Monday, June 19, 2006

World Cup Update

Well of course I have been following as much of the world cup as possible, planning travel in the mornings or overnight and where possible, watching matches in the afternoon and evenings, though I have had to start picking out games recently as there's just not enough time for everything.

Watched Croatia lose to Brazil in Dubrovnik, friendly fans in bar seemed quite pleased with the result as they were expecting a heavy loss.



Left: Ex Pompey start, Robert Prosinecki still has an important role in Croatia's world cup campaign.
Right: Croatian friends in a local bar in Dubrovnik for the evening

England qualify for the next round, though have not looked to impressive, congrats to my english friends, especially thoe who have made the effort to go to Germany, Len aand Jamie, hope you are having a good one.

Hup Holland ! Oranje also through to the next stages with two victories, as usual though they seem to go to sleep if they go 2 goals up and nearly got punished against Cote d'Ivoire.

Watched quietly in a Montenegron bar, as Serbia and Montenegro are humiliated by Argentina, not much, except that at times Argentina make footbal look very easy. But what happened to S&M's solid defensive record of the qualifying campaign, complete turnaround.

Ghana beat Czech Republic 2-0 !! Probably the first surprise result of the tournament and an excellent game it was too.Geir, if you are reading, pass on my congratulations to Michael Essien.

Finally, sad to se my favourite team Japan out of the competition already, damn those Aussies.

3 comments:

Valley Boy said...

Well, Vidic was injured. They lost another defender, so the coach called up his son. There was outcry, he sent his son home and ended up with one centre back, so had to play a midfielder there, and look where it got them!

Roland said...

thanks Rich, I didn't catch that bit in the Serbian commentary.

The Luddite said...

Damn Aussies? C'mon, we gave you an exciting game to watch.