FIFA World Cup 2010..

Here we are on the day of the finals.. Whatever may happen today.. History will be created.. It will be a first for both the countries and the first time a European champion will be crowned outside their own continent..Both the countries will be ranked one and two depending on the results pushing Brazil down to 3rd.. This past one month i was fully busy following the matches and it even pushed Wimbledon to the background(Tennis kinda being my favourite sport)..

Here are some of the important moments of this world cup till now.. Today's match will create more such moments for sure, with the kind of players involved.. Will add those later after the match.. Before starting that i was so much impressed by the no nonsense style of play by Uruguay and especially by Forlan.. Before this world cup i didn't know who was Forlan, but after seeing him play and his curling free kicks, i could not help but remember two great curlers of the ball, Beckham and Ronaldinho.. He is surely my man of the World cup..

Maradonna - What can anyone say about this over reacting guy.. he is so full of himself or should i say he never believed in his team, that even before the WC kicked off he gave a statement saying that he will run naked if Argentina win the cup..

Italy and France - I kind of predicted that these two teams have no chance of reaching the knock-out stages of this WC and it came true..

England - Here is one team which was so much hyped by the British media.. It is not that they did not have substance, but they were not able to bring it on to the field.. One single mistake by Robert Green which many were blaming on Jabulani made sure that they did not top the group, and missed a relatively easier path to semi-finals. Not that they would have reached semis that way, but it was way easier than facing germany in the pre-quarters..

It is the first time that a host nation did not reach the knock out stages of WC and only one out of 6 African teams reached the Knock out stage..

When the 1st round of games finished, everyone started saying that South American teams are going to dominate and it will be a Brazil - Argentina finals.. But in the end the top 3 places are occupied by European teams with Uruguay being the only saving grace..

The top 3 players this season according to club form namely Messi, Ronaldo, Rooney were not able to carry their club form to their country scoring just one goal in between them..

There were too many refereeing errors which ultimately cost the match for some teams,
The first one being the England - German match, which was completely ridiculous with the ball falling 2 yards inside the goal line.. The match might have been completely different..

One more being the first goal of Argentina - Mexico match. The match was evenly poised till that time, when Tevez who was completely offside scored the first one..

There were many more like Kaka's red card, Fabiabo's double hand ball..

Argentina got their asses whooped by Young Germans in the Quarters by a 4 - nil margin..

Robben proved that just by diving and creating panic in the opposition, better teams can be beaten.. Brazil were obviously the better team on that day buy got beaten 2 - 1 due to a red card..

Suarez - This guy is claiming his hand to be the new hand of god.. Actually that is true, if not for him they never would have reached the semis.. He did the job of the goalie during the last kick of the match.. He was red carded and a penalty was given to Ghana. But Gyan was not able to convert it and Ghana lost it in shoot out..

The two losing semi finalists were missing an important player each in the semis.. Suarez for Uruguay and Mueller for Germany.. They could have made a lot of difference to the outcome as the matches were pretty much evenly fought even without them..

Forlan ended his world cup with a curling free kick which just caught the crossbar in the third place play off..

It maybe because of Jabulani or maybe the quality of national football just doesn't match the club football.. But too many spot kicks were missed, too many one on one situations squandered, too many goal keeping errors and too many shots hitting the crossbar..

I did not watch all 12 am start matches so i might have missed many things.. But these are the things which mattered the most.. Hope the finals will be a cracker of a match..

How could i forget octopus paul whose predictions were all true.. it ll be 100% if Spain wins today..

Signing off,
A Jobless Person