The world cup has ended for around 5 days but due to the loads of hw and test i had this week i did not have the time to post my thoughts abt it.
SPAIN are world champions ! i would say it wasn't a surprise looking at the huge amount of talent the spain squad has. U guys just look at the spain squad bench. Players like cesc fabregas, fernando torres, lorente, marchena have to sit on the bench and watch their teammates play. This already shows the quality of the spain squad. I would say their squad is the best in the world at the moment. They have david villa and torres who are world class players making their front line. They have the BEST MIDFIELD in the world having the likes of players like xavi, iniesta, busquets, alonso, silva, fabregas. Regarding their defence, it is evident from the small amount of goals spain had conceded. what can other teams do to break their defence when they have sergio ramos, pique, puyol and capdevila who are like 4 rocks sitting at their backline. Their last man is even one of the world's best goal keeper. His name is Iker Casillas. The guy who made the save against arjen robben in the finals. I would say this is one of the best world cup squads ever. Spain would be rmb for their smooth and fast flowing attacking football. I like them as they play a similar style of football as arsenal. Possession football. Their players have fantastic technique, which enables them to pass the ball around like it is as easy as primary school maths.
I also enjoyed this world cup because it wasn dominated by the usual teams and football stars The defending champions Italy and runner up France were kik out early in the competition. Brazil, England, Portugal and Argentina also followed their footsteps. Through this competition i saw a huge improvement in the standards of Asian football with Korea and Japan both making it to the knock out stages. I also saw many emerging young football talents with most of them coming from Germany. Germany showcast their bright future by sending an extremely young and inexperienced side to this world cup. They did not disgrace their country as they saw off australia, argentina, england and uraguay in style scoring at 4 goals in 3 of those matches and 3 goals against uraguay. Their counter-attacking football was superb and entertaining catching teams like england and argentina off guard.
Something that shocked me was that none of the premier league stars or spanish stars from europe impressed in this world cup. Players like rooney, lampard, gerrard, torres, fabregas (other than the assist in the world cup final ), van persie, drogba......all did not impress. Players like cristiano ronaldo and messi also did not make much of an impact. This shows that european countries can no longer dominate world football as south american countries and african countries are all on the rise. This will only be good for the development of world football as more stars and countries impress :D
questions to ponder for world cup :
1. should video technology be added into football after the many mistakes referees have committed in the past few seasons and this world cup? ( england goal ruled out )
2. Shld countries start to adopt policies similar to arsenal by developing and trusting their youngsters more? Recently some news reported england are discussing on whether to adopt wenger's policy regarding youngsters. As we can see through this world cup countries like Germany and Ghana who sent out a young squad were quite successful in this world cup.
*Thomas Muller from Germany gets the Golden Boot with 5 goals. He also gets the young player of the tournament.
*Diego Forlan is awarded the Golden Ball (best player) In 2006, it was Zinedine Zidane who grabbed the award.
*145 goals were scored in 64 games.
Updated FIFA rankings: Spain are number 1, Holland are second, 3. Brazil, 4. Germany, 5. Argentina, Uruguay move up ten places to 6th, 7. England, Italy drop to 11th, and France drop to 21st.
So far in the transfer window, Arsenal have brought in two new faces. 1. Marouane Chamakh (striker)- free transfer from bordeux 2. Laurent Koscielny (central defender )- transfer fee of around 10million. Wenger has stated that he will wave his magic wand again and bring in at least one more new face to add to the current defensive line. I hope it will a goal keeper with mark schwarzer( one of the best goal keepers in epl helping fulham last season to get into europa league finals ) stating his interest to come to Arsenal.
Arsenal will start their preseason friendlies this coming saturday going to barnet fc. Hope to see the two new players making their debut and chamakh to score his first goal for the club :D
Coming to the end of the week le. Had chinese test and maths test today. Both okok la but i am quite satisfied with myself having put in so much hard work this few days to prepare for the tests. So even if the results are not really gd i won feel bad :D today for c lit had to evaluate two poems. I really love one of the poems let me share it with you guys.
《 一棵开花的树 》
如何让我遇见你
在这最美丽的时刻
为这
我已在佛前求了五百年
求佛让我们结一段尘缘
佛于是把我化做一棵树
长在你必经的路旁
阳光下
慎重地开满了花
朵朵都是我前世的盼望
当你走近
请你细听
那颤抖的叶
是我等待的热情
而当你终于无视地走过
在你身后落了一地的
朋友啊
那不是花瓣
那是我凋零的心
这首诗当真是堪称绝妙。 它把爱情的伟大之处和现实无限的残酷表现得如鱼得水。爱情真的是让人又爱又恨之。它有时候能带给你无限的希望和力量，但它可以在一瞬间给你致命的一击，使你一蹶不振，失掉所有信心..........
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