The World Cup pop-up stores are open in Miami International Airport. The qualifying teams are going through final preparations in exhibition matches, a few in Miami.
There is nothing like this competition in the world of sports. One of its defining features is the independent, privately controlled FIFA: the organizing entity that operates behind the lushest wall of secrecy in professional sports. What the World Cup means is that every four years, lovers of soccer/football put away their unhappiness with FIFA's insular leadership and celebrate.
Maybe that's a little harsh, or is it?
There are other questions to be answered in the competition that begins scarcely a week from now; chiefly, will Argentina and the best player in the world, Lionel Messi, finally rise above national psychological mysteries to be among the final four?
Will another player emerge as the game's next great star?
Will Brazilians suspend street demonstrations long enough to welcome the beautiful game and the world's attention, or, will they use the world's attention to showcase anger at their government?
And last but not least, the best player in the world not to participate in the World Cup -- Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovich: will he accept Brazil's invitation to be their guest? Ibrahimovich, a superstar to be sure, said, after his nation was unexpectedly eliminated from the competition: 'The World Cup is not worth watching without Zlatan."
And: the latest odds:
There is nothing like this competition in the world of sports. One of its defining features is the independent, privately controlled FIFA: the organizing entity that operates behind the lushest wall of secrecy in professional sports. What the World Cup means is that every four years, lovers of soccer/football put away their unhappiness with FIFA's insular leadership and celebrate.
Maybe that's a little harsh, or is it?
There are other questions to be answered in the competition that begins scarcely a week from now; chiefly, will Argentina and the best player in the world, Lionel Messi, finally rise above national psychological mysteries to be among the final four?
Will another player emerge as the game's next great star?
Will Brazilians suspend street demonstrations long enough to welcome the beautiful game and the world's attention, or, will they use the world's attention to showcase anger at their government?
And last but not least, the best player in the world not to participate in the World Cup -- Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovich: will he accept Brazil's invitation to be their guest? Ibrahimovich, a superstar to be sure, said, after his nation was unexpectedly eliminated from the competition: 'The World Cup is not worth watching without Zlatan."
And: the latest odds:
5 comments:
Who the hell came up with these odds?....
Who the hell came up with these odds?....
Don't care basketball rules.
Did you know that Lebron got a leg cramp and couldn't walk? The air conditioning didn't work in that San Antonio rat-hole stadium. The Heat had to play in a super heated arena and all the heat players were flopping around with ice around their necks. Not fair. That is news, real sports news not this soccer fluff.
Who cares about any of this crap?
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