Ahoy World Cuppers –
2010 will bring us the eighth World Cup champion, as two time winner Uruguay and three time winner Germany were knocked out of the competition. Spain has made it to its first ever final in an impressive 1-0 defeat of Germany on Wednesday. Uruguay managed to make a game of it Tuesday against a superior Dutch squad but ran out of clock in losing 3-2. It’s nice that the citizens of Spain or Netherlands will get to experience their first ever triumph on the biggest stage in sports, small consolation for the 99 of us who’s country’s run is over.
And in the pool, we have a winner. Paul Riley of the USA has guaranteed himself the crown regardless of who wins on Sunday. Congratulations Paul! Depending on the outcome of the next two games, there’s still some movement below the #1 spot as 12 of us still have a shot at some prize money.
Enjoy the last two games! Here’s the blog link à http://cingerblog.blogspot.com
Chris
P.S. Esteban sent me an interesting bit of World Cup trivia on the precedence for Suarez’s block. In 1978 Argentina had to beat both Poland and Peru to advance to the final. Against Poland, Argentina’s best player Mario Kempes both scored and made a diving save with his hands. Argentina stopped the penalty kick to advance and Kempes didn’t get carded at all. In the next game, Kempes scored two goals in beating Peru to advance to the final where he scored two more to beat Holland. As a result of this, FIFA changed the rules to make it an automatic red card for such an infringement. Esteban also reported that he had to listen to this game on the radio because his sister insisted on watching Little House on the Prairie :-).
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