Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Waka Waka and the Champions

Spain NT players vowed to do the following if ever they would win the World Cup, which they did win, wonder if they did go by their word?! Or for some of the more obscure ones, maybe not!

1. Iker – he preferred out of superstition not to make a promise.

2. Albiol – learn English.

3. Piqué – go all out celebrating.

4. Marchena – promised to carry out what he promised in the Eurocopa – walk the Camino de Santiago. He also promised to go on a cruise with his family.

5. Puyol – left the envelope empty because he doesn’t like to make promises.

6. Iniesta - walk the Camino de Santiago, but didn’t say when.

7. Villa – he wrote “let the celebration be bigger than the Eurocopa one.”

8. Xavi – shave all our heads, including those of the journalists.

9. Torres – walk the Camino de Santiago, but didn’t say when.

10. Cesc - he wrote, “I will invite all my friends because I’ve never lived anything like it and I feel like one of them.”

11. Capdevila – get a tattoo of the World Cup.

12. Valdés – go all out celebrating with the team.

13. Mata – do the ruta del Cares in Asturias and travel to California.

14. Xabi – go around the world.

15. Sergio – get a tattoo of the World Cup [he’s might actually go through with it.]

16. Busquets – go on vacation to Punta Cana with his friends.

17. Arbeloa – go one year without drinking Coca Cola.

18. Pedro - celebrate with his loved ones, travel to Tenerife and somewhere else with his family and friends.

19. Llorente – go skydiving.

20. Javi – dye his hair neon pink and go skydiving (naked and without a parachute).

21. Silva - walk the Virgen del Carmen route to thank her.

22. Navas - return to Johannesburg with his family and his girlfriend.

23. Pepe - grow a goatee until Aug. 31 and compose an updated version of “camarero.”
 As part of the country's celebrations as champions, some fans edited a La Furia Roja version of Waka-Waka...this video is pretty good!
LINK:
LA Furia Roja's Waka Waka

Snapshots: La Furia Roja, the 2010 WC Champions





What I believe in.


I am too opinionated. 
Whatever comes out of my mouth, the moment I say it, it's the truth.
It may have been lies in the past and future, but that moment remains that it was true to my soul.
I do fight for what I believe in.
But as I grew as a person, I realized I can still stand for what I believe in even without fighting for it.
I just simply have to believe.
I believe in ME.


Snapshots: Manuel Neuer

LMAO photo of the day!

Quoting Football

So many people have said by now that I’m competent and that I play as if I’ve been to many World Cup championships. But that’s simply what I consider my responsibility, it’s what a goalkeeper has to be like.
Manuel Neuer

Spot the Photobomb!

Cause you know they'd grow up someday, and that someday turned out to be today.

I need a yellow Dress.

GIF: Crazy Pique

I don't eat the Icing

At first, I was googling 20th birthday cakes as a post celebratory congratulations for getting over being 20. But then the cakes turned out to be really unsatisfactory so I googled cute cakes, and here's what I got:

And the best cake of them all:
thanks bats!








yellow balloons.

Never too much Spongebob

Kitty.Kitty.Bang.Bang.

Emote Squares.

Every picture is worth a thousand memories.



Yellow heels. I Love.



WTF moment #1

Down. Down. Down.
I'm so stupid I only just realized that I've been in denial for the past four years. I keep telling myself, this is a good course to take, this is my choice. NOT. WTF, I wanted UPM, I wanted to be with him but I convinced myself that it's going to be hard because someone warned me that's the way it'll be. Just warned me about unrepeatable stuff that'll probably make me hate her forever. And now my head's out of the water, I can finally say I effing hate where I am now. My life is like mud. MUD. Effing Mud.

Studying?! Bah Humbug!

I say whatever to everything. I do not want to study. I have not read/browsed/studied anything related to my course right now. This is pure primal laziness. Or just plain disinterest. I seriously want to just dump everything, grab a bag, get a visa, get a passport and fly to Europe and work at any job and then make something of myself. I hate being here, like I'm stuck in mud.

Young one


Yoann Gourcuff, 18.

From Paris with Love





Oh Bordeaux! Le Magnifique!

Jean Tigana shows his worth as Blanc's successor for Bordeaux. The club has already won 3 of all their 3 friendlies. I love that they seem to be working pretty well on the attacks and using the players consequently at every point in the game. Gourcuff, my favorite French player, is back in midfield and displayed some amazing attacks and kept possession of the ball during their latest match against Legia Warsaw. Their victory was indeed glorious when they got 4 goals over Legia Warsaw. I hope they continue this streak and get to win the Ligue Championships like in 2009! So what if Chamakh is gone?! They still have Gourcuff and as long as everyone displays good teamplay, they can handle any other Clubs! Jean Tigana, you are now one of my favorite coaches! (Jogi, Maradona, Blanc and Tigana!)


ARTICLE: Beautiful 4-1 Victory over Legia Warsaw

The controversial Capello Index

Fabio Capello has devised a rating system that ranks the top players according to their performances in the World Cup, League and Club games. I just googled the website and it is still present despite claims that it has been taken off. Once you access the website, a disclaimer appears:

"The Capello Index cannot, and must not, be summarised as "The vote given by Capello" to the players, but is the result of a system which is capable of analysing and evaluating the actual performance adding various scientific variables"
What happened to FA's claim that it will be taken down?! And who cares if Capello publishes that sort of Index. Every coach must have a sort of index about how he ranks football players but this system was deemed questionable because England itself has one of the least number of players on the Top 100?! It is kind of an embarrassment for England NT but remember that they really played a poor game in the world cup. I've seen the way it works and though it's not as good as Castrol Index, it seems okay. The Top 5 were notable players who really showed their worth and everyone who watched them play know that they were the best in the field. But of course, this rating system may be influenced by Capello himself and not that reliable. But poor England NT players, not even their manager shows them much love. Thank goodness Raymond Domenech did not make his own Rating system for France! hahah