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World Cup in Brazil an opportunity to work with Portugal's Team, and sure, Cristiano Ronaldo. A few things that we made from this time.
World Cup in Brazil an opportunity to work with Portugal's Team, and sure, Cristiano Ronaldo. A few things that we made from this time.
World Cup in Brazil an opportunity to work with Portugal's Team, and sure, Cristiano Ronaldo. A few things that we made from this time.
[screen shot; Team Ghana player reacting in the end.]
Uruguay v Ghana (01 - 01, final scores)
Edit: entry corrected on Suárez red card. Red card flipped at Suárez for using hand(s) to illegally stop a heading. This ejects him out of the next match. Considered cheating. I saw something different for whatever reason. Thought it was a kick that got him the red card. Finally, a good ref call on cheating!
Lots of tears shed and hearts broken at Soccer City Stadium.
Uruguay wins by penalty kicks. (I always feel ambivalent about those victories. It's because... they're almost too easy...)
Ghana, the last African nation to carry on the continent's pride, goes home. The whole continent fell into utter silence. Half of the arena seem to have lost its voice. Most vuvuzelas went quiet.
The Ghanian players didn't take it too easily. It was a real emotional moment for them all. They played well and swiftly. There was so much going for them. Being snuffed out is not easy to swallow.
The Ghanian player Baby Jet Gyan misses his penalty shot. It hits the crossbars.
I can hear an "uff" somewhere. In my head.
The Uruguayans have their hearts both broken and saved. Luis Suárez, their star player, is ejected for the next game.
The team's hearts are mended when the last penalty kick is scored by their overcast player El Loco, who is the same player brought the Uruguayan team to the World Cup after defeating a qualifying game against Costa Rica. Also at a penalty shoot out.
The finale of the game was definitely good to have watched live (and the only parts I caught). While it's hard for me to judge the whole game, I judge a game by how thrilling it is... to watch. Despite who cheats, who does what, what other controversial calls referees makes. That all encompasses the wild ride for these games.
While I'm still partial to the USA's defeat (there were flaws why the Americans lost, but let's not get into that), see the distress and disappointment by the Ghana team made me feel... well, sad, too! Don't cry on TV. It'll make me like you.
The Uruguayans? They're enjoying their spotlight while they can.
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Tomorrow... more action and the last set of games for the quarter finals (Round 17): Argentina v Germany; Spain v Paraguay.
Looking forward to the Germany v Argentina. I think the only game I can catch live.
World Cup in Brazil an opportunity to work with Portugal's Team, and sure, Cristiano Ronaldo. A few things that we made from this time.
World Cup in Brazil an opportunity to work with Portugal's Team, and sure, Cristiano Ronaldo. A few things that we made from this time.
@Twitter has done a beautiful thing w/ their #WorldCup icons! So #TwitterArt! :^)
This tweet uses all 140 & relies on characters that some Tweeps will see "wrong." I've been using the "safest" character set for "World Cup" art. But this is too beautiful: A globe @140artist made, that I reworked for the occasion. It relies on the unique Twitter icons to make the line-breaks / vertical alignment work.
World Cup in Brazil an opportunity to work with Portugal's Team, and sure, Cristiano Ronaldo. A few things that we made from this time.
Worker mowing the grass at Soccer City in Johannesburg, just before the Argentina-Mexico game. When we got to a big game at a facility such as this, during the world cup, we often forget that the boys who kick the ball are not the only professionals that make it possible. There a lot of people with a lot of different skills involved it creating the 'beautiful game'.