Funniest moments of the group stages:
cornezinho-North Korea's Jong Tae-Se, aka The People's Wayne Rooney, guaranteeing to score a "goal a game" and that his team would accompany Brasil into the knockout stages. Or Fernando Torres's futile attempts at trying to score, or playing football in general. Or nearly everything John Harkes says, which is all unintentional comedy. I was considering keeping a log of his best quotes, but that required listening to John Harkes intently entirely too much.
Biggest surprises so far:
RGaucho-The biggest surprise for me has easily been Japan. I thought they were going to lose all three matches, and score one goal at the most. Instead, they score two amazing free kicks within 5 minutes of each other, play disciplined and passionate defense, and have a breakout star in Honda, who I had no knowledge of before the tournament started. Note to self: pay less attention to Serie A, the league and Italian footballers in general suck these days.
cornezinho-Both Japan and South Korea have been impressive, and I've been delightfully please with how well our boys of the USA have played. Also, I knew France was having troubles, but the extent to which it derailed their campaign was incredible. Evra argued with a coach, they boycotted practice, Anelka and Ribery wouldn't pass to Gourcuff, and all the other drama was straight out of a bad soap opera.
Best XI:
RGaucho-Tim Howard (USA) GK, Maicon (Brasil) RB, Ricardo Carvalho (Portugal) CB, Diego Lugano (Uruguay) CB, Carlos Salcido (Mexico) LB, Mesut Ozil (Germany) CM, Michael Bradley (USA) CM, Lionel Messi (Argentina) CAM, Diego Forlan (Uruguay) CF, Keisuke Honda (Japan) CF, David Villa (Spain) ST
cornezinho-Tim Howard (USA) GK, Maicon (Brasil) RB, Ricardo Carvalho (Portugal) CB, Diego Lugano (Uruguay) CB, Philip Lahm (Germany) LB, Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany) CM, Michael Bradley (USA) CM, Lionel Messi (Argentina) CAM, Landon Donovan (USA) RW, Keisuke Honda (Japan) LW, David Villa (Spain) ST
The round of 16 starts tomorrow. The group stages were heated and it only gets better from here.
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