I can't believe I haven't blogged about the world cup since all I do on FB is talk about the world cup.
June 13
: Germany vs Australia at 4.30am + No work tomorrow = Perfect comboJune 21:
Tujuh kosong (Malay for seven zero). What a shocker (Referring to the beating North Korea took from Portugal)
June 28:
Bye bye England. (Referring to the trashing of England by Germany 1-4)
June 28: Bring it on Argentina.
June 29: World cup updates, that's all I do. Geez, when did I become a soccer fan?
June 30
: Can't resist. PORTUGAL HAHAHAHAHHA. (referring to them losing out to Spain 0-1)
And I never talk about soccer. Never.
Every 4 years I wait for the World Cup, and then I rant about soccer as though it is the most important thing to me. =p
I love picking a team to support and then anticipating their victory (although none of the teams I've supported so far have gone on to win yet! *Brazilalwayswins*)
The Germans looked so close to being able to put on some sort of fight against Brazil with the Oliver Kahn/Michael Ballack combination in 2002 Japan/Korea. Ballack, of course, had to get suspended just before the final match.
France and the infamous Zidane headbutt in 2006 Germany lost out to Italy. *edit*
As for South Africa 2010, I'm on team Germany, again. Although Ballack is out due to injury, Lahm has done a commendable job so far. And Manuel Neuer is filling in some big Golden boots too.
The 'old' team couldn't beat Brazil, maybe the young team can.
With some experienced ''veterans' like Klose, Podolski, Schweinsteiger, Friedrich;

Miroslav Klose

Lukas Podolski

Bastian Schweinsteiger
As well as young players, Ozil, Muller.
This team might just be the right combination to take on Brazil (assuming they beat Netherland and Ghana/Uruguay).
Now the Germans just need to steamroll through the strong Argentinians like they did in the 2006 world cup.