Tuesday, June 27, 2006
It's over ......
This wasn't a football match. Could better be called as a 'card' game.
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Holland - Portugal.
During the match my sun and I argued. I found the Portugese playing more 'clever'. That's also part of the game and in that sense they deserved to win.
As all the country's involved we also had fun the last two years during the qualifying matches. Even the first part of the tournament was great. Great party's everywhere with people dressed in orange (our queen comes from the 'House of Orange').
The above picture shows referee Ivanov who showed so many yellow/red cards and at the right our goalkeeper Edwin vd Sar who achieved a record of 115 caps (when I understand well).
Still 8 country's left I believe. So another 7 will be very disappointed this/next week..
Oh well there are more important things in the world than football.
There was a comment from, I believe, an American about this 'silly soccer'. American football is better he says. Sorry, sorry. Lack of knowledge.
Football is called that way because it is played with .... a ball and played with ....., you guessed, foot/feet.
American football on the other hand is played with something one cannot seriously call it a ball and mostly ...... with hands. Only sometimes there's a drop kick.
Football is based on improvisation/intelligence/artistics/skills and so on. Take Barcelona's Ronaldino as an example.
In American football it is quite different. The coach intructs the quarterback, he tells another player what he has to do. Then 15 seconds great violence : they win 15 yards and the game is stopped again. Next instructions ....
Football is played all over the world. That's why this is called the World championship football.
American footbal is just a local sport. We have here eg korfball and filjerleppen. We are champion in those sports .... You may be champion in your own local sport, I don't mind ... :-)
As all the country's involved we also had fun the last two years during the qualifying matches. Even the first part of the tournament was great. Great party's everywhere with people dressed in orange (our queen comes from the 'House of Orange').
The above picture shows referee Ivanov who showed so many yellow/red cards and at the right our goalkeeper Edwin vd Sar who achieved a record of 115 caps (when I understand well).Still 8 country's left I believe. So another 7 will be very disappointed this/next week..
Oh well there are more important things in the world than football.
There was a comment from, I believe, an American about this 'silly soccer'. American football is better he says. Sorry, sorry. Lack of knowledge.
Football is called that way because it is played with .... a ball and played with ....., you guessed, foot/feet.
American football on the other hand is played with something one cannot seriously call it a ball and mostly ...... with hands. Only sometimes there's a drop kick.
Football is based on improvisation/intelligence/artistics/skills and so on. Take Barcelona's Ronaldino as an example.
In American football it is quite different. The coach intructs the quarterback, he tells another player what he has to do. Then 15 seconds great violence : they win 15 yards and the game is stopped again. Next instructions ....
Football is played all over the world. That's why this is called the World championship football.
American footbal is just a local sport. We have here eg korfball and filjerleppen. We are champion in those sports .... You may be champion in your own local sport, I don't mind ... :-)
