Congrats, in particular, to BrownSugar because she drinkin' she oranje juice from day one. Take some vodka in yuh glass, Gyul!
......and congrats to the netherlands and their fans.
In sports as in life yuh hadda take de good wit de bad but today is a rel bad day to be a supporter of Brazil and Africa in the world of football. While the officiating was poor and arjen robben, van bommel and ooijer was getting away with murder with their respective theatrics and persistent foul play, Brazil did themselves in by giving in to their emotions and believing they can beat europeans at the only game europeans can beat Brazil at on a football field and that is theatrics and semantics. The Germany '06 game between holland and portugal as well as robben's history of semantics should have had Dunga and Brazil better prepared, mentally, and better prepared, strategically, to win this game by doing what they do best and that is beating all other nations at just playing football. The first half showed how easy it would have been but Brazil didn't stick to what was working best for them. A whole lot of praise has to be showered upon maartin stekelenburg, as well. There's a reason why he is keeping Kenneth Vermeer on the bench at Ajax and he showed it today. Them two brilliant saves on those shots by Kaka and Maicon were fine examples of agility, reflexes and positioning and they kept his team from being 3-0 down at the half.
For the people that want to be overly hard on Michel Bastos have to remember, Dunga insist on playing the man out of position. He is NOT a left back and most of those fouls called against him on robben was more him being a victim of robben's theatrics than anything. Back to taking the good with the bad....under Dunga, Brazil has been relatively succesful. They won Copa America, Confederations Cup and topped CONMEBOL in qualifying. They lost out in the ever-elusive Olympics. Unfortunately, they lost today in the most important tournament in the world and dunga insisted on doing it his way. Well....."his way" have them writing "vuvuzelas" on the "anything to declare" section on their customs forms while that tournament is still going on. I don't care what anybody says, Ronaldinho would have made a difference with this team over the course of the tournament and I think it would have made a difference today. Good night, all.
