world cup. by alex

Alex DMC08


WORLD CUP 2010: BORING MUCH?

Alex is a football fanatic who craves for football since his younger days. He plays football since junior high and never fails to keep up with the World Cup. He would usually be thrilled when the World Cup season arrives but this year, not so much. Here is an article of him breaking down the key points on why this year’s World Cup will not be as shining as the previous ones.



  Once every four years, everybody around the world would gather and be excited when the World Cup season arrives. Traditionally classic matches will always be on the cards to thrill the audiences in the world’s biggest stage of soccer. But this year, statistics show otherwise. Not only the world’s biggest stage is losing some big guns in the opening group matches, some did not even manage to qualify for the World Cup, which makes the ratings much lesser compared to the previous ones.


  Usually, we would expect all the big guns to qualify at least to the group stages but this year, a few big names were missing from that list. Most notably from that list is Russia and Turkey, semi-finalists of Euro 2008. Other notable big names that failed to qualify were Czech Republic, Croatia and Sweden. All the big names mentioned above has always been consistent qualifying for the World Cup and them not there is a huge blow to the competition as fans would love to be thrilled if there were tight competition.


  As we progressed into the group stages, more big names begin crumbling with the likes of Italy and France being knockout. Italy and France, the 2006 winner and runner-up, was thrown out of the competition in unspectacular fashion. Both teams went out without winning a single group match. In my opinion, both teams were playing inconsistent football and them flying home is another major blow to the tournament. We should have at least seen both teams trying their best to defend their title or at least avenging the defeat in 2006. But both teams were a letdown and nowhere near their previous team.


  We were all hoping for exciting ties for the knockout stages but now even the previous cup winner and runner-up being knocked out, the tournament does not look as shining as it use to be. Even so, there are still many big guns that qualified to the next round and let’s hope we would enjoy the rest of the World Cup. 




Stay tune sport fans for the next installment on Alex's professional analysis in who will win the World Cup!