Likely the best game I've seen
Jun. 25th, 2008 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebookpileIf you have two hours to spare tonight and you haven't already watched it, I highly recommend the replay of the Germany-Turkey semi-final match (for those in Ontario, the replay is on Rogers Sportsnet at 8pm). That was quite possibly the best football match that I have ever seen (minus the periodic signal blackouts caused by lighting strikes in Basel, where the game was played).
Lots of goals (final score: 3-2, with a last minute winner) and the crossbar was hit numerous times.
Not to mention the fact that someone forgot to tell Turkey that they were supposed to be the underdogs, and that their coach forgot to tell them to dive whenever they got clipped by an opponent (none of this rolling around on the ground - I wish all teams played like Turkey did today! If they got clipped, they stumbled up and tried to keep chasing the ball.)
If diving and ultra-boring defensive teams (*cough* Italy) were removed from football, this is what it would look like. The beautiful game.
Lots of goals (final score: 3-2, with a last minute winner) and the crossbar was hit numerous times.
Not to mention the fact that someone forgot to tell Turkey that they were supposed to be the underdogs, and that their coach forgot to tell them to dive whenever they got clipped by an opponent (none of this rolling around on the ground - I wish all teams played like Turkey did today! If they got clipped, they stumbled up and tried to keep chasing the ball.)
If diving and ultra-boring defensive teams (*cough* Italy) were removed from football, this is what it would look like. The beautiful game.