Friday, June 18, 2010

World Cup Scandal

At our place, most of us have our hopes for the USA in the football World Cup. Mum, April, and Calvin come from America, and I am half American myself. Dad says he can also hope for the USA, now that neither Norway (where he comes from), Sweden, nor Belgium (where his father comes from) have qualified for the World Cup.

The USA played Slovenia this afternoon. While Slovenia led by 2-0, the USA came back and made a tie. Late in the game, the USA scored a third goal, but the referee had already blown his whistle for off side. We doubt very much that the American really was off side. If he was, it was a very close call, to close to tell. It is a scandal that the goal did not count. The game thus ended 2-2. We now have to hope the USA will beat Algeria in the next game.

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