Friday, 6 July 2012
Spanish Foot-Ball Win
They defied their critics. The Germans told them that their foot-ball was boring but they beat them. The Dutch told them that their foot-ball lacked imagination but they beat them; the English told them that they had a rotten midfielder but they were beaten too. the Spanish have won not only the World Cup but they have also won the European Cup twice. That has never been accomplished before in the history of foot-ball, three times champions and they celebrated it in great style. Their foot-ball team came back victorious from Kiev after having beaten the Italians 4 - 0. It was quite a sensational win.
At their arrival they were greeted with great enthusiasm and the team went to present the cup to their King first and then, the team boarded an open decker bus to greet their public, culminating at the Cibeles fountain where a wonderful welcome party awaited them. Popular singers belted their songs and nearly everyone was dressed in the red & yellow -colours of their flag. People were singing, cheering and dancing until the early hours of the morning culminating in fire-works. The party lasted two days! The first was, the day when they won and the second one the coming home party.
The memory of this historical win made everyone so cheerful it should be bottled in a spray can. The Spanish team were humble in their win, saying that it was all worth it
to bring so many smiles in people's faces and it was infectious as I felt very happy to see all this too.
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Hi Maria
I am glad the Spanish won, given that it couldn’t be England. I don’t think they are boring. They haven’t got quite the flair of Brazil, but make no mistake, it takes a great deal of skill to play the way the Spanish do.
There is a chance that they could retain the World Cup in two years’ time. They are one of the best international teams to ever play, and I cxongratulate them.
Yes, they are for the first time in the history of Foot-ball World Cup winners and twice winners of the European Championship. They have made history and are now a living legend. They won with so much ease it was incredible and when they came home tired as they must have been they had to stay until midnight for the party that was organize in front of the Cibeles Fountain. They will retain the World Cup there is no one at the moment who can challenge them.
We had better start doing some scouting and looking for talented boys at schools, since Rooney is right now the best we have and apart from him there isn't anyone in the British team that quite cuts it for me. We haven't got a team to speak of.
Yes, I don't know what the problem is. You could argue that the amount of money flooding the game is having a bad influence, but the Spanish footballers are paid colossal sums and they still produce the goods.
I think there is more enthusiam for foot-ball in Spain than there is here in the U.K.
Most people in the U.K. are doing something else, so the players do not have the same level of support that is seen in Spain; over there, all the streets are empty on Sundays as everyone is watching the foot-ball either on T.V. or at the stadium watching it live or they are listening it on the radio. I have seen the taxi drivers following every comment of foot-ball match in the radio. As a nation they are more enthusiastic about foot-ball than we are, so the players are very motivated to do very well, since being a foot-ball star is equal to being a famous singer or a famous actor or bull-fighter. I boil it down to the importance they give to football.
Yes, it might be that a bigger percentage of Spanish boys want to play the game, than here in the UK.
I don't know, it's just that when I think back to Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore, the players today aren't just less skillful, they also seem smaller people somehow. Smaller characters.
Do you know how foot-ball arrived into Spain? When the English bought the Rio Tinto mines. The British miners liked to play foot-ball in their spare time and as they were short of men to play, they would ask the onlookers from the area to join in, to make the numbers and it was there where the first Foot-ball Association in Spain was born. Who would have thought that something so simple, would over the years turn into a national craze?
About the players, I know what you mean, they lack stature in every way. Some are more interested in being fashion models than foot-ball players. Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore two English gentlemen, those were really the great days !
I didn’t know that about the mines. Yes it’s amazing how football has caught on, as compared to, say, cricket which is still fairly limited to a handful of countries. That might imply that cricket is somehow more English than football, and so isn’t as popular internationally. Football is mega huge now, and of course there are ridiculous financial rewards for the players, but it is a game where boys from very poor backgrounds can become millionaires, and it’s a better escape route for working-class boys than boxing.
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