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The Ball Keeps Rolling

Nothing is going as planned so far… in this World Cup! Well, almost nothing at least. Argentina seems to be doing fine under the loving care of the grand (but not tall) Diego Maradona but most of the other favorites disappoint bitterly.

What is going on with the French? It was probably the worst World Cup in the French history, going home after the first round without having won a single game! A shame! One scandal after another. Abuses, offenses, very poor performance, refusing to train… are they on strike? Well, they’re French, it wouldn’t be surprising…

Portugal seems to have regained strengths and beat the poor North Koreans 7:0 and that on a day when the North Korean TV broadcast a football game live for the first time in history! What a pity… Brazil won both matches but the performance was far from brilliant, similar situation with Spain, I bet they’d win 3:0 against Honduras in their second game (after losing (!) against Switzerland) but they disappointed my hopes and only won 2:0 after wasting so many good chances!

Germany started off excellently! And then there was last Friday, the game against Serbia. I was rather sure Germany was going to win and I wanted them to win but I had a dream two days before the game that they’d lose 0:2 so just out of spite I predicted this result in our little betting game. And they lost! My friends blamed for ‘cursing’ the match and I was just curious why the heck if I already dream of a (bad) result it cannot be really precise?

So tonight’s the night! The deciding game Germany vs. Ghana. Very exciting and everyone’s here really nervous. Fortunately I didn’t have any dream predictions that could curse the game so I hope they’ll just win easily!

By the way, sorry for writing so much about football recently instead of other language and culture issues but it’s just really big here (part of the culture, if you want). If you miss the language part I can recommend another Football (soccer) vocabulary quiz! Enjoy waka waka!