11 June to 11 July next
hundreds of millions of inhabitants of this planet
will have a unique obsession for the head,
the World Cup, organized by South Africa.
it worth it asks who,
looking at the odds,
notes that the favorites are the same as always?
this interest it really make sense "universal"?
For Italian fans, will be a month in which no special forms of neurosis, as the blue touches in the role of fate, never too welcome in these parts, the reigning champions. That is too much responsibility, too many expectations to manage. All because, in Berlin, 2006, by David Trezeguet hit the crossbar in the final on penalties, gave Marcello Lippi to the national title contention in the final to France. Cup that has propelled Italy to second place as before: four wins, behind the five of Brazil. That means two teams split the middle of the World Cup so far went to the scene.
To see if you can get even with the Verdeoro, Lippi, who knows Italians as his pockets, blue is back on the bench just for the adventure of Johannesburg, after leaving the poor Roberto Donadoni the thankless task of guiding a team scaricatasi used as a pile up in the quarter-finals of the last European championships. Where the knockout came once again from the spot of the eleven meters, but this time in favor of the Spaniards, then graduated continental champions.
Top Just ten
Spain is one of the favorite teams in this edition of the world. Because he's very hungry, having never even reached the final, and because it has very strong players, beginning with Torres and Xabi Alonso, who have already taken to the top of the ranking of FIFA.
eyes then this top ten. Where, behind the La Roja, we find the usual order of Brazilian Kaka and Pato, un'Olanda reborn on wings of rousing Wesley Sneijder, the unknown, perhaps even on the shoulders of Italy Totti, Germany faces a new striker next to Klose, Portugal from a too long labeled a genius in spite of the Great Unfinished radiated by Cristiano Ronaldo, a France aggrappatasi faithless little arms to Henry in the play-off with Ireland, the cross and delight of an England coach Fabio Capello on the bench un'Argentina entrusted to moonlight Diego Armando Maradona, and Greece that still vivacchia annuity after the sensational European title in 2004. The World Cup have all ten South Africans, giving the distinct impression that is far from a surprise come the evening of 11 July when, in front of a Brazil-Spain final, no one would have to wonder that. The previous talk too clear: the World in eighty eyes are bulging only a little in front of Uruguay, who in 1950 took home the second cup in its history, going to beat Brazil at the Maracana. In any case, the Uruguayans are part of a small aristocracy that has so far divided the world sixteen out of eighteen, including the three cups in the pile raised by Germany, and the two won by Argentina.
jarring image
If you think that since 1930 only Britain and France have managed to rip a title to the head (but strictly in their own home) to the other five, the image of a World Cup for a few elected is beautiful completed. And it is a feeling that a little bit at odds with the image of a truly global sport where football just aspirations, being by far the most popular team game and practiced on Earth. Asphyxiation becomes heavier considering how, among the thirty-two entered the tournament in South Africa, there is only one national debut: Slovakia, led from ace Marek Hamsik of Napoli twenty-two. Just Slovakia is among the opponents in the group of Italy, along with Paraguay and New Zealand looked forward to the blues the same easy access to the knockout stage that the lottery has provided for all the other favorites. Indeed, knowing that if they qualify for group two, on paper only Brazil and Portugal co-exist with a third wheel as bulky Côte d'Ivoire Didier Drogba, while North Korea would only make their appearance. In the other group esplanade road for Spain (against Switzerland, Chile and Honduras), the Netherlands (which affect Denmark, Japan and Cameroon), for Germany (against Serbia, Australia and Ghana) and Argentina ( combined with Nigeria, Greece and South Korea). If you can never speak of lanes for England and the United States, raffled along with Algeria and Slovenia, and some unknown factor remains hanging from the group A, where the hosts of South Africa could benefit from the usual safeguards against arbitration France, Mexico and Uruguay.
forecasts are too forced for the most-watched sporting event ever. But we are sure you do the good of football jerseys so tight between the regiment and, in some sense preordained, the entire schedule of the finals? Basically, it was still playing the first world history of the continent of poverty and hunger, where wars, drought and epidemics interrelated since time immemorial, the catalog of the saddest tragedies. The occasion seemed the best way to send a few messages of strength, perhaps extending to the lot of forty-eight teams, or planning a final in two phases, with a first block of games designed to give opponents more free-range and short stories to the group of the usual notes. He preferred to look the other way, taking refuge behind the inviolability of the regulations, be overcome only if it shared long reform process. If at the end we prefer to give the floodgates to the book of unfulfilled dreams, instead of making predictions in the most mathematically possible, it is because love the game of football means to entrust in our message of hope to run after that ball to which all the world's children , from the most exclusive college English in the most deprived slums of Brazilian cities. Who sees the football like that, sorry as hell without first African World Burkina Faso is a plus, but also a Gabon, a Vietnam, a Guatemala, a Sudan Bhutan or taken from the lists of less fortunate countries of the globe. From those first few games of Montevideo 1930, it took eighty years to get to Johannesburg 2010. A very long wait, which could be used better.
Stefano Ferro
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