Under an hour to go, the match is at 12 o’clock midday, local time – it’s cold and a wintry outside and people are walking briskly.
All the Argentinian tv channels are talking about one thing – except for a dubbed tele-evangelist show. The commentator on channel 13 relates the warming up and the empty stadium as if it’s the last few minutes of a particularly tense game. All the previous world cup winners are being interviewed, but after the last few tournaments, the public aren’t going to let their hopes get too high before the game gets underway.
The first few minutes look like they might be decisive. Gordon Strachan goes for Argentina in this article. This blog agrees.
June 30, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Well it would seem that Argentina showed the world its true colours today. They lost in penalty kicks then LOWERED themselves to fighting and crying. Bye bye little ladies…….GO HOME!!!!
June 30, 2006 at 3:20 pm
LOL…..Maybe they were just tense
June 30, 2006 at 8:05 pm
By the way, in my country, Bangladesh millions of people are passionate supporter of Argentina. For example, a tea seller used to give 33%
discount to the Argentina supporters. I guess you can write about it in your
blog too.
June 30, 2006 at 9:24 pm
i think most people in england actually wanted germany to win as we see them as an easier game in the final.
on a personal level hope we go on and win it now – people in argentina have a chip on their shoulder about england and i was delighted to see them as a broken nation and broken people – AGAIN – tonight
July 1, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Hey! I am dissapointed as all argentinians…I think we played better to that boring and phisical european soccer, unfortunatelly it is a more efficient soccer but less beautiful. Argentina didn’t know how to defend the 1-0. The rest is history. Anyway, I didn’t expect too much for this team and I think they went farer as I thought, so congratulations to ARgentina. But I think the brittish in this blog were more optimistic with your team than me with mine: Today Portugal beat England with penalties. Maybe you are as sad as we are…! Anyway, don’t worry…this soccer world cup was made for germans, because it is a big business. Nice to share feelings in this very beautiful sport like soccer.