Ke Nako - Its Time!

The biggest thing that happened in the last 4 years is here! Actually in South Africa.

The teams are in the country. The warm-up friendlies are over. There have been injuries to a lot of the top players. And now the Kick-off Celebration Concert is going on at Johannesburg as I write this post, and is being streamed live on youtube.

 My favorites are definitely the men in yellow and blue. I wasn't following soccer before I was 7 years old ('94 world cup). And once I did, Brazil have won 2 of 4 world cups and finished runners-up once. Since the last world cup they've won the Copa America(2007) and the FIFA Confederations Cup(2009).

This year the Brazilians are placed in group G, arguably the group of death this time, along with Portugal, Ivory Coast and North Korea.(BRB...)

(Back from a short break...how could I have missed shakira's hips that dont lie being streamed live from the Johannesburg)

Alright, here are the 8 groups:

So which captain is going to lay his hands on the most beautiful trophy on the 11th of July? Will Brazil, Italy and Germany continue the World Cup domination, or will other favorites Spain, Netherlands or even the English triumph? Are we gonna witness any upsets this year?

We will know only when the Jabulani rolls!!
 

PS: Its been a long time since my last post and lot of things had been happening since. I resigned at Amdocs and decided to join ZS Associates. Will miss the guys at Amdocs. But Im not losing any friends, I;m just making more when I join another office. My heads at ZS, please don't take it in a negative sense.;)

World Cup '07...was it all a nightmare?!!

'Worst ever' dats hw i wud describe the 2007 cricket world
cup in two words....not only b'coz of the upsets,early exits
of 2 asian giants(?)....bcoz of the way it was conducted...bcoz of
d sad demise of Bob Woolmer...and 4 many other
reasons...im sure many wudn't disagree...
And for me the worst match of them all was the world cup final...never seen such a match...was awake til 4.45 am in the mornin only to watch that
match...of course the first half was entertainin... thanx to gilchrist...and the first half of the lankan innings was also not bad...
but the rain and horrible umpiring just spoilt the whole game...
the sight of the lankans playin in bad light was simply ridiculous...the place was
so dark that when the umpires asked the sri lankan batsmen to come back and
play the remainin few overs(when play was stopped coz of bad light),jayawardene went
to ponting and asked him to use slow bowlers for the last 3 overs...the the spectators'
cameras cud be seen flashin in the dark...anyone who has seen dat match wud hope
never to see a match like dat again...
But there is no doubt dat the best two teams had reached d final...and the best had
taken home the cup...the Aussies wer far bettr than any other team in the tourney...
i recently happnd to read an article about worlcup in The Indian Express...the author had
given a tip to make the next world cup more interestin...Include a 17th team in the
tournament(maybe uae or namibia)...give the cup to the aussies durin the openin
ceremony and send them home and continue wid the tournament with the remaining
16 teams for a smaller cup...
Might be effective... :)...wat do u think?