The World Cup is well underway and my husband and I have been watching as many games as possible. The group stage where teams battle it out to get into the knock-out stage is coming to an end and it has been very interesting to see how the ‘weaker’ clubs are no longer so weak. By that I mean, the Europeans have always had this football supremacy attitude, looking down from their trophy-filled pedestals at the African, Asian, smaller South American teams (this excludes Argentina and Brazil, of course), and the United States. However, this year, more than ever, the levels seem to be evening out and this makes the matches all the more exciting. England is doing terribly at the moment, Italy is disappointing to say the least, France has been eliminated in the first round, and Spain was just plain sad. Whereas, the United States are playing really well, as are the teams from the Ivory Coast, Mexico, and Uruguay. I think this World Cup will have some interesting surprises.
Today, Italy play against New Zealand and Brazil battle the Ivory Coast. On paper, Italy and Brazil should win but….you never know. And that is the beauty of soccer.
Today France is still there….