The World Watched

My my my how the mighty have fallen in this edition of World Cup 2010 South Africa style. The semifinals are set and what a surprise when you only have one South American team still standing. No its not Brazil, or Argentina but the ex giants from Uruguay the first world cup winners in 1930. Beating the last African nation, Ghana in what will always be remembered by the controversial play of Suarez blocking a potential game winning score for Ghana with his hand and no ladies and gentlemen he is not their goalie. As for the other South American powerhouse their day went sour early and late given that Brazil was the favorite to win it all, and early in the match against the Netherlands it looked that way. Kaka and Robinho playing an absolutely flawless game but only coming away with one goal in the first half. The passing, the creativity of the Brazilians strikers were a thing of beauty but on this day it was about destiny it was about never giving up waiting for the right moment in the match to take control and hold on for the win and that is what the Netherlands did, they never gave up, they kept the pressure on Brazil until eventually they broke through and yes an own goal was credited to Brazilian midfielder Felipe Melo, it doesn't take the fact that the Netherlands was taking the game to the Brazilians. As for Argentina and their energetic coach Diego Maradona well lets just say that they left their soccer game at the hotel room because they didn't show up for this match against the young and feisty Germans who man handled the Argentines from the beginning to the end. They countered every single Argentine scoring chance with a goal of their own. They controlled the ball with so much finesse and crisp passing and at the end Germany's veteran Miroslav Klose broke for two of the Germans four goals making him one goal closer to tying Ronaldo of Brazil for the most goals in world cup history. Lets not forget the Euro champions Spain filled with great names Fernando Torres, and David Villa amongst others they are a team of all stars, but at this time, they are just struggling to put it together. They played a very defensive match against upstart Paraguay who had nothing to lose and everything to gain. Throughout the tournament Paraguay played defense, defense, and more defense. This match was of great goal keeping and never ending defensive approach but as in most matches David Villa of Spain broke through in the 83rd minute of the match to give Spain the win and a chance to prove that they are indeed the best team in this world cup. They still have a long way to prove that but on Wednesday the 7th of July they play against the team that has everybody is talking about, the Germans. this will not be an easy task for Spain even if Germany will be without Thomas Mueller their leading scorer in this World Cup in. As for the Netherlands they fight on against Uruguay "The Celeste" as they are known. Both matches will be hard fought till the end and their is no way one can predict a winner in any of these matches I don't think one could have predicted a winner in any world cup match this year. It has been one crazy ride that will only get crazier till the end. Thank you South Africa for hosting one of the most unpredictable world cup in ages and the best is yet to come. Keep watching, I know i will be!!!!!