Quiet Thoughts around the Football World Cup (after the euphoria)

• God bless English people for inventing football!!!
• Such a great party: every country showing proudly their own way of doing things, their different approaches to the game itself, to the way fans lively behave...but sharing it together.
• Africa. Surprising, brilliant. African players getting off the buses and entering the ground, amazing! The farewell ceremony, a colourful joy to behold.
• In the good days of prosperity many people don’t understand what can be considered a huge squandering. In these hard days it is good to see that there is a strong industry working and making money and creating jobs around the world, and specially helping us to forget a bit all the dark thoughts around the crisis.
• I hope it will be considered once and for all outdated the statement “women don’t like football”
• Spain proved something hard to believe in a world of great “Egos” (Proffesional football): trusting your mates and working as a team makes much more than the plain addition of individuals. It is easy for children or for less talented players, eh? But it is astonishing if you consider the names involved and their quality: Cesc in the bench, the goalkeepers...
• As for the goalkeepers: Pepe Reina running along the sideline to embrace Casillas when he saved the penalty to Paraguay. It was moving: his only chance to play would have been an injury or a bad performance from Casillas; but he prefers to back and cheers him up, standing by him against the attack some papers were making on him. Touching.
• Vicente del Bosque was not ellegant enough for the new project Florentino was launching for Real Madrid, and was sent off after winning the national league and the Champions League. Florentino still thinks ellegance can be shown in the way men wear suits, whoever with eyes on their face can compare del Bosque’s savoir-faire and good manners with some other managers that Florentino has contracted...Specially because of their ellegant behaviour, beyond any doubt...
• For the next time, if they only could solve the matches a bit earlier and with some more goals, for goodness sake! Too much suffering for me...
• Seedling for the future... http://barbadasbase.blogspot.com/2010/01/el-alevin-femenino-del-atletico-de.html
• Such a great month we lived...How hard getting back to normal, let’s go to South Africa again... Great being champions in Nelson Mandela’s country and presence...Great, Great!!!