the fever.. continues..

I'm getting very excited about the World Cup. To tell you the truth, everybody is who doesn't live in North America. Americans have a vague handle on the notion that the Football ( not soccer) World Cup is a big deal across most of the the globe, but they don't fully appreciate the significance. Their main exposure to the event is the coverage that their admittedly competent football team gets, so and as a result people here think it's a sporting event. This is nonsense, of course, since the World Cup has absolutely nothing to do with football.

For just a few weeks every four years, it becomes perfectly acceptable to be as blatantly prejudiced as one likes, with absolutely no factual justification. In capital cities around the globe, one is almost expected to air the sort of views that at any other time would have you locked up. What makes these events particularly galling is the crowd. GOOALLLLLLLLL!!!! However, it is quite disappointing to see no such response from this side of the world.

On the other note, Weekend was VERY exciting. One Sunday, the weather was BEAUTIFUL. FINNAALLLYYY got to see the Sun almost after a week. Prasanna and I went to watch the Red Sox game yesterday. This game was wayyyy too slow compare to the football. The ambience was GREAT. One of Prasanna’s colleagues managed to give us 2 box tickets and we had the honor of enjoying the food and drinks while watching the game at the same time. To make the event even more historical, Red Sox won the game! GO Ortiz..

World cup is all about Victory and Loss. I just finished watching the game JAPAN Vs AUSTRALIA. JAPAN was doing so well… until the last ten minutes. The last few minutes, rather than being very exciting ended up being very very disappointing for Japan and myself. The Socceroos came from behind to stun the Blue Samurai with three goals in the last 10 minutes.

Peep! Peep! Peep! The Egyptian referee blows his shiny whistle and the Australians celebrate a fine victory.

For Japan, it is a loss...

I really don’t know about Japan now. The team must now pick themselves up and be fired up against Croatia. And after that it’s Brazil.

I was really thrilled to see the Japanese team almost after a year. I have been a great fan of NAKATA and ONO. They played well, only had they continued like they had in the first half, they might really have won the game against the Aussies.

The next game is US Vs Czech. I am not too keen on watching this one. I think the one with Italy and Ghana will be the exciting one. So far the best game has been the one with Trinidad & Tobago Vs Sweden. It was really really exciting one. It was amazing, how Trinidad, despite loosing one team member with the red card, still prevented the Swedes from scoring a GOAL! It really was a Good game.

I still cannot get over the fact that JAPAN actually lost the game today!