The King of All Tournaments (The End)

End Result:

On the 6^th and 7^th of July the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup took place. The Netherlands beat Uruguay 3-2 with goals scored by Forlan and M. Pereira for Uruguay and Van Bronckhorst, Sneijder, and Robben for the Netherlands. Spain beat Germany 1-0 with goal scored by Spanish player Puyol in the 73^rd minute. The German team played Uruguay to see who would take over third place on the 10^th of July and beat Uruguay in a very lively game with a final score of 3-2. On July 11^th, at the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, Spain beat the Netherlands 1-0 and marked the end of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

It is one thing to observe the FIFA World Cup games, place bets on the outcomes of the matches, and support your favorite team(s), but the feeling(s) one has after a World Cup tournament has come to an end is something entirely different. It’s been my experience that my feelings I after a World Cup tournament are indescribable. I, for one, feel a kind of happiness and thankfulness that I cannot put into words, all I can say is football is my sport. Football is your sport, (even if you don’t think it is), because at the end of the day football is the world’s sport.

Quick thanks:

I would like to write my own quick personal thank you to everyone who made my FIFA World Cup experience what it was. Thank you to my family, my friends, my professors (they’re the ones who put up with my constant World Cup babble!) to FIFA, the players and coaches, etc… and thank you to the readers of this blog. One last thing I would like to reiterate: I realize that not everyone does or will share my love for football and that is fine, but it is one of the great wonders of this world, and that cannot be denied.

TTFN