USA 1 VS 0 BRAZIL - That is the way we like to lose
Friday, 22 August 08, 12:22 AM · Comments(0)
BEIJING (CHINA) - Boys from Brazilian National Team: Here is a lesson. Watch the videotape from Gold Medal game between Brazil x United States in women’s football in Summer Olympics. Brazilians girls showed everything you didn’t show. Balls, to start with.
I confess I am not really into women’s football. Exception for a few players (like Marta, Hamm, Prings and that amazing German goalkeeper that I forgot the name) I don’t think they know how to play. Most of the plays seem to me a game of 4 year-old kids that go wherever the ball is and kick no matter which direction. It looks like football, but it is not. They should have a different name like Baseball and Softball.
But this small detail doesn’t stop me to know what a gold medal means (the game was the most important feature in the Chinese newspaper China Daily yesterday - pic). Especially to Brazil, just one gold so far in the competition (in Athens, we had 5). I couldn’t watch the game live cause I were covering Track ‘n Field. I watched later a good part of the game.
Brazilian girls, unlike our sleep men, fought the whole time. It is not easy to play against the United States. We had in mind we could repeat the semifinal result at the World Cup last year, but what we saw actually was a real good and consistent game from the North-Americans, especially at defense.
The silver for our girls is not exactly what we all expected. But I am sure Brazil is proud of their girls, just the opposite of our feeling about the boys.
And congrats to the Americans players. In case of woman, these girls have the right to say: ‘football is coming home’.
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mautex
São Paulo, BR
Mauricio Teixeira, editor do OleOle no Brasil, fala sobre os bastidores do futebol brasileiro e mundial. Vídeos, games, opinião, links bacanas e mais
