Quarter Finals

The quarter finals of the World Cup started today. I am not really interested anymore, since the teams I was hoping for are all out in previous rounds. Daniel is interested, nevertheless. He says that you can always have a favourite in any game.

Today, Daniel hoped that the Netherlands would beat Brazil. This was in part because it would mean a European country in semi final, in part because he never hopes Brazil will make it. In football, Daniel believes it is silly to have a tradition like Brazil, where the players never use their real names, but nick names. He also thinks it is better if European teams would be more dominant than the South Ameican football giant Brazil, which is the contry that has won the most gold medals of the World Cups. Fortunately for Daniel, the Netherlands won by 2-1.

Daniel also hoped that Uruguay would beat Ghana. Uruguay is his favourite among South American classical football teams, because they were once great, winning gold in 1930 and 1950, but has been an underdog the last couple of decades. Normally, Daniel want previous medalists to take all medals, he says previous World Cup medalists are the only true classical teams and they deserve to win more medals, and since there are already many teams that has taken at least one medal, there need not be any more. Ghana is not a previous medalist, as Uruguay. This game went on to penalties, where Uruguay finally won.

I am happy for Daniel. He may have some points, too, but I actually do not care much. I just write a lot about this because the TV has shown football and Daniel has talked football. Well, perhaps there will be equally much to say about the other quarter finals, which are played tomorrow.