Wow! feasted my eyes on some glorious football. I loved watching every single game of the WC. This time it was special for me – got to watch it with my son Genesh who because of WC saw how beautiful the game really is!
Wanted Messi to score, but never happened. Well he’ll have his time in the next WC. Also wanted to see Argentina win it all, but to be honest they didn’t have the best team -defensively speaking, they -lack of a better word- sucked!. Spain had the best I’d say and they deserved to win it all. Uruguay was the second best team in my opinion. Forlan was my hero this time around – the only man to do real bananas with the Jubalani ball 
USA – yes! We have improved a lot. And we didn’t have world-famous coaches or players, but had an extremely strong team. We need to grow talent here by bringing in big players and increasing the viewership- the induction of Thierry Henry into Red Bulls(they suck judging by the game they played with Hotspurs week before last) is a good thing.
Anyhow…I miss the World cup days! Waking up to the buzz of vuvuzelas (I ordered one in for the finals ) was something. I like games between countries rather than games between clubs. So I am waiting patiently for the Olympics soccer and the European championships – the fillers between world cups. Maybe I will go to Brazil and watch the WC in 2014. Let me work on my Portuguese in the meantime..where is that Rosetta stone thingie I bought?
August 3, 2010 at 1:47 pm
I live in Cape Town and I really really really miss the WorldCup… ahhh…
Walking through the Parade in CT brings back memeories cos that’s where the CT Fifa Fanfest was situated during the WC. Now it’s all gone
Exciting times.
August 5, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Yes you folks will feel it the most. For distant viewers like me, it was one of those big events on TV -and even then I felt extremely sad on the last day. So can imagine the feeling you folks have for at least another one year. It usually is a generational event for a citizen of a country where the WC is hosted(you probably might see it return to SA when you are very old:).
I was very happy to see the state of SA after apartheid. At least from my POV, it seemed to be growing up well. It could be Zuma projecting the best of SA to the world, but it worked well. Democracy is alive and well is the impression I got. On-the-ground-facts could be different