Update [2010-7-2 17:30:1 by BooMan]: Okay, so don’t tell me that wasn’t the craziest, most dramatic, and crushing end of a World Cup match evah!! Uruguay on penalty kicks!!
Netherlands or Brazil? I like both teams, but I’m pulling for Orange. Brazil is the favorite and they’re hosting the Cup in 2014, so they’ll probably win it then. After America, England, Italy were eliminated early, my team now is Germany (I’m a German/English/Northern Italy mutt, and my son is even more German). But they don’t play until tomorrow.
The afternoon game features Uruguay and Ghana. Either team would be a feel-good story in the Semis. Uruguay hosted and won the first World Cup in 1930 and then upset Brazil (in Brazil) in the 1950 Cup. But they haven’t done too much since then. They did reach the semis in 1954 and 1970, but they’ve been dry since then. It would be nice to see them reestablish themselves as a major power.
And Ghana is the only remaining African team in an African World Cup. No African team has even reached the semis, so a Ghanan victory would be the definition of a feel-good story and really excite a whole continent. I don’t give either team much chance of beating either Brazil or Holland to get to the finals, but you never know.
Who are you pulling for?
