21/10/2012

A Decade Under the Influence

Yes, it's a song from Taking Back Sunday, but no, that's not the topic this time.

It's been 10 years since I started to pay attention to football matches... I hadn't realized that until talking w/ my brother on the phone this week (and I was like: "GOSH")!!

So the first one was FIFA World Cup 2002, and I merely knew Beckham.

Four years later, I supported England (+ Gerrard & Lampardnatürlich, but they're ruled out at the quarter-final stage. Then I turned to Italy (Totti, Cannavaro, Gattuso, Materazzi, De Rossi, Lippi) Besides them, I noticed the Germany national team (as a captain, Ballack totally showed his leadership; and Arne Friedrich und Frings also caught my eyes). As well as Spain (Luis García, Casillas & Torres).

During Euro Cup 2008, tho I only watched a couple of the matches, I was totally w/ Deutschland (+ Rolfes especially), n I posted sth. for the event somewhere else.

Two years ago, our wait came to a temporary end. I tried my best to participate in most of the tournaments, i.e. stayin' up regardless of my morning job. I blogged a lot n cared about Germany (+ NEUER, Badstuber, Jansen, Poldoski)/Italy (+ Montolivo, Zambrotta, Quagliarella, Claudio, Di Natale)/England/Spain (Inietsa, Alonso, Xavi, Villa, Ramos, Navas)/Australia (Neill, Moore, Kewell)/Argentina (Heinze, Mascherano, Higuaín, Demichelis & Verón)/Urugray (Forlán, MilitoLuis Suárez, Pérez)/U.S.A. (Carlos)/Portugal (Coentrão & Tiago)/Sweden (Rommedahl) etc.

UEFA Euro 2012, Spain won their third championship!

Now I understand why ppl call Messi a talented player. And I expect Kroos to be able to handle important tasks, cuz the Germany national team seems to need that recently...

(7:22 p.m.)

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