...

When I get older,

I'll be stronger,

they'll call me freedom,

jus like a wavin flag...

IT'S FIFA WRLD CUP - 2010 :)