Vaaaaaaaaaiii!!!!!!!!
Ok, post number 2!!! And this one has a more specific theme: the worldcup.Being in Brazil and ignoring the worldcup is just not possible. It is something extreeemely important in Brazil. And by that i just mean, it is the event we all wait for, and we dump all our patriotic feelings and hopes into the soccer players. And with that, we have a lot of very useless news about the players, that occupy a lot of the media space - it is our only focus, the only news we want to hear at night. The 10 correspondents in Germany telling us what the players ate, listened to on their i-pods, how much they ran, how much weight they have lost. There are some funny stories: like getting them and the reporters to pronoune the name of the city they are in (which noooo one could do, so they stopped a german police officer and asked. I understand their difficulty). But you also get a loooot of crap, like a diagram showing us the anatomy of a blister (Ronaldo had blisters. Ronaldo sneezes it becomes news).
The games so far have been mediocre. Not just Brazil's games - which yes, I have to say, have been from not so good to just sad (especially Ronaldo. Poor guy. But he has been playing horribly). Too few goals, the "magic" of the Brazillian team is yet to appear. Some foreign reporters in Brazil write "but you won!!! you should be happy". yes, true, we did win. But it was mediocre. And when you can be great, and you know you can be great, being happy for being mediocre doesn't make sense. It's just settling for something because you are too afraid or too lazy to be better, to try and achieve what you can. The fall may be bigger, but the joy is as well. So, still waiting for Brazil's big game, let's hope it comes soon.
The games so far have been mediocre. Not just Brazil's games - which yes, I have to say, have been from not so good to just sad (especially Ronaldo. Poor guy. But he has been playing horribly). Too few goals, the "magic" of the Brazillian team is yet to appear. Some foreign reporters in Brazil write "but you won!!! you should be happy". yes, true, we did win. But it was mediocre. And when you can be great, and you know you can be great, being happy for being mediocre doesn't make sense. It's just settling for something because you are too afraid or too lazy to be better, to try and achieve what you can. The fall may be bigger, but the joy is as well. So, still waiting for Brazil's big game, let's hope it comes soon.
But, continuing: the games have been ok. Of the games I saw, the exception was England x Sweden, which was fantastic. The only ugly thing about that game was Owen's injury (pooor guy!!), and Rooney's little girl tantrum when he was replaced, which was just ridiculous. (and just to make it clear: I will not mention Argentina here, under any circumstance. I don't care how much was the game. They are Argentina, and they have Maradona screaming on the stands. I will just ignore their games, since this is still my blog).
But anyway, we still hope Ronaldo will catch up and lose some weight, and that Ronaldinho will make a lot of goals, that Adriano will prove the italians wrong and that Robinho can show
us how good he can be, because we have seen him do it. And of course, we hope that we will win. It is more than hope actually, it is belief and faith. And I still believe. I believe simply because it would be so horrible if we lost, the hope of so many people would just be crushed, that it is too sad to happen. It just can't. They are so good!!! They just have to try a bit more, and not just try to win and go through to the next round, they have to really play. ''Joga Bonito'', as nike says. And besides, losing to Germany or Argentina is just not possible. So, go Brazil!!!!! We believe.
But anyway, we still hope Ronaldo will catch up and lose some weight, and that Ronaldinho will make a lot of goals, that Adriano will prove the italians wrong and that Robinho can show
us how good he can be, because we have seen him do it. And of course, we hope that we will win. It is more than hope actually, it is belief and faith. And I still believe. I believe simply because it would be so horrible if we lost, the hope of so many people would just be crushed, that it is too sad to happen. It just can't. They are so good!!! They just have to try a bit more, and not just try to win and go through to the next round, they have to really play. ''Joga Bonito'', as nike says. And besides, losing to Germany or Argentina is just not possible. So, go Brazil!!!!! We believe.
posted by Julia Moreira Leite @ 12:34 AM
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