Sunday, July 09, 2006
The Cup Ends Tonight
amazing how i managed to go through an entire world cup month without so much as a mention of football in this blog..a month when even people who know nuts about football will talk football, play football, watch football, bet football, blog football..
well, the fact is when it comes to football for me, first and foremost, i'm a Liverpool man.
the only international side i'll go crazy about is our Malaysian team when we finally make it to the world cup..now that'll be the day, won't it..
till that happens (hope it happens in my lifetime), i'll never really get that excited about the world cup as a true football fan should be..
anyway, the team i was supporting through this finals, Espana, has already been kicked out early in the 2nd round despite a convincing group stage qualification (as usual). the team that sent them packing, Les Bleus, is in the final tonight so i hope they get a footballing lesson from the Azzurri later on.
and i'll be rooting for Andrea Pirlo later.
one of my favourite freekick takers..ever. alongside Juninho Pernambucano.
Pirlo plays deep in midfield, his style of play alot like Liverpool's very own Xabi Alonso (who totally rocked before spain got KO)..
he's a defensive midfielder who relies on excellent reading of the game to intercept opponents' passes rather than head-on tackle them and then sprays passes all over to initiate his own team's attack..
one of his typically stunning freekicks:
World Cup Qualifier against Scotland
(he scored two freekicks in the same game!)
Goal against Ghana earlier on in this world cup:
how can you possibly not love that?
capable of stunning shots out of nowhere once in a while, another thing i like about him...his hair.
so cool, i want hair like this...wait, it gets better when he runs..
wohoo! forza pirlo, il trascinatore azzurro!
oh yea, and he's adorably short as well..which earned him the nickname Trilli Campanellino, which translates as Tinkerbell..
oh man, if looking at shoes makes eman gay, then what does this pirlo-obssession make me?
just..one...more...
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